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#20473 06/18/02 10:56 PM
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P.S. Can anyone even tell me the event that started FC.Org? I asked the source and got the right info... How many of you know?
I don't know... confused

Contours/Mystiques have a limited and small aftermarket and support as it is. I never understood this division. It's not like we drive Civics or something, in which case I would understand and justify multiple Contour sites.

Don't group everyone on CEG together. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think most people:
a) don't know what the whole FC.org v. CEG thing is about
b) could care less
c) just want CEG to live on

I think it's just a few CEGers that have personality/opinion differences with CarDoc.
So what? He has opinion, and everyone else has theirs. Opinions are like a$$holes, everyone's got one.

Let it go, bury the hatchet, let by-gones be by-gones - for the sake of CEG's survival.


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P.S. Can anyone even tell me the event that started FC.Org? I asked the source and got the right info... How many of you know?
Don't know and don't care. I registered at FC.org when it first came online (on EZBoards, I think). I haven't registered at the new site for any specific reason - just never got around to it, I guess.

I didn't have any problems there. Got along with everyone, etc.

I kind of get the feeling that you're lumping all of us at CEG into a collective group that "hates" FC.org. I don't think that's particularly fair.


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[b]Well...thanks for the praying everyone... I got a call from my boss today telling me they are no longer going to lay me off. Now, I just hope they move the T1 to the new house.

--Matt
That's good news, Matt. Glad to hear it.[/b]
Very good news on both counts!!!

Keep us updated - but that doesn't mean the rest of us need to drop the ball yet on saving this place in case the T1 doesn't make the trip.[/b]
Im also glad to hear that you still have a Job matt. i know its not easy now adays finding a job. But as D.Davis we not outta the hole yet. We can still go down but it might only be for a short time. All those that said you are willing to give money to help keep it up i have one thing to say, Donate money either way.

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That's real cute, but if some people didn't fashionably wear their head up their asses - And people like you didn't gossip and make up stories like little school children maybe FC.Org would be willing to come together.

I've heard that FC.Org and MEG might join together to create something cool - Looks like CEG is going to be left out because of it's members alone, judged by the idiotic, prejudiced and mis-informed members and here-sayers that make it up. I wonder why I don't ever post here, it's good for a laugh when people that don't have a clue open their mouth and talk stuff about a subject that no one knows anything about.

Like Lance said, he does not want CEG to become a business. This is a hobby and pleasure for him, and that's what I gather is his meaning. To FC.Org and MEG it's business - So you tell me who's more serious about being there for the members? Donate, donate, donate - Please. Donations are a crutch that will only help for so long. Memberships will cure the short term problem but as members here sell their cars and move on - The battle for new memberships drops off and the site goes away. Maybe not tomorrow, maybe not this year - Maybe not next. But it's inevitable. I'm a marketing director for a large telecommunication firm - I've seen it happen to little dot.commers over and over again.

Make fun of FC.Org. Go ahead - But when it's still here because it's making money because it's owner is being capatalistic - and also working with other Ford sites to make a great community for owners (Don't cry me a river)!

John

P.S. Can anyone even tell me the event that started FC.Org? I asked the source and got the right info... How many of you know?
Wanting one site over another has nothing to do with marketing. CEG was the first successful CDW-27 site on net first and has been around the longest, that's why there's the cry for help... to keep the icon alive.

If contour.org did meet it's demise, you think anything would end up different on FC.org??? Perhaps the moderator hats would be on different heads, but the same players would migrate there playing our day to day roles... the same power struggles would eventually result. When FC.org gets the traffic all of us on one site can generate, let's see if the same capatalistic attitude keeps it running.

BTW, congrats on keeping the job Matt. wink


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Not to mention that FC.org is so small they probably couldn't handle our bandwidth requirements.


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I Like the the yearly idea of payment and how about a free trial membership period for like a week or so that way you wont lose vendors, or pepole with new discroveries.

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Not to mention that FC.org is so small they probably couldn't handle our bandwidth requirements.
Rachtie1 said---
Well, since I read that little snippet before about having the other site getting flooded with members I PM'd Cardoctor over there to see what they can handle. The server they are on has 4GB of open space and also their bandwidth limit is 300GB per month of traffic. Sounds like someone was more prepared for a flood than everyone thinks.

I think that is explination enough.


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This si all good food for thought, I think if people continue to donate 5$ here, 10$ there, we'll be ok, that and pray that Matt keeps his job!


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Bnoon - It's not that anyone is wishing that CEG is going to go anywhere, but the ignorance and nose thumbing to the other site is really stupid. I don't see anyone from over there saying anything bad about the CEG in a long time (Not since people over here have stopped talking smack about them... And it seems like the grade school mentality is coming out again)

(Personal opinion on)(Grabs asbestos suit and prays for mercy)

I'm not saying CEG vs anyone... But do you realize that if people spreaded out the posting on both sites (especially since about 40% of the core CEG'ers are already members over there, I've looked at the member lists) Why cry about it? That would effectively cut out the bandwisth issues by spreading it out - Not concentrating on one source. Plus both sites have different ideas and things that can help people so those that do categorize the other site as (useless and stupid)are just plain morons.

Brings a good question to mind, if FordContour.Org was a joke - Why has it lasted so long? And if it is all a smoke screen then why has the owner been using his own personal resources to have items that are sought after by the Contour/Mystique community manufacturered? All these martyrs over here will be the first in line when he offers things but then spit in his face over here?

Want something sad? That's sad. He's really done nothing to anyone - Voiced his opinion and thoughts (If they aren't right to one person that's too bad - That's what forums are for.. And you people talk about how bad he really is - Gee, I think the major factor is that he is mis-understood and also might not be able to convey what he is really trying to say over the internet (forums). So stop jumping down his throat about every little thing he says! I'm not playing defender but there are alot of people that should be thanking him that are useless slugs, hiding over here in the collective group (not all people mind you!) of slugs that have their own opinion and think they are protected by the group "thought".

I give up. People open their mouths before even knowing what they are saying - And mostly because they think it will get everyone else to back them when talking about FordContour.Org. Show me one post over here that is positive about FordContour.Org. And you say that they attack CEG all the time?? Right ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA. The only posts I've ever seen on FordContour.Org about CEG is posts started by CEG members in the first place (not FordContour.Org or their staff).

Grow up people. Biting the hand that feeds you is really going to net you nothing. The CEG already has a reputation with the manufacturers about their members. Would someone like to call Warren Kurtz at KKM? He'll give you an earful.

No BS. Talked to him myself. And it's not good either. Cmon people, you like to rip down on other people because you think CEG is above everyone else? That's the point where this site became a democracy and less of a community. It's all politics over here and what people like you and not. Cliques like high school are out. If you want cliques, get off the net! There's no cliques on FordContour.Org - And that makes alot of people feel easy when posting. May that change someday? Possibly - But Cardoctor has laid the groundrules for membership over there pretty strictly like FordMondeo.Org so I doubt it'll ever be the circus act that I see over here too often with fights here and there.

(/Personal opinion off)

Be it what you may. I don't think Lance wants to run ClubSi. That's what CEG has been turning into. Aren't familiar with ClubSi? Go to ClubSi And take a look around. Alot of people on there and the off-topic forum is the only most commonly used forum. Fights break out hourly and it's a big circus.

Enjoy,

John


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Show me one post over here that is positive about FordContour.Org
See mine above laugh


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