Kurt, brother, I feel your pain but you'll have to take a step back and realise that this isn't a perfect world.  There will always be ****fights on any open forum. Thats just something yourself, myself, and every other user must accept. I appreciate the fact that your wanting to share the word of love and peace to these forums but in all honesty brother, its a lost cause.


Me thinks we need to catch up for a few beverages sometime soon.

Because when the mods do raise their fists, the community fights back saying "that was uncalled for" and "that was too harsh".


I'm in the same boat at work Kurt. Soon as you step up and become a supervisor or a moderator in this case, you assume the title of "One of them".

In any forum the people are always changing. What once you thought was important now doesnt seem very so and forums ride that peak and valleys like anything. When i first joined the wrx club they had 700 financial members and now thats down to 450.

People grow up change views change cars have family get married get divorced and so on.

Where once i was lucky to have a car and my first car was a 82 "S" pack ford laser red 2 door 5sp twin carb car kids of today are getting Libs and Fozz's so the demographics change constantly.

Like anything they evolve and change

As for mods and admins .... you are farked either way you are a karnt if you do this and a karnt if you didnt do that. It is once of the most unrewarding selfless VOLUNTEER role anyone could ever have.

Nathan -> Have a man hug from me mate.  Just to show my appreciation of the moderators here hahahahahahaha

Basicly people are pussys and dont want to cruise anymore...instead they would rather post dribble on the internet.

well i know for a fact, that within the suby confines, jarrod goes out of his way to organise meet ups, gathers and certainly cruises.. not to steal the credit away from people like rhys and nicko, and other boys that realise that you can only cruise so much before you feel as tho your on a race track just doing laps.

im all for jumpin in on the organisation, but as im sure a few of the boys will back me up on here, you cant please everyone, weather it be a harmless dig at your efforts, or someone just finding it boring as bat ****..

at the end of the day, its more than just the location that makes these events, weather they be cruises, dinners, photo shoots, dyno days, etc etc. and im of the opinion, if you dont like it, or you can suggest a polite, and i do emphasise polite, way of putting your suggestion fwd, then by all means throw it out there...

i guess the other options are either plan something your self, and give the regular guys a break,

or go with b4boys option and sit at home on the net like a fly and complain your bored...

did someone say "guns"?













i didn't get married. i haven't moved on.

I think you'll find that's the way of the world. If you get into a fight with a cop's mate, how do you think that'll turn out? It's just how it is. It sucks, sure, but it's human nature. Look after your own, it's instinct.

I couldn't agree more with the comments above about "if you act you're a dick, if you don't you're spineless". I admin a couple of other forums, one of which is pretty large and every school holidays become rife with stupidity, and generally speaking the people that make the most noise about being moderated are the ones that deserve it most. The kind of person who will post to deliberately cause a ****fight for their own amusement is likely to be the person who gets indignant about it when you pull them up. Look at the difference in behaviour when a police officer confronts someone who knows that they are guilty.

People don't like being told "no", particularly if it's from someone who's perceived to be in an "unfair" position of authority. Some will be submissive, some will rebel, others will argue their viewpoint to eternity. The thing they have in common though is that they will nearly always complain about it.

Short of changing the brain chemistry of every person on the planet, it's just not going to change.

lol good work nik.. lol..

now are you only a state rep? in saying that i dont mean to down grade your status by saying "only" im just wondering that if you have as much powa as the other mods in the forum, or jsut control over the state you have been allocated...

if not, are there too many fingers in the pie??

too many opinions on what is right and wrong etc?? hence some of the conflict etc?

I have no alliances, if you post dribble or pick on anyone - noob or not - you get the same treatment as anyone else.

Main task lately hass been the same as others, check out the porn that gets posted before deleting it and banning the user associated.

As for meet ups, well, trying to organise any real/significant interest from people is a bit of a task in itself, you either get people planning other stuff after they say they are interested/will attend (worse yet adding the "I forgot" excuse post event) or people complaining about petrol prices, places to cruise, places to eat etc etc. If you try to broaden the horizons a little and invite other forums etc you get the us and them attitude for whatever reason.

The common attribute to the lack of love is people taking things too seriously.

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B4BOY;160950 wrote:

Well for starters I now live in ACT.

Except to Shauno eh Mark Jokes - fair call.

I agree. Knowing most of the Canberra boys from RSLC and a few members here too, you don't really want to stir trouble or do dumb ****e.

markmcrs;161007 wrote:

Interesting read.
After reading through the first post I expected many varied responses and theories, that seems to be playing out.
But of all the comments made in this thread this is the most suitable response;


Fact: The more people that know each other face to face, the more harmony you will have.
RSLC has a strong social aspect and a good core of people taking part on the forum.
You'll find that pretty much all the agro that occurs is due to faceless members
who are unknown to practically anyone shooting their mouths off.

As for mods - there's good and bad ones just like the rest of the forum demographic.
As a Mod I'm no angel but I try to be fair to all - I'm quite happy to take a verbal tirade and not delete it because if I can give it I should be able to take it as well.

Well there's my 2 cents on a topic with no definitive answer...