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So if LB was ran out of MT, good for the people on MT (and this has nothing to do with L
Industry people aren't doing us "fans" a favor by posting...we'd be better off if they never even acknowledged us.
In my opinion the popularity of message boards, and the severity of the complaints/razzing etc of industry people is because on occassion the message boards, and even some of the members and/or posts members make get mentioned in the magazines (racerx seems to be the one I see it the most in). It is bringing more and more poeple to the boards....hoping to get mentioned in a mag so they can have their 15 minutes of "fame".
When you give the common fan a chance to say whatever he wants to an industry person, unregulated and with no fear of consequences, they are going to take that opportunity and get every inch they can out of it.
The riders, the team managers/members, magazine journalists/editors/photogs etc would all be better off if they never ever look at the message boards....and as a result, the sport would be better off.
Let us "fans" be fans...and talk and bash and do whatever else we want to do, but don't dignify us by having industry types read/post/care what we post.
(And nothing against Hammy , the Alessis or DV, either...)
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Im the best. You suck. You type like morons. Your spelling is 'teh shit'
You have no html skillz
I rock
My neighbor has a bunny
How many times is that now ??
should everyone thats not an "insider" just be a sheep and not have any different opinions?
LB came off like a primadonna in his column.
After the Broc Tickle tirade I could care less if falls off the face of the planet.....he provided no insight into the sport.......he bitched.
You and him are like carbon copies.
Your right.....the worlds all wrong.
Clowns???? people in glass houses......
Yeah, you're all clowns for giving a guy who gives his heart and soul to the sport AND to the rider you all worship a ton of shit. Vitalidiots.
But it will never happen, it's too late, and like it or not people who call their businesses "THE sport" won't allow it. Boards that get big enough to get noticed like this one are "message managed" so even if all the "names" left and it looks and reads like a fan site, it won't be. The message is managed in ways you don't see.
The tradition has more than one source and it has changed over time. With SX it has been built into their thinking from the beginning and it's held them back. I heard people say that is what really wrecked things with ESPN but there is certainly more to it. SX, the Movie was a bomb in part for the same reasons-I saw a movie review site that called BS on the film right from the beginning. MX is paranoid of MX sites and ramped up management a few years ago mainly because of a bad experience with an ATV site. Then they turned their eye more to MX boards and I better not go there. I didn't notice it change until the RC fuel flap and I had pissed off the AMA big time..
It's not logical because the boards are not big enough to worry about, but they are still "opinion leaders." People who want to monitor opinion look where they can find it. VitalMX is clearly the best place for that, even if you have to sort through a lot of BoobyM's crap.
And when there are opinion leaders, the message managers are there. It can't be "just a fan site," but it can look and feel like one, and it's that's good enough for you, then it is.
Fair enough. Problem solved.
Except, the rest the sport knows this too. They have opinions, and they may have a message too. For some reason I think a lot of the fussing is them not being given a chance.
There was one OEM team manager a few years ago that would agree with Titan and pretty much said the same things. Let the fans be fans. (Of course, that wasn't want I wanted to here, because I was trying to figure out how to combine the two and make it work. That worked out real good huh?)
I could give a shit what Brooks does for him......Stewart will be fast no matter what he rides and who manages him.
When you state your opinions its not law that everyone has to agree with them.....if he doesnt understand that then so be it.
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From what we have heard from Brooks would anyone really like to hook up with him and ride with him for a day?
OR
Would you rather hang out with Huck at Cooperland or a Ride day elsewhere with fellow members FTE, SloPro, Jtom and his 500. Wardy or AJ I am also including DV, Hamblin.
What would bring you more self enjoyment of riding with your buds? It's perceived from the attitude put across in the text. I am sure he is a nice guy and all but he really has never been himself, rather he has been the voice of the inside. Much like others that post and try to provide the inside info or dirt.
There are enough assholes that know how to ride better or can point out the short comings of any rider be it professional or amateur. They guy could be a great guy but its not coming across on the board. Little bit of humility and humble roots go a lot longer then trying to be the harbinger of what is going on with the errors of the sport.
We already have a good idea of that and don't need someone to verify them to feel better.
Self appointed volunteer message manager.
Forgive me in advance if that was ad hom.
Good post.
Guys like DV could always give you the insider view without reminding you that you were an outsider.
Taking into consideration that he wrote one of those recent updates directly in response to some obviously sarcastic "James Stewart is ruining MX" thread, I'm inclined to believe them.
Too bad.
People tried. There won't ever be a good forum to interact directly with the real sport, not this way anyway.
when i lost my leg it was a big hit to me and my mind
instead of chicks looking at my pecker they were looking at my stump
the shit talking and what have you made me get tough skin real quick, made my sense of humor sky rocket too!
it was good training for the interweb, that's all LB needs is some good training
it doesn't make him stupid or an ass....it's just lack of training. same goes for that dad character threatening people on the web...either that or he's a loon.
just once....
350s 350s 350s.
Oops. ad hom
haha
Get over yourself yourself. Its not your job to shout everyone down.
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