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Don't know which section to put this in. I figure this is fine.
I've owned my 8 for less than two weeks and everything has been good about it. In fact the thing that bothers me the most about it is this forum.
Don't get me wrong. I love this forum, it's been very helpful, assisting me in my decision to purchase this car. However, as I become and more and more avid reader I'm continually getting turned off by people getting all pissed off about duplicate posts. At the time of me writing this, the combined total posts on this board is in the 400,000's. That's a dam lot of posts. Obviously duplicated are going to happen and as this is a new car people opinions of many of the questions asked in now dead posts have changed.
RX8CLUB is a forum. A place to discuss, debate... and yes read. However it's not primarily set up for research it's setup to ask questions and see how people respond.
I'm just getting frustrated by all the negativity surrounding this car which is so great in itself it's the highlight of my year.
Let's talk, ask, debate, listen, and read. But I think a lot of times duplicate posts & questions are a good thing, and often make for interesting reading.
Seriously, 400,000 posts there's going to be a lot of crossover. I don't even know if there are 400,000 different parts in the RX-8 that could even be remotely worth discussing and I'm sure every part that has already has been discussed.
Does this mean we should close the board? Hell No! Because as this car evolves, as does our opinions of it.
Just my $.02
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Dude, you are like the 10th person to post this rant in the past month. You should have tried a search first......ha ha ha. j/k
I agree. Some people may have a legit question and do not have time to do a search and filter through the 5-20 pages of results it brings them. Hopefully most people realize this and are cool about it. (You'll always have SOME whiners out there, though)
I must be symtomatic of boards..I belong to 2-pop.com. It's a board for digital editing and tv production. There are countless negative rants about apple computers/ software etc. at the same time tons of positive feedback of the same products being used to cut major films. In many ways the 8 is similar to apple products, ie: i-pod...unique capabilities, great design and definately not walking in the same footsteps of big blue and the suits.
It just gets to be really old after you've been on a board a few years, and have read everything 20 times. It's especially annoying when, if you just use the search and type in some basic keywords, the other 5,000 posts about that topic come up immediately. It's considered extremely bad etiquette to just jump in and start posting without searching to see if your topic has already been covered and can be discussed or rediscussed in a thread already open.
Maybe if we "forum ****'s" simply inserted the link to the past discussion.
Some of us from the Tech side really do feel like it seems to get redundant.
Maybe it's the manner in which we do it that is the real issue.
It's a great idea in theory, but try it, and I guarantee after the 20th time you've done this, you're going to get fed up and quit. At least for a while.
I have an idea.....if you see a thread about something you know has been hashed out 100 times before, don't open it. Move on to the next thread. There are plenty of topics to go around, and it really isn't cool to make someone feel reluctant to post here by snapping at them for not searching. That same person might oneday figure out something extremely cool or useful, and keep it to him/herself because they don't want to get pounded on.
I'm not grandstanding, either, I think people should definately do a search first too. I'm just saying posts like "see the search button at the top of the screen? USE IT" can aleniate people, which is unnecessary.
I've owned my 8 for less than two weeks and everything has been good about it. In fact the thing that bothers me the most about it is this forum.
This forum scared the hell outa me to........ until I realized it wasn't my 8 they were talking about. 7,500 miles, 25mpg highway, 19 city. Stalled it when it was cold, started right up.
My dealer did the 7,500 mile service today for $19.95 (my Castrol GTX 5W20) and washed the car.
think about this, lets say you post about "poor gas mileage" and you get the immediate flame "do a search". along comes 50 other n00bs. they all do the same thing and get the same response. lets just say the 51st peron comes along and actually does do a search. what will he get. he will see 50 threads with no answers just flaming. someone being helpful and posting the link to the "valid" thread would have stopped the 51st thread. so basically the people who post "do a search" without out posting real information are causing even more duplicate threads to be written.
yes, but if THOSE first 50 noobs had done a search to begin with, they would have had 100 results on poor gas mileage from the start.....
Still. Most 8 owners are new, and don't know all the forum rules. I was never a big forum boy until I got my car and am only now learning more about online etiquette.
i would LOVE to be the mod to close duplicate threads!
Do you realize that if you close all duplicate threads THERE WOULD BE NOTHING TO DISCUSS? Close this entire forum and leave a note saying, "Go read the manual and technical service bulletins, we don't want to hear it."
Do you realize that if you close all duplicate threads THERE WOULD BE NOTHING TO DISCUSS? Close this entire forum and leave a note saying, "Go read the manual and technical service bulletins, we don't want to hear it."
Quack! Not very eloquent, but exactly the point I was trying to get across....
My personal favorite is the "oh s#!t it's winter... does anyone think we can dirve our cars in the snow?" threads. Nothing personal but I have done the search and it is easy enough to get the answers. I understand that some people can be rude when reminding new members to use the search button. Just suck it up to experience and learn to use it more often and everyone will forget that you didn't in the beginning.
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