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Old May 17, 2015 | 12:02 PM
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Default Re: Forum Etiquette
I have been here for a while, I started looking at the forum when I purchased my car in October 2005 and I joined early in 2006.
What I did notice were people telling others to do something that made no sense. I jumped in and in my usual blunt way I disagreed with them, this raised some hackles but I did not care. If someone is wrong I am not going to skirt around the issue and type a book, I'll just tell them what I think. Many of the posts I answered were not based on any sound engineering principle that I had learned. Pulleys and bearings were a hot topic in those old days, pulleys still are a hot topic come to think of it.
I think I have added to the discussions positively and I have probably got more stickies than most, likewise the contributions I have made in the documentation thread. I get the most negative responses from people who have added little or nothing to this forum.
I do not bother to reply to people who demand answers and who will most likely write snarky posts when nobody replies to them. I have found the words please and thank you are absent from their vocabulary.
Most posts to years old threads are answers to the original question, generally the poster is new to the forum and many times the OP's have long since left the forum.
 
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