YOU DO NOT NEED A PAID MEMBERSHIP TO POST ON THAT SITE UNLESS YOUR A VENDOR
That’s one expensive fruit of the loom t-shirt
To be quite fair and play devils advocate, there were MANY people here interested in throwing down a chunk of change (albeit not 30 bucks) for a shift T.
Lets just try to keep the blatant bashing to a minimum, its really not needed and in the long run will do much much more harm to the whole “local scene” than anything else will.
:+1 for logical discussion.
the fact that 95% of this thread is based solely off of what someone said well over a year ago and has been regurgitated by people to prove a point that they have no way or facts of proving it on, i speak to no one on this forum like a child, if your old enough to come online and speak your mind then your old enough to be spoken to as an adult, and as an adult i would not blindly accuse someone of trying to profit off of others unless i have fact, you guys have NO idea what it takes to keep a site up and running on YOUR OWN PERSONAL SERVER. yet you claim time and time again that he’s straight up stealing money from people with his membership. I’m just asking simple questions to everyone on here who think mike is being unfair. SHOW ME NUMBERS to prove your point b/c the only thing i see happening is everyone jumps on the popular idea at the time and runs with it like a blind unruly mob trying to burn down the castle, why? Because you guys think it’s unfair that he edits posts to keep threads on topic and unneeded drama out of the site?
i personally have no problem with anyone on here, hell i just hung out friday with cossey jon and vlad. if vlad and mike have problems then thats fine, who doesn’t have issues with other people. But there is no reason to start a thread just to stir a pot thats only got one group wants the attation where as the other group says nothing negative or hateful towards the other,
$20 says that not 1 negative thread will be started by mike or any other mod on rspeed to try and “fight back” against the negative things you guys are taking about here
Based on the messages that vlad posted on page 2, i see Mike clearly in the wrong.
Cossey, regardless of what issues he has with people, or had with people on Rspeed, posted a thread about a free local meet, so that car enthusiasts alike could get together if they wanted. Thats a normal, typical post. Whomever at Rspeed deleted that post (apparently mike, based on the aim conversation) was in the wrong, and started all of this drama. So now fellow Rspeed nutswingers are mad because mike made a bad decision to delete a post, which just proves again what everyone has already said about the mod’s on rspeed. So next time i get an e-mail, RiceyWhiteCivic we miss you!! i’m just going to laugh, before i delete it. You obviously don’t miss shit, and the reason you’re site is dieing is because you can’t move on and get over shit.
Take a look at what would have happened if no one got their panties all in a bunch about Cossey’s post. Some people who didn’t know about the meet from Rspeed, would have potentially come to the meet and met a bunch of other people they otherwise might not have known. Then the possibilities are endless. It could have been just that, or friendships could have started due to love of certain cars or interests, and more traffic to both sites would obviously be the result.
Instead… we have this dramatic post on shift, well… because if we had this post on Rspeed it would be edited or deleted without explaination. So i guess even you Rspeed nutswingers had to come here to talk about it…
proof is in the pudding.
:nod
Let’s make it $30 so someone can get a premium membership out of it.
Singh runs many of his websites off his own server, I would love to see what he has to say about this.
FYI, as it was apparent previously, I don’t care who posts meets to where on here. Mike can post anything he would like on here at no charge, I just have a feeling it would not get a positive response from some of the members…
:lol
i’m losing where your going in this one swifty, if a thread like this was made over there it would be deleted because unneeded drama would be made, like this, and now more people have problems with stuff on both sides, mike and the mods keep this stuff out of rspeed
I have no problems with Mike or Vlad. Mike is 100% correct in everything he said. He loves cars and he helped the car scene grow around here. I don’t post on this site because everyone acts like a bunch of bitches, yelling back and forth at each other. This thread is a prime example. Mike is an adult, a businessman, and a family man. You guys act like you’re in 8th grade. Grow up.
so if mike is all of those things, you would think…
A) Since he is an Adult, you would think he could handle the situation like an adult, and not be sore/butthurt and delete legitimate posts for unknown/personal reasons. Not to mention adults get over things in the past, let them go, and move on.
B) Since he is a businessman, he may want to stop denying that he’s not out to make profit, and that he’s trying to run a business which i believe means make money. Let me check Wikipedia:
A business (also called firm or an enterprise) is a legally recognized organizational entity designed to provide goods and/or services to consumers or corporate entities such as governments, charities or other businesses. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, most being privately owned and formed to earn profit to increase the wealth of owners.
C) Since he’s a family man, you would think that he would have the temper, reasoning, and patience to discuss these things with Cossey, who he clearly has known for a long time. Instead of avoiding the question, and insisting that he is right.
Sounds legit to me! :nuts
:stfu
:rofl
All I wanted Mike to answer was why he started RSpeed, and why he deleted my post about getting a bunch of people together who all share one common interest, a passion. He even clearly stated if Shift518 WAS a sponsor of RSpeed, he wouldn’t let the thread live. Any reason for that, besides maybe a personal grievance? I wasn’t expecting any of Mike’s longtime friends (Brew, Eric) or new friends (Jim, Greg) to side with any member of Shift518 because they simply are defending a friend of thiers, which I respect. No matter what I did to convince Mike that this was a meet for enthusiasts, regardless of who is promoting the event, he wouldn’t allow a Shift518 meet thread to exist on his site. This also showed when JVG, a staff writer for Shift and a respected vendor on Shift AND RSpeed, posted the thread in HIS section that HE paid for on RSpeed, only to be deleted an hour later.
wow! …I’ll be my usual silent self and be quiet (quiet not quite. LOL :nono)… i have alot of friends on both sides
i know im a smart ass but… i know what it takes to keep a site up and running on your own personal server… its cheaper service wise unless you go over your bandwidth then your fucked… its somtimes less of a fucking headache to just pay the monthly service for what you need from a hosting provider rather then run your own shit… i ran a bbs and a forum site off my one box and my electric bill went up like 20 a month i also ran a dc hub similar to an ftp, so i finaly said fuck it and for 30 a month i got unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage plus it was maintanance free… unless i did an upgrade…
so yeah ill vouch for running your own shit in your own home takes alot… alot of time, not so much money as paying someone els to do it, a dedicated computer with enough storage for all the shit you need software phpbb, vbulitin, or simplemachines, or whatever theres like hundreds of diffrent forum softwares out there to choose…so yeah your right in some way about people not knowing… some of us do though. so as far as im conserned anyone that does that shit has my respect cuse ive been there done that and said fuck this shit LOL
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Relax its just business. It takes money to run websites, Mikes not out to make money off of anything, but it does take money to do everything sitewise and to provide things for members.
So let me get this straight. You guys are on a forum, arguing about another forum, which in no way affects your life other than you being able to post on it? And your really getting mad about it? :crackup
Please do yourselves a favor and STFU. It’s rediculous. So what if they bash us or we bash them? What effect could it possibly have on you? Whether or not some dipshit joins up because he heard from another forum that we suck? ITS A FUCKING FORUM.