Legal wheel spacers?

[figjam]

For Forg, just curious …. if you co-own it, you have the body shell, and he has all the other bits ?? Did I get that right ?.

 

[panhead]

Been reading this thread , and I am absolutely disgusted.
Is this a car forum, or Question Time in Parliament House ?
If members want to argue about personal s++t, get onto the Ford Forum, there is more than enough angst, name calling and banning there. Geez, I've been warned, and had posts deleted there, due to my somewhat strange sense of humour.

I have different makes of cars and I'm on a lot of different Forums because of it and some are well moderated and some are a free for all and some are so tough they'll will ban you if you say boo.

I see this one as being in the middle, fair with latitude, if you go too far then you only have yourself to blame.

Out of interest, which ford Forum are you talking about?



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[panhead]

If you're willing to be seen in a Ford, you deserve it!
[am I doing it right? ]
Also - WRT username, how good are you?

I love being seen in my Ford, I wish it was more noticeable.

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[figjam]

Out of interest, which ford Forum are you talking about? .

https://www.fordforums.com.au/index.php

I joined that to get info about the Territory. And it has been useful, with some happy, or disgruntled, owners replies.
Just don't write anything out of line, bagging a Ford product, regardless of how crap it may be in real life, especially a Rustang. And no, I haven't, because my knowledge on that car is zilch. I sat in one, I was disappointed, I wrote nothing.
Where I incurred wrath, and I have now forgotten about, was a couple of smartarse, jocular replies on 'The Pub' type subjects. Now, I look only for what technical issues may concern the Terri.

 

[chrisp]

Ban evasion is against forum rules and really I have no option but to enforce.

I vaguely recall seeing some terms and conditions when signing up for membership of this forum, but I am at loss as to where I can find the forum rules to reread them. Is there a link somewhere?

Fact is the user have a lot of technical info and a quirky personality to go with it.

With a large and active forum population, there will be a considerable diversity of views and opinions. In my view, this is a good thing as we can read - and be challenged - by these differing views.

Part of the problem with a written-format forum is that we don’t have the benefit of being able to read the body language of other posters. Therefore, it can be easy to inadvertently misread the intent or tone of a post. For example, someone’s “brevity” might be taken as too “blunt” or “direct” by the reader. In an one-on-one face-to-face communication, we would usually pick up on the other person being inadvertently offended and offer immediate clarification. It is difficult to do this in a one-to-many conversation, and one where we can’t ascertain the reaction of most of the readers to our posts (as most don’t post replies). Forum threads can quickly degenerated.

In addition to ‘rules’, I think that there needs to be guidelines on behaviour and etiquette to suit the desired flavour of the forum. For example, some forums has policies of deleting all off-topic posts and only encourage purely technical discussion (and no banter). I wouldn’t like this forum to go down that pathway! But, it shouldn’t be a all-in free-for-all either where a baiting posts soon turn in to all out verbal war.

I think that we need some guidelines for where the line in the sand lies, and some gentle moderation to delete unnecessary parts of posts that may cause offence so that threads don’t inadvertently degenerate in to a verbal spat.

 

[Lex]

forum rules to reread them. Is there a link somewhere?

Yes. Bottom right hand corner of page.
Just scroll down.

 

[panhead]

https://www.fordforums.com.au/index.php

I joined that to get info about the Territory. And it has been useful, with some happy, or disgruntled, owners replies.
Just don't write anything out of line, bagging a Ford product, regardless of how crap it may be in real life, especially a Rustang. And no, I haven't, because my knowledge on that car is zilch. I sat in one, I was disappointed, I wrote nothing.
Where I incurred wrath, and I have now forgotten about, was a couple of smartarse, jocular replies on 'The Pub' type subjects. Now, I look only for what technical issues may concern the Terri.

I'm over there as well and you'll be banned very quickly if you rubbish the product but they don't stop you from airing grievances about failure or poor service and the like.

Put simply, your complaint has to be legitimate and not trolling.

Some Ford models have had atrocious problems and without hearty discussion other members would be in the dark, it's much the same as what is allowed here.

They also have the problem of a troublesome member that has been banned many many times and keeps rebirthing.

He's doesn't offer any technical input, his modus operandi is to start off slow with a few newbie type threads then posts a thread that is a backhanded slap in the face at a particular Ford model to intentionally incite some members.

Not only does that cause a storm with those owners but when other members realise who it is they get involved because of his history and all hell breaks loose.

He's a master at the passive aggressive technique and comes off so innocent.

He's been banned from a number of forum but it doesn't stop him.

You have to feel sorry for moderators when they constantly have to face this type of attack against their forums.

I don't get on there as much these days but I find it to be a good place as there is a lot of technical help there.




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[Forg]

I love being seen in my Ford.

Wish I had one of those!!

The mate I co-own the Escort with got all sensible (he was living somewhere with really tight parking & had a work van for use on weekdays), and bought a near-new Barina as his first car for the same price as the pretty decent sounding Zircon Green XT GT we didn't actually go & look at for fear it'd force him to make a decision he'd undoubtedly have regretted (ie. buying a mint XT GT when he really had nowhere to park it). He'd learned to drive a manual in his dad's XT (actually I learned to drive a manual in the same XT ) so it had more of the feels than an XT usually would for most people.
I do still kinda wish he'd bought it (even though I'd have done the same sensible thing if I were him), although whether he could've afforded the fuel as a just-outta-school person I don't know.

For Forg, just curious …. if you co-own it, you have the body shell, and he has all the other bits ?? Did I get that right ?.

It has bits scattered to the four winds. Actually, I think the biggest bit he may still have is a 205-casting engine that's been sitting in the weather under only a tarp for 15yrs, but no real loss as my Volvo has me a little tired of old tractor engines even with modern management (we'll probably just use a n/a Duratec). Most bits are either in my shed or my FIL's shed. It's come to a bit of a halt, really, as he's not in a position to spend money on it right now & I don't want to be the only one spending money as that could easily lead to arguments down the track.

But boy does the VF tow it SO well! Even with those stupidly heavy rental car trailers. We spent a few years when we first started collecting parts using the likes of V6 4WD Rodeos and his dad's 5spd XF and even an L300 … used to have to be really careful, whatever shell we were moving around would push the tow-car around like crazy, but with the VF it was like there was nothing there.

 

[Immortality]

I vaguely recall seeing some terms and conditions when signing up for membership of this forum, but I am at loss as to where I can find the forum rules to reread them. Is there a link somewhere?



With a large and active forum population, there will be a considerable diversity of views and opinions. In my view, this is a good thing as we can read - and be challenged - by these differing views.

Part of the problem with a written-format forum is that we don’t have the benefit of being able to read the body language of other posters. Therefore, it can be easy to inadvertently misread the intent or tone of a post. For example, someone’s “brevity” might be taken as too “blunt” or “direct” by the reader. In an one-on-one face-to-face communication, we would usually pick up on the other person being inadvertently offended and offer immediate clarification. It is difficult to do this in a one-to-many conversation, and one where we can’t ascertain the reaction of most of the readers to our posts (as most don’t post replies). Forum threads can quickly degenerated.

In addition to ‘rules’, I think that there needs to be guidelines on behaviour and etiquette to suit the desired flavour of the forum. For example, some forums has policies of deleting all off-topic posts and only encourage purely technical discussion (and no banter). I wouldn’t like this forum to go down that pathway! But, it shouldn’t be a all-in free-for-all either where a baiting posts soon turn in to all out verbal war.

I think that we need some guidelines for where the line in the sand lies, and some gentle moderation to delete unnecessary parts of posts that may cause offence so that threads don’t inadvertently degenerate in to a verbal spat.

A link to the forum rules can be found at the bottom of every one of my posts in my signature and a link to the terms and rules (as you would have agreed to when signing up) can be found at the very bottom RH side of every page.

I believe it is widely accepted and loosely enforced that the technical sections are just that and if you want to banter and shoot the **** so to speak we have the pub or the shoutbox.

It is also fairly common for threads to run off topic once they have run their cause (as this one has) for better or worse, again if things go to far off the beaten path then they are either cleaned (and notifications issued) or closed (rarely).

I believe the current mod team is a fairly easy going bunch, I certainly don't want to be a school teacher and believe most adults know what the right behaviour in a public environment is. Having said that, this forum is privately owned and as such I take my direction from Darren who I must say is a rather easy going guy and takes a lot of this in his stride. Most people would never hear from him but plenty aren't happy when the server goes down or some other technical issue crops up and upsets the user base even when 99% of the time the fault is beyond his control.

Personally, I don't like editing other users posts but have done so to remove or reduce offence where it may be seen, other times I think people need to grow up or grow a thick(er) skin in this PC world we now live in.

 

[kleanphil]

There's a simple rule of thumb when it comes to forum's .