When did PH cease to be a car forum??

When did PH cease to be a car forum??

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RDMcG

Original Poster:

19,142 posts

207 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Just as I do periodically I logged on and had a look at " What's new"....and I am seeing car fade to the background of personal crisis, lifestyle, world affairs and comedy..... where did the cars go?


Screen shot from five minutes ago....What's New:




isaldiri

18,552 posts

168 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Time of the day perhaps? At 0150 for most in PH I'd assume, guess most of the conversation has degenerated into random chat while the car related stuff gets discussed at work wink

Pelo

542 posts

273 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Set your favourite forums in "My preferences" and glory in the now relevant content smile

akirk

5,389 posts

114 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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it is not a car forum, it is a community of petrolheads who fortunately have wider interests than just cars!

CrutyRammers

13,735 posts

198 months

Friday 26th May 2017
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Ages ago. It always gets less car-y when big events like elections are happening.

anonymous-user

54 months

Wednesday 31st May 2017
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Pelo said:
Set your favourite forums in "My preferences" and glory in the now relevant content smile
It's definitely well worth taking a few minutes to make the forum about what you're interested in.


PoleDriver

28,636 posts

194 months

Sunday 4th June 2017
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It would stop a lot of problems on here if all non-motoring threads were closed and PH returned to its roots!
Everyone who wants to argue or accuse each other of being racist could join CTF or Blatters!

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 4th June 2017
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PoleDriver said:
It would stop a lot of problems on here if all non-motoring threads were closed and PH returned to its roots!
Everyone who wants to argue or accuse each other of being racist could join CTF or Blatters!
There's loads of great non motoring sub forums on here that are perfectly civil and full of great posters and chat.

It's only the NPandE that has all the fighting in it.

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 4th June 2017
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I joined years ago because I was into cars, and I posted about cars.

These days I almost never post anything about motoring, and only occasionally read things in general gassing.

I spend 90% of my time in Pie & Piston.

Frankly these days I just find all the other stuff more interesting.

I still am massively into cars in my spare time, but am much less inclined to post about it or discuss it on a forum.

PH should be celebrated as a forum for men (mostly) and where they can congregate to discuss everything from Aftershave, watches, jobs, the law, politics, employment, clothing, shaving, relationships, news, gardening etc.

There are probably far more people interested in those things than cars to be honest.

If the forum stuck to just allowing car chat only, it would probably be shrinking.

Edited by NinjaPower on Sunday 4th June 22:37

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

186 months

Sunday 4th June 2017
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I love my cars, but there's a limit to how much time I want to talk about them.

Apart from anything else, in most car related matters, there is a right and wrong answer, and I'm usually wrong!

So I end up talking more about the other stuff.

anonymous-user

54 months

Sunday 4th June 2017
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Johnnytheboy said:
I love my cars, but there's a limit to how much time I want to talk about them.
That's pretty much how I feel.

I have a nice little collection of cars, but I don't want to spend much of my spare time discussing them or anyone else's really.

It's the same reason I don't go to Porsche meets etc. I can't be arsed to talk cars with other people who only want to talk cars.

AlexRS2782

8,042 posts

213 months

Sunday 4th June 2017
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El stovey said:
PoleDriver said:
It would stop a lot of problems on here if all non-motoring threads were closed and PH returned to its roots!
Everyone who wants to argue or accuse each other of being racist could join CTF or Blatters!
There's loads of great non motoring sub forums on here that are perfectly civil and full of great posters and chat.

It's only the NPandE that has all the fighting in it.
SP&L, sadly, seems to be heading in the same direction frown

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

255 months

Monday 5th June 2017
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akirk said:
it is not a car forum,
It used to be, but sadly it's been moulded into it's current form where discussions regarding cars are in the minority.

Morningside

24,110 posts

229 months

Monday 5th June 2017
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I joined when I purchased a TVR and needed some information (It's by your left knee smile) and have owned some odd things since then and now have gone into the boring category as life has moved on after 12+ years of being on here.

My interest is still very much cars and I love to read about them and the Readers Cars section is wonderful but it is lovely to read about other things and sometimes stuff that I didn't think would interest me like watches so I like the idea of being able to read it all in one place.


freddytin

1,184 posts

227 months

Monday 5th June 2017
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I'm not sure what you are trying to say ? idea