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Does anyone do "research" on the forums anymore?

Well, not everyone has the time to dedicate to doing forum searches, and sadly we are not always consistent on where we place our ads. I see lots of ads for non-mechanical parts in the Mechanical Parts forum, I see lots of ads for non-Mopar Performance Parts in the Mopar Performance Parts forum, and I see lots of totally unrelated parts posted in various forums because someone just wrote an omnibus ad that covers everything they are trying to sell.

As to the technical questions, I suggested some time ago that we need a Body Of Knowledge (BOK) section on this site, and my contention still stands. If someone writes a definitive post on things like oil, tire sizes, VIN decoding, torsion bars, rear ends, etc., it should be flagged for placement in the BOK section so that people, especially new users, grow accustomed to looking in that section instead of doing a search on tire sizes and having to sort through 20 pages of threads that mention tire sizes. BOK sections work extremely well on other vehicle forums I use and would work well here.
 
monaco66coupe said:
Whenever the same old questions pop up from Inexperienced car guys, I remember Basic training. When it was over, I think, yes, I'm out! Then I think, that sad Drill Instructor has to watch a whole new group of civilians that don't have a clue as to what they have to do get off the Bus, and start it all over again, over and over. It could be worse.
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Kinda like Groundhog Day. Now that's a job I'd kill for.....but would probably be killing someone so I could get out of it lol
 
I've seen allot of people get treated like idiots for asking perfectly good questions, you guys have to remember that not all have been around Mopars as long as some of you. I've had my share of questions and don't even care to ask anything anymore because there's always an *** just waiting to be rude about it. Just saying
 
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And a lot of that goes to the fact that some questions get asked a lot, but they may be asked different ways, using different terminology, and in posts that are well back in the timeline. That's where BOK sections make a big difference.
 
 
Maybe we're hoping for too much. It would be nice if people who have reference books and parts books make them available on the forum. Then we don't have to see those that offer them for sale at ridiculous prices.
 
monaco66coupe said:
Whenever the same old questions pop up from Inexperienced car guys, I remember Basic training. When it was over, I think, yes, I'm out! Then I think, that sad Drill Instructor has to watch a whole new group of civilians that don't have a clue as to what they have to do get off the Bus, and start it all over again, over and over. It could be worse.
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I'm a course instructor, and teach the same material fourteen times per year. I know that pain thoroughly!
 
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But some of it is truly comical and frustrating...

It is almost as if the forum has become their personal resource for answers.
And, that is okay BUT:
It is much like being in a Lowe's and your searching for an item.
Then as you check out, someone walks into the store and says: "Hey!, where can I find WD40?"

I call is simply "being LAZY!"
 
I have been working on Mopars for over 30 years on and off (I realize by my post you would never believe it). A while back I contacted some of the old time experts on 62-65 Mopars to buy their products and most were great but a couple treated me like a no nothing punk. If you want to have new people getting into the hobby you have to try and help them figure all this out (and put up with some annoyances) because the so called experts won't be around forever and the hobby will suffer. One final note I spent $20,000 with the guys that helped.
 
Young car people are truly humorous sometimes,One day a nice young man admiring those steel things on the wheels of my car, was curious as to how they stayed on. So I removed it, and put it back on. he was very Impressed! HA HA
 
Thanks to Joey and the regulars there is a ton of useful information and good advice on this board. No one knows everything there is to know about our beloved Mopars but collectively most questions can be answered or at least referred to a good source. What you have to realize is that when someone is new to the board, they may not know exactly how to navigate around or have a good grasp of how automotive forums work in general. Cut 'em a little slack until they pick it up. People migrate to this board for a reason. It's by far the best Mopar site on the web. JMHFO
 
I may ask a question that has been asked before from time to time. The thing is sometimes new info or products are available and the original thread is a few years old. I do at least try to search before i ask, sometimes its just more fun to hear all the witty remarks.
 
monaco66coupe said:
Young car people are truly humorous sometimes,One day a nice young man admiring those steel things on the wheels of my car, was curious as to how they stayed on. So I removed it, and put it back on. he was very Impressed! HA HA
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....then the next day they went missing...:icon_pirat:

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It can get frustrating I bet. I would think that most of those kinds of posts are done by car guys whom aren't that computer savy. I'm happy to report that I've never got egg on my face when asking stuff....except from 'SLEEPAR' once but I ignored that guy easily enough.
 
CHARGERSTEVEN said:
CHECK OUT THERE JOIN DATE ,A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK QUESTION N ITEMS TO BUY OR SELL MOPAR PARTS BECAUSE THEY LIKLY SEARCH THE WEB FOR A GOOD PLACE TO GET ANSWERS OR PARTS,THIS IS A DAMN GOOD SITE FOR THIS, MOST OF THE TIME :headbang:
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[video=youtube;7pdWAcK6Eh8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pdWAcK6Eh8[/video]
 
my favorite ones are the "I can't find [insert repop'd part that 80 bazillion places sell] anywhere, please give me a direct link that I can click on, or can you order it for me and ship it to my door"
 
super-bee_ski said:
I see it every day.
Someone will post: WTB "440 manifold, years 68-69-70"

The add will read like that above.
Sometimes it will read, ASAP

And yet; a week ago someone "posts" : For Sale, Mopar 400 manifold, 68-69-70
the original WTB poster doesn't even do a search for the item.


My point is, doesn't anyone do a little research?
At least, say to themselves.."I wonder if there are already some listed for sale"?

I suppose this is the new generation...
Oh well.
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Rarely if at all, it seems
it's allot easier to ask, then to actually use the search functions, it seems too,
as daunting overwhelming as it is, there's allot of great information here...

There's a couple people here that do it allot, more recently
especially when the answers are already hashed over many, many, many times

Unfortunately we answer some of them many, many times too,
when a simple search would probably get a fast answer & it's a great resource

Kind of the nature of the beast, there's really no bad questions,
but some really bad or smart a$$ answers sometimes too...

IMHO it would be really nice when people do ask questions
1st off, not in the welcome wagon on their 1st ever post
{maybe a sticky for rules for 1st posts,
where to post & read before posting etc.,
maybe forum protocol there would be nice}

maybe try & ask a question in the appropriate forums/sections, that would be nice,

especially the WTB parts search questions or WIW so the can sell it
by people coming here the 1st few times to FBBO

then hopefully they give all relative information,
specifics needs & wants,
even their budgets constraints, if appropriate
so people that are willing to help, can actually give a good answer,
not have to ask 10 questions
what's it for,
what's it going on,
what are your skills,
what are your expectations
Blah Blah Blah

Include;
stuff like car make, year, engine, trans, gears, mods already done etc.

I know there's a few questions I've answered 20+ times,
in each of the forum sections

ya'll have a nice day now
 
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