CarId post on 3SI - Their Idiots!!!

[green-lantern]

You mean there's actually more egotistical 3/s owners with a god-complex than I can count on 1 hand?

And here I thought GC, LW, DPF and JackH were all in a league of their own...

Don't forget Jeff and April

jk jk jk jk

[DrGonzo]

April will kick you butt is she comes to BRG this year for that one....LMAO!!!

Don't forget Jeff and April

jk jk jk jk

[green-lantern]

April will kick you butt is she comes to BRG this year for that one....LMAO!!!

lol I'll probably see her before BRG.

[GTO Assassin]

And you see why I refuse to go back to that hell hole.

lol.... Some of you people need to step out from behind the keyboard and realise there is soooo much more to life than forums, and at the end of the day, does it REALLY matter how good/bad/educational etc each forum is? If a car forum was that important to me, I'de probably be more like you cynics. But the internet is not that important. Just relax and enjoy where you are. Isn't marijuana legal over in the US in some states? Get on to that.

Scooter

[stealthee]

No, the internet is not that important. I've left other forums because of crap happening before too. 3si is not worth my (or really anyone's) time anymore.

[GTO Assassin]

Yet here you are bad mouthing them, twice. Like I said, let it go man.

Scotty

[IPD]

Completely disagree. The internet is VERY important. It has rekindled the power of mom & pop businesses to compete on the same playing field as big box retailers. It has dramatically improved the speed with which I can access information which I would otherwise have a hard time locating (or wouldn't be able to access at all).

The internet has a built-in Nielsen-Ratings-style feature; it counts website hits. Naturally, this flow of consumers, bloggers, chatters, etc....can direct how and what things are offered on the internet. The power is in the voice of consumers. Microsoft, for example, did a complete 180 on DRM for the XBone....because consumers complained. Businesses do change their tactics.

In that light, I cannot help but judge those who frequent 3si (or worse, pay membership dues there) as complicit in SANCTIONING what AF is doing. I don't expect everyone to understand this concept. After all, the USA also has gone along hook, line and sinker for the NSA spying on everyone and their great-grandmother...and hasn't made a peep about it until Snowden NARC'd. History shows that people are often too complacent until it is far too late & the damage has been done.

[GTO Assassin]

Sorry, what I meant was as far as forum wars go, the internet isn't that important. As far as everyday life/learning/games/fun etc, yeat, it's a big deal.

Scooter

[IPD]

Once you let a company like AF dictate how forums will be ran, you end up enslaving yourself on behalf of their business model.

[GTO Assassin]

Again, you're going on about this like 3si/3sgto/insert any car forum here - are massively important in the overall scheme of things. Once you break down what they are, a social gathering where members talk shit, show stuff off and find information, you should realise that there are more important things to put your whining into. (gun debates and how bad apple are vs pc's ) You can rant and rave about opression and the government and AF and blah blah till you're blue in the face. FOR ME, I just come for the conversation and that's all forums. There are pests and idiots at all forums, but you learn to get along, or use the ignore feature.

Scooter