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Originally Posted by 86'd
It's new.
The niceness will pass. 
It's full of enthusiasts right now. In a couple of years when more and more n00bs and 16 year olds get the car as a hand-me-down, and start asking more and more redundant questions like, "What's a sound tube?" The original members will either have left to the Cayman boards, or stick around like that old drunk uncle in the corner. |
^^^ This. I lurked on this site for quite a long time before joining, and it seeems to me that atmosphere here changed dramatically (in a negative way) once the car began its release in America. Before that, the site seemed primarily populated by mature, knowledgeable,
respectful car enthusiasts... but now? Now it's a coin flip as to which are the bigger, more annoying problem on this site: the "gimme-generation" children, who are too lazy to search, constantly posting inane topics (things like, "How do I finance a car?"...things better to ask your parents about, or even your owners manual, rather than a chat room full of strangers), and are trying too hard to build a post-count by opining on everything (whether they know anything about the topic or not; and more often than not, by calling the topic in question a "ricer piece of shit")...
OR is it the seemingly older members who *seem* to be knowledgable about cars and tuning, but who have adopted an "I'll do what I want, say what I want, ain't nobody knows more than me, every car is a ricer piece of shit 'cept mine!" attitude (have a look just, well... anywhere... in the Forced Induction sub-forum for an example of this type). These two types have taken over FT86Club, in my opinion. Before the car's US release, though, the most annoying members were the occasional ones who had unrealistic predictions on either power or price; but even they were respectful of differing views.
Nah, the longer this car's out, the worse these forums will get. I predict there'll be a wave of kids picking up used ones next summer, and there'll be a whole new batch of "wuts this VSC button do?" and "weres my clutch? -fIrEsToRm-6AT" threads. And those of us who learned on our own how to use the search function (not
just on this site, but *gasp*... on the Internet as a whole!) will become a little more cranky, a little less tolerant. After that, well... it'll be interesting to see what happens.
