Shhheeessshhh - can't you stop this Ted?

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Ted - I've been a long time follower of this site as it is still by far the best TVR resource available however I am getting more and more turned off by people coming onto the dedicated forums and slagging off cars they do not own.

I'm all for free speech but this is going too far. The have-nots, wanabees and disaster-by-proxy bunch (if you add up all those who complain about S6 reliability I'm sure the number would be greater than all the S6's sold) are ruining it for all of us. There are many cars I hate out there but I don't go on their forums and slag them off!

Can I suggest a voting system where you (i.e. we, the posters) can tag someone when they are being a pain. Too many tags and they get barred from a topic for a while? Or is there something in place already and I've missed it?

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Marki said:

I see all types and brands of car get a slagging from time to time 4x4"s , MINIS , BMW , Mercedes, Porkers So what its only other peoples opinions

TVR is a small company whos products sell mainly by word of mouth and repeat business. Excessive poorly informed comments are clearly damaging sales (see the T350 thread - the guy was put off by the comments on that thread).

The idea of a voting system is democracy in action - whats the problem with that?

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What I suggested was a more anti-troll system where if enough people on a topic are hacked off with someone's opinion they can bar them. How is that a "police state"?

The posters sort it, not the mod.

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It's a scheme that seems to work on other forum based sites (b3ta for example), be it a ban idea or a system where you can ignore people.

Put it this way, if you don't do it, people will go off and form specific forum sites such as vx220.org. I made the mistake of going on that forum (while owning a VX220T I might add) and asking whether anyone though the car was as rubbish as I did. Talk about being flamed! Anyway, the point I'm making is what is wrong with having a site where the general concensus is that the product is fine albeit flawed? Why have other people from other marques come into your forum and making generally exaggerated claims and talking your marque down. Its like turning up at a concert then slagging the band off at the top of your voice.

Sure, everyone's entitled to their own opinion but what happened to good manners? You're not proving anything to anyone by ranting about something you know very little about.

Criticism is fine if its constructive. Pain in the @rse if its just criticism for the sake of it.

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I agree that it's a varied forum and that's what makes it unique but I would have thought a voting system would allow the users (not just TVR people, anyone within a forum/ topic) to self-moderate.

To be honest, I'm pissed off with the way people go on when in 9 times out of 10 they would never say the same things to your face. We have a lot of armchair warriors knocking about on this site and I would like some tools that we (the group) could use to keep the place tidy!

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mungo said:

fatbutt said: (see the T350 thread - the guy was put off by the comments on that thread). Rubbish. He formed his own opinion on the facts... Imagine if he had spent £40 odd k on a T350 without knowing about the S6 issues and then his engine went pop two weeks later

Sorry? That's lost on me. What facts are those then? That the s6 engine built between 2000 and 2002 has an error in the finger followers or that all s6 engines ever built will result in the usual total destruction of the car? There are ways of portraying the facts that can be constructive or destructive.