Well, the fact alone that this is the only forum which I grace with my presence makes this a great one.
No, what is special is the absence of know it alls and jerks (although I sometimes try to be one and simply enjoy it). I am on two other forums (guitar related) and I used to be on one German Mustang forum. The guitar forums are ok but you have a bunch of guys that don't know their butts from a hole in the ground and you have the wannabe experts that claim to know everything.
Hardly anyone is riding on the middle of the road there.
The German Mustang forum is an "ex" for me because of two things: Mismanagement and jerks. They decided in order to thin the herd that users would have to pay an annual fee of 15€ (about 19 USD) in order to use the forum in its integrity. As a non paying member you may not post for sale ads or (and that's the worst part) send any PMs. (Ok, try getting in touch with a poor guy who paid his fees and posted something for sale you want to buy if you can't send PMs!)
If you sign up to those conditions, that's one thing but if you have been a member for years and suddenly you get those rights revoked that sucks, especially as from one day to the next you could not access your private messages anymore.
Now, I had lots of important info in there that I got cut off off from one day to the next. Just like here where I got several members' private numbers or addresses or links to companies.
That was bad enough but then one guy asked if he should upgrade to a 3 row radiator because he had issues with overheating and the picture showed he had no fan shroud. So I posted that he should get a fan shroud first and that it would probably help by forcing the air through the radiator instead of simply swirling it all over the place and if that did not help he could still upgrade the radiator.
The next reply was my quoted text with the comment "What ********!", nothing more. I never logged in again after that.
Screw them and their kindergarten forum.
Ok, rant over but the point I wanted to make is that here you get good advice and if people disagree they bother to explain why. If they still don't agree after that they agree to disagree which is very cool.
And there is a special kind of humor on this site.
I think it may be because we tend to get shunned on most Mustang related forums and this is like a retreat where everyone enjoys the company of their peers.
Did I mention there is an amazing lack of jerks here.....
