motorkas

sincere question: what is "TOU"?

bigben320e

Terms of Use.

Violate those, and a perma-ban will be your best friend.

blackbenzz

You're missing the point. He was banned previously and made other screen names. That is an automatic permaban on any forum

motorkas

thank you

LB63

He should be let back if he changes his screen-name to "6.2 LUV" since he had a habit of disparaging the 6.2 AMG every chance he had.

dyno

I have been reading this thread and just a part of the related off-topic thread ... enough for getting a sense of total disgust

sorry.

Nait Sirhc

Sure am! More into abandoned missile facilities these days, though...

Fast55

Someone we can all do without. Apparently only you newbies disagree. Kids are starting to ruin this site, but that's IMHO and the reason my post count/day has fallen off dramatically in the past year or so, but I digress, things will change, like it or not.

Wishing for another cool meet up like the last one we had at Benzgals old digs in Ventura. Ahh, those were the days folks, those were the days. Where is trunkboy when we really need him?

bigswin

I don't care one way or another, just didn't fully understand what the problem was.

Incorrect, Idiots ruin sites - age does not appear to be the main issue.

Fast55

As a you are not expected to understand. Youngsters do seem to be more of a problem, but then again, if you were an old timer and/or MBworld "old timer", you'd "get it". Half of the posters in this thead didn't even exist a year ago. Did you even read what Vic wrote?

Benz-O-Rama

As these cars become more affordable, the younger guys are definitely starting to flood the MB forums. Just means it's time for us old timers to upgrade to something that we couldn't afford 5 years ago.

Fast55

BTW Greg, this is the LAST way you want to pick up customers, unless the "16y old ricer crowd" is what you really cater to. I don't GOS if he has a CLS or not, those of us that actually have real cash to spend on our rides don't care to hear about this BS.


IBTL.

LB63

I remember that term from our criminal evidence class, are you an attorney too?

bigben320e

You guys keep trying to convey it. Some keep missing it, obviously as they keep posting rebuttals. Before this thread gets locked, etc. Let me be crystal clear.

1. Full Throttle has been banned from so many car forums it boggles the imagination.
2. His attitude and language towards others became appalling, disrespectful and not in good taste of even a 15 year old.
3. He got banned from this site before, and came back with a new name under a same/different IP. TOU VIOLATION, period.

So now, is it CRYSTAL CLEAR of why he was banned? Just 3 alone is a perma-ban, mods, admins, correct me if I am wrong.

It's no wonder why so many get distraught coming here, too much BS, excuses, and comprehension skills is severely lacking. It does not matter about age or money, have some respect and some class. Some damn home training. I have seen homeless people behave better than some around here. Stop making excuses for this guy, I and many others could care less about what car you have or what you build or mod as long as you carry yourself as as a grown up. You could drive a Pinto and stay here as long as you like, if you are carrying yourself as an adult.

Off soap box.

Roupin

You guys thought THAT would fit in the trunk of the CLS?

LOL

220S

I like that this forum can actually police itself and keep the noise levels down with its in-house pwnage patrol. I haven't been here that long but I'm not a real young'un either (and I bought my car new.)

There's still a difference here that you don't see on other forums which are filled with plenty of juveniles. FT was one of those. Nothing ambiguous about that, it was pretty obvious. As the saying goes, "mean people [still] suk."

MBWorld and Rennlist are two of the most mature (and informative) forums around, imho. I hope it can stay that way.

emoving

+1

LandoAWD

Any site links to follow? That HUGE thread on Talk was like crack to me.

Made in Apr 2004:

Vic55

Nah, Im a sales guy. I just watch a lot of Law and Order

j/k I work with a lot of attorneys and the phrases and language can be catchy and I found it very appropriate to apply here with FT or Ananda or whatever he or she is.

LB63

Add Clublexus to that list, I think it's the most mature car forum of all

Even though I don't own a Lexus anymore I still go on that site on a daily basis.

Nait Sirhc

Well, the thing about that...

Both F8L and myself maintained separate sites... mine came down after I got too many of the wrong people asking the wrong questions (make of that what you will), and then F8L took his down about 5 years later for similar reasons.

That thread took off far, far faster than I had anticipated, and we were swamped with trying to keep up with the demand for pictures. Keep in mind that at that point in time, both of us were much younger, poorer, and getting decent pictures/videos (and storage space) was a tad more difficult than it is today. Hence why all of the pictures from the early pages are gone. The computers that those pictures are on are gone now as well, but we might have them archived somewhere.

I'm going to be digging around for some (if the DSMtalk mods ever fix the "you can't edit after 10 minutes" thing) and I'm sure F8L has some too.

bigben320e

Right. The reason for my post was that several members were making excuses for the guy and seemed to not understand what FT had done. I laid it out.


On this "maturity" level, well that is okay here at MBWorld but that is up for question to a degree based on some conversations as of late. Respect, is as well with several members here. The part about buying a car new or used is not a relevant point in the discussion, understand I am not being ****, just saying. It is what it is.

Vader55

Could not have happened to a nicer douche tool.

220S

Agree, and the reason I mentioned it was because of what Clayton said. And there is truth to that. As the cars get much cheaper to buy it means a much wider range of demographic. And within that demographic will come a lot more younger kids who don't understand respect and just like to talk big, like FT did. It's inevitable. Compare the forums mentioned (MBW, Rennlist, Clublexus) with some of the JDM forums, etc..

And yes, new or used ownership by itself doesn't mean anything in the grander scale of how one conducts themselves.

Benz-O-Rama

I've only bought 2 new cars in my 22 years of driving. My SL600 is a great example. It came with a $137,000.00 window sticker. I paid waaaaaaaaay less than that and it had 12k miles on her. I can't justify paying that much for a car in my current situation. And even though I'm a used car purchaser, you're gonna be hard pressed to find anyone on here, or in real life, that says I don't treat them with the respect that they deserve.

What I'm seeing more and more of on here, is that the texting generation seems to be taking over. How many active threads are chock full of ur, lulz, omg, rofl, wit, etc...? As these cars become affordable to them, that's what we're gonna have to out up with I guess.....



....as I type this from my iPhone. Lulz.