could someone please explain what its for?i thought it was for help and meeting new people,when you had a problem you could ask other members etc for advice,that you could use this forum for both fun banter and advice,so you can join in with meets and events, when you start to have fun on here seems that other people take the hump and the topic gets closed,i stopped comming on here before because of the bitchyness,seems you cant have a joke,for example thread that got closed in scottish section," this site boring"we start having a banter on it and the person that asks is this site boring complains!!!! you cant win,so far i havnt had any advantage on joining the club apart from advice on this site which i thought i would pay to go towards costs of this site,to be honest i dont know if i will bother re newing my membership when it is up,im finding people getting very petty on this site,as long as its not offensive banter towards other members i dont see the harm in having a laugh.  rant over but it does cheese me off that folk just cant get on and stop being petty!!

I agree, and I'm the one that closed it, and I'm sure caused some of your other complaints.

If a topic descends into arguments, it gets closed.

I thought the thread was rather amusing, unfortunately others didn't.

I even edited out all my rogue comments aswel.

Never mind Mell, theres always the chat room I guess.

I have stopped visiting as often as I did in my first weeks of joining.

Not because of the lack of good content on the site though, because I do think it has a lot of information and 99% of it's users are thoroughly decent people who try to help or engage in "good humoured" banter.

Instead, I've found that there are a 1% of people who are determined to ruin it for others.

I still maintain that the forum has an anti-new-BMW angle to it and that I'm getting rather tired of hearing people say that "new BMW's this, new BMW's that".

Even if I thought that someone's older BMW was a pile of dog's whatsit - I wouldn't flame it on a public forum.  Why do they do it?

I can only conclude it is with a view to baiting. 

Why can't everyone just step back a bit before commenting, think about how their comments might be viewed by others, think that people in possession of a vehicle are likely to be fond of it if they frequent this type of forum - and basically just learn from it!

I've been on a club meet with members of this forum and it was a superb day.  That's because people took each other as equals, which everyone is, and purely went for the drive and seeing other cars be they old or new.

I commend the Northeast Region for that - and just wish a few other regions could allow this sort of friendly spirit to transcend the web based forums.

Check the Northeast Region forum out - how many bickering or baiting threads are there? 

None that I know of.

Speaks volumes.

Cheers to all and let's start getting on.  If you find it boring then it's really very simple - go find something to do.

some people seem to take this forum far too seriously, its meant to be entertaining and a source of help, does it matter if threads go off on a tangent, really?   everyone does their fair share to try and attract membership, be it hand out pre-printed club flyers (i prowl the car parks lol), get discounts or try to organise events - seems to me that the people who do the organising get their due recognition, but some brilliant ideas get tossed by the wayside because the chief organiser isn't interested or won't get their five minutes of fame because it was someone elses suggestion

I particularly liked the "if you dont like it, dont read it" quote.

After all, there is always the Unsubscribe yourself option in the emails.

On with the banter, long live pointless rabble!

It would appear that there is also a confliction of senses of humour, incomprehension of types of wit, comments made in anger (apologies to any that have recieved these from me!).

But I think that this will always be the nature of a forum.

Is deliberate baiting an offence? if so what constitues this? bit grey this area...

I love a wind up as much as the next man/woman but how do you define this?

Coasty - dangerous word "boring" I got well roasted for it recently!

on another point: I was considering joining the club, but having my details published in the magazine puts me right off. is this still done?

oh thats ok then, I was told of this being the case by an old ex member (VSCC friend) that this used to happen.

off thread - he has an original 328 - awesome!!

sleeper wrote: off thread - he has an original 328 - awesome!!

Good gracious .. dont go off topic whatever you do!!!!!!

I have to admit I never thought it was a bad as you all make it sound. OK so every now a then a thread gets closed down, but it doesn't happen all the time and as long as people don't start getting offensive and follow the forum rules then there isn't a problem is there?

Mell, I've been involved in some fairly open and potentially heated debates recently and there has been no issue with the thread being closed. Maybe you Scotts just get too fired up!

I've just had a look at the offending thread oh the Scottish forum.

It's very difficult to make out what is being said since Praktisk has edited all his threads.

TBH I'm not sure why people got fired up, if you don't like the forum then don't use it. I find it very useful for technical info, both BMW and other things, and sharing views on issues such as the election, speed cameras etc.

If people don't think the threads are interesting then start some new ones.

Personally I don't use the chat room because that side of the website or the internet for that matter doen't interest me.

I agree!!  We should all be one big happy family!!

Paul

i thought that we was one big happy family and a bit of harmless banter never hurt anyone

darren

There you go, now I don't think Scotts is offensive, or the terms jock, paddy, taff etc, but being younger you're probably more PC.

I don't know of a similar term for Englishman, unless its just the sassanac one, if I've spelt that anywhere near correctly.

Well nigels clocking 80 and he still has a GSOH.

Cue: Young, rather handsome man () found dead in Lancashire woods. Anyone who spotted a Grey (possibly once even Silver) BMW 525SE in the area around 17:40 BST is to contact Lancashire Police on 01772 555666

Nigel wrote: There you go, now I don't think Scotts is offensive, or the terms jock, paddy, taff etc, but being younger you're probably more PC. I don't know of a similar term for Englishman, unless its just the sassanac one, if I've spelt that anywhere near correctly.

Round here they call english folk "Guffies", never quite worked out why

@mell i see your point that you feel you aint getting anything out of club (well aprt from all the help that is there on and off forum when you need it and certain discounts and 6 mags a year)

But its not everyones cup of tea,but then again its only £35

@Stephen-"seems to me that the people who do the organising get their due recognition, but some brilliant ideas get tossed by the wayside because the chief organiser isn't interested or won't get their five minutes of fame because it was someone elses suggestion"

Is that aimded at me?

Why is my name always in mag LOL! (Iknow you were only joking)

When i came into this club there was nothing for the North Of Scotland hense i saw an oppportunity to get involved in my own time

to what i have done for 1 year now,and got voted in by the members at AGM (Those that were there including you) to be the North Of Scotland Co-Ordinator and it was also said that we needed a events co-ordinator and Shorty was voted in..(Not to mention Webdunk at the end of last year)

If anyone has any suggestions for things to do up here (god knows how many times i have asked) then lets here them

So far we have had

Karts-Fell at first hurdle as no one wanted to pay deposits

curry night-loads of interested people,mell was aksed to sort out a date but never

Cruise-a few of us went to this

and offcourse our monthly meets,which in my opinion are a great success (or at least a start)

One last thing

If anyone wants to do something for club off there own backs like go into there dealer and get to know the dealer principal in your own time and orginize discounts/events or just get a relationship going then you dont have to ask.Just do it

Same goes for anything else in the same sort of line

there have been a few good suggestions of late, quad bikes, paintball, pool night etc.  i can only suggest places that i know of (which are invariably near here), but the problem is getting folk to travel, for example theres a place that does quad bikes in Nairn, which isn't very far from Elgin, theres other local (to me) places which cover activities including paintball, a skid-car, "road rallys" etc.

lots of varied things round elgin/inverness way but admittedly it is an effort for aberdonians to attend because of the increased distance, and most of these activities require booking in advance

pool and curry nights are no problem, "have overnight-bag and wallet, will travel" kind of thing lol

Elgin is not exactly far

Look into somethings and post up details

Fancy the bikes

Pete, i didnt really join the club to get discounts,cause i use the website for advice etc i thought it was only fair to pay a membership to help with the costs, but if all you get is arguments and petty people then i wont be using the website therfore i wont be re newing my membership,you say its only £35 quid,thats alot of money for nothing,if you lost it you wouldnt say "ah its only £35"!!

Me and stev are talking about arranging in a curry night,these things do take time as i do have a life other than bmw club! didnt think you were intrested as you said you didnt like indian food?

Nigel Guff is a name for english people,i get called it up here lol

Trying not to sound like a boring old fart here, but....

Life is too damn short to worry about whether or not what you say on the world wide web offends, upsets etc.  The world is a huge place and no matter how hard you may try, you will always offend or upset at least one person in it, this is inevitable.  Opinions about cars, curries, nicknames etc are all part of life's rich mix and without the occasional screaming tantrum this would indeed be a very sad and boring world to live in.  Its all down to tolerance and a little bit of compromise thrown in here and there, so come on boys, girls and others...Have fun, enjoy life and don't give a fig about anything cos you ain't here forever you know.

your right gold life is to short hence why i put this topic up to ask for people stop being petty offensive and have a laugh!! ive had my say and im not going to be drawn into more petty arguments,i enjoy this site getting advice and having a laugh but if the bitchyness cont i wont be using it or renewing my membership. melanie signs out lol