Motornet.ie forums

BrianD3

I've just been browsing these forums. Didn't know about them until dahamsta mentioned them here a while back. And what a load of **** they are. Never before have I read so much dangerous, wrong, misleading and stupid BS on the topic of cars and driving. There seem to be a few good posters but they are outnumbered by stupid morons. And it's not even a very Irish forum, many of the posters are from the US or scandinavia. Does anyone here post over there?

BrianD3

mike65

I have occasionally browsed the forums but they are pretty quite compared to here! I trust you have joined to put them right

Mike.

Tommy Vercetti

lol how dare they have a weird sense of humour!

Interceptor

Let battle commence. I have also just trod in motornet.ie and no amount of scraping will get it off my Timberland Docksiders. Where is Karl Tsigdingdong when you need him....

'c

Pearse

Well BrianD3, having had a good browse around boards.ie I can safley say, without fear of contradiction, that Motornet does not have the monopoly on 'stupid moron' posters.

And, having had a dam good read of most of the threads in this 'motors' section I can only conclude that this is the most bland, inane, depressing, misleading, immature, uninformed and saddest excuse for a motoring board I have ever had the misfortune to encounter.

When was this board set up? 2001? MotorNet has been running under various guises since 1998 with the same solid core of posters, each one with impeccable motoring credentials. There is no comparison. And by the way, what do nationality or location have to do with anything? Your xenophobic attitude says it all really. Go back to talking about the driving test boys.

mike65

Oh dear Brian has upset a motornet vet.

Mike.

Interceptor

Don't know who started it but its definitely a my-willy-is-bigger-than-your-willy contest.

http://forums.tcm.ie/showthread.php?t=24507

Most of the threads have been waiting days for anyone to throw in tuppence worth - max users logged on to entire TCM database = 202. Not sure if its worth worrying about - read it yourself and make your own mind up.

'ceptr

mike65

Its small alright but no doubt they would say perfectly formed. Adam is one of thier busiest posters but thats not saying much as the membership list, by post count goes from 3101 to 21 on the first page!

As for our collection of "idiotic student nerds with no lives" well tis true but at least this place is'nt covered in a spiders web.

Mike.

unkel

BrianD3 wrote:

Does anyone here post over there?

I do

BrianD3 wrote:

And what a load of **** they are. Never before have I read so much dangerous, wrong, misleading and stupid BS on the topic of cars and driving

Can't say I agree

mike65

I just spotted you on "the other site" unkle, this could get rather incestuous.
Could turn out half the regulars here are over there too.

Mike.

Interceptor

mike65 wrote:

As for our collection of "idiotic student nerds with no lives" well tis true

Hey, I used to be one of those.

I like the 'community' aspect of boards and I've seen dangerous advice on 'specialist' forums where people were given very wrong instructions by 'experts' who should have known better. In the end the world is divided into two kinds of people, figure out which kind you are and get on with it.

'ceptr

mike65

I meant it in the nicest possible way.

I think this board has definitly got busier over the last 18 months or so, apart from the hard core I reckon there are more ppl who drop in for the occasional query or silly comment that adds to the, er gaiety of the forum.


Mike.

I like to think yours truly has helped boost circulation figures in some small way

BrianD3

Good man Pearse, that's a good rant you had there :rolleyes: And I like the way 528i has had a good go at me about the Megane post although I notice one of the other motornet posters has disagreed with him somewhat so perhaps motornet isn't all bad

As for me being xenophobic, not true at all. When I see a forum called motornet.IE I would assume that the posters would be experts on matters relating to Irish motoring. But that doesn't appear to be the case and it's understandable if most of the posters are US based.

The boards.ie motoring forum is populated by down to earth people who know a bit about cars and motoring yet don't claim to be experts. I'm sure there's plenty of posters like that on motornet but I haven't come across too many. As for each poster on motornet having "impeccable motoring credentials" that's the funniest thing I've read in a long time.

BrianD3

Tommy Vercetti

I don't wish to get into a our-forum's-better-than-yours thing, but it is nice to have a discussion about cars or motoring without the anti-car/motorist brigade tut-tutting from upon high on you for doing a dastardly deed such as 41 in a 40 every now and again. And I don't mean here

FX Meister

http://forums.tcm.ie/showthread.php?t=24509

RAOFLMAOATSSOB

dcGT

FX Meister wrote:

http://forums.tcm.ie/showthread.php?t=24509

RAOFLMAOATSSOB

Brilliant

DC.

MercMad

I didn't see where anyone claimed to be an expert but I guess on any forum there are going to be a certain amount of folk who talk sh1te, stir it up or force their opinions on everyone else !

Motornet IS quiet but for lurkers it doesn't matter !

Alfasudcrazy

Hi - I am new here but am also a member of Octane.ie and Motornet.ie and also alfaowner.com among others.
Sure there is enough forums out there to satisfy anyone's needs and I just love reading them all :rolleyes:

Interceptor

I signed up for a Motornet account on Saturday night and am still waiting for the logon to activate.

I can't find a way to contact their mods via the site, but I suspect they might be watching this thread and wonder if they could connect the blue wire to the red plug and make it all happen.

And anyway, what other reason is there for using forums except to chat with ' a certain amount of folk who talk sh1te, stir it up or force their opinions'. It beats talking to yourself...

'c

Interceptor

Alfasudcrazy wrote:

Hi - I am new here but am also a member of Octane.ie and Motornet.ie and also alfaowner.com among others.
Sure there is enough forums out there to satisfy anyone's needs and I just love reading them all :rolleyes:

Yes and you ask enough mad questions to qualify for the 'Interceptor Mad Question Asker' of the month award. Welcome to boards.ie - 'we won't make you pierce your dong, but we won't slag you if you do'

'c

unkel

FX Meister wrote:

http://forums.tcm.ie/showthread.php?t=24509

RAOFLMAOATSSOB

That is an awful post. This idiot Sulamani (IRE) is only new to motornet.ie and his kinda post is very atypical of motornet. Another big difference between boards and motornet is that motors on boards has recently converted to having quite strict mods. Motornet hasn't. Any regular on motornet can obviously see through this

MercMad wrote:

I didn't see where anyone claimed to be an expert but I guess on any forum there are going to be a certain amount of folk who talk sh1te, stir it up or force their opinions on everyone else !

Motornet IS quiet but for lurkers it doesn't matter !

How true! Motornet is a great Irish motoring forum. Take it from me and do a bit more research and you will find out for yourselves. Let me guess though, MercMad (boards) = BeCos (motornet), or is it Paul? Tell me if I'm wrong...

Interceptor wrote:

I signed up for a Motornet account on Saturday night and am still waiting for the logon to activate.

I can't find a way to contact their mods via the site, but I suspect they might be watching this thread and wonder if they could connect the blue wire to the red plug and make it all happen.

PM Adam, he made it work for me earlier this year after I suffered from the same problem

dahamsta

unkel wrote:

This idiot Sulamani (IRE) is only new to motornet.ie and his kinda post is very atypical of motornet.

That user is clearly a troll, probably someone from here. These people have no idea the kind of grief they can cause administrators and moderators in their utterly pathetic attempts to be funny. When things like that happen on Foot.ie, I just roll the whole network up and block the lot. UCC was locked out last month for a week or so because of just one person*, for example.

Another big difference between boards and motornet is that motors on boards has recently converted to having quite strict mods. Motornet hasn't.

Unfortunate but true. Unlike Boards and Foot.ie, Motornet has a core of less than a dozen users that tend to treat it like their own personal stomping ground, which tends to make newbies feel unwelcome, so the forums find it very difficult to grow. A little TLC would help things along, but of course with that comes weeding...

PM Adam, he made it work for me earlier this year after I suffered from the same problem

3000 mails in the queue, that can't be right. Who's been playing with my sendmail config, said the big bad wolf...

Interceptor, I've resent your activation codes.

adam

*Who I last heard had a serious problem in the weenie department**.
** You never know. The walls have ears.

Alfasudcrazy

Interceptor wrote:

I signed up for a Motornet account on Saturday night and am still waiting for the logon to activate.

Look for your activation e mail in your "bulk" folder of you e mail package - that happened to me as well as I was expecting the activation e mail to go to my direct inbox but it went to my bulk folder :rolleyes:

MojoMaker

FX Meister wrote:

http://forums.tcm.ie/showthread.php?t=24509

RAOFLMAOATSSOB

In the interest of fair and balanced argument why did nobody feel the need to comment on the reaction that post received over on Motornet? It was rubbished by every single member that replied to the troll's post.

dahamsta

MojoMaker wrote:

In the interest of fair and balanced argument why did nobody feel the need to comment on the reaction that post received over on Motornet? It was rubbished by every single member that replied to the troll's post.

The correct response would have been to ignore it completely. It's just as unlikely to have happened here, but here it would have been binned and derided by a mod within about 15 seconds.

adam

Pearse

Unfortunate but true. Unlike Boards and Foot.ie, Motornet has a core of less than a dozen users that tend to treat it like their own personal stomping ground, which tends to make newbies feel unwelcome, so the forums find it very difficult to grow. A little TLC would help things along, but of course with that comes weeding...

That, I believe, is entirely subjective.

dahamsta

Lots of "thats" in the quoted paragraph Pearse, care to be more specific?

adam

FX Meister

MojoMaker wrote:

In the interest of fair and balanced argument why did nobody feel the need to comment on the reaction that post received over on Motornet? It was rubbished by every single member that replied to the troll's post.

I was laughing at the spa who posted the statement rather than motornet. Surely though they could get someone to mod it properly.

Pearse

Adam, I don't believe that the 'core' of posters make noobs feel unwelcome. In fact, I'd say the opposite - as long as the noob has something either constructive, informative or entertaining to say. Witness Sulamani's recent 'contributions' as a prime example.

Let's say there is a sort of natural selection process going on over on MotorNet, the halfwits get weeded out.

dahamsta

(Obviously I'm speaking in a personal capacity here. As I've mentioned on Motornet numerous times, I exert no editorial control over the site. I simply see what goes on there while monitoring the site for technical reasons, and occasionally posting myself as a standard user.)

I guess it's unfair to attribute the offputting behaviour to all of the "core" users, but as someone who monitors the website contantly, I can tell you that the childish bickering and antics of several are tortuous to have to watch. It's put ME off posting on many an occasion, and I'm no n00b that has difficulty dealing with this. I just choose not to most of the time.

Every site has it's cliques and in-jokes - Boards.ie is far from an exception - but there's a difference between weeding out idiots like our own twin_cam_girl, and putting off users who go to a site to ask a naive but genuine question. I've seen it happening dozens of times on Motornet. It's very unfortunate.

Of course that's not to say a large proportion of the discussions on the Motornet forums aren't perfectly acceptable. It's just not a large enough proportion in my opinion. It could be a lot better if the serial messers were added to a few Ignore Lists. In my experience self-policing can often be more effective than moderation on forums like these.

Course I'm told I'm a fascist on the forums I run, so I guess it could be said I'm talking out my arse. Wouldn't be the first time.

adam

unkel

Pearse wrote:

Adam, I don't believe that the 'core' of posters make noobs feel unwelcome

I never felt unwelcome or was made out to be a n00b even just after joining