Influx of new members coming soon?

We could build a wall and make VMF pay for it.

 

We don’t need no stinkn rif raff. We’ve got enough already!


Mark

 

And knows Riff Raff ( even if he doesn't know how to spell it. )

 

Hey Crack’r, I know how to spell, I choose not to. It’s the sign of brilliance


Mark

 

It must be since you leave little signs all over the place.

 

Hey do you think Stashu would let me back in to VMF? Nah...you guys would miss me too much.

 

Wow....I just need to get out more.

 

I resemble that!

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New members would be good...

And VMF appears to be back online, might be a few quirks yet but I can see all old posts now.

 

We need to vet any newbs and keep the illegals from mucking this place up.


Mark

 

We sorely need a good bump in ACTIVE membership. Preferably of the vintage ownership group but any real car guys are more than welcome. The amount of daily postings around here has drastically fallen off.

 

Probably because you finally finished your car.

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Never argue with a Moron. They'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

 

I'm sure that's it.

I've been trying to post stuff up to get some chatter going but the noise level is just north of crickets these days.

 

Agree I just don't live an exciting enough life to post about.

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Never argue with a Moron. They'll just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

 

For many of us here who have been around since the beginning, when Randy & Rick decided to host a VMF alternate, this place was a safe harbor for humor and other off subject topics at a time when the VMF elite cracked down on random shit and started banning people for any number of reasons, Mt. Fuji included. Despite the broad cross section of personal ideologies and beliefs, the sense of community this forum provided was its major draw. With the ebb and flow of life, many have come and many have gone and the face of this community, though familiar, has changed. Regular posters such as Johnpro, DalorzoF, and Sigtauenus are gone forever while others such as Cmayna and DaveSanborn are far less prolific posters than they once were. My sense is the technical knowledge base here seems fairly consistent and I suspect that is now the main draw. With VMF, under the Dooley reign, the value hobbyists derived from the quality of the information posted created momentum which has sustained the post volume over there, even after Bob sold the Forum.

These days VMF seems to be enjoying a perceptible uptick in the number of newbies with little to no apparent vintage automotive experience. The vast archive there (which is now at least temporarily MIA) contains multiple threads that address nearly every problem, its diagnosis, and repair but the same core questions continue to pepper the forum as many now there are unaware of or otherwise unable to navigate through the "Search" feature so the wheel gets reinvented and the accuracy of the posts has deteriorated some as a result. As a frequent visitor and occasional poster, I find myself posting to correct misinformation or complete the circle on incomplete posts. At some point I will likely tire of that role and pull away as some others already have. My sense is that a mass migration from VMF is unlikely at this time.

The impetus for this post was my re-discovery of my Corn Feed 8 shirt at the bottom of my T-shirt drawer. It's been 10 years since Seattle. Sobering thought.

 

For sure, not much going on around here. I stop in once a week or so and there are very few new posts.

 

Oh, that Sanborn would show his face again. Or Jeremy. Or a host of the forgotten many.

I mean talk about injustices. We lose so many of the founding tribe and yet , like some humanoid cockroach, remains.