Somehow I knew the answer would be a reason for not actually naming many.Originally Posted by Ernest Miller
Somehow I knew the answer would be a reason for not actually naming many.
I think it's pretty obvious. The mods single you out because they don't like you. After one of them deletes your comments, they all discuss it on the mod forum and trade hilarious banter about you.
That's ridiculous.
We do it because we're jealous.
Plus we hate the truth.
"The series may be hesitant to say it, but the day is here for everybody that loves IndyCar racing to link arms and help each other out. Anybody who doesn’t want to do that needs to find something else to do with their time.”
-- Eddie Gossage, President, Texas Motor Speedway, ICONIC Advisory Committee & TrackForum member
It took awhile but you finally admitted it. You may now close this thread. Ernest
Nahh, I think it should be left open. You'll be back. You need an outlet like the ALL Danica Patrick thread in the NASCAR forum. That way you can append the thread with the latest injustice foisted upon you by the Barney Fife hall monitor mods.
Are there basements in Oklahoma?
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At first, there was great joy in killing the Japanese. There was a geniune hatred that swept the whole country and fueled the entire war industry. In the end, it is what won the war.
Guam was the Pacific storehouse for all their Saki, and when it was ready to fall, the Japs drank all that Saki and got sloshed, and then made one final, desperate, drunken charge. They came down the hill with their swords out, staggering around and yelling "banzia!" They were falling down and running into each other, and this was even before the US servicemen started shooting at them. In the end, they were too drunk to fight, and wouldn't surrender, so the US servicemen had to go around shooting helpless drunks, and suddenly the fun of killing them had disappeared.
"Is that my *** that I smell burning?" ... Helmet Stogie from "Death spasms of the Mabuchi"
If you like what Davydd wrote, why not consider following his example?
I think the word I used, introspection, flew right by.
Davydd (Anglicized Welsh name for David...that's all) Real name: David Stovall, Tonka Bay, MN
Certified BPT Taster Pursuing Pork Tenderloin Sandwiches
Long lost Speedway Sparkplug thrashing about in the deep woods of Minnesota
What makes you think I don't? Ernest
Nothing gets by me David including "introspection." I'm not going to trash your post because of one little zinger. 90% of it was good. ErnestI think the word I used, introspection, flew right by.
Banzai!
It strikes me reading this thread and, unfortunately, even contributing a post sometime back, that anyone who so thoroughly dislikes the way a Forum is managed could probably find a Forum more to their liking out there. I'm not much of an internet geek, but I'm sure there are others around. I guess it's possible, although not very likely in the world where I live, that they're being blocked in Oklahoma.
Or Guam.
I had a forum I liked. It was the forum at Indycar.com. They closed it down and suggested everyone come over here. I never had a problem over there for having a differing opinion on the series that wasn't the company line. And for the record, I've never been blocked on any football, golf or political forum as well. Ernest
Congratulations.
Center Grove Trojans
2008 5A Football State Champs
2011 Track State Champs
So what you are saying is that the forum you liked completely shut down when they got tired about the shenanigans that go on at virtually every other forum except for this one... But you are complaining about the forum that just shuts down the shenanigans yet leaves the forum up?
Really?
"Ride The Barrel & Get Pitted... So Pitted."
I don't know why they shut the forums down at IndyCar.com and neither do you unless you are the one who ran the website which I doubt. Frank, your police work is not up to snuff by coming up with an explanation like that. Ernest
Maybe it was the only way they could get rid of certain people.
I've been involved in forums pre-internet back to the early 1980s. Forums draw traffic. Forums that shut down usually are because the whole website shuts down or they get out of management control when the forums repeatedly start to editorially present the website mission in a negative way. You need strong moderation to control that. If one continually runs afoul of moderation then one probably doesn't belong. Trackforum.com is a private playground. From what I can tell you are here at their will and have no "rights". Aren't there other forums that discuss Indy Car?
Lately, I think, a new phenomena is occurring. Websites are starting to let Facebook or Twitter carry their water interactive wise and private forums I've frequented have lost traffic as a result which means another era may be shifting. I saw Compuserve give way to AOL and AOL give way to the internet message forums.
Good post. If most posters (vast majority) think a board is fine and a few constantly complain about it, perhaps those few should examine why others are happy and they are not. Maybe it isn't that they are getting poor treatment but instead they aren't posting in a manner that is appropriate.
My police work... Really?
Maybe IndyCar.com loved the shenanigans and everybody here at Trackforum just loves your input since you've arrived. I see no reason for you to think otherwise.
Possibly, but that would kind of surprise me. Internet message boards offer one huge option that facebook does not; anonymity. Then again I really liked AOL's live chat rooms and didn't see them dying off. There has been nothing else like them since, that I've seen.
AOL promoted live chats heavily. They were all monitored. Some were free form in that the chat rooms were always open and people could just chat. They allowed members to create groups. Many were more formal with topics to discuss and some with high-powered guests. AOL had a great deal of synergy. It didn't just happen. There was a lot of work going on behind the scenes to develop it. Steve Case had a lot of vision about what he wanted. It started down hill when the internet went mass public in 1992 but really not until GUI browsers were developed in the mid 90s.
It seemed to me that part of the problem was it was a dial up subscription service. People wanted faster internet and AOL couldn't offer it. If it could be re-done where it is accessed for free I would think there would still be a big market for what was offered. Nobody offers anything similar.
And we got the February 2011 invasion of the misfit whiners that have made TF a much less enjoyable place since that happened.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
It is only less enjoyable to you because you do not agree with the most.
In fairness to Ernest, he is no more or less annoying to me than the earliest TF versions of whiners such as Paff and Dolan.
I think it's "the new" not "the most".
IndyCar.com actually promoted their forum users to "talk smack" on television commercials they had running on race day. I know that is a big shock to you as well Frank but it is the truth. Your theory about the demise of IndyCar forum just doesn't hold water. But I'm honored that you believe I hold so much stroke that I can shutdown one of the most popular features IndyCar.com ever had. Ernest
P.S. Frank, It doesn't matter to me if you love my input or not. Just the fact that you and a dozen or so others on this thread follow my every move on here makes me realize I'm getting my message across. I do try to read most of your posts since you don't seem to be quite as radical as "the others" who feel me and the rest of the IndyCar.com forum infringed on their cyber space turf. Ernest
I never suggested you did anything on your own... But that seems minor when compared to your other misconceptions.
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