Letting the Standards slip...

yea right , you write down the .com and get a hot line for this stuff ... LOL

and flat tires are not traditional as they used solid tires back in them days .. didn't they ???

 

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do you have picture of him not on a off topic bike?

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You're not even a paid up Alliance member, you have no room to bitch. Pay up or Shut up. Freeloader.IMHO.

 

In B4 the lock...

 

Only a serious rock-a-silly, merkin-wearing pissclam gets called a Hairbitch (tm). You are right, info is way better than HAMB 1.0, but it was always good for a gut-laugh. Long live the cheese grater.

 

I, too have been surprised, confused, and rather irritated at some of the decisions to whack some of my posts. I would think that the goal of a site like this is to inform/educate/help out other members who may be doing similar things on their projects, as long as the subject matter relates to cars, as long as the cars are "old". Each of us from time to time seek information or choose to share an idea to help out another hamber shouldn't be scrutinize so narrowly just because "somebody" doesn't like the wheels on the guy's car so the post gets WHACKED. As suggested above, if ya don't have any interest, skip it and move on. Sombody else may find it useful.

 

WOW! A supermodified '59 Chevy-over the top body work, with an incredible paint job! Prolly has a supercharged LS under the hood! What a GREAT ride.

 

The OP made a point about pictures being posted (same ones over and over again) with redundant comments about the content. The drag racing threads are particularly full of these posts. Yes, I can read what is painted on the car. I don't need to have it pointed out like I'm a 5 year old. In some cases it really does seem like "I don't give a shit how many times this photos has already been posted, I want to run up my post count". I don't think we need to waste band width on photos I've seen 3 or 4 times on the same thread. I've also seen guys who comment on the thread about this get flamed for their comments by others who just want to flame someone. It bothers me, but it's Ryan's board, his rules, and it's up to him to decide what's here.

 

Seems the problem, if there is one, of redundancies in pictures and in text is that the default, when one posts anything, is to include a quote of a given post. Maybe if posters had to select the +quote button in order to include a quote we could all save time

 

Uh oh,did somebody post the "s" word? I would think that profanity would not be consistent with posting rules. .....but that's just me....

 

From the link to the rulebook "...but we don't hesitate to dump......shit-talkers".....hmmm seems fair enough

 

Ryan, the annoying part is the reposted photos show up on the drag race, drag roadsters, and altered threads within minutes of each other. Reposts are one thing, but I don't need to see the same photo(s) on 3 different threads at the same time.

 

If somebody has something to add to a photo that originally came with no background info, such as "That's the Brannan A/FX car in June/July of 65 at Bristol.He won the final vs Kelly Chadwick",or something relevant,but I agree with your previous post stating that it's pretty painful to see the same photo of the same car on three different threads,with a caption that says nothing more informative than the name that's already painted on the door.
I think some of the guys like yourself and Don Nowell,who are a goldmine of racing history,tend to post less when the thread is clogged up with fluff like that,and that's a shame,cause you guys add so much value to this site.

Scott


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[QUOTE="powrshftr, post: 12095434, member: 216497" ...it's pretty painful to see the same photo of the same car on three different threads,with a caption that says nothing more informative than the name that's already painted on the door...

Scott


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There will be duplicate pictures without captions, and some of them will be glorious.

How can you keep from it? A person would have to look at every thread to see if someone's already posted the same picture somewhere.

The really good pictures naturally get reproduced on multiple threads, giving more people a chance to see them.

I'd rather have a picture with no information, or even useless information, than miss out on seeing it alltogether.

Some of these guys on here can't type or spell worth a darn. Or maybe their grandkids are helping them post their pictures. Some guys take a couple of hours to type a paragraph or two. Some can't see well.

Maybe they don't have time to write a blurb on every picture for our entertainment but thought the picture could be enjoyed anyway.

I think we have to put up with these and other minor annoyances. "Painful" is an exaggeration. Eliminating them would cause much bigger annoyances.

It's not like a forum is a book or a movie or a newspaper, that's been written and double checked by skilled journalists, editors and such, to ensure it reads well. It's just a bunch of unpolished, raw streams of thought, written by guys who like old cars.

And it's glorious.


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The word Shit does not offend me at all. Most of us shit once or more per day. Just pointing out an inconsistency in your rules. No offense. Either specifically ban "shit-talkers", or allow any form of profanity. Just suggesting that everyone live by the same rules.

Over the years that I have been a hamber, I have had dozens if not hundreds of responses that helped me with my '49, and I can say with confidence that I have helped out dozens of builders who have had technical questions and others requests for information. My website has a statistical tracker on it that I can see every visitors reference site, how long they have spent on a page, and details of their city and even the computer or phone that accessed my site. Without exaggeration, I have had THOUSANDS of views that originated at the h.a.m.b.

Rather than everybody wasting time and effort and causing all this turmoil, how about renaming traditional customs to "pure restorations" and create three more categories : "restomods", "history/stories ", and "pictures/albums". Wouldn't that help reduce the pissing and moaning that seems to go on here?

Rather than slapping people around who simply want to build a car or have questions about how to do things that may be a little over the head of other people's technical capabilities, why not spend a few minutes and a few Mouse clicks to make everybody happy?

 

I have been a member of the Hamb for 14 years and I have witnessed a couple of wholesale revamps and each and every time people complain and carp about how we need a category for this or that.

Or we need a section for off topic cars but from my point of view everything Ryan has implemented has just made the hamb easier to use and posting photo's has never been easier.

I can't imagine anything that would make the Hamb any better but I'm willing to bet Ryan is always thinking about how he can improve the site. HRP

 

Not for OT cars- that can go to one of many other sites. But, I have thought that I would enjoy a section for standard old car guy bs-ing.
Then again, if there was that- I probably wouldn't have to leave the shop except for work or see wtf is wrong with the wifi..


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This forum has been going down hill for years. At one time it was only traditional guys but now every trendy asshole in the world is on here driving up prices in the classifieds and putting up junk post. If we could just rewind 10 years and have the old H.A.M.B. back... Tradition over trend!

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That's funny...
Because to me, the "old HAMB" is Trad stuff mixed with things like Purple with his little modified Datsun, really wrong cars like the Mosquito, wicked smart and off the wall humor, endless off topic rants of somebody speaking in some weird kind of valley girl dialect (TM), tech & history on vintage Euro cars, etc, etc.

The HAMB is way more focused now.
Probably more than it has ever been.

But with the bigger numbers we also got people with all of 20 posts & all of two weeks of participating, whining about the perceived injustice of having their Off Topic stuff disappear while other O/T stuff might linger a bit longer.
( some simply because it hasn't been spotted yet, some because it is grandfathered in, etc )

There was a time there were no written rules at all, and we'd ask the Users to just read for a while to get a feel for the place.
And lots of people would.

And since I'm not currently Moderating ( I'm taking a break... ), I think I can ask to give the Mods some credit.
It takes quite a bit of time, that they are volunteering.
And although its gratifying in its own way, its a thankless shitty job...