Vegeta Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 http://www.60degreev6.com/phpBB2/ Thats what im doing for now, so give me your layout suggestions and ill get the new forum setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnatGoSplat Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 can we start a paypal donation for either a new forum or expanded W-body.com forum? I will surely donate to the cause... Looks like Ben wants to keep 60v6 separate, but if anyone feels like helping me out, I have 2 PayPal accounts: gnatgosplat@softhome.net if you can pay with an existing balance or bank funds. SRL212B@smsu.edu if you want to pay with credit/debit cards. The credit/debit card account, PayPal gets about 3%. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
92turboLE Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 i am more then happy to help out the cause with what i can, it wont bemuch for now but something is better then nothing - Justin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Burning Rom Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Shawn..what are you paying right now for hosting? The account that I have my site on costs me about $14 a month for 22gb of traffic and 600mb of space. Right now I'm using maybe half that space and 2gb worth of traffic. The account is hosted through http://www.dominet.net I bought it during a promo they were running..so I got a deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weisinator Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 I was hoping there would be more information than I already knew, but I guess not. The thread that DykZ34 posted has a couple other posts after BowtieKid79s: Lunatic actually said "You want hitler you got hitler". The thread ended with him saying "No more worries, site's sold. Bye" Thanks to LunaticSS's forcing of all moderators to receive e-mails of the moderator section, I have a decent amount of documentation that shows why I want nothing more to do with him or his sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnatGoSplat Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Shawn..what are you paying right now for hosting? The account that I have my site on costs me about $14 a month for 22gb of traffic and 600mb of space. Right now I'm using maybe half that space and 2gb worth of traffic. The account is hosted through http://www.dominet.net I bought it during a promo they were running..so I got a deal I think I'm paying $100/yr on the half-price promo and prepaying for the entire year, although I might have to double check that. I think the hostrocket site that Luke found would be the best upgrade path since they offer 50GB transfer. It's possible an upgrade might not even be necessary. Once the 60v6 forums go full swing, some of the traffic may die down a bit. As much as I like seeing the W-body community in one place, I think the 60v6 guys have only been active here till they can find a permanent place to call home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippie Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Sucks for me too, there were a couple guys in the Cadillac Forum that REALLY knew 4.9's. I'm glad I learned what I did from them while I could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian89gp Posted October 1, 2003 Report Share Posted October 1, 2003 Shawn, have you looked at rackshack? I know they have fairly reasonable prices. Also Dixiesys has split into 2 sections, a quality and a cheep. Might check into the cheap (i think its called 8.95 or something) The rest of it in another thread. Right after he locked me out of the one Dave has saved i posted this: Me(best of memory): You might as well un-mod me as I seem to hide in my little hole to much. Who would have thought a suggestion could lead to this. So Ben if you can un-mod me before I sneeze and get myself banned. LunaticSS: ---- off then LunaticSS: i am sick of useless assholes that are going to pull attitude. they can get farked. You dont like that decision then everyone else can get farked too. I am not going to put up with assholes. That was I believe the only disagreeable thing I said the whole time. I went to bed right after that and woke up to find the new home page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musthavemuzk Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 well i used to frequent gmforums til this spring when i started on getting things ready for car audio comps. then it basically fell off to no visits there. i personally never had many problems there. then again i only visit the w-body, the olds, off topic and the car audio sections. too bad such a group of ppl lost a resource like this. just think if w-body forum went south? it would suck. as for donations to keep the forum going...i am game. did it once would do it again. Monty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegeta Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 THings are going to be changing, that is for sure. I need to find a host for the site with the forum. I have no idea what the bandwidth is going to be though but the site itself is 3-7 gig a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STR Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 Just no pop-ups if it can at all be avoided please! i'd rather have pop-ups because then my Pop-up stopper will stop them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RedCutlassSL Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 This is for LunaticSS: FUCK OFF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RedCutlassSL Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 STR, who are those girls in your sig? Is that Tatu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weisinator Posted October 2, 2003 Report Share Posted October 2, 2003 STR, who are those girls in your sig? Is that Tatu?Nope, "The Kiss" happens to be the best selling poster at allposters.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian P Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 http://www.s10forum.com/forum/showthread.php?s=1f81abd9525505a3a63c73ed6f0b007f&threadid=64540 just a little more info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patgizz Posted October 4, 2003 Report Share Posted October 4, 2003 brian - NICE LOCATION! he is an asshole, a major one at that. to go bashing on moderators who volunteered their free time on a site he was trying to make money off of(and if it worked would never share the wealth i am sure). reminds me of that dennis leary song, whats it called? oh ya - the ASSHOLE song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian P Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 That's what ticks me off, he makes money off many people volunteering their time, yet calls that "doing it for the passion" nice one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gearhead43 Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Ummmmmm John worded the post on the S10 forums completely different than the one on the GMForums. On the S10 forums he sounded more subtle,professional and " It's about making profits". On the GMForum, while he is saying the same thing .. It's worded more harshly and like "it's all the fault of the moderators". Which would explain why everyone is chewing him out for the post on the GMForums.. Had he worded the GMForum post like the S10 Forums post, he would have probably gotten more mild mannered reasonable responses from the GMF members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian P Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Ummmmmm John worded the post on the S10 forums completely different than the one on the GMForums. On the S10 forums he sounded more subtle,professional and " It's about making profits". On the GMForum, while he is saying the same thing .. It's worded more harshly and like "it's all the fault of the moderators". Which would explain why everyone is chewing him out for the post on the GMForums.. Had he worded the GMForum post like the S10 Forums post, he would have probably gotten more mild mannered reasonable responses from the GMF members. Exactly my point. I dont think the decision he made to sell gmforums.com was BAD, and if I were in his position, trying to earn a living by making money from forums, I would have done the same thing, only quicker. However the ironic thing is that if he would have been professional about everything the WHOLE time, ie asking moderators to help out more, and demote the people who truly didnt give a shit, and bring better people in, then HE WOULDNT NEED TO SELL GMF cause it would have been profitable. So as far as I'm concerned, he laid in the bed he made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPSMonteZ34 Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 So as far as I'm concerned, he laid in the bed he made. ...or shit the bed. How ever you decide to interpret it I guess. The "wait and see" approach is a hopeless business strategy. I'm short on complete details in regards to the venture; however, I saw one glaring error: Asking support and improvement ideas from the people you blame for ruining what you are trying to improve is like handing yourself your own failure. That's not a problem with the people, that's a problem in management. If he worked for me, I'd have fired his ass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian P Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 He asks the mods for ideas, so when the site is branded as "shit" he just blames the moderators. It's the "upper management" way! PASS THE BLAME!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnatGoSplat Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Even on his S10Forums post, he sounded like an ass to me. He has some nerve treating people that way who were helping him make money FOR FREE! They were putting in their own time and effort, not getting paid, to make him a comfortable living. If anything, he should be kissing the mods' asses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPSMonteZ34 Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 The only problem is he keeps going on like a broken record on how the other boards he owns manage to run so smoothly with the mods there. To him I say, "Buddy, the mods aren't the problem you dough head, it's the layout for which you expect the mods to operate under." It appears as if he wants it to operate like Dell Customer Service. "I'll take all calls, and pretend to give advice on something I don't have a clue on." This isn't a slam at the mods, rather, it's as Brian put it, "Me dropping into most any other section is all but useless because I honestly don't have a clue and would be of no help. <-- And the Lunatic (works perfect here don't you think?) thinks this is a bad thing? He expects experts on everything, he should go and find them...and not expect them to be stupid enough to come to his door and say, "I know my shit, and I'll do it all for free." Hobby my ass. If he calls it a business - he should OPERATE it like a business. What ignorance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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