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Originally Posted by 89llx
I have been in the fox mustangs for about 8 years now, and i say if you want this to grow you have to help the new guy
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I agree. However, that gets real old when you constantly get the identical questions, week after week; rear end ratio questions, exhaust questions, etc. Many folks are too lazy to do a search so they just post on all the Mustang boards and look for the 'easy' answer, that is: one they don't have to even look up because someone else answered it FOR them. That is lame and helps neither the lazy poster - or the website.
I was the Moderator of the 'tech' board (now called
'Windsor Power') for a few years. Seeing (and patiently answering) the same simple questions over and over got to be a chore. I enjoyed imparting knowledge for awhile but began to resent the obvious lazyness of some brand-new members who wanted to know everything - without doing
anything...not even a relatively quick 'search'. I'm not a certified mechanic but I know a few things about 5.0 Mustangs and I think I helped a lot of people over the years I posted regularly on 'tech'. A few folks even thanked me and stayed with the site to spread information and build it up....but not many. That was discouraging.
That issue, my boredom with the subject of 5.0 mods, some real unpleasant conflicts with other posters (mostly over politics) as well as a diminishing amount of free time combined to lead me to eventually curtail my 'tech' posts and then 'resign' my (voluntary, unpaid) position as Messageboard Administrator. I don't regret doing so. I still visit this site and occasionally post here on the Lounge forum but my days as an unpaid (and often unappreciated) 5.0 'technical advisor' are long gone. I hear the job may still be available to anyone who can do it - and actually wants it. Good luck.
