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Yes, these guys are always finding ways to get around the security measures we put in place. If it sounds fishy or too good to be true, report it to the Admins so we can look into it. Please remember that we do our best to catch these type of things before they can reach our members, but we cannot stop them all. You guys will have to use your own judgement and common sense to keep these guys from scamming you.

This is a members build thread. It isn’t a place to say what you would have done or what you think they should do. Follow along and enjoy the process or move on to the next one or better yet start your own build thread.

Well, we have successfully locked another thread.

The funny thing is, some of the same people that want individual sections will be the same ones saying their fingers hurt by having to scroll through so many categories to find the one they like. Then there will be a push to move certain ones higher and lower in the list. Just go to a section that has a lot of pinned content, it is mostly the same thing. People want everything pinned so it is easy to find, but don't like having to scroll past them everyday or how quickly their (non-pinned) thread gets pushed to the second page. We are mainly a model car forum, with a fair amount of trucks. We focus on those when categorizing and laying out the site. We just cannot cater to everyone's favorite thing to build, but we do generally give you a place to post and talk about it. Even if it is lumped in with other things. We do put a good amount of thought and discussion into every change we make on the board. Members complain about every change we make to the board. The most vocal members are the ones that are on this site regularly and do not mind interacting with others, but it does not mean they are the majority when it comes to what is popular, that is where analytics come in. The tag system is the easiest and greatest way to categorize threads and most people refuse to use it. It is like having an easy button when searching for something, but it is probably the most underutilized function in the software. There are going to be some pretty major changes in the coming months and years. Some of you guys will love them, some of you guys will hate them. Some of you will threaten to leave. Just like always. This really is a great board with an awesome and helpful community. It is hard to stay away.

In an attempt to streamline the forum several speciality sections, like Big Boys were absorbed into the regular car and truck sections. We encourage folks to add the larger scale I. The title of threads so that they are easier to find.

Locking this down to save some of you from an early summer vacation. Some of you guys just can't stay away from politics.

Are you selecting what area you want the post to be located?

Took the motorhome out and went camping over Easter weekend. Only went about 3 hours away, up in the mountains. Beautiful weekend except for for Saturday night between 10:00 - 10:30. Vicious thunderstorm wiped up and had sustained winds over 40mph with gusts up to 75mph. The RV got shook pretty good. Heard branches hitting it, but luckily they were all small. Looks like all the big branches and trees landed in empty camping spaces. We heard chainsaws all night and the power was still out when we left Sunday morning. Could see the remains of all the big trees that fell across the road. Was interesting to be stuck in that storm and realizing the fiberglass and aluminum was not going to stop anything with any size to it from crushing our camper. Storm lasted 20-30 minutes and moved on to wreak havoc elsewhere. I now know I could not live in areas prone to tornadoes.

I wouldn’t even start to worry until 6 weeks have passed since It left the printer. Magazines are treated badly by the postal service, which already treats everything else badly.

Here are a few "common sense" guidelines: 1. We are not a photo hosting site, we can't afford it and you wouldn't want to pay what we would charge. We do allow direct uploads so that the images are not lost and threads remain unbroken, but doing your part to limit the space they take up would greatly be appreciated. 2. You can resize your photos down to 1024 or 1200 pixels wide and they will look just as good to 99.99% of the viewers. It isn't that hard to do and there are many members here that could explain how to do it, if you would only ask. 3. You do not need to scroll to see the entire photo when it is resized to a normal web size. 4. In most cases you do not need to post 14 photos for each of the sides of your model. Most models can be shown in 10 photos or less. 5. All of the photos that are posted in the General and Off-Topic areas take up as much space as the photos shown in the model areas. 6. We like to have the model photos saved here so that they do not go away when a photo hosting site goes from free to "pay us now or we delete your photos". Threads with broken links don't get many views. 7. You can still link photos from hosting sites like Imgur and Fotki. This saves us space, but there is a risk of losing the photos in the future. 8. In most cases, the photos directly from your camera or phone are huge. They can be 20x larger than they need to be on this board. 9. Videos are huge, can be equivalent to several hundred photos, even the short videos. Best to host those on a site like YouTube and then link to it. We will come up with the some official forum guidelines in the near future.

As of right no, the TOTAL limit is set to 10mb. I have reached back out to Dave to point this out. We will need to decide how to address this. Obviously, we can't have that be our total limit as it locks out a lot of members from being able to post photos again (unless they are hosted off site, which brings the PhotoBucket mess back to life). We will figure something out, just need to get everyone online at the same time so we can talk about it. My guess is, there will be a size limit placed on photos going forward. Some guys may need to learn how to resize photos or maybe the software can automatically do it. This is temporary, we will get it worked out.

I am guessing that it may have been set to 10MB total per user, rather than individual files. Will need to wait for Dave to check back in. I flagged this.

I flagged this so Dave can look into it. Maybe it is an ad that is overlaying on it. The ad companies are ruthless when it comes to getting clicks. i have been pushing for theme options for a while. I personally want a dark option, that is easier for me to view. Most of the reliable, well integrated, themes cost money.

They are only dropping Screen Names as a login option. Your Screen Name will still show as it normally does. This change is only to the login procedure.

For those of you that have forgotten your current password, please use the Forgot Password option at the login page. This will allow you to reset your password. There is no need to start a new account.

The software is updated regularly. Dave usually posts when the site is down for an update. I don’t remember when the last one was. We are at the mercy of the software provider, it is possible that they do not completely support all/older browsers and platforms. I suspect someone out there is using Windows 95 and calling us every name in The book because things don’t work like they did when the board was first created.

We had a meeting yesterday and talked about this issue. We are not sure what is causing it. Dave is going to poke around on our side to see if maybe a setting could be tweaked, but can't guarantee we can find a solution.

You are not blocked here or you wouldn't be able to get to us on any device. My guess is that you or your service provider has a firewall or malware/security program that is blocking us. You can Whitelist this site to let the program know we are okay. You will need to research what needs to be done on your end to do that.

When I get some free time, I am going to go to one of the local tracks and see what everyone is running. Maybe see if the track has a rental vehicle so I can try it out.

There are going to be a lot of quality vehicles destroyed when this is all said and done. Some folks ignore the early warnings and have to move out quickly, I fear some pets and farm animals are getting left behind.

YouTube videos can be monetized and a long unboxing, before getting to the meat of the video, can get you to the much coveted second ad slot. I feel some folks start out with good intentions when posting videos, but quickly learn how to work/maximize the system.

I am sure there is an imaginary line somewhere that designates the point where anyone South does not put snow removal in their budget. We got 11" Monday and are expecting another 3" tonight. It is the melting and freezing after that causes issues here.

We are a well polished machine. Sometimes, we have no idea what causes the issues. It could be a simple string of characters that triggers a red flag on any of numerous pieces of equipment the zeros and ones passes through. Could be something that just simply causes the function to time out and the page not found could be the software's default message.

I also ran Serpents, I have some (actual) photos somewhere.

I see the question mark too. Hopefully Dave will be able to look into this and come up with a solution.