Whats up with all the new super friendly people??
 

I have read many threads recently and it seems like we are being invaded by some very unfriendly people on this forum! Is it really as bad as it looks? Are there really that many bad deals going through here?? I hope not as for the past couple of years I have bought exlusivly through this forum or classifieds with great success. I am quite concerned! any thoughts/

Ben

a little board at work right now

How did I get all the stars with no response

Ben

Unfriendly how? I've gotten lots of helpful, non-judgemental answers to my stupid newbie questions here. :)

I agree that there are some negative posters. I have to watch myself to keep from sounding terse. I hope I never sound condescending. Some are just plain mean. And when they are new, it's worse.

Thanks for the reminder.

I was over in the cars for sale section and one guy is blasting off! I think we all need to be helpful and considerate of others. It is interesting though

Ben

the for sale section isn't this board. Some of the same suspects post there, but there are also "newbies" who register just so they can sell stuff. I don't really consider them "Pelicans" since they don't participate in the main boards...

I think I know the posts you're talking about. It never ceases to amaze me when people specifically ask "what do you think?", then get pissed off when people tell them things they *don't* want to hear.

That's what the "ignore user" feature is for.
I've come across 4 posters at pelican who I simply don't care to have anything to do with, they get ignored. I don't have to read their drivel and I stay in a good mood.
4 out of thousands isn't a very bad ratio IMO
I wish I could do that good on the freeway at rush hour.

PS If I'm on your ignore list, I don't want to know ;)

I usually see mostly friendly responses out here in the 911 forum. OT is ugly, and getting worse as we close rapidly on November, but it still seems pretty civil out here. Heck, have you seen my 915 rebuild thread? I'm making most of the possible mistakes, and people are still helpful and encouraging.

(shrug) YMMV. :)

Dan

Speaking of that, the latest Pano mentioned PCAers taking each other to court and some such nonsense. Does anyone know what that is all about?

I think things have been nice here lately. The nastiness that seemed to be going on at the beginning of the summer has subisded. For sale is a wierd animal, but try OT. :D

perhaps more TTFDs are necessary in OT...

Todd, I thought you'd be a OT Moderator by now....

I think there might have been some concern about "fox" and "henhouse".

I've only had a few "unpleasant" encounters here in 2 years and over 1500 posts, not too bad at all. I'm thankful for all of the friendly, helpful people who have a great amount of patience with me and my dumb questions.

I would have thought a little Tao would calm people too, but the last one got a hearty STFU-style response, iirc. Perhaps a Tao on peace? Except then someone would assert that we're at war because of our awful president, and Kerry the war hero will lead us into peace, and then we're back down that painful road again. (sigh)

Dan

Email is just a very sparse communications medium. That may be some of what you are seeing. As an example, a few months ago, a guy posted some pictures of his red car and a blue one was in the background. I said it was beautiful, but who parked that ulge red one in front of it. It was just a joke, but he got really bent out of shape. I apologized but ....

I don't see any big changes in the level of discourse here. It's better now than at times in the past. Earrly 911S forum has a particular person who is quite obnoxious. Apparently some child who found his way there w/o his parents finding out. For a poster like the best solution is to ban them, and monitor to see if they come back. That requires time and it's a volunteer run board.

Another category is people who have a valid point but have to keep hammering it into everyone's head. I can think of 2 like that - one apparently gone. I guess they have no other audience. Some of the posters here do not need to justify themselves on the intenet - they can do it with the engines they build on the track, the customers they service, the scientific or engineering meetings they attend & etc. But others need some attention...

I would just make sure I had a personal flotation device and not worry too much.

It’s very common on the internet to run into people that are big bad and tough guys as they sit and lob stones from behind their computers. It’s ashamed that it has to happen here too. I really enjoy this forum. I used to be a moderator on the options questions and answer board on yahoo. God forbid they didn’t like the correct answers I gave to the same questions over and over. I was called every name in the book for saying in the late 1990’s that some of these stocks may go down someday and AOL won’t split twice a year for the next decade. People always have that extra confidence when they don’t have to look you in the eye. This place has been able to avoid much of that and it’s a good thing.

This board is unusual in the fact that, it gets sooo much traffic yet maintains a high standard of information.

I know of some other boards (surfing related) that are one or the other. Rarely visited, one post a week--good material OR high traffic--totally bogus information.

Thanks Pelican!
Thanks moderators!

It's a great community that I've used to save money on my projects, and I've tried to share my 30+ years of Porsche knowedge here, too.

Just a few tips I've gotten here have saved me a lot of running around.

And although I buy & sell Porsches & Porsche stuff, I try to give first shot and/or a 'discount' to members of this communty.

I just got slammed over in Porsches for Sale for answering a 'what do you think of this' post, but hey, I don't do it for the thank-yous.

Overall, this is a great clubhouse. Thanks, Wayne!

Has there been an influx of new, disgruntled (and/or unfamiliar w/ the generally respectful Pelican community) folks now that the Rennlist OT stuff is subscription only?

Just a guess. Nothing against Rennlist or its participants (this time).

JP

I actually started out on the Rennlist and was ignored. Came here and found lots of help and good prices from PP.