Why I hope the Webmaster never changes the Forum's Format! It would be disaster..

[Carrameow]

I know on a lot of other Forums like Volvo or SAAB, the threads are dry and very short.
The great thing about Mercedes Shop Forums is on any given question, you will get 5 to 15 lengthy answers, vice 1 or 2 on SAAB and Volvo forums. Those forums seem to be totally bonedry and have no personality!
One of the reasons you get so much help on Diesel Discussion is that this forum has a personality and character (Many Characters I should say!) Its a little bit like the Corner Bar, The reason so many people leap in and help you is we all know one another through the years. I have never met Bonehead Doctor, Leathermang, Brian Carlton, or Pete Burton or Anthony Cerami, but I have agood idea of who they are.
If this forum were made purely dry and technicaL, it would dry up and wither like SAABNET or BRICKBOARD. Please leave it the way it is.

[superbeast1098]

I have to agree completely. I have never met anyone from the board here, but I trust what alot of what gets said around here. There is alot of personality on this board, and alot of great paople who know these Diesel powered cars.

Lets keep it the same. I have been able to keep my 300D up and running because of this board... Im glad its here

[stayalert]

You filthy lot got me into this mess!

[Diesel Giant]

I agree let it be just like it is. Change is bad

[Fisherman]

I hope they don't get carried away by the newer tools that are out there either. One of the best forums I have ever been on changed software a year ago and now has no one using it. Too hard to see the threads that interest you and too time consuming to post.

This site and it's members helped me with my first 240D and I am now on my third 300SD (5th MBZ diesel) in three years or so. Couldn't have done it by myself...
Thanks everyone.

[ZackaryMac]

I too agree that this is a special forum. I am a member of several forums (probably like most here), and started reading here mainly because it is a diesel forum, and secondly because it is a Benz forum. I've always wanted a diesel Benz. Maybe someday.
I enjoy the teamwork that I see here. The comraderie here is fantastic. Somtimes you guys rub eachother the wrong way, and still even then it is handled maturely. When someone asks a question, there are a BUNCH of replies, all donated with the writers best given with it. This forum is amazingly active. Even though 99.44/100% of the info on here doesn't pertain to me (obviously good Benz info, but I don't have one), I like to come here and read, just to enjoy the different personalities and how they react with one another.
There are lots of good people in the other forums too, but you guys are great. It's nice to see a group of people keeping a bunch of classy, excellent cars on the roads as long as possible, and do it enthusiastically.

[Austin85]

For the record..Dana Linscott is a real SFB....

[sailor15015]

One of the things my cars have taught me is that if its not broken, don't even think about touching it or it be sooner than you'd think. This forum is fantastic and I'd hate to see anyone change a thing.

Originally Posted by sailor15015

One of the things my cars have taught me is that if its not broken, don't even think about touching it or it be sooner than you'd think. This forum is fantastic and I'd hate to see anyone change a thing.

That's our motto:

If it ain't broken, mess with it until you break it, then fix it.

[sailor15015]

Last night I was trying to replace my thermostat on the bimmer. It was getting hot but not as hot as it should be, i.e. the faster I went, the cooler it got. While I was doing an 85mph run home on I-40 it was barely above the cool mark. So I tried to pry the cover off of the thermostat housing but the studs were so rusted to the cover(yes I made sure all the retaining nuts were off) that the aluminum cover ripped before it came off. I've never seen metal tear like that. Now I'm back to bumming cars from my parents because the bimmer won't run and my Mercedes is totaled.

[biopete]

I may feel like you guys when my car runs.

Seriously, this is a great forum and there are nice and helful folks on here . It is fun to leisurely read posts. And it works great overall. I am new here and it is the only MB Diesel forum i've been on and I never looked any further because after a post or two I saw this was a friendly, helpful and fun place.

Maybe change would hurt it. However I do think a simple message tagging system may help. Users could tag messages anyway they want. It is like a few word synopsis and messages can have as many tags as they people want to give them -- "BoneheadDR is IN" , "Glow Plug Relay" , "Funny", "Clever" , "Smart Idea", "Thermostat" , "Part #" . And you just tag messages as you leisurely read posts. It is not a retructuring or reformatting of the forum. Tags are an aside, . You do not even have to use them. Or you can use them to give more personality to posts. I think that would make the forum more fun and well as more utilitarian.
But i could be wrong too. However sites that use tagging sytems are really taking off like Flickr.com , the photo sharing site.

Its the same concept but we are sharing car talk.

[PNO TECH]

One reason I settled on this forum was the lack of "YOYOYO Dis Is HoW iB RoLLiN!!!" (boom, tss, tss ,boom), and "hehehe i musta benn don a hunerttweny when i saw his lites..." (dueling banjos). The main reason was one simple-and sincere-sentence I saw here just after round one with my 300SD (round one was ignition lock, power window, and-ta da!-rear wheel bearings and axle flange). That was: 'Help is what we do here'. I sure needed that.

So, I don't care too much about format change; as long as the people and the atmosphere are the same I'll be here.

Scot

[Brian Carlton]

Originally Posted by PNO TECH

'Help is what we do here'.

It's my trademark line.

[Austin85]

Originally Posted by Brian Carlton

It's my trademark line.

Yeah but can you come down to Florida and help me fix my sunroof??

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