Spectre
Member
- Joined
- Jul 17, 2012
- Posts
- 14
Howdy, Just joined this morning.
I'm glad I've found you guys...It wasn't easy. Google search doesn't really point you towards this site. I found you after joining the "other" guys and seeing this one mentioned. (I was referred there by some guys on a 94-96 Impala SS forum, who used the term "limp----s" to describe them)
I'd like to give you guys an unbiased, "noob" opinion of the difference between the community you have started versus "the other".
I've never posted over there, mostly because I have had lots of cars and been a paying member on numerous forums. I spent some time browsing/searching over there, and I found many of the folks very condescending and patronizing towards noobs. Many questions are answered with "read your manual" and "do a search". and/or You posted in the wrong section. And many questions never receive any response at all. If they really are profit conscious, I can promise you they are losing money from potential paying/donating members. I won't contribute.
Why would anyone join or post in a forum if no one will answer an honest question? Why feel it's necessary to humiliate someone because you may know a little bit about a car they aren't familiar with?
Small people with an overinflated sense of their own worth. Sad. They do have some very useful articles and "how to's", but they appear to have been written by a lot of people who are "no longer with us". Hmmm, interesting.
I read a letter here from "Voymom" that pretty much summed up their attitude. If you look in the "introductions" sections of both forums, no one responds when new guys bother to introduce themselves there. That speaks volumes about the type of community they have. Professionalism, courtesy and helpfulness versus pettiness on full display. I hate a car snob.
Anyway, I thought you guys might be interested in hearing the opinion of car guy who is new to Trailblazer and both forums, and who wasn't around for all of the drama. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to learning from you all.
Thanks.
I'm glad I've found you guys...It wasn't easy. Google search doesn't really point you towards this site. I found you after joining the "other" guys and seeing this one mentioned. (I was referred there by some guys on a 94-96 Impala SS forum, who used the term "limp----s" to describe them)
I'd like to give you guys an unbiased, "noob" opinion of the difference between the community you have started versus "the other".
I've never posted over there, mostly because I have had lots of cars and been a paying member on numerous forums. I spent some time browsing/searching over there, and I found many of the folks very condescending and patronizing towards noobs. Many questions are answered with "read your manual" and "do a search". and/or You posted in the wrong section. And many questions never receive any response at all. If they really are profit conscious, I can promise you they are losing money from potential paying/donating members. I won't contribute.
Why would anyone join or post in a forum if no one will answer an honest question? Why feel it's necessary to humiliate someone because you may know a little bit about a car they aren't familiar with?
Small people with an overinflated sense of their own worth. Sad. They do have some very useful articles and "how to's", but they appear to have been written by a lot of people who are "no longer with us". Hmmm, interesting.
I read a letter here from "Voymom" that pretty much summed up their attitude. If you look in the "introductions" sections of both forums, no one responds when new guys bother to introduce themselves there. That speaks volumes about the type of community they have. Professionalism, courtesy and helpfulness versus pettiness on full display. I hate a car snob.
Anyway, I thought you guys might be interested in hearing the opinion of car guy who is new to Trailblazer and both forums, and who wasn't around for all of the drama. Keep up the good work, and I look forward to learning from you all.
Thanks.
Better than the reapers that were wandering the other place 
) and within a short time, the lunatics were running the asylum. It became a place where one or two DBs pretty much ruined it for all. The owners seemed to take a hands-off approach. I honestly think the only thing wrong in that case was that ownership allowed a few egomaniacal 'tards free reign over the site as long as the revenue stream continued. I believe they were more guilty of ignoring the site and what happened there than actually running it into the ground. In the beginning the owners rep was very visible and commented often. Over time, she disappeared. When the "admins" went nutso, she was nowhere to be found, and even let many pleas for her help go unanswered. Needless to say the site is a shadow of it's former self. The owners crime in that case was apathy. 
