What happens when a forum isn't full of trolls and douchebags, the story of the Jeep

Re: 't full of trolls and douchebags, the story of the Jeep

Yup... Posted a few times in that thread. I actually got teary eyes when I read the news.. The guy was awesome..

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MR is too big and too general. We talk about everything and anything here. There is a good percentage of people who aren't even into cars/driving anymore that still comes here to troll. Its a different philosophy.
 
Ouep vraiment une belle histoire...

J'ai suivis le thread de Ken (Happy Curmudgeon) sur JK-Forum.com (maintenant devenu Wayalife.com) pendant l'évolution de son cancer.... Pendant 1 an et demi il a mis ses états d'esprit / sentiments sur ce thread.. Résultats? Plus de 100 pages! Je peux pas cacher que certain bout j'avais la gorge vraiment serrée! Ken n'avais pas peur de mourir, mais il parlait constamment qu'il s'inquietait de l'avenir de sa femmes et de sa fille. Qu'il voulait qu'elle ai une bonne éducation, mais qu'une fois qu'il allait être partit, la famille allais se retrouver sans aucun revenu et cela lui fesait peur.

Un matin proche de Noël passé, la nouvelle était que Ken était décédé du cancer. Je connaissais pas personnellement Ken mais après avoir passé tout ce temps à lire ses états d'esprit, ça m'a fait vraiment un gros choque!

La gang de JK-Forum (Wayalife) est vraiment extraordinaire
 
Dubweiser: I find the suggestion that MontrealRacing is comprised only of trolls offensive. If the story weren't so nice I would have given you an infraction for posting such an incendiary thread title. While we have problems with many overly vocal members in General and OT, I reject the suggestion that something like this would not happen on MR. We are a very tight-nit community.

The story is heartwarming.
 
MAny other forums are tiightly knit because they all share a more focused joy on a particular style/vehicle/lifestyle.

MR has become quite broad (not a bad thing, only it lends itself to all parties and rearely will people share that tight a bond when they are in different spectrums of life and mindsets.)

Some of us legacy members were into the tuner scene 10-12 years ago and now have kids, houses, rrsp's and carreers... we enjoy coming here to see whats up but just couldn't care less to get involved in some of the more childish bs troll threads that are on here. but again.. those threads or post are due to a minority of bad seeds and loudmouthed tards.)
 
DannyITR said:
While we have problems with many overly vocal members in General and OT, I reject the suggestion that something like this would not happen on MR. We are a very tight-nit community.
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I wouldn't call it "having problems", it's just how the internet is. I browse the forum with avatars off, so it's like I barely remember people from one thread to another. I might disagree with someone over a given subject then in another thread agree completely. If I met that member, or any member of MR IRL, there would be no point in bringing these tensions up, as they are not going to make either of us better human beings in the end. I'm a man, not a fucking teenager.

Some people, including me, won't go out of their way to meet MR members IRL, however, if there was a similar story happening on MR and something was whipped into shape to make a difference, I do believe most regular members would feel compelled to take part in it. When someone here gets his car stolen or feels like fucking shit, we genuinely feel sorry for him/her. The depression and anxiety threads, as well as the break up threads in the relationship forums are a good proof of that IMO.

I might be wrong though.
 
avec la mentalite recente ici moi j'ai aucun probleme a imaginer pleins de threads demandant ou faire modifier le jeep le moin cher possible
 
Awesome post thanks for sharing!

several years ago we had something similar happen on one of the other car forums I visit. A young man had purchased his first car, a car he was dreaming about for years .. He had big plans for the cars, lots of things he wanted to do to it but then the news struck that he had cancer. I believe he was only 18. He posted on the forums did a bit of work on his car but then things degenerated and he found out his cancer was terminal. A group from our forum flew in from all over the USA and Canada with a bunch of donated parts and rebuilt the whole car over 1 weekend and repainted in the color he wanted. He was really happy and got to drive it once too. He died soon after and his parents parked the car infront of his window so he could see it in his final hours.

The story got some media attention at the time, now they do a show there every year in his honor.

Car communities are really tight
 
DYnamiteQc said:
too bad MR is not a car communitie.
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Well the only problem I see with MR is that people aren't close. I've been here for 10 years and I probably know about 5 people on the site even though I'm on here 4-5 times per day every day and most of these people I've met on other forums first.

It's sad because it's a great place, lots of awesome projects, nice people to talk to online but there isn't enough stuff going on IRL and since it's open to pretty much all makes and models there's a lot of hate from people. Example. people hardcore into VW who go on a VW site won't have to look at posts about GM cars so there won't be as much hate. On MR if I post about GM some VW nut is going to come in and bash. (the brands were used as an example) That's the big downside of being open to all makes, you'll never be able to get away from the hate.

The only event I can link to MR in the recent years was UR and that was way to big and open to anybody. Back in the day with the julep and Lafleur meets it was probably easier to get a tight knit group here.

But honestly, If we knew someone from our group was in trouble, I'm sure we'd do out best to help them out. (disregard the 20 trolls though telling them to fcuk off)
 
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