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rustycrawler

rustycrawler

Scrambler Junkie
Lifetime Member
City
Reston
State
VA
What the heck happened? It seems like everyone is fighting with everyone else about everything? Cabin Fever? It's almost embarrassing. :shrug:
 
It is embarrassing. I agree. I just went on a rant. And I'm sure the stuff I had to say wasn't the most tactful.
But over and over again the same post about a deal that went bad. I enjoy reading the classified adds on this
forum. So I said something about the multiple post that were posted in category's that had nothing to do with the
area of the forum they were posted in. The internet is very impersonal and I offered my phone # to clear the air
and talk it out. no biggie. I feel bad that the deal went south. But he had already done his due diligence warning or
notifying others about the bad deal... a week ago or so... So why would you then blast all the classified areas with the
same post (copy and paste)? wmcurryjr has sent me a few pm's since earlier this afternoon to clearing the air and also sending me a phone # to talk... I called him. no answer. no biggie. I did not get his pm's till just now. So after I called him I respond back in a pm to clearing the air.

I think a possible solution other then super gluing my fingers together... Would be to keep the threads in the buyer-seller-rating up longer. I have noticed that if you post something in there that a week later they disappear. So that's probably why wmcurryjr wanted to post in different areas so that it did not disappear. Good or bad it would be nice to see the buyer-seller-rating threads stay up longer so others can click into that area of the forum and just scroll down to see the post instead of searching.

I'm not sure about the rest of you but I think I'm on this site like 4-6 times a day whether I log in or not...
Drew (7jeeps7kings)
 
It's not just you, I'm actually patiently waiting for a fight to break out on the matchbox swap thread. I'm not sure yet what the fight is going to be about yet, maybe about the functionality of the louver on the hood of the Javelin, perhaps someone will notice that trim is missing on the Waggy, maybe someone won't get what they swapped....yikes!
 
7jeeps7kings said:
I think a possible solution other then super gluing my fingers together... Would be to keep the threads in the buyer-seller-rating up longer. I have noticed that if you post something in there that a week later they disappear. So that's probably why wmcurryjr wanted to post in different areas so that it did not disappear. Good or bad it would be nice to see the buyer-seller-rating threads stay up longer so others can click into that area of the forum and just scroll down to see the post instead of searching.
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I'm not sure why you'd say this, it's not true. The only difference with the buyer/seller ratings forum is that it's moderated so that any post you make has to be approved by me. This is precisely to keep people who are posting without first-hand knowledge of the deal or specifically related information to muck up the thread and turn it into a melee. Any thread/post that was approved is still there, just like every other forum here.
 
rustycrawler said:
What the heck happened? It seems like everyone is fighting with everyone else about everything? Cabin Fever? It's almost embarrassing. :shrug:
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I'd offer that it happens here a whole lot less than other forums online, at least from my experience. A lot of it is just that we're a smaller, tighter knit community than many, so it's more apparent when it does happen.

We don't need the "few bad apples" scenario here and I'd suggest that a thread like this calling it out is probably not going to have any kind of positive effect/outcome.
 
I'm with you and I enjoy coming to the site. I visit a lot throughout the day to check in on everyone's build, post, and
especially the classified. I think it takes a few or more of us guys on here to step up and say something. I know
the moderators work fulltime jobs and can't monitor the site as much as we would like to keep this forum great. but the forum
is only as good as it members. I laugh when you read or find a post after a few years when someone puts a post " who's still around" and you read what guys have to say about why they don't visit the page anymore. some is life changes. most is the forum turned into a play ground for internet bs. The reason I come to this forum is the guys (for the most part) are true jeep guys and like everything jeep. whether its rare jeep parts, rare jeeps, purist jeepers, highly modied jeeps.... other forums have similar topics but the enthusiasm is different. Lets keep Cj8.com pure to what we all want it to be...
Drew (7jeeps7kings)

rustycrawler said:
It's not just you, I'm actually patiently waiting for a fight to break out on the matchbox swap thread. I'm not sure yet what the fight is going to be about yet, maybe about the functionality of the louver on the hood of the Javelin, perhaps someone will notice that trim is missing on the Waggy, maybe someone won't get what they swapped....yikes!
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rustycrawler said:
Uh oh....here comes another one...I think I'm done for awhile.
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But, But, what about your thread count.... Your gonna go down in the rankings.

lol... Just tiring to lighten things up a bit. We need your witty sense of humor. Stick around.
 
bigwalton said:
I'm not sure why you'd say this, it's not true. The only difference with the buyer/seller ratings forum is that it's moderated so that any post you make has to be approved by me. This is precisely to keep people who are posting without first-hand knowledge of the deal or specifically related information to muck up the thread and turn it into a melee. Any thread/post that was approved is still there, just like every other forum here.
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LOL. operator error. My setting was at last day and not begining. That's why I could only see the news post and then they disappeared.

7jeeps7kings
 
To all,

I lost 4 months of sleep over this guy. It sucked. I would never do this to anybody, period. I sent a significant amount of $ to this guy and he treated me like a turd. No response, excuses, and blaming me for asking! No to mention time wasted! That and it was during Christmas when I could have used the money.

I would do anything to warn people about this guy. I never saw anything warning me about this guy! He should have been deleted along time ago.

My intentions were sincere! I deleted my initial posts to let him come clean! He didn't. He sent me junk just to show me.

Sorry for abusing this forum if I did. It was not intentional. I just don't think I should be ridiculed or called retarded.

I hope I did everybody a favor by deleting this guy from the forum.

7kings! I'm a Jeeper and a good person. Sorry!

BigWalton! Sorry for making you jump in to moderate.

Unfortunately there are bad people in this world without a conscience! I believe in Karma and it will come back to this guy.

Thanks for understanding my Jeep addiction and my weaknesses.

Wally

Wallace
 
wmcurryjr said:
I believe in Karma
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I'm like Santa, except I'm real... but i'm not fat... and dont have elves... or reindeer... or live at the north pole... BUT I do live in Canada... :wave:
 
But having little slave elves would be cool.. think of all the jeep work that could be done... lol

Sent from my SPH-L900
 
bobbysjeep said:
But, But, what about your thread count.... Your gonna go down in the rankings.

lol... Just tiring to lighten things up a bit. We need your witty sense of humor. Stick around.
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Agreed, Rusty, your sense of humor really cracks me up. You say exactly what I'd say most of the time if being a moderator didn't keep me so "moderate".

7jeeps7kings said:
I'm with you and I enjoy coming to the site. I visit a lot throughout the day to check in on everyone's build, post, and
especially the classified. I think it takes a few or more of us guys on here to step up and say something. I know
the moderators work fulltime jobs and can't monitor the site as much as we would like to keep this forum great. but the forum
is only as good as it members. I laugh when you read or find a post after a few years when someone puts a post " who's still around" and you read what guys have to say about why they don't visit the page anymore. some is life changes. most is the forum turned into a play ground for internet bs. The reason I come to this forum is the guys (for the most part) are true jeep guys and like everything jeep. whether its rare jeep parts, rare jeeps, purist jeepers, highly modied jeeps.... other forums have similar topics but the enthusiasm is different. Lets keep Cj8.com pure to what we all want it to be...
Drew (7jeeps7kings)
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Well said. I believe we do have the best members on this site. Most of the time these small arguments work themselves out between the members and there is no need for a moderator to step in. I've been on sites before where the moderators micro-managed every thread and it got old real quick and as a result I very rarely visit there anymore. This is family here and just like any family, sometimes arguments/fights happen. The best thing I've seen come out of this is this very thread. Just the fact that people feel upset or concerned about how this site is viewed and what is happening on it shows how much they care for it. Most other places the members just quit visiting. I'm glad that is not how this place works!

mysunnshine said:
There have been a lot of threads out of control lately.....
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I agree, I hope we have resolved that now.

wmcurryjr said:
To all,

I lost 4 months of sleep over this guy. It sucked. I would never do this to anybody, period. I sent a significant amount of $ to this guy and he treated me like a turd. No response, excuses, and blaming me for asking! No to mention time wasted! That and it was during Christmas when I could have used the money.

I would do anything to warn people about this guy. I never saw anything warning me about this guy! He should have been deleted along time ago.

My intentions were sincere! I deleted my initial posts to let him come clean! He didn't. He sent me junk just to show me.

Sorry for abusing this forum if I did. It was not intentional. I just don't think I should be ridiculed or called retarded.

I hope I did everybody a favor by deleting this guy from the forum.

7kings! I'm a Jeeper and a good person. Sorry!

BigWalton! Sorry for making you jump in to moderate.

Unfortunately there are bad people in this world without a conscience! I believe in Karma and it will come back to this guy.

Thanks for understanding my Jeep addiction and my weaknesses.

Wally

Wallace
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Apology accepted. Thanks. It sucks that things ended up the way they did but I think we can all learn a lesson and move forward.

Bad Karma said:
I'm like Santa, except I'm real... but i'm not fat... and dont have elves... or reindeer... or live at the north pole... BUT I do live in Canada... :wave:
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And you drive a Big Red SleighJ-8! :thumbsup:
 
Don't leave us Rusty ! Please !

Think of all the good times we have had:

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bobbysjeep said:
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lol... Just tiring to lighten things up a bit. We need your witty sense of humor. Stick around.[/

I'm sure he's using the word "witty" loosely. ( smile. )

Hey Rusty, is this a situation for "positive" training or should I get the Rolled up newspaper out. ?

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Jim , what are u doing. U weren't there when rusty and I were rocking our scramblers in Lake Tahoe ,.. Come on'
Man. That was like 2005. ;)
 
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