Bunnys an rainbows huh??

 

Yes sir. It was a pretty epic post.







But it's time to prepare for football, no time to bring world peace now

 

screw football i watch the cheerleaders

 

football is lame to watch, cheerleaders ftmfw!!!!!!

 

^^^ See above post *******

 

shut up larry, i was backing you up!!!!!


i hate sports unless i'm playing them. too damn boring to watch, but womerns who can do the bendy's and such in little outfits are awesome

 

Yea i figured, i was just giving you a hard time

naw like you said the womens dancing in not much more than underwear and bra woooo!!! be like my birfday

PS. i got a birfday coming up in 8 days so if anyone wants to sponsor my party some strippers ill pm you my adress

 

Okay, the game went well, so I'll give another try at bringing world peace via FTE Offroad&4x4. On the topic of respect, I'm not saying these people that come in and show no respect (intentionally or not, not searching and expecting help is disrespectful) deserve the red carpet rolled out for them and that we should bow down to their every wish and whim. However, what I am saying is that you should think of this forum as if it were someone else's house. Rob, Carlene, and Jessi are renting offroad and 4x4 from FTE owners, and you/we are walking in with our shoes on and tracking mud all over the place and trashing it. How would you feel if someone walked into your house and asked your wife to show her ****, started cussing around your children, yelled at your dad who was visiting, got drunk and fell through the glass coffee table?

Now there is still a problem with the newbs coming in with their entitlement mentality, and that is also a serious problem in this country. They're walking into the house and demanding a free dinner without even doing anything to deserve it. Now, most people would offer this person their free dinner if the person were nice, courteous and respectful. We'd offer them a few drinks, and possibly even a couch to crash on for the night. (This is us sharing the info we have to "newbs" who are respectful and courteous).

What we have to remember is that while we are all friends more or less and can sling these insults around at each other, it is intimidating to people who have never posted before or don't understand the way the internet forums work. You also have to remember when people are searching on google, FTE is one of the first forums to come up, so you're going to have a lot of people who have never been on an bulletin board before and don't understand how they work, don't understand you should search first, or don't even know how. They also might not understand the concept of sticky threads. It's really not that hard to direct the person to the proper forum, or explain to them briefly how to search, and it doesn't take any more time than it takes to bash them. I know I'm guilty of slamming people and I tend to take it over the top as soon as I see something that I perceive as a new guy getting uppity, but I do try to help when a well thought out and formulated question is presented, even if I do get a jab in here or there.

Overall, I think we can compromise and have this place work for everyone. We can still have our fun at each other's expenses (the regulars), but in turn for that freedom I think we should do our best to make the new guys feel welcomed and help them if we can. Honestly, I think that we have been doing that more than ever before over the past few weeks, and I'm not really sure what's triggered all of the problems. I think that the bashing between each other has been a little over the top, and honestly getting repetitive and boring, but at the same time we always end up helping the new guys in one way or another - that is unless they refuse to listen, then IMO they're just asking for it. However, like I've said plenty of times before, if the mods don't want that going on then we have to respect that!! It is, afterall, THEIR house.

With all of that said, I think that if the moderation gets over the top (like the rest of the site), you guys may end up losing some valuable members that have a lot to offer. It is a choice the mods and, ultimately, the users of this forum have to make as to whether they want to follow whatever modified or non-modified set of rules or end up playing in the band or sitting on the sideline because they can't control themselves.

 

Cliff notes PLZ K THX!

 

Paul, for the most part, I agree with just about everything you said.

I don't know about Rob an/or Jesse, but I don't want to rule with an iron fist. The problem is we give a yard, ya all take a mile. I'm all for having fun but when any and everyone that posts in this forum that isn't from this little group gets chased off by insults, it gets noticed and pisses off more than just us 3 mods that watch over this forum.

As for respect, how can it be earned if the user is only allowed to make one post before getting slammed.

I also want the F word lost by all of ya all, no matter how you try to spell it. It is not necessary for every sentence to be that crude.

 

Carlene may not speak for me but I agree with her on this. We don't want to rule that way. I just makes more work for us and takes the fun out for everybody.

 

I agree Carlene, but for the most part we don't slam after one post. It usually only happens after teh "newb" starts to irk one or more of us. Either by not listening to advice, ignoring advice, asking the same question after bein given the answer, etc. Maybe us users as a group can work on having a little more patience with the new guys?

to mods-Would that help?
to regulars-does that sound reasonable?

 

Paul =

 

Paul, the fact that you even think of things like this confirms my thoughts that you are a closet homo, but then I see Cait and her massiver bewbers and say meh....

 

Now that I'm done giving Paul a hard time, I'll throw in my $.02 into the mix. While we are usually a rough bunch against each other (read my above post to confirm this!), for the most part whe newbs come in we try to help out as long as they don't give big attitudes right off the bat. Specifically, I'm referring to the "Cheap ways to Lift" thread. He came into the forum asking an easy question about not having money for the extra lift, but quickly came argue back saying he was too cheap to buy the right stuff. Or Kirby with his continual smart *** comments thinking he's the best and brightest on anything 4x4. Tinian was given the benifit of the doubt in the past with his stuff, but also quickly got out of hand when he was given constructive critisim on his build and he fired back spiriling his thread into the ground by both sides. My point being that we (the contributing members of the offroad forum) for the most part HAVE BEEN and will continue to help new members, but as history has shown, most people are way too lazy to seach and seem to think it's fine to brush off good advice which is what turns this group sour and out for blood. Not saying we are innocent by any means of staying in forum boundaries, but it takes 2 to tango. Just sayin....