newbies

Hello everyone that I have not seen in here before. :bloated:

i dont know if you've seen me in here or not but i am going to say hi so i can whore another post so.......hi.

I'm not that new...I just don't post much. I need more so I'm goin to whore a post also. I've seen you before though so.... yeah....hi

jwt










(just whoring through)

I see another post whore war coming on.:rolleyes:

When does one officially cross from NEWBIE to MEMBER to VETERAN?

I figure after 50 posts you aren't a newbie...anything over 300 and you are a regular. Anything over 1000 and must be from NZ.

Originally posted by Sham365
Anything over 1000 and must be from NZ.

haha:D it's so true though.

I guess I am a newbie to this board, since I don't post here often. I usually just like to read the threads.

Is this the return of Mr KBSlacker to the forums ???

Haven't seen you here for a long long time
Welcome back brother :) :)

Hi

Originally posted by darkness


haha:D it's so true though.

how can you say that DK?

your a kiwi (kind of) and don't have 1000 yet http://www.contrabandent.com/cwm/s/otn/laughing/astrosmiley2.gif

Originally posted by tazdev


how can you say that DK?

your a kiwi (kind of) and don't have 1000 yet http://www.contrabandent.com/cwm/s/otn/laughing/astrosmiley2.gif And check this out: I'm not from New Zealand, yet I have close to 2,000 posts. WHOA!! :eek:

Now, all you post whores, stop whoring this thread :finger: But seriously. Thank you very much :sun:

Hello:)

not all kiwis go in for big numbers;)

Where's the Queen of post whores????

Spec2 Girls been sick the last couple of days.

"Pandamonium" will start when she returns
:hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe: :hehehe:

hmm I have been here 12 days and only 140-odd posts- Yes I am a disgrace to my nation

Originally posted by dancing queen
Hello:)

not all kiwis go in for big numbers;)


Eh, a dancing queen can mean a lot of things in the States...:flash:

JE123, nice car! i love ciera's. dont ask me why, but i do :cool:

Originally posted by JD@af
Now, all you post whores, stop whoring this thread :finger: But seriously. Thank you very much :sun: You know policy has been, and remains, not to close OT threads. But I respectfully ask you to stop the whoring, please. And thank you, once again.

Originally posted by JD@af
You know policy has been, and remains, not to close OT threads. But I respectfully ask you to stop the whoring, please. And thank you, once again.

:eek: The man has spoken, but it the meen time, hello all you guys and gals I haven't talked to yet :D

Originally posted by Sham365
When does one officially cross from NEWBIE to MEMBER to VETERAN?

I figure after 50 posts you aren't a newbie...anything over 300 and you are a regular. Anything over 1000 and must be from NZ.


Anybody I dont recognize, is a newbie to me. :D

Im a newbie :D

Originally posted by JD@af
You know policy has been, and remains, not to close OT threads. But I respectfully ask you to stop the whoring, please. And thank you, once again.

You know......you would think would let us have a little fun whoring? What's so wrong........it's a thread meant for it. If I actually sat here and type something long on the actually interesting threads...........it would take forever to build up posts. :flipa: I've never read the actually rules on post whoring. :confused:

Originally posted by emadboy200
Im a newbie :D

same here :coolguy:

For those of you who are truly new members to the AF board, WELCOME!



For those of you who are merely postwhoring, well, you know where you can go... PHOT... where did you think I was going to say???

Originally posted by Sham365



Eh, a dancing queen can mean a lot of things in the States...:flash:

....to a horny teenage kid maybe...:D


Its also a 1980's song by ABBA :cool: :cool: :cool:

Originally posted by Damien


You know......you would think would let us have a little fun whoring? What's so wrong........it's a thread meant for it. If I actually sat here and type something long on the actually interesting threads...........it would take forever to build up posts. :flipa: I've never read the actually rules on post whoring. :confused: Okay, let's lay some ground rules on "post whoring" then.

Post whoring is posting for the sake of posting, i.e. just to increase your post count and/or to get your username seen and known around the boards. If you are a newbie and are doing this, it in understandable, and even permissible, particularly in the latter case.

Now here's what's bad about post working: post whoring, first and foremost, slows the server, significantly. You ever find that at times AF is just as slow as molasses, like it will take perhaps two to three minutes to load a page, and that's a page without images (and please note that I have cable internet.. don't even want to imagine how bad it must be for some of you using dial up)? If you were to eliminate all the post whoring, imagine how much smoother and faster the server would be.

Another negative of post whoring is that it drags threads drastically off topic. As a general guideline, you should try to keep your posts on topic with the first, subject post of any given thread. Otherwise, newcomers to the thread wind up having to wade through pages and pages of garbage that may be exchanged by just a handful of members to each other, just to read something that actually pertains to the original topic of the thread. This can get very irritating, and the fear is that some people will get very turned off by it.

Now I am not saying that I am against post whoring all together - I catch myself doing it plenty, so I'd be a hypocrite if I was. In moderation, it is fine. And if you read through the OT threads (both the AF OT and especially the PH OT) you will see that the moderators more than let the members have their fun with it. It is even encouraged to an extent. Around late January, we dealt with a post whoring "crisis" (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t25605.html), which is when this no thread closing rule was initiated. In general since then, things have slowly but surely gotten better around here, thankfully :)

In most forums at AF, post whoring is dealt with swift action. In the only forum that is officially mine to moderate, Philosophizing (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/f697/), you will find that I am completely intolerant of any post whoring. But, OT is a haven for the laid back atmosphere condusive to post whoring. The AF moderating staff understands the laid back aspects of this are very important to our image, and our continued success. We strive to keep that image buffed and polished to a spit shine; but on the same token, we refuse to be regarded as pushovers.

This particular case is one where kbslacker wished for new members to post and say hi, and almost immediately people used it as an excuse to post whore - I am not singling anybody out, please take note that this is not my intention here - and I am not referring to new members like you, Damien, but members who are not new. This is what I consider blatant exploitation of a lenient policy, and sometimes it goes too far. This is a fine example of post whoring that should be curbed. So my posts are a friendly reminder that there are loose guidelines to be adhered to - and I hope that's "crystal" to everyone.

Sorry for talking all of your ears off. But I felt something needed to be said here.

Originally posted by JD@af
Okay, let's lay some ground rules on "post whoring" then.

Post whoring is posting for the sake of posting, i.e. just to increase your post count and/or to get your username seen and known around the boards. If you are a newbie and are doing this, it in understandable, and even permissible, particularly in the latter case.

Now here's what's bad about post working: post whoring, first and foremost, slows the server, significantly. You ever find that at times AF is just as slow as molasses, like it will take perhaps two to three minutes to load a page, and that's a page without images (and please note that I have cable internet.. don't even want to imagine how bad it must be for some of you using dial up)? If you were to eliminate all the post whoring, imagine how much smoother and faster the server would be.

Another negative of post whoring is that it drags threads drastically off topic. As a general guideline, you should try to keep your posts on topic with the first, subject post of any given thread. Otherwise, newcomers to the thread wind up having to wade through pages and pages of garbage that may be exchanged by just a handful of members to each other, just to read something that actually pertains to the original topic of the thread. This can get very irritating, and the fear is that some people will get very turned off by it.

Now I am not saying that I am against post whoring all together - I catch myself doing it plenty, so I'd be a hypocrite if I was. In moderation, it is fine. And if you read through the OT threads (both the AF OT and especially the PH OT) you will see that the moderators more than let the members have their fun with it. It is even encouraged to an extent. Around late January, we dealt with a post whoring "crisis" (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t25605.html), which is when this no thread closing rule was initiated. In general since then, things have slowly but surely gotten better around here, thankfully :)

In most forums at AF, post whoring is dealt with swift action. In the only forum that is officially mine to moderate, Philosophizing (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/f697/), you will find that I am completely intolerant of any post whoring. But, OT is a haven for the laid back atmosphere condusive to post whoring. The AF moderating staff understands the laid back aspects of this are very important to our image, and our continued success. We strive to keep that image buffed and polished to a spit shine; but on the same token, we refuse to be regarded as pushovers.

This particular case is one where kbslacker wished for new members to post and say hi, and almost immediately people used it as an excuse to post whore - I am not singling anybody out, please take note that this is not my intention here - and I am not referring to new members like you, Damien, but members who are not new. This is what I consider blatant exploitation of a lenient policy, and sometimes it goes too far. This is a fine example of post whoring that should be curbed. So my posts are a friendly reminder that there are loose guidelines to be adhered to - and I hope that's "crystal" to everyone.

Sorry for talking all of your ears off. But I felt something needed to be said here.

Couldn't agree more JD, I think we need a thred of rules that pernamently sits up the top, just to remind people to tidy up or go annoy the guys at PHOT.

AF has never really recovered from the January thing as I have seen comparing posts from now to those ages ago.

what's up slack ...

Originally posted by dancing queen
Its also a 1980's song by ABBA :cool: :cool: :cool:

Pff... Shows how much you know, it's done by A-Teens! DUH!:rolleyes:

Originally posted by JD@af
Okay, let's lay some ground rules on "post whoring" then.

Post whoring is posting for the sake of posting, i.e. just to increase your post count and/or to get your username seen and known around the boards. If you are a newbie and are doing this, it in understandable, and even permissible, particularly in the latter case.

Now here's what's bad about post working: post whoring, first and foremost, slows the server, significantly. You ever find that at times AF is just as slow as molasses, like it will take perhaps two to three minutes to load a page, and that's a page without images (and please note that I have cable internet.. don't even want to imagine how bad it must be for some of you using dial up)? If you were to eliminate all the post whoring, imagine how much smoother and faster the server would be.

Another negative of post whoring is that it drags threads drastically off topic. As a general guideline, you should try to keep your posts on topic with the first, subject post of any given thread. Otherwise, newcomers to the thread wind up having to wade through pages and pages of garbage that may be exchanged by just a handful of members to each other, just to read something that actually pertains to the original topic of the thread. This can get very irritating, and the fear is that some people will get very turned off by it.

Now I am not saying that I am against post whoring all together - I catch myself doing it plenty, so I'd be a hypocrite if I was. In moderation, it is fine. And if you read through the OT threads (both the AF OT and especially the PH OT) you will see that the moderators more than let the members have their fun with it. It is even encouraged to an extent. Around late January, we dealt with a post whoring "crisis" (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t25605.html), which is when this no thread closing rule was initiated. In general since then, things have slowly but surely gotten better around here, thankfully :)

In most forums at AF, post whoring is dealt with swift action. In the only forum that is officially mine to moderate, Philosophizing (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/f697/), you will find that I am completely intolerant of any post whoring. But, OT is a haven for the laid back atmosphere condusive to post whoring. The AF moderating staff understands the laid back aspects of this are very important to our image, and our continued success. We strive to keep that image buffed and polished to a spit shine; but on the same token, we refuse to be regarded as pushovers.

This particular case is one where kbslacker wished for new members to post and say hi, and almost immediately people used it as an excuse to post whore - I am not singling anybody out, please take note that this is not my intention here - and I am not referring to new members like you, Damien, but members who are not new. This is what I consider blatant exploitation of a lenient policy, and sometimes it goes too far. This is a fine example of post whoring that should be curbed. So my posts are a friendly reminder that there are loose guidelines to be adhered to - and I hope that's "crystal" to everyone.

Sorry for talking all of your ears off. But I felt something needed to be said here. You don't have to apologize, it was too long so i didn't read it ;)
Hi kbs:flipa:

Originally posted by JD@af
Okay, let's lay some ground rules on "post whoring" then.

Post whoring is posting for the sake of posting, i.e. just to increase your post count

You have hit the nail on the head.
As you know i'm all for ditching the post count as all it does is cause shit between people.
This was brought out even more to me IMO when the Pure Honda ppl were more worried about keeping there post count from there own forums and bringing them over to AF.
DITCH THE POST COUNTS

Sorry getting of topic here again

Weleome along if you are a newbie !!! :) :) :)

Originally posted by kbslacker
Hello everyone that I have not seen in here before. :bloated: You can call Kris "Steve."

:smoka:

:wave:

Originally posted by jay@af
You can call Kris "Steve."

:smoka:

:wave:

lol.

Way to trash a thread guys. And damn JD, you should be writing books. :cool:

Newbie here wanted to say hello to everyone. Great to be here and hope to be able to get some help every now and again?

Ahui hou gotta go, Aloha Shane

new here and i am a whore. i crave games.

http://data.whicdn.com/images/30993937/please-text-whores-whore-sign-do-not-Favim.com-461825_large.jpg

Hello Everyone! I am brand new here and im excited to dive deeper into this forum!

Hi everyone,

Glad to be here!

Welcome to the forums everyone!

Hey everyone, thanks I guess for the warm welcomes.

Just made an account, trying to find an online site that I can search for parts for a 1985 Toyota Xtra Cab. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello everyone I'm new too! Nice to meet you.