West Midlands rotary forum

Alfred · September 03, 2011, 10:04:25 PM

Precisely. Give it a go mate, you\'ll never know till you try.

Quote from: Kamatari;772960...ive put up a site with a forum at the moment over at http://www.rexmidlands.com with the hoping that we can get a local community going and start having some meets up this end..

Quote from: jetpilot;786262i didnt realise its geographically limited to who can join.

Did you even read the thread?

Quote from: jetpilot;786262Limit a rotary forum to midland occupants only, wow, what would there be, 10 - 20 members...

So? There is absolutely no correlation between a forum\'s number of members and its value to those members.

Quote from: jetpilot;786262sounds like your attitude would fit in well there

You\'ve decided the tone of this new forum already because a couple of guys stick up for Kamatari? It\'s exactly this kind of negativity that Clive is referring to. I\'ll say it again - GO FOR IT SON. Ignore the nay-sayers.

jetpilot · September 04, 2011, 08:55:33 AM

Alfred:

Yes i read the original thread, a forum aimed at a local community, no problems/no issues, if you read my posts and others, my thoughts was challenged because of my location. So, what are you saying, unless you are from the midlands you wont be allowed to join?

My initial post was in no way negative towards to a forum (if you read it) and have no problem with people being positive, its a good thing. However, there are ways to go about it, challenging peoples views and being sarcastic towards Kamatari\'s target audience, JohnF, who is from the midlands to be clear, isnt going to help Kamatari\'s cause! Their posts are actually more negative and inflamitary than mine because of their tone!

My personal feeling would be Kamatari would be far better petitioning the larger rotary forums and look to get some local sub sections set up which maybe he could moderate for the Midlands.

RamoNZ · September 04, 2011, 10:22:47 AM

Quote from: jetpilot;786313Alfred:

Yes i read the original thread, a forum aimed at a local community, no problems/no issues, if you read my posts and others, my thoughts was challenged because of my location. So, what are you saying, unless you are from the midlands you wont be allowed to join?

My initial post was in no way negative towards to a forum (if you read it) and have no problem with people being positive, its a good thing. However, there are ways to go about it, challenging peoples views and being sarcastic towards Kamatari\'s target audience, JohnF, who is from the midlands to be clear, isnt going to help Kamatari\'s cause! Their posts are actually more negative and inflamitary than mine because of their tone!

My personal feeling would be Kamatari would be far better petitioning the larger rotary forums and look to get some local sub sections set up which maybe he could moderate for the Midlands.

Backtrack all you want champ - whilst holding your butt in your hands.

Even Clive agrees with diversity - if everyone had your point of view even MRC wouldnt exist!

And regarding your locale excluding you from joining the forum, I\'m sure he would welcome any members, but the pure fact that it\'s a midlands based forum I\'m guessing is to attract members that will actually meet up being so close - Dorset to the midlands is a bit of a trek but don\'t let that stop you joining! :3gears-lh

jetpilot · September 04, 2011, 10:33:36 AM

Quote from: RamoNZ;786322Backtrack all you want champ - whilst holding your butt in your hands.

Even Clive agrees with diversity - if everyone had your point of view even MRC wouldnt exist!

And regarding your locale excluding you from joining the forum, I\'m sure he would welcome any members, but the pure fact that it\'s a midlands based forum I\'m guessing is to attract members that will actually meet up being so close - Dorset to the midlands is a bit of a trek but don\'t let that stop you joining! :3gears-lh

Yes as in John, whos views you couldnt even be civil too! And if you actually read my post rather than jumping all over other members views to it you would see i didnt condemn his ideas, just your attitude which you\'ve regurgitated here too!

RamoNZ · September 04, 2011, 11:27:19 AM

Quote from: jetpilot;786239If 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!

My attitude?? Alls I\'m saying is that a new forum would be great if it works, no harm done if it doesnt. If that point of view means you\'ll stay away from the forum that is full of people who are looking for something new/different/local etc then you must you must be the kind of person that hates innovation and in cave man days you\'d be the the one saying \'don\'t eat that, you don\'t know what it is\' and die while others who did flourish. :Giggle

Re quality over quantity - um where are you coming from? MRC is cool, but it will never offer all things to all people so there always will be people that post rubbish just for the hell of it rather than trying to add to the pool of knowledge - a smaller forum (if it works) will provide those people with more of what they need without the trashy overhead. MRC in this example is the quantity and the sub forums would be the quality just so you are clear.

Don\'t get me wrong MRC has it\'s place, hence why I\'m here and a smaller forum won\'t be good just because it exists, but I am surprised that anyone has said anything other than \'well done mate, give it a go\'. :cheers

Kamatari · September 04, 2011, 12:28:41 PM

The forum is open to anyone so dont think if you\'re not from the west midlands and you join up that you\'re going to get kicked out lol

If MRC did want to to get some sub forums setup for different areas then i\'d be more than happy to moderate it, im just wanting to try and get more of a scene round here. It\'d be nice even if it was just a couple of people that used either my forum or the sub forum, sharing knowledge and helping each other out

whilst this forum is great and everyones very helpful, the feeling i more get from it is a more...london way forum just down to where most of the people who post help are from (although correct me if im wrong!)

One good thing about this thread has been a few people from around the west midlands have posted so atleast theres a couple of people to get intouch with about getting a meet setup

tinker-27 - v8 FD\'s are welcome, might not be rotary engines but its still a "rotary" body :p

Alfred · September 04, 2011, 06:40:00 PM

Quote from: jetpilot;786313Yes i read the original thread, a forum aimed at a local community, no problems/no issues...

Quote from: jetpilot;786326...i didnt condemn his ideas...

Quote from: jetpilot;786262...Limit a rotary forum to midland occupants only, wow, what would there be, 10 - 20 members...

Quote from: jetpilot;786262...my thoughts was challenged...

Yes, they certainly was [sic].

Lacey · September 04, 2011, 07:36:42 PM

Quote from: Alfred;786421Yes, they certainly was [sic].

Ah, selective quoting and wordspinning, are you a reporter for The Sun by some chance?

Alfred · September 04, 2011, 08:07:40 PM

I challenge you to specify ANY spin in my posts. What have I said that you consider inaccurate or unfair? Or unbiased for that matter.
Once again your loyalty overrules your logic.

stylus350 · September 04, 2011, 08:14:14 PM

Stop fighting. Start driving.

Alfred · September 04, 2011, 08:57:11 PM

Agreed!
Try to support and encourage community and some folks just want to bicker.
I\'m going for a burn now.

clive · September 04, 2011, 09:42:41 PM

OK guys n gals, I can see this now going way off track and more and more personal and this thread becoming a closed thread which sure is no way for a new forum idea to even get off the ground ,

If you want to play tag with each other pleeeease PM each other away from here,

jetpilot · September 04, 2011, 09:47:25 PM

Quote from: Alfred;786461Agreed!
Try to support and encourage community and some folks just want to bicker.
I\'m going for a burn now.

Laceys opinion/view after having started a forum of her own might be something you would want to take on board and is of interest to you after having been there and done that, she was not bickering initially, just giving you or more so Kamatari an opinion/view which you seem to have taken exception too because it contradicts yours.

rbs14a · September 04, 2011, 09:51:08 PM

Quote from: tinker-27;786286i think there are more v8 fds in birmingham that rotary now anyway so you might have more luch with a v8 midlands meet !!

haha craig you\'re dreaming, just because most of the v8 ones have been in birmingham in your place doesnt count... on a side note where was you today for slippystone? mine made it there and back even spotted a couple of scrap iron engined cars of yours there :evillaugh

Alfred · September 04, 2011, 10:14:04 PM

Quote from: jetpilot;786477Laceys opinion/view after having started a forum of her own might be something you would want to take on board and is of interest to you after having been there and done that, she was not bickering initially, just giving you or more so Kamatari an opinion/view which you seem to have taken exception too because it contradicts yours.

You heard the Pres. Stop trolling up the boy\'s thread looking for a squabble.