Obviosly I dont post on here too often just mainly lurk....


There are several factors for me at least on not coming here and posting/lurking anymore

1) This is the biggset issue I have and my guess is multiple other people have the same issue. Its infolinks. There are many people here who dont want or know how do install adblocker. The ads are truley a pain and I think the risk/reward factor here is really low. I think many members stopped coming here all together or post rarely now because of this. It can be tough when you try to open a thread then the page jumps down because of infolinks. Heck it took me 3 trys to log in to post this because the screen kept jumping. I understand this is probably an expensive site to run but infolinks is doing a disservice to the actual companies that have ads here.

2) Other social meda, whether it be Facebook, Craigslist, Instagram..... Its a lot more easier to share a car for sale on Facebook fore example then send a link for a car listed on here.

3) Like its said earlier.... the bickering between members. It doesnt come off as a fun and family friendly forum when you have members just calling each other names in the threads. To go along with this there are some threads that get off topic or highjacked way too easily. For a new member again this is off putting

4) The prices of Mopar cars are through the roof/Younger generations not into old cars. I'm a millenial and have a 69 Dart and to restore it I am putting a lot of money into the car. The cars themselves are expensive but the parts add up really quick. Why would someone build an old school Mopar when you can get a fox body and run way faster for half the price

5) Other forums.... people are leaving for other forums for a variety of reasons but it seems like many people are jumping ship here to go to other forums


This is just my opinion. I think this site will never be as good as it was 5-10 years ago but I believe there is some hope with a few changes


Dave

I wouldn't put it entirely on him but I would say he makes the top 5 list of reasons. I mean I stop scanning for interesting things when I see his name. What we need here is the app proposed in the movie The Internship - locks you out of social media when yer drunk.

Nobody hears the sarcastic tone in your voice or see's the grin on your face over the 'net. Words are taken at face value.

That is what smiley faces are for.

You thimk I have sarcasm or a tone at times ? Moi ?

Do you think that DIRTY BIRD that changed my title felt the same way?

A rascal ... maybe ... but a Richard head ??!!

More people need to adapt this attitude:

True meme!! God dammit not in my eyes!

Doc FiBeRgLaSs is a good guy give him a break. I think he is quite entertaining ,, now if we could only get Eddy Miller to come back to Moparts........

Vendors are in the business of making parts, moving product, and providing support all while making money. While some may want to engage in frivolous banter, and probably will do so in person, most don't want to engage with the potential blackhole of online exchanges and I'd guess none of them want to get into a rat hole debate on electronic mediums with their existing and potential customer base about products. They specialize in making PARTS not engaging with DEBATE. Aside from a casual product announcement, I really couldn't imagine vendors want to extensively engage with the membership here and risk any of those potential relationships.

Moparts, while providing a broad range of knowledgeable and supportive members, also has a percentage of population that treat this as their own personal playground that tends to play the clique factor up to 11, and has a percentage of those that want to constantly question vendor motives, margins, intent, etc. However, its always been that way and only the names in the game have changed since I first started visiting in the mid '90s. Some were really bad, most more annoying. This factor tends to drive away a number potential members. Since I am active on a number of different websites, I can say on the mopar related ones, most of those memberships don't hold a real high opinion of moparts member forums aside from its classified sections.

There also is the factor that mediums to reach end users are becoming more diverse as well as the core of the old school car owners that are still swap meet and in person event guys that don't give a flying flip about electronic communication.

I agree with what you say about 440 Source but back some yrs Hughes brought a lot of it on himself. I have purchased from him but even then his phone manners were like Russ light.

I will say that does seem to have ended which is a good thing.

Now infolynk is. Pia. So I keep my post to a min.

NOBODY has kept me from coming around. Mostly stay away from unmoderated and maybe General Forum if you might take offense to something. I've asked legit questions in the tech section that I guess were too unsophisticated and practically been torn a new one, as if you should already know all the answers to be on the forum. But I won't let that stop me because I NEED the forum more than the forum needs me.

I see the sarcasm. His CAPS and lower case are clear to me.
I like Doc. He has personality. Too many people in this world are complete dullards.

Amen!

A fuggin MEN tooooooo ! ... and switched back cereals aGaIn !

If I was a sponsor on here, I’d complain about the Infolinks advertising. Now, I use an ad blocker and don’t see that crap.

Busy BUSY day today !

Thx for sharing all yur opinions .. I will address ALL hopefully tomorrow.....

Especially that PornDog !

hUrRY uP

I'd love to contribute more but infolinks prevents my phone from scrolling or bringing up the keyboard 99% of the time. I'm not installing anything on my phone because this site is the only one that has this virus. In addition to that, I try to never comment on things I don't have first hand knowledge on.

And if we're being honest, and since it's your (Doc's) thread, with all due respect I cringe at 75% of your posts. The cheesy nicknames, the random capitalizing, the double posts. Are we adults discussing a hobby or 14yr olds who just got their first cell phone and are trying to fit in? Sorta brings down the quality of discussion in my opinion.

Christ....another case of a person with no zest for life outside of the straight and narrow.

Your idea of "zest for life" is clearly different than mine. He asked, I provided my answer. Guess you don't appreciate viewpoints outside if your own.