I am not going there:D

I'll be MOM..."NO you LITTLE BRAT get in the corner until your FATHER gets home!" :D

I'll help put the FUN back into dysFUNctional :p

NO, NO, NO.... That's MY job... Jim can't have it!!

Now where the heck is my riding crop?

J/K :D

rofl! that reminds me of my senior class motto:

We put the RAD in GRAD.

it was thought up by our only student coucil rep to be thrown out of office...lol...but i cant complain...i voted for it....tried to get the venus flytrap to be our flower too...hehe...it was very very close...ended up with a white rose tho...dah well..hehe

Pop ups?
 

I agree wholeheartedly! The popups are practically non-exhistant now. Thanks Dan. Just hoping that everything can be on a more "friendly" basis without the "hatchetman'' role being a necessity.

Rev

attn: Jim
 

Jim, just because your an administrator, doesnt mean you know everything. also because you have the authority to close threads and delete them, doesnt make you walk on water. you have been just as much of jerk to other people as people have been to you, so dont think that you are merely applying your positive and civil criticism as if they dont offend anyone. you too are a guest here along with the 20,102 members. you help Dan, thats nice. most people here dont care. Dan appreciates it, but some here dont. administrator is supposed to keep the boards in line and also they are supposed to be one of us: memebers. you dont act like a member, rather like an authority figure. we dont need that. do your job and be a member, not an authority figure. we already have them, they are called parents and teachers. we dont need another one. you dont have to be that way in order to have people gain respect for you.
not everyone on this board dislikes you. i know this. but if you want everyone to respect what you do around here, take my advice above.

Re: Costs/paynments?
 

My job is maintain decorum on the messageboards. I do that as Dan and I think best and that will occasionally generate a certain amount of negative reactions from folks who don't think they should follow any rules or be told what they can and can't do. Too bad.

99% of our members never have - or make - a problem. I don't have the time to hand-hold and ever-so-gently explain everything I do here to people that are supposed to be adults. The idea that I should never say a harsh word to some member complaining about something or other is absurd.

Visit sites with little or ineffective moderation. They are almost useless and very frustrating - but no one 'controls' anything, do they? It's a mess and people hate it when there is no control as the jerks take over, quickly. MW has never been like that and never will, as long as I have anything to do with it.

Control is what I do, Rev. I try to be invisible about it as much as possible but sometimes I have to close a thread, chastize someone or whatever. If this is offensive to you or anyone else, so be it. I'm not in a popularity contest here and we now have over 20,000 registrations so we must be doing something right.

I'm aware of the members being the 'lifeblood' of the site, Rev. Dan doesn't run MW for his personal amusement and the help I've given to members over the past five years is well known by longtime members of this site. I need apologize to no one. I do my part and always have. That you or anyone else finds fault with my approach or my methods is predictable and beyond my control. Everyone thinks they can do a better job than the guy doing it.

Thanks for reading the ads. Really. It's appreciated but doesn't change the fact that we have a few rules and when the occasional problem arises, we deal with it.

Dan and I used to be afraid of hurting anyone's feelings until we got royally flamed and wasted a ton of time attempting to make happy-face with this and that unhappy member. We now realize that we have a great Mustang site and if a few folks get P.O.'ed and leave or want to be jerks about some little rule or something, let 'em go - we don't beg them to stay. Life is too short , MW is too good a site and neither Dan or I or any other moderator has the time or patience to play baby-sitter to folks who are adults.

Thanks for wading through this long post, but I wanted to take the opportuntity to state some basic truths about MW and my philosophy as messageboard administrator. Nothing personal intended, just some honest response to your comments that might benefit other members.

Forceful
 

Jim, you , and Dan as owner, certainly have the right to exercise editorial power to whatever extent you deem necessary. Is that heavy exertion in the best interests of the site? I personally don't think so, but it is Dan's site and so is certainly his decision.

Rev

Re: Re: Costs/paynments?
 

i see you dont have the time, but you can reply with a detailed 8 paragraph post! uh huh, yep, ok buddy....

if your not worried about hurting anyones feelings, then be prepared to get it thrown back at you. it goes with the territory...

DAN, i like your site. very good site actually. i am here to post about anything, not just Mustangs or cars. i personally dont care what you do for options on this site. you can make the sigs small, big, with pics, without pics, avatars, no avatars, whatever. i really dont care. all i care about is posting a thread and replying. you meet alot of cool people from this place. as long as i can keep in touch with the members on this board by posting, you do what you got to do. just remember, you cant get rid of a cockroach by just stepping on him:D :p ;)

another thing Dan, i keep hearing about personal expense to keep this site on the net. if you wanted it to be a free site, then dont expect handouts. BUT! if you want to help your finances to keep this site, without digging into your personal funds, you either got to advertise more OR (this is a good one that many agree upon) make more varities of Mustang Works t-shirts, sell them at a small profit and you can keep your site running. i know it takes time, but you are a web designer, so you can make up the logos and pictures yourself. all you need to do is go get them made. another thing is do a poll count. ask who would want a t-shirt for so and so price and give them the options of the style t-shirt(logos, sayings, pictures, etc...) they want and then you wont have to worry about making too many or not enough. just and idea. later for now, James....

Ok, I think everyone could just go on and on and on, in essence bickering about the topic... In the end though, SRV1 said it best. "We'll do what we feel is needed" for the betterment of the site as a whole. Not because we want to upset anyone, but because overall we feel we need to in order to keep the quality of the site high. I don't know if that means killing signature images or not yet, but we'll see as things move along...

Until then, please just keep images under control and the amount of space used (text) in your signatures reasonable (a few lines)...

If anyone doesn't know how to create a link to their User's Rides listing, it's not hard, just view the vB Code page. For the URL to your listing, just go view it in the rides section and copy and paste the URL on your browser to use in the vB Code.