When I am at work, alot of the time when it's slow I can come on this forum (currently at work right now) and just check it out. I love the supportive nature of this site, it's a vast difference from the other forum I'm a member of. Electrocalgary (a local forum for people in the Calgary region who love EDM (Electronic Dance Music) and its many variations) has in the last few years gone to ****. Basically I spend my whole day there fighting with people over the stupidest things. Electrocalgary teaches you one thing, and that is how to attack and destroy anybody who disagrees with you in any way, for any reason. It's sad really, because a few years ago the forum was an awsome resource, with a wide variety of people who liked many different forms of EDM. Now all it is is people who listen to Drum & Bass, bashing everybody else who posts anything that disagrees with them. The relevance of all this, and the reason I am telling you is it seems to be the latest trend in forums. I've seen quite a few forums go this way, though Electro is by far the worst, and if you can survive there, you can survive anywhere.
Here, people are respectful, nice, and generally very helpful, I suppose its the abundance of mature people, or the fact that if you act like an *** u get banned. I just wanted to say thanks to everybody who makes this such a positive environment, it's a great relief to be able to come here when I'm sick of all the immature bickering everywhere else, and have an intelligent conversation with great people and listen to hundreds of amazing innovations.

Thanks again.
-Derek

[This message has been edited by GoldFiero86SE (edited 04-06-2006).]

Well spoken!

This Forum is a big and important part of my Fiero hobby. I spend more time here than with my car.
I'm also a member on other Forums, mostly car related (Corvette and Ford) and the trend there is just like you said. If you do anything new and don't follow the mainstream you're out! Another great thing about PFF is that people share! On other forums no one tells you anything because they don't want anyone to do the same modifications or sometimes they want you to pay for the info.

So now is a great time to remind everyone "Don't forget to donate to Cliff so he can afford to keep this great forum alive"

It stinks that there is negativity in an area like Electronic music...it's supposed to be just everyone on the dance floor groovin' to the same vibe, whatever the vibe happens to be.

Yeah, this place has "good vibes", and I believe that many of its members actually give a crap or two about each other. and the lack of flame wars, and threads in the trash shows that it's a nice virtual place to hang.

be well.

-FieroRumor

The Studebaker NG is also a very happy place--lots of guys like me who are probably too old (I'll be 71 in Sep.) to fight, so we kid each other a lot, kinda like here.

And after reading the thing about time travel, I see that there are lots of DEEP thinkers on here, too.

I really ENJOY this NG--kinda takes my mind off the so-called IMPORTANT things in life and lets me think happy thots. But whatever happened to "Chicks WITHOUT Fieros"? Even dirty old guys like ME liked THAT one! (Not that we could do much about 'em!)

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John