Just like the old days

[MI Dirt Fan]

I think you can find info from both forums and social media. Only thing with the forums it's hard to assume something is 100% accurate all the time. But as fast as info travels now it doesn't take long for it to be confirmed. Facebook was actually geared only towards keeping up with friends and family. It got bigger than expected so other things nwere added like personal and business pages. Twitter is more in a form of just passing/reporting information and not following friends and family. Of course majority of Twitter is parody acct names.

[Barbecueboy]

What's kind of strange is that in most cases the folks complaining about how great the message board used to be are the very same ones that ran to Facebook and all the others to begin with.

Then they come back, pop in and act aghast at how the board is since they have gone somewhere else.....like 4m should have stayed exactly the same and waited on their return.

Please notice I said " most cases" and didn't throw a blanket over everyone.....the people that wear that shoe know it fits.

[Pennsboro23]

What's kind of strange is that in most cases the folks complaining about how great the message board used to be are the very same ones that ran to Facebook and all the others to begin with.

Then they come back, pop in and act aghast at how the board is since they have gone somewhere else.....like 4m should have stayed exactly the same and waited on their return.

Please notice I said " most cases" and didn't throw a blanket over everyone.....the people that wear that shoe know it fits.

Are they the same ones that made Facebook so bad?

[Zonks32x]

BBQ,

That reminds me....I still have an old blackberry lying around somewhere??? I should charge it up for grins.

Best part of that phone was that d@mn Bickbreaker game.

[Barbecueboy]

Are they the same ones that made Facebook so bad?

Have no idea , don't have an account , don't plan on having one...... My wife and kids though, they love theirs.

If I want people to know what I'm doing, or thinking I normally just call them or go visit them and tell them in person.

[Highside Hustler25]

Back in the old days you had guys like Bubba Smith and a few others that were no different than Phil. I think folks are just more thin skinned nowadays compared to years ago.

[ZERO25]

Back in the old days you had guys like Bubba Smith and a few others that were no different than Phil. I think folks are just more thin skinned nowadays compared to years ago.

I now nominate you for Post of the Year!

Im tired of watching paint dry, since Phillipe was cast out!

[Josh Bayko]

What some of you don't seem to realize is that things/places always change, and message boards are not as popular as they used to be with all the other forms of social media that have popped up in the past 10-12 years.

Reddit has killed off a ton of forums.

[NormP]

Reddit has killed off a ton of forums.

Exactly right.

I'm not a reddit nerd so I don't know a ton about it, but I have a guy that works for me that is a big reddit geek. I do know you go over there and find a special section for almost any topic you can imagine. I would guess there's probably one for dirt late models even if it doesn't get much traffic. Would almost guarantee there's one for sprint cars for sure since they're more popular.

[Josh Bayko]

Exactly right.

I'm not a reddit nerd so I don't know a ton about it, but I have a guy that works for me that is a big reddit geek. I do know you go over there and find a special section for almost any topic you can imagine. I would guess there's probably one for dirt late models even if it doesn't get much traffic. Would almost guarantee there's one for sprint cars for sure since they're more popular.

There a few dirt racing subreddits, but none of em have much traffic. I was talking forums in general. Like I’m into wrasslin’, and I like shooting the breeze with other wrasslin’ fans during PPVS. I am a member at a couple different wrestling forums, but they have pretty much died off. The main wrestling subreddit has 376k subscribers.

[NormP]

Yeah there are still some active "traditional" message boards for sure, but it's not like it was in 2005 or so. But that's fine. Life goes on.

[Barbecueboy]

Yeah there are still some active "traditional" message boards for sure, but it's not like it was in 2005 or so. But that's fine. Life goes on.

Apparently not for everyone......some are still stuck in the rut that they most likely caused for themselves.

[Waldo]

ya know, someday somebody might invent a site called 5m, and on that site you could say whatever you wanted too with no mods.......and then where would this site be. makes you think doesn't it.

[flagone]

It seems to me about 75% of the people on here like it when people cannot say "whatever they want" because that ends up with zero racing and a ton of whiny back and forth name calling.

I think this is a FAR better version of 4m then we have had in a long time.

In answer to the "5m" question - this site would be right here and it would be about racing and not BS.

[Bubstr]

I don't think it's a matter of thin skin at all. Most that complained where the older people in here. It used to be , you gave everyone respect, until they didn't deserve it. I think we lost that along the way.