Those complaining about models not being Ferrari related.

No disrespect intended, but would you go to a Ferrari Showroom, and expect to find Honda Civic sitting on the show room floor. I feel that no matter how many times that we look at a ferrari, we are looking at History and art work. A Ferrari is artwork in motion, and or sitting still. A Ferrari is what dreams are made of. We can see a Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes, BMW, all day long, and think nothing of it. But when you see a Ferrari, and or Lamborghini fly by, and I do mean fly by, there is a rush of pure excitement, a wow, or ahh.

 

totally agree. It's bad enough when someone has to take the time to look, read, and then post "not Ferrari related OFF TOPIC" as if they're contributing something.

It's not like the Collectables section has 50 new topics every day, running multiple pages.

As long as it's kept "reasonable" I don't see the issue either.

Moderators, how about a slight change?

 

Dana, i can appreciate what you're saying, but even you, yourself, collect models other than Ferraris... Not only that, but i believe you're the one with the muscle car collection, right...? i'd like to see it and i don't even like muscle cars...

i have to side with Patrick on this; lately, there's a bit of a "police state" mentality around here... There's only a very small handful of people here who don't like anything EXCEPT Ferraris... A few 1:18 "others" here and there won't hurt anyone... After all, this board has an "Other Italian" section on it; we also have an Off Topic section... but none of that applies to collectables (could it be that Rob is a collectables bigot?)...

The "O/T" collectable threads aren't really hurting anyone and like Jet-X said, this place isn't really hopping with multiple paged threads, two and three every hour... Now how 'bout them muscle cars...?

 

Some time ago, I built a 1/12 Caterham Super 7 model, it was a very impressive kit and many enjoyed the pictures I posted of it. I certainly had fun building it and wanted to share that.

( http://www.ferrarichat.com/discus/messages/250178/302265.html?1060595506 )

 

i agree.it actually kinda irks me to see the same person/people give a thumbs down and a 'remove-this is not a ferrari' comment.personally,if i don't have anything to ADD to a thread i don't make necessary or stupid repetitive posts.

i personally don't see anything wrong with posting non-ferrari items in this subbord.or what about making another subbord for non-ferrari related items for those of us that collect other things besides ferrari's?

 

peter...nice build up on the caterham.i've always enjoyed those cars.

i have also noticed that the ones(you know who you are) did not give a thumbs down to peter's build up?why not?is it ferrari?no offense or anything peter...i'm just trying to make a point.

 

I'm so agree with you arizonaguy - sometimes I feel like there are some people that REALLY looking for "not related" stuff on this board, I belive that we all loves Ferraris but that dosent mean we should forbid other people to show us their collection or intrests.
If one of our members gets a model car which he/her have been looking for a long time or have it rebuild or something - then this guy is probably proud of his special little car and want to share it with the rest of the board - I think thats great, I love to see other members collections, Ferrari or not, because this is what this guy "burns" for - and I think we should respect that.
If we get too serious, I think this site will be pretty boring in time.....
...so, another model car here and there does not boder me at all.
Thanx for your time.


Paul
www.SuperCarCrash.com

 

Thanks all. This is a very good thread for ME: I'm the only moderator of this section (aside from Rob Lay, who runs the entire web site) and somewhat unclear of what to do. This section (like any non OT) should be Ferrari related and non Ferrari threads have to be closed down, moved or deleted. So much for the rules.

OTOH I'm a modeller at heart and don't have only Ferrari models and collectables at home. So I'd like to give a bit of leeway and it irks me too when the immediate "not Ferrari related, remove" thumbs down arrives. But that opinion has to be respected too as it is technically correct.

So I'm happy to hear what you guys have to say. I'd like to follow what the majority thinks, after all this website/section/forum is not about/for me, but for and about you guys and your interests and models.

So for the time being I'd like to give you some leeway. Personally I don't see much harm done when a thread indicates that it is not Ferrari related. OTOH I don't want to turn this into a general modelers/collectors site.

So use some prudence when posting and tell me here please what you think. It does help me. Remember, I wasn't born a moderator, one day I just became one...

 

I don't agree with the "non-Ferrari threads must be closed down or deleted" comment.

Those that are annoyed (and it's only one person that I've seen) should spend more time in the other forums reading rather than policing threads. I also think that as a moderator Tifosi, you should bring this up to Rob what is being discussed here. Clearly (thus far) the majority want non-Ferrari modeling discussions too. Especially if it's relevant in some way shape or form to cars/exotic cars.

I think that as long as it's car related and doesn't take over (i.e. 10 other model threads not relating to cars within a day...), and is also not too frequent should prevail.

Otherwise we're just spinning in circles here talking about "let's see your collection" topics.

 

Piece of friendly advice (again, run through Rob for rubber stamp) - as Moderator, it's your job to determine when a discussion is okay/relevant vs. something that is so off base or doesn't belong.

Personally, I'd like to see all the replys that say "Off topic, close/delete thread" replys deleted since they take up space, and contribute absolutely nothing to the discussion. If someone isn't going to contribute, they should keep their mouth shut.

 

tifosi-

what about opening up a subbord to this one for non ferrari realated stuff?that way this area couple be kept clean and ferrari only so that the people want to see only ferrari stuff can still have their way and people that collect others things can still post pics and buildups and such?just think,if that were to happen,there would be no more threads like this one.

 

I only pop in here maybe once a week, but, really, what's the fuss? Oh no, not another, "WE'RE ONLY FERRARI GUY'S" point of view.

I build all kinds of models, but different scales and types of pre-builts, so, why not allow some leeway on what kinds of models get talked about.

I've seen all kinds of non-Fcar stuff all over the supposed Ferrari only sections of the site, and it doesn't bother me at all.

Let the market decide. I say, free discussion of whatever model suits your fancy.

 

It doesn't bother me. As was mentioned, this part of the forum isn't getting a hundred new pages a day. No big deal...after all what should we do when posting a picture which has both Ferraris and non Ferraris...black out the others?

The title for this section is "Collectables, Literature and Models" doesn't say anything about them being Ferraris.

 

Personally, I'm mostly intrested in Ferrari's, that's why I'm at this site in the first place! As for models, I'm ONLY intrested in Ferrari, so I rather don't want to see other cars, planes, boats, tanks, tractors,... whatever here... So if someones gets annoyed by this, I CAN understand that... after all, this IS Ferrarichat... and I believe there are various other sites dedicated to various cars and/or models overal. No offense.

On the other hand, it's not really a big deal for me personally, I just ignore the threads or posts that don't intrested me that much, by not reading them or not replying to them... As I do for the whole site BTW.
So I personally would NOT post "delete" or "thumbs down" notes on them, but the people who do, have got a good point...

Maybe a "other than Ferrari scale models" on this site wouldn't be a bad idea...? BTW, this thread isn't really "on topic either" lol

Greets and happy modelling, whatever you're working on
Alexander

 

Let's borrow the use of: "NFC" from the Ferrarilist to title all threads (not just here, but in other sections of the site too). Non-Ferrari Content.

It leaves one the decision to read on if they're interested, or pass to another topic.

 

As stated earlier this forum is "Collectables, Literature, & Models". It says nothing about being specifically Ferrari related. Thus, all content related to C,L and M should be allowed. The poster, vince308 should not be allowed. In the interest of encouraging people to continue posting, I suggest the Moderator send this member a private message explaining that fact to them and that further post of this nature will be deleted, and if he continues, he will be banned.

 

I myself, being an avid collector, have over 150 1:18 scale models, over 2000 1:64 scale, plus almost 100 1:43 scale. Of those 1:18's, only 30 or so are Ferrari. More than half of the 1:64's are Ferrari's. I have Lambo's, Jag's, Vette's, Viper's, Trucks, Bikes, Snowmobiles, and several, several others. I collect these because (at this point) I can not afford, nor do I have the space for all these as 1:1's. (Imagine having over 2000 full-size cars in your driveway)
Because of my interest in collecting, I enjoy seeing other peoples collections. One main reason is that they may have a model I did not know existed.
So, to get to my point, I do not see anything wrong with people posting their non-Ferrari models here. However, a non-Ferrari Model section would clear the boundries up for those who do have a problem.

 

Pfff, come on guys
Ok, this section says: "Collectables, Literature, & Models", but hey, you're on a Ferrari-site here remember. The sections like "Tech. Q&A" and "Racing" don't specificly mention "Ferrari" in it either, but IMO these cars and team are supposed to be the main subject there also!

Like I said here before; personally it doesn't bother me that much, I just ignore the threads that don't intrest me that much (like BMW-models, plane-models, Montoya, Mercedes,...f.e.) by not reading or posting there. There are better sites to discuss those IMO. And for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lamborghini,... we got the "Other Italians"-section here if neccessary.

But you could at least try to understand people like Vince308 and others who get annoyed by this, 'cause basicly they're right!
Threads here should have at least something relevant to Ferrari.

No offense, greets and happy modelling, whatever you're working on
Alexander

 

Despite the fact, that the title of this board doesn't say anything about Ferrari, the forum ought to be Ferrari related. And Rob himself likes it that way. I remember him even closing a racing thread in the racing section, that wasn't Ferrari related racing. So we should stick to the program.

As far as opening another subforum, I know that won't fly either. Rob wants to keep the number of forums as it is right now.

So going forward we should stick to Ferrari related threads. I won't immediately close an OT one down, but would prefer it if we can keep the conversation Maranello based.

 

I have an idea....will do a separate post in a few days. Sure to appease everyone...