A Challenge to the community Options

[boosted_K2]

Personally I have become increasingly agitated at the amount of people posting incorrect information and unbackable claims... its one thing to post to discuss it, but when you are posting "as fact" you need to make sure your facts are correct. In my honest to god opinion it would be beneficial for a good portion of the forum's members to stop posting for a while and go read a few automotive and/or engineering books or hell... even for the laziest of people, go over to howstuffworks.com or wikipedia.com and just start searching automotive related topics that you "THINK" you know about, they dumb it down so much anyone can understand it, but its technical enough to give you a much better understanding.... I challenge all of you to do it and come back with certifiable evidence to have intelligent conversations with each other, and hopefully make me feel like an idiot at some point and prove me wrong. I am not saying I know everything (hell, I don’t have a clue on a lot of things, I usually just say I don’t have a clue instead of making **** up), I'm not saying there aren’t any good or informative topics on here (skimming through a lot of the FI forum proves that), but just in general I feel this would be beneficial.

My other challenge is to understand WHY you are doing a certain modification. One thing that really bewilders me is suspension modification. Why do you spend money on body braces and sway bars and fender braces... how is that cost justified? If you are doing it for the look or the show of the part then fine I can’t have any disagreement with that. But IMO people need to start asking "what am I trying to accomplish with my setup" before they start part shopping. Save yourself the time and money by formulating a plan before attacking.

Ok, my rants over, thanks for reading.

[airfron]

instead of making a new post to find information on a subject i am looking for (since every modification i have thought of doing has most definitely been done time and time again by others) i use the search feature and when i see s post where someone has asked a question where i know there is another topic on the same question i will most likely post a link to that original post where i located the information

if everyone wouldto be willing to take the initiative and use the search function properly and educate themselves i think a large majority of the uneducated posts and actually a large amount of topics posted would diminish greatly

i feel as if something else that is causing a distress to the community is those who intentionally flame people for answering a question with a response that they do not agree with, or an opinion stated by an individual on the topic. insults cause people who actually might be able to help to not want to post for fear of getting their post torn apart even though they might lead to the same end result. this is a forum as GT04 stated earlier.. and we should be able to act like mature people and respect other people's opinions without bashing them

sorry i feel like i'm ranting.. disregard my statements if you disagree with them