Miss ya here Sid....but not THAT much ;)

This is my favorite Mustang site!

I find this post a bit bothersome....I don't think I've been in the tech section more than a couple of times in the past decade...

I was you almost two decades ago....post a question here if you wish....many won't see it in PARF either ;)

Is Loren still ranting about chips :)?

Have to agree that since the Search function went to hell, it would be very frustrating as a newcomer. There needs to be stickies on all the forums on alternative methods to search or just fix the d@m thing. Add that to the general response of ‘This has been covered several times, use Search,’ and I can see how people are discouraged.

One thing that is abundantly clear is that we have an older group here with older values. My son and his wife and their friends in their 30s don’t put up with sexist comments, racism, ethnic hate, etc which is found here all too often. If people take the stance, it’s our forum and if they don’t like it, they can go elsewhere, that’s exactly what will happen and these forums will die with us.

There is nothing wrong with being decent.

I log in most every day. Since I own my own business, and work for home I don't have a boss looking over my shoulder. I get a process running on the computer and it can take minutes or hours or days to finish. I play on Pelican while I wait for the system to catch up.

I check into the technical site occasionally. Mostly the Stijn and random pics threads are hit regularly. My post count is nuts, but the vast majority of it is in those two threads. With a lot in the jokes thread.

I would miss Pelican a lot if it collapsed.

i have two computers on my desk..i call my second machine, my "burner computer".

i check in often.

i do admit, i am constantly shocked by the some of the responses..collectively, we have become "know it alls". even some sad death thread will generate a one of the following:
1. Darwin at work
2. good riddance
3...

that recent Survey measurement question..totally harmless, but EVEN that one generated a "what a dumb question!" response.

it's getting old. i'm getting old. old enough to know that i dont always have to prove i'm right. not that i'm right all the time.

Over the years I've lurked here a lot and rarely post, ([/green font]) but it's easy to see who's here at any given.
Right now, we have:

I used to only post in the tech area...and continually posted help with repairs...but it got so that each person took many, many hours of help as they really knew nothing about the cars...or anything mechanical whatsoever...and had not availed themselves of the vast internet resources or the search engine. Worse yet, many asked for help and then insulted your response or ignored it.

For a while, there were a lot of flippers who bought these cars and simply wanted you to fix them for them online so they could quickly sell them.

Since I had posted on pretty much every repair that I could think of 15 years ago...I figured folks could just use the search function. Nothing has changed regarding how the 70s and 80s cars worked or how to repair them.

Locking PARF out from nonmembers/search served to keep a lot of new folks from coming here via a search...and staying.

Now ya see me....now ya don't ;)

I don't see most of desktop fields anymore....even yer one damn stars Sammy, but I used too...

The SQL queries on thread post ho's was always a hoot too....sorta like fint :)

Sample letter:

"As of xx/xx/xxxx, the pelican forums will end. On behalf of the pelican staff, we thank you for your patronage. , NOW...get off our lawn!!!!!."

Still here, never posted all that much, but always lurked. Sold my 911 ages ago and 356 or e28 content is minimal. Almost left for good before PARF was split off... All the racist, xenophobic crap was too much.

OT is decent and I like the wide breadth of knowledge, support and advice. Still some PARF leaks through, but I just ignore certain posters.

I'd say the reason PP will die slowly is the antiquated BBS design and lack of a decent mobile experience. This applies to both parts and forums.

I work from home two weeks a month, more or less, depending on the Gregorian Calendar on Crack that governs the Department of Defense.

I own 40% of the the company so my time is my own: I generally work for 20 minutes, surf for 5, lather, rinse, repeat. Long engineering meetings will skew my post count upward.

I enjoy it here and I am not going anywhere.

Sorry.

I really like all you guys.
Long time lurker, sometimes “poster” myself. Seems like every time I chime in, the thread stops. Let’s see if it happens here, too.

I have learned lots and thoroughly enjoyed this forum. Nice to see folks that are able to get along.

Ciao!

I'd also say that my community needs are pretty different from the newbie 28 year old I was when I started, to the cantankerous venerable 44 I am now.

........;)


Rika SmileWavy

If you want to surf Pelican or other forums from a phone, just used Tapatalk. It does pretty good at replicating the desktop version on a computer.

My man.

Then stars be mine now? THANKS!
but I didn't get you anything …..

Just curious, what does "SQL queries" mean?

Damn! That would mean I'd have to give up my trusty flip phone, get some smart thing I don't need, learn to use it, join FB, etc., etc. I think I'd go down in flames.

Hilarious!

and sorry Sid but I'll never Facebook.

Now, lawn, mine, off, etc...