03-13-2019, 09:54 AM | #141 | |
Sinking with the ship Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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While you may not come for freebees a lot of people did, because back in the day star could net you 100s of $ in prizes You have to keep in mind, this is a business this site. Vendors pay to advertise hear, so it cannot be a free for all...which goes back to your other post about freedom of speech. Also falls in line with if you have an issue with a member or vendor during a transaction the appropriate feedback section should be utilized. | |
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03-13-2019, 09:54 AM | #142 | ||
Sinking with the ship Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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Ill admit, I did not view the comments and feedback section to see your post in reference to the Likes... for now, I would say with the discussion is here. As far as Vendors go, Vendors are paying to sell here and advertise here, therefore the owners have decided that they are entitled to a degree of respect. Its been at the discretion of the moderators. For example, saying that a vendor here, who does 3d printing and sells on shapeways, SUCKS because Shapeways raised their prices doesnt mean the vendor should be slandered here because of it. At least that is my take on it... At the end of the day, I am doing my best to work with the current owners to make this place better then it is now... I know a lot of people want to blame me for the like button disappearing because I have spoken out on it in the past and even currently. Regardless of my stand point on the Like feature my ultimate goal, again, is to better this place overall. For those that dont know me on a personal level, or even on a forum level, should know I would never want to hurt RCC on any level... and just for some back ground info: I have been in the RC hobby as a whole for nearly 25 years now, I have a 115 + car and truck collection which consists mostly of scale rock crawlers. I have traveled to events nation wide, from NY to FL and NY to CA and Montana. I have been more actively attending bigger events the past few years now with my new work schedule and have attended the last 2 axial fest events and last 3 USTE events. This past USTE I (MikesRCWorld) sponsored the event where I donated parts/products for the Axial SMT10 monster trucks used in the side by side drag racing part of the event to be given away to the top 2 finishers. I assisted in running the monster truck racing part of the event and judged the monster truck and vintage buggy class gallery. Among my peers I would say I normally (when not associated with killing the button on RCC ) well received and I am a sponsored builder/part time driver for RC4WD, a GCM racing team driver/builder, I have worked with Bowhouse RC to develop their NC yota axles, and recently I have consulted with Jconcepts on product as well. I have also been featured, and wrote articles now for RC Car Action as well. What all that means is, I have a love and passion for this hobby. The people who know me on a personal level know this and know I only want whats best for this forum, its fellow members, and the hobby as a whole. Going forward, and I know Ive said it before, I ask that everyone has some patient... I can tell you now, I cant handle it all on my own, ill be the first to admit that. So in the next coming weeks I hope to have new moderators, guys from this community who are active, who can do the right thing by the forum and community. There is a lot going on that I am not at liberty to discuss currently but as things change and evolve I will do my best to keep everyone informed. Thanks -Mike Last edited by 1BadJeepBruiser; 03-13-2019 at 10:02 AM. | ||
03-13-2019, 09:59 AM | #143 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tri-cities, WA
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Just tell them I killed the "like" button and ignore any further whining pointed your way. It'll be fun, I promise.
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03-13-2019, 10:06 AM | #144 |
Gold Star Baby! Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Las Vegas
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But he’s really telling us to vote with our silence if he’s going to ignore all the endless valid points made here and rely on data alone. 10-4 1BJB Good luck. |
03-13-2019, 10:14 AM | #145 | |
Sinking with the ship Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: El Capitan...sole survivor and sinking fast
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Appreciate the good luck | |
03-13-2019, 10:33 AM | #146 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Feb 2017 Location: Surprise
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03-13-2019, 10:37 AM | #147 | |
RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: The OC
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thehulltruth.com bloodydecks.com advrider.com (huge forum - 100K members) irv2.com cafehusky.com coloradofans.com dieselplace.com (huge - way over 100K members) Ones that don't - and really old and dated software: rvforum.net calguns.net garagejournal.com mazdas247.com mazdaforum.com mazdaworld.org IMO, your 'data' isn't what will bear this out. It's a false pretense. On free speech - I think I said exactly what you did, but you take issue with it. I guess I'm just not getting it. And it wasn't a debate - it was a comment on @WHITE-TRASH's comment about the 'whining and gnashing of teeth'. We have several people on here that have made comments along the lines that people should not be able to express their views if they run contrary to theirs. This also seems to be all the rage these days as well. And yes, I agree the forum has not been one to curtail comment - thank you. We are really glad that you're plugged into the hobby, that helps. And devoted to it - I think I can speak for the vast majority here that we all are. A common interest. What I'm getting at in my comments is that if you make it too difficult and cumbersome for the exchange of views and expression of same, you kill it. People just quit coming back. It becomes a nuisance instead of an interest. And then everybody loses. To give you an idea, I've been involved in the RC hobby since Kraft was big - and before that with free-flight and rubber-band power, and control-line planes in the cul-de-sac. I got my start in the early 1960's. | |
03-13-2019, 10:42 AM | #148 |
Moderator Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: PA
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I think people should just give up the Like idea for a week or two. At that time the site owners/administrators can compare traffic to what it has been and see if Likes had a positive or negative effect on traffic.
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03-13-2019, 10:44 AM | #149 |
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03-13-2019, 11:37 AM | #151 | |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Tri-cities, WA
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Pirate4x4 has over 320k actual members. The bots aren't counted, if they were the member number would be over twice that. And guess what, no like button. You keep repeating that I'm trying to get people to shut up about it and no matter how many times that line of bs is repeated it simply isn't true. I was laughing at the level of butthurt surrounding such a trivial feature and that's it. Werd, let it ride for a bit and see what's what. While I don't use the like button myself I'm not offended by it so if its brought back I simply don't care. | |
03-13-2019, 01:10 PM | #152 | |
~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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been a $100 star member for over a decade, dont think i ever even won $10 worth of anything. but im that way everywhere did have a few friends win a few things though! one even won a entire D90 from rc4wd, not part of rcc christmas though. we just need to come up with a universal symbol for like now like a "+" but i think there is a minimum number of characters. disclaimer: jumping in late on this, just here to BS. im on both sides of the arguement and dont have the time to care either way | |
03-13-2019, 06:51 PM | #153 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Aug 2017 Location: Fredericksburg, VA
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I don't see the "Like" feature as a big deal one way or the other except that it tends to artifically increase the post count, which may be the entire point.
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03-13-2019, 06:54 PM | #154 |
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03-13-2019, 07:05 PM | #155 | |
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03-13-2019, 07:46 PM | #156 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: Streamwood, IL
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I agree with the majority of contributors here, that the Like button enabled guys to like a build or a specific part of that build without having to add more "nice truck" or "cool rims" crap, and clutter up a thread with useless responses. Constructive criticism or questions about a builders technique warrants posting, because we all learn from the answers the builder gives us and creates interaction amongst members. At this point, we don't have much choice in the decisions, except to voice our opinions. So to those, like myself, that object to the removal of the Like, and those that agree to the removal, we just have to agree to disagree. One other thing I want to add on a personal note. I don't care what they do on SBG. This is RCC. SBG is the slowest forum on the internet, everytime I go there, I get bad lag. Knock-on-wood, I've never gotten lag on RCC. |
03-13-2019, 08:21 PM | #157 |
RCC Addict Join Date: Sep 2017 Location: The OC
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I do my own bit of promoting whenever crawling or on FB - if peeps are asking about making their rig better I tell them all the answers are on rccrawler.com. We even put the url on our event t-shirts - we want peeps to know about this place if they're in the hobby. I find it interesting that every time I post the url in FB it inserts a thing in there about axialfest. Or some such. Anyway, this place is WAAAAAYYYYY mobetta than any FB thread. But all the crawling activity for meet ups and club events is there. The pace of interaction is much shallower and much faster there. It is not my cup of tea, but interesting to meet up with local crawlers so it's worth the hassle. IMO this forum is far more interesting and engaging than FB ever hoped to be. I have not been to SBG nor do I have a desire to. I have a dozen or so sites that I follow on a regular basis. I type 80wpm and work in software and network setup for my job. It's nothing to pop in here and see what's going on. And there are a great bunch of mellow people here. It is one of the most friendly forums I've posted in. So far everybody I've met IRL is really terrific as well. So many other forums just turn into bitch sessions and bickering. It gets really old after while. Some people are just negative. This the only forum I belong to that I don't have at least somebody on ignore. It is always an option for anybody that is just constantly obnoxious. Those are people a section mod can ping and just tell them to knock it off or they'll get a vacation. Another forum calls it 'band camp' If yer bad ya get to go to banned-camp. |
03-13-2019, 09:20 PM | #158 | ||
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03-14-2019, 06:02 AM | #159 | |
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03-14-2019, 09:20 AM | #160 |
Slow is the new Fast Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Winterpeg
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Editing and restoring the Durango IFS thread was the right thing to do. However , the big challenge I see with what is happening here is this. Dude blows in from RCC past whining and complaining about what board has become. Like a politician building a platform, begins to talk up his personal RC exploits and how devoted he is to 'making RCC great again' (good grief). Begins to point out all of the issues that he is going to fix(but asks for patience). His first move is to grab the controls and take away a feature on the site he doesn't like, be damned what the current active body thinks of it. To him the 'stats' are more important than our personal experiences here. Again, we are told it is for the betterment of the site (classic) . Here is the biggest problem ; so far all we get is the loss of a feature. The improvements are all pie in the sky at this point. A far wiser move would have been to create and add visible features to the site as well as bless us with the presence of these vendors (who I assume will be given an incentive and motivation to return. No one is stupid enough to think they will return without them. They are elsewhere for reasons well beyond what the power of the 'like' button carries). By showing us the results of forward thinking that we can relate to, change is encouraging. Its gains confidence. It is fine to preach patience, but it is a much more palatable speech if the head it comes from delivers such decorum. The quick removal of the 'like' button was not an act of patience. With patience, in time it could have been updated, modified or replaced with something completely different. |
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