nikkinutshop wrote:I have sent Pay Pal donations in years gone by. Back then this forum was all about the IHC trucks. In 2022, this forum has become a place for armchair politicians to dump their poison. It is time to get back to the original reason for this forum. Until then, no more donations from me.
If you really give a shyte about this forum, Mister Jim Hadfield, get off your butt and get Lloyd back as a moderator. Lloyd needs a better laptop to do this job.
I have contributed hundreds of posts on automotive related subjects in a effort to try and keep this forum alive. Where were you JH?
I think you must be collecting enough revenue from the parts store advertisements to support this rather basic forum. A good example of a forum supporting itself and making money is Garage Journal.
I do not remember there being an answer to what happened to Mats Truck. Was this a scam to raise money off members good will?
Brian,
I think you are barking up the wrong tree here. 1st Jim has retired and bequeathed the site to others.
2nd The downturn has nothing to do with content being posted. Traffic is down on all the sites I visit save one. ATHS, JOT Saab Central, and A/C forums all have tanked in terms of how may postings over the last year and a half or more. I attribute this to people having spent the last 2 years alone with only their computer screen are now finding other things to do.
I know personally, I have not worked on my K's in the last two years as other things have taken precedent. That is not to say that things will not "get back to normal eventually, they will.
The only site I visit that hasn't declined in posting is the SmokStak, which has the loosest rules on posting of them all. Not to say I'd like to see that here, but rather that I don't think that is the problem.
I agree the "politics on the board" thread has run its course, no longer a exchange of viewpoints but a echo chamber of one. I would lock it if I had the ability, I do not.
I think what the world has lived through in the last coupla years means people aren't out poking through the weeds, discovering new trucks or discovering the hobby. Further more I know of a few in the hobby who have succumbed to Covid, they will be missed and not just for what they posted.
The past two years has left no one unchanged, many will come back when their lives return to somewhat "normal".
The A/C forum I help moderate is all but dead, months go by without a new post. JOT used to be very active, now there are days with no new posts. The ATHS is all but dead, mostly taken over by Spammes, The Saab Central used to have a very active C900 section that now can go weeks with out a new post.
It isn't what IS being written that has cause the collapse, but what isn't. People are doing other things right now. I see no evidence that content is causing the downturn, if it were it would be only on that one site, and not across many widely varying sites.
I have no doubt that people will still collect, restore and show old trucks, and forums like this will still be relevant.
Brighad, Nikki comments were not about you or what you wrote, You have nothing to apologies for in my opinion