New traxxas castle mamba monster extreme?

[ksb51rl]

Originally Posted by Thirdgen89GTA

Wow, going through those boards reminded me of exactly WHY I left. A note in one of the threads.

(Guy posted a video link of a non-traxxas RC and the mods removed it.)
^^I think this is what you meant.



For a company that comes out with some good products, their boards are so anal. I'm surprised anyone goes there. I got banned once because I asked a asked a question somebodies hellfire. The ban was for 2 infractions, 1st because it was a non-traxxas product, the 2nd offense was because I used a curse word. Its not cursing if you are stating the name of a marketed product.

Oh well.

Nic Case's World Record vehicle is amazing, but really had nothing to do with Traxxas. The video was certainly in conflict with the Rules written by corporate. FWIW, thankfully neither "crap" (I guess that was a while ago, BrianG) nor "hellfire" are filtered any longer. It must've been really hard to get banned because of only two infractions. Were you an ?
Anyway, surely you have Rules here too? (Rhetorical question.) They are simply different there. We have a few thousand different types of butter here in the USA. Surely there is room for a couple/few different styles of forum moderation. You guys are in large part self-policing. Can you see that working for the Traxxas forums?

I get that an AWFUL LOT of you may be what you consider "past buying a Traxxas," but consider that whole new market may be opening up due to this car. New people, new members here, new RC products in general, new RC companies opening up. Even if all the above are "strengthened" instead of "new," isn't that a good thing for all concerned?

[padrino]

Originally Posted by ksb51rl

Nic Case's World Record vehicle is amazing, but really had nothing to do with Traxxas. The video was certainly in conflict with the Rules written by corporate. FWIW, thankfully neither "crap" (I guess that was a while ago, BrianG) nor "hellfire" are filtered any longer. It must've been really hard to get banned because of only two infractions. Were you an ?
Anyway, surely you have Rules here too? (Rhetorical question.) They are simply different there. We have a few thousand different types of butter here in the USA. Surely there is room for a couple/few different styles of forum moderation. You guys are in large part self-policing. Can you see that working for the Traxxas forums?

I get that an AWFUL LOT of you may be what you consider "past buying a Traxxas," but consider that whole new market may be opening up due to this car. New people, new members here, new RC products in general, new RC companies opening up. Even if all the above are "strengthened" instead of "new," isn't that a good thing for all concerned?

I am a Traxxas forum member also, been a part of it for years and have standing warning points (or whatever they are called) for a similar infraction. I show up from time to time but definitely don't participate the way I do on other sites.

While Traxxas owns the forum and can control the community however they like and there current growth curve indicates they are doing some things right they could do more to not erode some of their base as many very knowledge users that benefit the community and in turn Traxxas will not take part in the boards.

I completely agree that the community on the Traxxas forum can't self police in any sense of the word but that does nothing to justify how the mods (including you) handle situations since it's the policies being enforced that are being questioned more so then the need to moderate.

The company has no motivation to address the concerns and won't unless money motivates them at some point in the future, it's a different point of view and while I can respect Traxxas success I and many others do not agree with how the company conducts it's community relations.

[padrino]

Originally Posted by padrino

I am a Traxxas forum member also, been a part of it for years and have standing warning points (or whatever they are called) for a similar infraction. I show up from time to time but definitely don't participate the way I do on other sites.

While Traxxas owns the forum and can control the community however they like and there current growth curve indicates they are doing some things right they could do more to not erode some of their base as many very knowledge users that benefit the community and in turn Traxxas will not take part in the boards.

I completely agree that the community on the Traxxas forum can't self police in any sense of the word but that does nothing to justify how the mods (including you) handle situations since it's the policies being enforced that are being questioned more so then the need to moderate.

The company has no motivation to address the concerns and won't unless money motivates them at some point in the future, it's a different point of view and while I can respect Traxxas success I and many others do not agree with how the company conducts it's community relations.

Have to reply to my own post because I was reminded that I no longer have warning points. Apparently they eventually get removed but after a number of months I stopped watching.

My opinion on the Traxxas forums is shared with many here but I will give a compliment to those moderators that almost seem to be conflicted sometimes, they are supposed to enforce the rules but don't seem to always agree. Then there are others (cough cough dadx2mj) that ban a video of the XO-1 for not being family friendly because someone in it is drinking a beer.

In any case the company is making money hand over foot and the Zealot like loyalty of many members and moderators confuses me but I guess it fills some sort of void for them.

[brian015]

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[padrino]

Originally Posted by brian015

Yeah, I visited the traxxas forums after being gone a long time and couldn't believe they had made him a moderator. I knew him from his days of making many many know-it-all posts in the Rustler forum when I got into RC a few years back.

Didn't take long, maybe coincidence or maybe it has something to do with my post this morning but he took offense to a comment in a marketplace thread and now I have some points against me. Traxxas allows public negotiations on price (suggest they follow RCM) and when a buyer was using false statements I said something defending the seller, that is what dadx2mj didn't like.

Back on topic, after looking for a while I broke down and asked my wife is she has seen my iPhone 3GS (stopped using it last year) and it apparently found it's way into one of the boxes she dropped in my office that I'm supposed to sort through. The effort of testing the ESC has turned into a organization project so it may not be until tonight but I'm not giving up yet.

[bruce750i]

^Let's see if you can find the castle link live button anywhere. I hope you do.

GL2U

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Originally Posted by ksb51rl

Nic Case's World Record vehicle is amazing, but really had nothing to do with Traxxas. The video was certainly in conflict with the Rules written by corporate. FWIW, thankfully neither "crap" (I guess that was a while ago, BrianG) nor "hellfire" are filtered any longer. It must've been really hard to get banned because of only two infractions. Were you an ?
Anyway, surely you have Rules here too? (Rhetorical question.) They are simply different there. We have a few thousand different types of butter here in the USA. Surely there is room for a couple/few different styles of forum moderation. You guys are in large part self-policing. Can you see that working for the Traxxas forums?

I get that an AWFUL LOT of you may be what you consider "past buying a Traxxas," but consider that whole new market may be opening up due to this car. New people, new members here, new RC products in general, new RC companies opening up. Even if all the above are "strengthened" instead of "new," isn't that a good thing for all concerned?

There is a reason many of us don't visit or post on the traxxas forums. Let the special kids play in their own sandbox. I prefer the world. The gripe is not against Traxxas' products, but against its hard nose by the stone tablet rule mentality. Its simply not possible to have a discussion there at all for or against a competing traxxas product, even if all of the participating members are respectful and its a true debate the discussion will still get canned and members will receive infractions.

I simply choose to stay out of that sandbox and let them play in their own world.