Since the crash on here it has made me become very disillusioned with this site and the Vw whole scene. Time for me to take a big backward step and re group and gather my thoughts maybe I am a square peg in a round hole here. There seems to be a lot of snipping and general undercurrent - So have fun I will watch from a distance
That would be a shame dude , but it has taken us all a time to get back into the swing of things - stick with it mate your helpful posts are great 8) and ignore the snipers , they will come and go but get fed up an go back to vz when we ignore em
I know how you feel Dale my posting has gone down and I'm not that fussy about coming on here , it might be because I'm not working on the bus at the moment but I will see how I get on . Maybe if you take a little time out like your saying it may seem better once your back .
don't go mate we need more people with modified busses. Rather than people slagging modified busses off.
to be fair, the site has settled down a lot lately and started to get back to its good old self. the only way this will carry on is if us regulars keep posting up in the spirit of the site, as the others have said, the trolls and idiots will soon get bored if ignored! stick with it matey there are still plenty of lovely folks on here who love looking at yours and others resto's and ramblings
i'm amazed at the amount of folk that are blaming the crash and sniping/cliques for a reason for leaving, i'm on here a lot and i certainly don't see this, sure, at first i found it hard to get motivated because i lost all of my threads on the build up and excitement of getting my van but i took the chance to rebuild and thin it out, i do feel that some of the new members might not get the joke sometimes about my van and the over excited way i introduced myself as they can't read back so that makes it semi cliquey when certain in-jokes are mentioned but i try my hardest to be friendly to all, even sometimes i don't get the joke but that's because i don't camp with the crowds on here at shows so it goes over my head, in those instances i just admire the pictures and skim through the threads, outlaw/dale? i enjoy your modding threads and the input you give, it would be a shame if you go mate as we have a fair few newbies who would benefit from your knowledge.
I got to admit when 1st came back to site i was gutted all my threads were gone i felt a little naked but just gives you a chance to make things bigger and better as for the snipers let them have the 5 minutes of glory before we forget who they are. I found this site and all the people on here amazing and thoughtful while i was ill. so i feel there is more good than bad reasons to come back.
if anything i think 'the great crash of 2011' bought people together more ... to me TLB is a transient beast - people come and go all the time, interests and life causes changes which means some people drop off - but new people arrive. its like a barrel of water filled with apples - some will always stay on top - other sink for a while and rise again - some sink never to return.
Individuality makes things even more exciting about this VW world we find ourselves in. What i might not like about something someone else will. That's what i love about going to shows and checking stuff out on here. Seeing a whole host of different styles of buses sparks things in to life for me and gives me ideas on what id like and what i wouldn't like to do to Rusty. Life would be boring as marmite if we all had the same buses with the traditional paint jobs trying to restore to its original self. Its a sad state of affairs that people cant accept differences and other peoples individuality and feel the need to post sarcastic threads or shouting down others due to not being adult enough to accept other peoples ways, ideas and opinions. I hope you stay Outlaw and if you do leave make sure you check in from time to time. Be a shame to be driven away by the the small majority of sad barstewards.
I think it must go over my head...my bus is pretty modified but I must admit you have to be pretty rude to me to offend me....forums to me are a little distraction whilst I'm in the workshop usually printing vinyl....maybe Outlaw you are letting other peoples comments get out of perspective.....most people on here you'll probably never get to meet..so who cares if they have 'cliques' or make negative comments. As for modifiying vehicles...what is it the custom car lot say..anyone can restore one...it takes a real man to cut one up.. ;D