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As one of the "old ones"... check my registered date and roll it back a month before or so before that before the forum was rebuilt... allow me to post. I usually get ignored, but I've got stuff to say on this subject.
First of all, the mods are right. This is Chris' server, paid for originally with Chris' money... maintained with Chris' time and energy. Way I figure it, what he says goes. I host web pages on my server too... and yes, I do have rules about what can be posted on my server. It's quite simply the fact that I can be held liable for stuff that's on my server, even if I didn't put it there. Imagine if my place were raided because I was hosting kiddy porn??? I know we're talking about leagues of difference here... but not really when you think about it.
Personally I feel it wasn't entirely the rules that "drove people away"... personally I stayed gone for a while because (a) for a long time I didn't have an SVX, then (b) didn't have time, and finally (c) because I didn't like how "ricey" the threads were becoming. I guess that latter piece was sort of inevitable. The SVX is a damned nice car that appeals to a lot of people... well now it's cheap enough on the second-hand market that younger people are buying them as a first car. Whether the older (in age) members like it or not, this is a valid thing for younger people to do with their cars... it's sort of like a fashion statement of sorts. Like it or not, I knew I had to live with it if I was going to come back to the board.
I returned to the board almost a year ago now... but I keep myself to myself. Generally I don't have much to say on most of the subjects... because I'm not in a position to judge. Younger members post about modifying their cars... that's all fine and good. Actually, I love to see the SVX being adored for the piece of art it actually is... but I also appreciate the desire of others to change that piece of art to be more a part of their own personalities.
Generally the last part sounds a little confused. I think in general this process is good, and natural in the life cycle of a car. It's good because it's led to an incredible amount of performance and image modifications that just weren't available when I bought my first SVX in 1997 and first posted a message to Usenet asking why we didn't start an SVX bulletin board or forum (which Jester admitted was one reason he started the Yahoo! club from which this one spawned). I look at the stuff I can do with my SVX today and I'm amazed... and though the image mods are something I'm not interested in, I am gradually working on the performance improvements while I fix the car up.
Mod me down, ignore me... whatever. I've spoken. I'm around, too... just quiet.
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