I think there are a lot of us who took a lot of pleasure from Racechat, when it was free, and reasonably liberal. But now, I guess it is your choice whether you become a member or not, and if you choose to be, then it is only fair to abide by the rules. If that is how Rob see's how a portal of information should be, then that is his choice, we choose whether to use it or not.

As for oople..... I have to get my daily, nope, hourly fix of the ramblings that go on here, and there is a massive depth of knowledge and experience, albeit with an edge of humour.

He makes himself look so bad, by attacking any offenders, or by sly comments like the "Is this a good idea" thing. It just makes him look bad!

Why doesn't he tackle the rule breachs from the other angle "Don't post your links here, but if you wish to host your information/pictures/details here directly then be my guest". Turn it into a positive.

Ive said this on the thread, im not going to push his buttons and fish for a ban. I don't want to make myself look bad. I just don't like his approach, so made the constructive critism, now I'll leave racecrap alone.

if you think about it, by linking to the images and info, it saves his bandwidth, I understand where he is trying to come from, but really, thats not how the internet works...

i can't believe he has just had a go at the most respected 12th racer in the country for telling people about a practice day were this guy is offering to help and give advice to anyone who is interested.

the guy is only trying to help for god sake:mad:

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Been banned many times from Rcracecrap and never been threatened with legal action...

Guy who runs it is clearly a Grade A 'silly face' anyway :yawn:

Now normal non paying members can't even look at other members profiles ;)..

how gay!

For what its worth id gladly give Jimmy £15 a year as a subscription to go some way towards how much I appreciate the help I get on the forum and how much I love reading the race reports and reviews.

Set it up and ill be the first to send payment!

It's already set up. It's called the donation button in the forsale section!

Only last year a post that I put on race chat about a RC CHARITY event at nnrc for cancer got removed........come on we did raise £1.5k for charity!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was the last time I ever visited the site.

Do the BRCA still link to race chat, if I was a new racer and got sent to race chat it would put me right off.

There's a donation button in the top right corner, next to the camera ;)

just keeping upto date with the 12th meeting only to find this

:thumbsup:

Someone log in and point them to o0ples 12th Section :)

Despite asking 2/3 times over the years, I've yet to see a link to oOple on the BRCA website - though if it's on there now I'll eat my own hair as I've not checked :woot:

:woot: 2!?

£15 sent via the donation button :)

Id urge anyone who loves this place and everything about it to consider donating to the cause!

http://www.oople.com/rc/media/donate.html

I got banned because of your link also Ross except i got a lifetime ban to go with it when i was a fully paid up member for £15 and paid our club subscription of £50 and i wasnt even allowed to advertise our then website of www.racecentral.org

Money Money Money

Glyn

I love you ;)

:o :woot: :wub

£'s sent Jimmy
Keep up the good work:thumbsup:

I've left a deposit for some of your love to Jimmy :woot:

can you give as well as take !!!!!!!!

My paypal is at its sending limit Jimmy, come find me at Neo ill buy you some beers!!!!!

Right I think we need to get the BRCA to link to Oople and any other free (good) RC forum which help the racers and clubs......Who can do that then???Glyn????

Don't forget club forums, if there is a way of doing that - JEspares/NNRC etc.

Excellent suggestion Neil and i feel Glyn would be the right person if anyone can it will be Glyn

Probably the best thing that could happen if you ask me or when the BRCA new website up and runing get a link for oople of there worth a try in it surely guys/gals

I sent a email on race chat asking a simple question why i was removed from moderator of a section without being informed first after all i have paid my subscriptions for the last 6 years plus money for club sections and series section basicaly no reply so cannot be arsed to answer a email that tells me not interested in guest members or full members at all money money money comes 1st

crtpromachine

Try that thread at the bottom, its a private one only you and Rob Fitzgerald can see. Ive used it in the past, I think, and it got responded too - must have been 4-5 years ago though.

Thats what i used and still awaitng for a reply or the manners to tell me the answer to my question but thanks for the advice anyway

Crtpromachine

Chris the club websites used to be on the BRCA website, not sure if they still are tho.:confused:

Me too. Keep up the excellent work Jimmy and Co.

Chris:thumbsup:

I'm working on it
:woot:

Glyn

Ill Try again

im working on it as we speak

Glyn

now work in progress

Glyn

RaceChat Statistics

Threads
32,457
Posts
264,439
Members
6,074


oOple.com Forums Statistics
Threads: 41,124, Posts: 352,999, Members: 7,527

And Racechat has been around for longer.
Nuff' said.

Good work Glyn.

How many banned? :o:eh?::confused:

6,073

the un banned one being rob :lol:

ok the good news i have got a link in the BRCA Website:p


The bad news i have a link to the entire Oolpe forum in the truggy section on the website:cry:

well at least their is now somthing on there :blush::blush::blush::blush:

Glyn
Chairman
8-10 series

Amazingly, i hadn't been banned but that is about to change i reckon, this is robs post and my response.

Thread: A better forum than RaceChat ?

Yesterday 05:58 AM #1
Rob Fitzgerald
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A better forum than RaceChat ?
A better forum than RaceChat ?

It's not often that you will see me linking to another forum but for a long time I was a fan of Jimmy's website at oople.com

It occurs to me that many of you might feel better served and more at home on a forum like that and I feel it would be better for all of us if you can find the right forum for YOU and use the one that you prefer.

Anyway here is the link ...

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42485
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Today 11:42 PM #2
lee farrer
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Rob, i think the forums are very different places, oople is fun and vibrant and people enjoy visiting it, its full of people with knowledge but they can also have a laugh and race chat, well, people just think your a bit of a BIG BEAR

Lee=legend!

Rob must make a fair bit of money from the forum, I think I counted 19 club forums, at £50 a time that's 950! Manufactures will pay more than that, then you have main banner sponsors. Do the events pay anything? Plus a hundred full members at £15 a time!

So he could potentially be receiving around 3-5k, and it costs no where near that to host such a quiet forum!

Guys this is gonna end in tears


Rob is Rob and there is no changing that, he will do what he wants on his forum and thats his choice, its simple as that, and instead of the "im going to get banned" just dont go on it.

I for one do not like Rob he is agrogant and the Racechat forum is a dictatorship but what is going on now is nothing short of Bullying and it needs to end now Guys

Im all for having a laugh but people still need to be treated with dignity and respect even if they dont deserve it

Glyn

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