Can the MiniMania board be saved?
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Jan 23, 2020 06:17AM | CooperTune | Edited: Jan 23, 2020 06:24PM |
Jan 20, 2020 08:41AM | kolsen | |
Jan 19, 2020 07:13AM | Dan Moffet | |
Jan 18, 2020 10:04PM | CooperTune | |
Jan 18, 2020 02:54PM | Dan Moffet | |
Jan 17, 2020 04:30PM | scooperman | |
Jan 17, 2020 11:19AM | Kermit Wold | |
Jan 16, 2020 05:33AM | CooperTune | |
Jan 6, 2020 02:27PM | XRayActual | |
Dec 27, 2019 07:01AM | ve9aa | |
Dec 25, 2019 05:57PM | tothefloor | Edited: Dec 25, 2019 07:41PM |
Dec 23, 2019 04:23PM | mokehead | |
Dec 23, 2019 06:59AM | Dan Moffet | |
Dec 23, 2019 06:57AM | Dan Moffet | |
Dec 23, 2019 06:01AM | Whee | |
Dec 22, 2019 04:45PM | bluedragon | |
Dec 22, 2019 04:06PM | mokehead | |
Dec 22, 2019 12:07PM | Whee | |
Dec 22, 2019 09:07AM | mokehead | Edited: Dec 22, 2019 09:10AM |
Dec 22, 2019 09:06AM | mokehead | Edited: Dec 22, 2019 04:02PM |
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My reference was to people banned who have a lot to share but a strange way of sharing. Steve (CTR)
Seems there is a scammer on page one all day with no action.
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The medicare thread may possibly have started with a Mini subject or about the health problems of a board member.
But it didn't stay there. I think at the end it was locked. It may have been purged or dropped with a board reorg or something. In any case, we don't want to go back there. I only mentioned it in response to scooperman's money-making idea.
I am all for supporting and encouraging Mini discussion, which would include info about board members, such as Dr. Mini, who i hope is recovering well.
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Hey, let's invent a new thing...I dream up an interesting topic and start posting about it....MM then charges me let's say 10 cents to start a new topic. But every responder is charged one nickel to respond...MM gets to keep 2 cents and I get 3. Ohhh I like this idea. Today I ignore the wankers, if I got paid to deal with them then I could retire...
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leaving due to lack content. The glory days are gone and even now I fail to see post or log in by the people who
provided the worth while content. Credit where due, I have met a lot of people here over the last 20 years. The
bulk of which I keep in contact with via text or email now. I don't tweet, face book or any of the social media.
Time moves on and so should we. Steve (CTR)
PS I recently found out Barry Williams a old time D/S racer and life time mini guy passed away Christmas eve.
I'll see you at the big mini meet in the sky Berry and say Hi to Zip and NJ for me.
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has ever been banned. Come back and tell us what you found out. Steve (CTR)
Xavier, Sales/tech - 800-46-2642
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The 1987 RHD Austin Mini from Wales is a true "Classic" Mini.
The 2009 and the 2012 while 'representative' of a MINI are just Baby Beemers. There's lots of stuff I can't do with/to them because of proprietary software. It's very frustrating. I could literally type pages about this one annoyance. (but I won't bore you all, because I suspect 90% of the folks reading these words are classic owners with no modern binis in their stables and could care less-LOL
Long live the (Classic) Mini !
~ 30 minutes in a Mini is more therapeutic than 3 sessions @ the shrink. ~
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Like many of you I have been on this board for 20+ years, into the 90s. At times some of us say there’s no moderators however Don has moderated this forum for himself. You guys are not alone I’ve been banned by Don my account deleted for my own A*** part in this thing. Don does pay attention and there’s been other posters who riled me I think one guy about politics or something I just stopped reading anything he posted and after a bit I took a break myself. After 20 years I would hope we have changed, maybe, maybe not.
Now is to new minis versus old minis I’ve had my mark one mini for 41 years now my thought on the whole new versus old stuff and it went from 60s minis to 80s minis to 2000 minis my understanding was always that the attraction of a mini was because an every day owner could do the work himself. Quite frankly I’m surprised that with a couple little books I’ve been able to keep my car on the road for 40 years. Knock on wood. After Mini’s move through the years in time people could not work on them themselves. Just my thought cheers Scott
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3) Prune out the spam ads for escorts, passports, and counterfeit money promptly, not to mention the phishing replies that stick around for days or weeks. (i.e. someone says on a thread "I agree - check out this <phishing/spam link.>")
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Besides declining interest in autos in general, the big Mini specific problem is that the Mini was never a major seller in the USA. There aren't very many of them, relative to other cars, in North America generally. Probably Canada is better off in that respect since they sold them new for a lot longer time than in the USA, and the British influences are probably a lot stronger there (more people per capita who remember Minis when they were new.)
Here, there are still plenty of young people who are into musclecars, VW bugs, and Japanese small cars, because they grew up with them, they're plentiful, and relatively inexpensive for samples you can still drive every day. Not so for the Mini.
The one hope is that MINI owners would eventually take an interest in original Minis, the way owners of liquid-cooled Porsches are now driving strong interest in air-cooled 911 models (and even 912s.) The prices of those soared unbelievably in the last decade, though they're cooling off now.
But that's a long shot, and certainly won't happen if old coots and their washed-up sycophant buddies jump on every MINI thread telling the owners how stupid they were to buy a MINI.
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1) Weed out the trolls and so-called "humorists" who don't just keep their BS in their own threads with their "buddies" but jump on other people's threads and pollute them too.
2) When so-called veterans put down newcomers and people who start MINI threads, boot them too. I'll bet that's why some people have been booted recently. If they start up again after creating new accounts, send them packing again.
Telling MINI owners to get a "real Mini" doesn't help our hosts' business at all, and without new blood, most of the current audience will die off of old age within a decade or two, sad to say.
3) Prune out the spam ads for escorts, passports, and counterfeit money promptly, not to mention the phishing replies that stick around for days or weeks. (i.e. someone says on a thread "I agree - check out this <phishing/spam link.>")
It would be tough to revive this given the lack of young people entering the classic Mini world, but it could be at least kept alive if not growing if someone spent as little as 30 minutes a day once a day to check the forum for the above three problems, and clean them up.
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