Thread: Lots of silent members on here.

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Well written Don and sadly I have to agree with your thoughts. As you know I'm a newbie on here but I have found this one of the most friendliness sites to be part off. Sadly like most sport clubs or car clubs or any sort of club there is always the same minority that are prepared to put the effort into making the club a successful club.
On another thread on here there were a number complaining about the cut of year of cars at national events etc. and whether those people would still be prepared to go to those events. I answered that with "it is what one is prepared to put into an event as what one got out of that event that made something a success". I believe that is true with this site also and I personally try to follow any thread that interests me but sometimes I have neither the knowledge or understanding to reply to a thread.
On a light note I for the life of me I can't get that three word thread..

Whiplash had a good point about clubs. Many years ago I belonged to a local club with over 200 members. The "core group" of people, who would make a personal effort to organize events, or take on the responisbility of being an active "worker bee", was small. ...about 10%, in that case. The others would attend events, but generally were not motivated enough to help. ...only to participate when it looked like fun. I suppose that is true of most social organizations. I put on about two events every year, a picnic and volleyball game with another local car club, a go cart race with beer bust/trophy presentation afterward, and helped with the annual ISCA car show display.

That is the exact reason I don't join small chat groups. It is hard to chat daily, when only a very, very small pecentage of any group will respond. If the group doesn't have a membership in the thousands, it can go days with very little activity. I soon lose interest in those groups, because an even smaller percentage will happen to be interested in the particular subjects what you want to discuss.

This group has a couple advantages for me. It is pretty large. It includes those types of cars and related subjects that I enjoy. My interests are quite varied, and I like almost any type of hot rod... muscle car... drag car... or even the odd stuff that can only be included by a very vague or broad interpretation of the term, "hot rod".

Most importantly, it is a respectful crowd, that does not try to force it's collective opinions on those who don't care for a particular style, or social outlook.

I have enjoyed my time here a lot. It is the first site I go to every morning. Thanks to the organizers! ...my brothers! :-)

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

I for the life of me I can't get that three word thread..

Can't get what...........................

Geez, I actually agree with some things Bob said there. (Except for that last line)

The point I was trying to make was that if you post some stuff and don't get a bunch of people posting back, don't think we all weren't interested and grateful you did it. It might just mean we didn't have anything meaningful to add or we felt we had already posted too many times already that day.

Don