Stu @ M Developments

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I have just spent the whole morning brewing the escort cosworth, turbo and sierra cosworth rooms and found them.

A) Totally on topic.

B) Totally friendly.

C) Totally devoid of "Smiley Only" Answers.

D) Full of usefull replys from knowledgable people.

E) No garbage muppet topics in sight.

Very pleasant indeed... reminds me why i once loved this place.

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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General discussion, Politics and Problems and the Dummy room for me.

Too many rooms IMO.


I remember when this was a Ford and no banter place

Graceland

I read them rooms, but very rare I post - mainly due to not wanting to :

A) Give bad advice.

B) I don't own one of the said cars anymore, even tho I have had plenty of experience with them.

C) Not many people see my information as valuable even if it is the right information.

They are however, a very good read in them rooms when I do get the chance to studdy and see whats going on out of GD

Benni

Muppet room, General Discussion, Fitnesss, But whenever I come online I click 'View posts since last visit' which gives me all new topics posted throughout the whole forum.

dojj

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gd, occasion muppet and escos and sierra rooms on the whole

on the other hand, perhaps the mods in the cossie rooms aren'rt as lenient as the mods in gd

muppet mods tend to let most things slide

Tangodeltasierra3

I think 50% or more of the posts in General Discussion could & should be in more appropriate sections, i tried to play the game but now i'm as bad as most cause unless we all do it whats the point in a few trying

Redkop

Afraid it's only General Discussion, sometimes I look in Passionford Policies & Problems and Misplaced your Dummy if a thread has been moved there.

I sort of agree with Simon (68332) there's a few too many rooms.

I do wish that all ebay, youtube or any video link, PistonHeads 'for sale' links et al were all posted in Interesting Links though instead of cluttering up GD.

Turbocabbie

As the owner of the forum you should run it with the ethics, principles and values you personally hold and anything you consider to be a waste of space should have the appropriate action taken.
You use the phrase 'reminds me why I once loved this place' which obviously means you no longer do, other members may feel the same and use past tense like yourself.
The values and the type of posting on the forum currently can only be blamed upon the fact that staff and management allow it and find it acceptable, likewise these are the only people who can redefine and change these values.

Personally I hope you do take action.

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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Agreed 100%

Rab

mens room

GD

Escrot RS Turbo

Restos

pics and vids


Then back to the mens room

Redkop

A fair observation actually......

SassyRS

I use the Resto/rebuild room.,Ladies room, general more lately and muppet room to vent

Jay,

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if you saying about the banter ( lets insult people but iyt dont matter its only the internet)threads i tottaly agree i think they should be binned straight away

but then the webteam are seen as over modding

lyn again i agree there is a link room for the ebay stuff ect but again loads of whinging wheres my post , so by following the rules as a mod you end up with a GD full of wheres my thread

Benni

There's a few people on this forum who go out to cause trouble and then sit back and watch it turn into a war.

ECU Monitor Enthusiast

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I know its slightly off topic but I think the unbanning of the C word
has made things much worse for the whole site.
This has indirectly allowed the banter to overtake the enthusiasm for cars !

( Yes I know I use it myself too much )

Redkop

Isn't there a facility on phpBB whereby when a thread is moved, it can leave a redirect to it, like you can with vBulletin and InVision?

cossie604

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I mainly use the sierra cosworth and for sale sections...as been said it keeps on topic with out the bullshit thats normaly found in General. I started to use General a bit but soon got bored with getting dragged into arguments with people miss-interpretting each other's posts So mainly just have a read now..except on this occassion lol

Im back off to the Sierra room now, where we all hold hands and sing Kum-by-yar around the camp fire

Jay,

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Tbh dony know lyn

Rippers

The Esc Cos room rocks

GD is a bit sucky these days only seems to be handful of usual suspects posting (most don't even own fords) and people playing who has the biggest tuner cock.. which is sad

Redkop

Just checked Jay on another forum that uses phpBB and there is a facility.

Jay,

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well mabey when stu reads through this thread he might implement it

Coldo

RS turbo room
General Discussion
Resto's
Pics and vids

Occasionlly read the muppet room, what a waste of space it is though, really...

S1rst

GD, Escort cosworth and Motorcycle.

Benni

But then you waste your time moving it as it still is there taking up space. The benifet of that is people will see the thread more but then it might aswel be left where it is as it is still taking up the same space is was to begin with.

vroooom ptssssh

Do you not feel the love for the place anymore stu?

I browse:

Cars for sale
RS turbo & RS Cosworth parts for sale
did used to browse RS turbo section but of late been having more of a look in the cosworth section to pick up some info on them!
the odd time pics and vids & restoration gallery.

Well, not really imo, it keeps 80% of the shite off the GD forum...

Less.

GD
Muppet Room
Restorations and Rebulds
Cars for sale
Old skool
RS1600i and RS2K room

a lot of these rooms i dont tend to post it as dont have that much knowledge of techys things

Redkop

Disagree, it might just make people realise that those type of threads should be posted elsewhere.

There's far too many lazy users on PF.... in fact I'd go as far to say selfish, lazy users. Stu and Pet have taken the time to set up specific forums, but they aren't being used as they should be, because people take the lazy way and find it so much easier to post 'everything' in GD because they're basically idle.

Less.

Main problem with GD is that if I can answer somethingt or hekp someone my posts get ignored,as I not one of the select few

Micky The Finn

what about the als thread in the escort room stu?you have seen it as yours is the only sensible post on it...

Benni

He may be in the muppet room but maybe not in GD.

RWD_cossie_wil

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I use:

GD
RS Cosworth Parts for sale
Parts Wanted
Cars for Sale
Paul Ripleys Escort Cosworth Monte room ( in all seriousness, the Escort Cosworth room is prob the best on the Forum, just a little slow sometimes )
Sapphire and 3 door room


Is a hard one to call really, part of the appeal of GD is that it is fast moving and varied, when it was split into two rooms a while ago it was rubbish . The 2 main problems I can see are 1) too many "you tube" links and 2) muppet room worthy posts being left in GD etc.. No one cares what you had for breakfast

PF is still a top site though lots of great people and mainly good helpful advice

Lee Reynolds

GD
Restorations and rebuilds
Parts for sale
Cars for sale
rs1600i

costina

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Most of them but deffo not the MUPPET ROOM

Mr S1

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I just don't visit as often as I used to as frankly I can't be fucked with all the sniping, bitching and Ebay / YouTube links (which really fuck me off). If I want to know what's on either of the aforementioned sites I'll look my fucking self. I don't want everyone here telling me.

GazzaG

Tooo True

redrsmk5

I live in the esc cos room ....never before anywhere have i known so many people offer help/advice and be interested in what you have to say/have done/doing etc

Also visit

Cosworth parts for sale
Mens room
Pics & Video
Resto & Rebuilds
GD, ( but this room is very very slow)