It’s a huge turn off. Communities like this move forward and have a future when they gain new members. Old members don’t stick around forever. New people must come here all the time and just move on. I understanding the good points of LIGHT moderation but some of the discussions here are, in my opinion, bad for the progression of this community. Or at least in this particular section as I don’t venture out into other areas.
It’s really kind of ridiculous.
The site has 500 members. A few months ago it had 100. Its growing just fine, I think. The goal of the site is not to ‘grow’. It is to provide a forum for members first, and those members can determine the content without that content being censored or controlled to line the pockets of the site owner. If that means 500 people, that’s fine. It does not need to grow. Growth is required for financial sustainability of a website. This site does not need to financially sustain itself. At least that’s what I see the site as. Maybe if ‘God’ wrote a mission statement it would be more clear.
The car drama stems from people having opinions that are not muted by advertisers. Frankly I think that’s healthy. That kind of ‘drama’ is what saved me from buying a $10,000 supercharger kit from a company that was pulling a scam on audizine members back in 2008. A bunch of members called them out (car drama) and the majority of people started threads that sounded like this one, saying ‘why are you all such haters’ etc. Fact is, if everyone sat around and sang koombaya and said ‘everything is great! that dyno is great!’ and didn’t scrutinize anything or ask questions, that would create a labotomized user base, and is what the big sites are for. That is, in my opinion, FAR more damaging than watching a couple of people have an argument about something.
The personal drama is just what happens on internet sites in general. When there’s a thread with a title describing someone sucking on someone’s asshole, well, you should maybe just not open that one if you don’t like to see that kind of drama. I agree it’s not very useful for ‘advancing the platform’ but this isn’t a technical only site, so you’ll see that here and there. Don’t lose sight of the fact that there are hundreds of threads here, primarily performance or news focused…there are a very small number of ‘drama’ threads like the straw sucking one.
nothing like a good argument, even better with no mall cops to fuck it up
“If you can’t stand the heat, then stay out of the kitchen.” sums this site up pretty well imo.
I like it. I can see how it’s not everyone’s cup of tea though. Pretty tough to B.S. anyone on here with Saki on patrol, lol.
this is the best forum ever. fuck those other sites, especially audizine. Anthony, the owner is as phony as they come. I also think that a person who has gotten a person banned in the past is a little girl Mallard. I’m pretty sure there are a couple on this forum. Lol. By the way this forum rules.
I must say that this site is refreshing, I can do or say what I like and not be chastised by Mods. I don’t think there is anymore drama than you find on other sites.