West Midlands rotary forum

[RamoNZ]

Whoa Lace, looks like I hit a nerve!;) For the record though, the bold underlined link in your sig looks like an advert to me, however let\'s agree to disagree on that. :Thumbs-up

Nik actualy sums up what I would had said had sarcasm not got in my way, but I will add that a local forum or category specific no matter how small still has a place - if you don\'t try, you\'ll never know!

I\'m not in the midlands, but if someone started a Brighton (or Hove as I\'m not baised rotary club, I\'d certainly check it out for what it\'s worth - I wish there were more rotor heads down here and that may be the thing that brings them out of the woodwork or links me to my local members who perhaps only post in parts of other forums that I don\'t traverse as frequently and therefore never cross virtual paths. MREC NI is a good example, small number of users that actually do meet up and one of them, who doesn\'t post here, is a rotary expert!

So for me, ill take quality over quantity anyday - i for one certainly wouldn\'t want to infer that some people here post for the hell of it and add very little to the pool of knowledge, apart from simply amassing a lot of posts in a short period of time, but I\'m sure that type of thing would be less prolific on a smaller sub forum.

[clive]

For many years I have activity pursued the idea of local meets and or forums and even asked people to be area reps for the club, back in the days of "Scooby Si" he became or area guy for the midlands with Donato up north, between them over a couple of years I think Si managed one and Donato two.

Even a couple of forums have come and gone where I have said to people that if it helps they can piggy back their forum off MRC, problem seems to come down to lack of support rather than anything negative coming out of this Club.

I have said this because I feel its important that if anyone wants to do something locally or otherwise to promote our great cars they should be supported and encouraged ,

This is something I was going to bring back to the fore over the next few weeks anyway to try and get members to be more active next year, but this will be discussed in the members section with the paying members of this club where they will be able to voice their opinian about their club and possible changes that may arrise from this.
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[Lacey]

Whoa Lace, looks like I hit a nerve!;) For the record though, the bold underlined link in your sig looks like an advert to me, however let\'s agree to disagree on that. :Thumbs-up

So for me, ill take quality over quantity anyday - i for one certainly wouldn\'t want to infer that some people here post for the hell of it and add very little to the pool of knowledge, apart from simply amassing a lot of posts in a short period of time, but I\'m sure that type of thing would be less prolific on a smaller sub forum.

If you\'d actually bothered to pay your membership fee and could see in the members section, you\'d know I already have the permission of Clive and Lisa for that tiny little link to be there, and you\'d know I bothered to ask, before I put it there.

As for your last comment, run a long little boy, I have better things to do than entertain your poor attempts at subtlety. :Thumbs-up


@Clive

I agree, and my offer to help Kamatari in any way I can still stands, regardless of my opinion.

[Alfred]

Everything I want to know, rotary related, I can find out from users on here who have had the years of experience in the industry to know what they\'re talking about.

You\'re devotion to the club does you proud, but I completely disagree with your statements. More is always better. If you think this place is the hub of technical knowledge you should check Ausrotary - it will blow your mind.
I joined MRC to be a part of the UK community and to meet fellow UK rotor nuts. With the very honorable exception of a few undoubtedly knowledgeable posters, the rest of the \'expertise\' seems to be where to buy carbon fibre tat to airfix to an FD or what colour to paint your alloys.
Open your eyes to the big wide world.
NtG nailed it. Well said fella.

[Lacey]

It\'s not the devotion to the club, it\'s just my experience. I have, so far, not asked a single question that hasn\'t been answered in it\'s entirety, accurately, and quickly. When I start asking technical questions that can\'t be answered, then I\'ll consider joining a second forum for further knowledge base. But everybody is different, and will have different questions

[jetpilot]

If your attitude, RamoNZ, towards John and Lacey means you will be an active user on a midlands forum i for one would stay away, if your trying to promote and support it your doing a p*** poor job by challenging peoples opinions and enforcing yours on what is probably the most widely used rotary forum whos support would probably be essential.

And if as you say you want quality over quantity im sure you will be staying here as thats exactly what Lacey and John are saying!

[lowslowandold]

to be honest lacey i dont think you can come with a technical post that wont be answered, so i cant see you leaving,

[Lacey]

And if as you say you want quality over quantity im sure you will be staying here as thats exactly what Lacey and John are saying!

to be honest lacey i dont think you can come with a technical post that wont be answered, so i cant see you leaving,

Those two comments pretty much sum up exactly what I\'ve been saying.

[Ian65]

If your attitude, RamoNZ, towards John and Lacey means you will be an active user on a midlands forum i for one would stay away

Why would you join a Midlands forum if you live in Dorset?

if your trying to promote and support it your doing a p*** poor job by challenging peoples opinions and enforcing yours on what is probably the most widely used rotary forum whos support would probably be essential.

perhaps it\'s escaped your notice but there are plenty of forums that thrive without support from MRC or its members

And if as you say you want quality over quantity im sure you will be staying here as thats exactly what Lacey and John are saying!

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[jetpilot]

Why would you join a Midlands forum if you live in Dorset?



perhaps it\'s escaped your notice but there are plenty of forums that thrive without support from MRC or its members



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Limit a rotary forum to midland occupants only, wow, what would there be, 10 - 20 members, i didnt realise its geographically limited to who can join.

And no it hasnt escaped my notice, but did you notice they were drumming up support on here?

Well thought out post Ian, sounds like your attitude would fit in well there, hence my post!

[Brett]

My suggestion from previous experience is to do some meets first, see how many people you get etc, then decide if it\'s worth making a dedicated forum.  (RCC did this and it worked well)

Might be worth opening it up to all Mazda\'s or Jap cars though, otherwise you may struggle a bit!

Remember people, we do this for fun!

[RamoNZ]

If you\'d actually bothered to pay your membership fee and could see in the members section, you\'d know I already have the permission of Clive and Lisa for that tiny little link to be there, and you\'d know I bothered to ask, before I put it there.

As for your last comment, run a long little boy, I have better things to do than entertain your poor attempts at subtlety. :Thumbs-up

Are you thinking I was going to snitch you to the authoritah of MRC for illegal advertising? Sounds like someone is paranoid!:Talking1

My point about you having a forum was simply that at some point you thought it was a good idea to break away from the mainstream and do something unique/niche or whatever - geddit?

More is better and if it\'s not a success so be it, but that\'s no reason to try.  Once again it\'s what that person gets out of it - a forum with 2 members where one shares knowledge with the other is a success in terms of making rotary ownership a more viable exercise for the person who gains the knowledge.

I\'m sure all the members of all the other forums would be disappointed to know they are wasting their time :Laugh

Anyway, GLWTS! Oh sorry, wrong thread!:Laugh:Laugh

[Kamatari]

Well didnt expect this thread to get so much attention!

Whilst this was in most ways a "come join us" thread, it seemed more appropriate placing it on an actual rotary forum.

Dont really expect there to be too many older rotary owners out there in the west midlands area but the idea is to try and get whoever is about together... I\'ve seen in the past the odd post in the meets folder seeing if theres anything going on, so if they were to happen to sign up and then get a little meet setup, i would see the forum as a success

Even though it was trying to be aimed at the west midlands anyone is welcome to join but if anything its more of a sub forum to this place.

I\'ve got an MX5 where im part of the forums that cover the whole of the K which are fine but then im also part of a west midlands forum where it only has a couple of hundred members which in turn probably has a fraction of that which are actually active but everyone gets on well and have good monthly meets, so i was just seeing if something similar could be applied to the rotary scene

So if anyone would like to join they\'re more than welcome! If not but you\'ve got any suggestions then please let me know!

[tinker-27]

i think there are more v8 fds in birmingham that rotary now anyway so you might have more luch with a v8 midlands meet !!

[clive]

Reading this thread, a new forum Kamatari , are you sure :Giggle.

I only need this thread to remind me that if I had taken heed from friends of mine who warned 10 years ago that people will be really nasty toward each other where they would never do it in person and that I was looney to even try there would have never been an MRC in the first place !!!!!!!!!!!! :Hammer

Back to the start of this thread, Kamatari is to be commended for at least trying to get something off the ground for other people as its my experience that whilst many will criticise, very few will actually get out there and try and do things for other people for no reward.