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Originally Posted by synth19
What makes a person "from" honda-tech or jdmc? Forums and many events are fairly open. You can't exactly generalize and state that the "members" of certain groups are the trouble makers at events. Most of the people who cause issues aren't even registered on these sites, hence the difficulty in holding those people accountable. We are very strict on our meet rules, but of course occasionally some DB will show up and try to prove something. We have kicked out or banned people in those situations. But usually these kinds of things happen at the really big meets. I personally prefer the smaller low-key events which do several times per month (and never have had issues).
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When a community gets too big, you can't keep track of every person and be held accountable. I totally get that, which is why I don't go to large meets... because douchebags can and will show up and be... douchebags.
HT had a bad reputation years ago, I can recall when people would post on the forums and actually try to plan on crashing other car enthusiast meets. "Oh hey lets show up an hour before those guys and fill the lot with our cars".
I think a lot of the larger meets also have people that take pictures of plates so they know where to steal your car etc.
From a risk perspective, I just don't go to car meets anymore unless its very small and has pretty muchg zero chance of attracting unwanted attention.
Maybe I'm just too damn old.
So yes, perhaps the idiots that showed up were not from HT or JDMC all the time, but there were other times where it was blatantly obvious people were there to crash the meet or be idiots. The risk of being a part of a large community where its hard to keep track of everyone and a lot of traffic shows up (which you pointed out may or may not even belong to the group/forum) is why I stay away. Risk management.
Everything I experienced was at least 5 years ago though, maybe things have changed