l know that this site and forum is fairly self-sufficient....but it would be nice to have a moderator in good standing......Hey Frank....is this ever going to be addressed or what???? There has been a few times, where some of my questions have not been answered, so l've gone looking, to some other Mercedes forum sites....and to be honest..l've found myself doing this more often than not!!!!!
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l know that this site and forum is fairly self-sufficient....but it would be nice to have a moderator in good standing......Hey Frank....is this ever going to be addressed or what???? There has been a few times, where some of my questions have not been answered, so l've gone looking, to some other Mercedes forum sites....and to be honest..l've found myself doing this more often than not!!!!!
Yes we need someone That is involved with us... Someone who is knowlegable about the W163,, able to set up activites for the W163 family like group buys, meets, Grab Bag, Raffles and so on... and just be there to answer our questions if no one else answers .[:D]
RE: "be there to answer our questions" I've invested in the following device
and found that more often than not, the advice was very relevant and to the point:
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moderators are for flame wars and keeping on topic
IMHO. At least that's what I try to do w/ the m-class mailing list :-)
You want a personal answer-boy? Talk about being a lazy #&*^! (see? a moderator would delete this kind of msg :-). You think someone is going to keep answering questions from noobs for free? ;-)
RE: moderators are for flame wars and keeping on topic
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kenyee - 11/30/2004 1:32 PM
IMHO. At least that's what I try to do w/ the m-class mailing list :-)
You want a personal answer-boy? Talk about being a lazy #&*^! (see? a moderator would delete this kind of msg :-). You think someone is going to keep answering questions from noobs for free? ;-)
ken
So what happens to the money that Sponsers pay to advertise to us??? A personal answer boy would be nice but I'll settle for a MOD.[;)]
RE: So what happens to the money that Sponsers pay to advertise
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kenyee - 11/30/2004 1:32 PM
IMHO. At least that's what I try to do w/ the m-class mailing list :-)
You want a personal answer-boy? Talk about being a lazy #&*^! (see? a moderator would delete this kind of msg :-). You think someone is going to keep answering questions from noobs for free? ;-)
ken
So what happens to the money that Sponsers pay to advertise to us??? A personal answer boy would be nice but I'll settle for a MOD.[;)]
That money offsets the costs that Frank incurs to provide this free service that is BW.org, costs such as server, storage, connectivity, etc...
If there were a need for policing the forum, I'm sure that Frank would jump in, he has in other instances in other forums. I'm probably not well positioned to say so, but "I think we should be able to police ourselves". That said, I like to deviate from the thread subject, post stuff that hopefully amuses a couple of wackos like me, and do not feel very "adult" at heart.
Who will cast the first stone?
BTW, I tend to prefer leniency and self-policing over arbitrary censorship!
The server probably runs on a T1 line which runs around $500-600/month. Frank has multiple servers to handle all the bandwidth (and he runs ASP w/ MSSQL which isn't that fast ;-) and each of them probably runs around $4K (SCSI RAID). Electricity probably runs $50/month at least.
In contrast, my smaller M-Class Outpost site runs on a DSL line that costs $200/month and only a single server and that site gets zero advertising sponsors on the M-Class side :-P (it does on the Lotus Notes side, so it's self-sufficient). The M-Class Mailing List is run on the off-road.com mailing list servers and they get advertising from putting footers on some of the msgs; mailing lists eat bandwidth (each msg gets sent to each user almost) so that bandwidth cost is pretty high.
None of these hobbyist sites are really profitable like Google/Yahoo, etc. I think Audiworld/VWVortex might be exceptions, but I think they also get some Audi/VW support directly which MB would never do...
Due to my business, I dont spend as much time here as I would like, but it's fine now, more control sounds like the government.
Good bunch of guys with good information!
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