RIP Ford Forums dot com

[new2ford]

I don't know why everybody's lingering on this one. Its just another bit of Americana now, like Arnotts 'cookies'. Time to move on. Ford users are not the only ones whose toes have been trodden on - look at the apologetic note in the Toyota section. The only funny thing is the insight into American tastes provided by the popular Camry section - there are Camry enthusiasts in America! I can't imagine such a thing but I guess in a nation that thinks Budweiser is a great beer anything's possible.

[all4ford]

I use to be a very active member on FF.com n then it went down hill and i actually started a thread there asking why it was so crap? lol n then i was directed to here and i never posted there again.

[GMACK24]

Originally Posted by b2tf

Ok but excuse me?

I have watched your posts on here for a while now and to me it seems the only "benefit" from dual membership is taking our threads and info etc and re-posting it on ff.com.
I would suggest that telling members they can "come back" to your site is playing a childish game where you are asking people to make a choice.

The simple fact is that people are not required to make a choice, they make their own and the forums accomodate accordingly. Users should not even be asked to makea choice or have it suggested that they should.

At the end of the day, ff.com is, as far as i am concerned, dead and buried. And Im not saying that because I am involved on this site.

honestly I only took perhaps 2 or 3 threads out of the hundreds of threads that I have posted on f.com. And for that I apologize.
I am pretty much done with this topic anyhow. FF.com is back and again I am only posting it here cuz this is where I pointed the former members of ff.com.
and now that its back I am giving them another choice.
Again totally up to the members. come or go. Don't matter to me. its their choice. I really don't think I will be on FF.com much longer anyhow.
I will get them back on their feet but that will prolly be about it.
I will prolly hang out for approx 6 months and then re-evaluate and see what direction the site is headed.
Thanks for your time.
Greg

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Originally Posted by GMACK24

honestly I only took perhaps 2 or 3 threads out of the hundreds of threads that I have posted on f.com. And for that I apologize.

2 or 3??? Now that IS a blatent lie and you know it! I posted almost ALL of the threads that seemingly had been started by you there, after they had been started on here.. on another thread that got deleted. The threads, if not with exact titles, were slightly changed in an attempt to make them look different, but the idea/topic was exactly the same. And I can tell you for a FACT that it was not 2 or 3. Please don't be a bullИИИИ artist.


edit: I promised myself I would ignore your posts. Sorry Admin.. I failed. Just going to add you to the ignore list right now.

[CAMS290]

Just logged on over there, the 1st time since November last year.

Looks like they are going great guns, 19 members and 280 guests, what a joke.

Long live AFF's

[WASP]

Originally Posted by CAMS290

Just logged on over there, the 1st time since November last year.

Looks like they are going great guns, 19 members and 280 guests, what a joke.

Long live AFF's

Makes easy moderating..lol:

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by CDAA

Makes easy moderating..lol:

Good Point Col, I like it....

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by GMACK24

Greg
Forums Admin
Fordforums.com

Greg I have 1 question for you, as you can see your posts.... when typing the site that you have admin duties on (Fordforums.com) its left unedited.
How come if anybody posts Fordforums.com.au you edit the ''.au'' off there post on your site?

[PH47]

Hahaha serious?

Owned.

[zetec]

That's been happening for years... that's how I got lost for a few months and wondered why the forums was so quiet... until I doscivered FFAU. Never looked back.

[GMACK24]

Originally Posted by SpoolMan

Greg I have 1 question for you, as you can see your posts.... when typing the site that you have admin duties on (Fordforums.com) its left unedited.
How come if anybody posts Fordforums.com.au you edit the ''.au'' off there post on your site?

John AKA lunaticsvt put that filter in when this site opened. Aparently a lot of folks were posting the link and he had had enough. And I do not have enough Skillz to figure out how to remove that filter and John and I are not on speaking terms so it looks like it stays for now.

sorry bout that.....

[PH47]

Word replacement using swear word filter?

Not hard to undo if you're a moderator/admin.

[GMACK24]

eh I looked but it was not on the swear filter list.
I wonder if its in the config.php files......

[qwigybo]

i've been there twice since joining here, i just figured this was for AUS cars and ppl whilst the other one was majority US pplz

[irsa76]

Didn't we have this thread a few years ago on FF.com when we all left BON. I don't see the need on bashing other sites here. If you don't like the way a certain forum operates then don't go there.

[SpoolMan]

Originally Posted by Mr Stationwagon

Didn't we have this thread a few years ago on FF.com when we all left BON. I don't see the need on bashing other sites here. If you don't like the way a certain forum operates then don't go there.

Yes your correct, I see our membership is going very nicley.

[XRchic]

I have fond memories of .com. Thats where I first started, thats where I met all of my mates (well nearly all) who I chat to on this place, and its also where I met my current partner! If it wasnt for that site, I wouldnt have met Eamon and our son wouldnt exist! So I find it a little sad what has happened to it and the uncertainty of its future.

This place is great though, and a lot less politics makes for a much better site. More cars and good stuff and a lot less stuffing around. The admin and mods here probably put in a lot more work than we realise which makes it the place it is. I will never go back to the old place but I will always have fond memories of it.

Jac