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The reason I left that forum about a month after it opened was simple. I
told Brandon, the owner of it, that he should have screened many of the people
who signed up to be moderators. He didn't and some of these people brought their
ill will and attitudes over from the badlands and suddenly were Mr. New Sherriff
In Town. In other words, people who never had a inkling of any authority in
their lives, whether a school crossing guard, a team leader in science project,
a volunteer at a children's cancer ward, or even helping out in disasters like
we currently see in LA, MS, AL, these people have never been in that position
and were simply not screened.
This caused a whole lot of people to simply sign up, hope for the best,
then bail out, me included. The 750 figure on the bottom of members is very
misleading, as I can count over a dozen people right off the top of my head who
signed up, then left, when they realized that the inmates were running the
prison.
I addressed this directly with list owner Brandon in a series of emails, as
I told him that the only way that forum thing would ever "grow" would be one
person in charge, not a bunch of assholes who want to make a name for themselves
somehow. It has nothing to do with political correctness at all. It has to do
with what we call in the bar business here "too many cheifs and not enough
indians" and old timers will know what I'm talking about. For newbies, too many
managers and not enough waiters I guess would be better put.
That is why that particula website will never reach it's potential and
simply stalled in membership after 500-700, and then people started leaving.
Speaking for myself, I simply said who needs it, as I don't need some faceless
asshole (Bart approved word) behind a keyboard, or a know it all kid who knows
everything about a Javelin since he owns one for 3 months, or daddy owned a
dealership, ect, et al puke, but simply don't need it.
There are too many places to go on the internet for AMC fans to have to
deal with clowns. And until one day Brandon takes control of "his" forum/list
and is single mod, then you will see people jump off like rats on titanic. It
has nothing to do with Brandon and I applaud him for quickly trying to fill a
void left by the destruction of Fran's old site.
However! There was a comraderie there unlike any amc online group, except
the amxfiles in the mid to late 1990s. Lots of friendly banter and helpful
people, people were more than happy to chime in on 1001 ways to change a AMC
headlight!
I think Frank Swygert is doing a great job over at the amxfiles on
rebuilding it, maybe that is what it needed, a military man to clean up the riff
raff. Hell, I even have posted again over there for the first time since I left
due to Klandy.
Bart's problem is with the moderators on the amcforum.com site. The bigger
problem is that it is a MUCH BIGGER problem than just Bart's. It was mine too.
And countless of others who could have contributed positively to that site, from
national automotive writers, editors, vendors, club presidents, suppliers, and
so forth. Think about it.....and you will simply see why people DON'T want to
bother, and get involved, and join.
And until Brandon gets rid of the Phanton Zone of Moderators
and becomes all knowing, seeing, ruler of Planet Houston General Zod
then that particular site will stagnate like the amc-list/amxfiles did
while the war raged.
Eddie Stakes'
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