I must say, that's the most negative post we've had about our publication, but we do take your points on board.
Well let me start by saying the fact that you have come back to post more than just one post somewhat changes my sentiments towards you (and what will be your magazine). As you seem to understand from your first sentence in your first post, there are a lot of people that signup on forums and post about there new awesome thing, and then never return. Hopefully you can see why I may have had my doubts. Also, at all times, including in my first post, I am speaking for myself and only myself. NOT the entire forum.
Firstly, I will say that we've had a hundreds of requests from all models of Toyota, including Tacoma's, Tundra's, Sequoia's - as well as the "usual suspects". We'll be supporting those on the site and in the magazine.
It's interesting that you have had so many requests from such an array of different vehicle owners. If you had mentioned that (as opposed to supras and mr2s) in your original post, again, I may have been a little more understanding. But you didn't. You said that your magazine was dedicated to "Performance Toyotas" which, at first, invokes the thought of cars like supras and mr2s. Next time your first post on a forum is about something that might not be easily interpreted as being related to the subject of the forum, you might take this into consideration and try to be a bit clearer.
Our "forum" as you put it, is a portal for us to get feedback and will never be what we're about. You are correct though, we've not got a publication yet, but if you look at our sister publication,
MR2 Only Magazine - you'll see what we've got a lot of experience in magazine publication and we are here to stay, especially judging by the Feature Requests we've received and the advertisers who've signed up so far.
It's not a "forum" as I put it. It's a "forum" as you put it. That's what it's called on the TPM website. I don't hold the fact that you haven't published a magazine yet against you...anymore. And I hope your magazine does well, as I support anything that supports Toyota. I'd actually love a supra if I could afford another car.
We are doing UK and European events, but we are not selling tickets, therefore we are not really an owners club. We might ask some outstanding examples if they would exhibit on our stands, but we intend on going to events organised by other forums and publicising those as part of our publication - so I guess by that, it omits us from being an owners club of sorts.
You can be an owners club without selling tickets to events. There are plenty of online owners clubs. I like to think of this board as an owners club, because members do try to get together, have fun, and share knowledge about the 4runners that they own. But I do see where you make the distinction with your operation now that you have explained it in a bit more detail.
The forum is indeed "weak" but that's because we use it as a communications portal - and not as a portal. The content management side of the portal is what we concentrate on, the forum is a mere extra for us to receive feedback and Feature Requests from the readers.
I have to say that I still don't see eye to eye with you here. I see that the CMS is indeed an integral part of your site, but the forum that you have setup with in the CMS does not reflect what you have said here. There are no forum sections that say they are for feedback or suggestions. Instead I see sections for "Toyota Chat" and "New Member Introductions", things that seem to point towards the "owners club" idea we discussed earlier. This is taking into account the "Feature Request" tab at the top, which is separate from the "forum" tab. I can go into greater detail on this if I must, but I feel like I don't need to be getting into the specifics of some other forum on this forum.
Hopefully, I've put the record straight, but please feel free to come over and request a feature.
You mean request one of my Toyotas be featured in the magazine, as per the "Feature Request" tab? Or request a new idea/feature for the magazine? Because if the latter is what you meant, there is no where to do that.
Also, the Tacoma is a car close to my heart, because I've a 5VZ-FE running in my Toyota. The engine has been significantly re-worked with a 7500rpm limit, and a GT4094R running on it. In it's current "basic" tune, we're seeing 420bhp @ 0.7bar. The PCV needs opening up, and then we're upping the boost further. All good.
That sounds pretty cool and I'd love to hear more about it, either in your magazine or somewhere like toyota120.com. I hope I have enabled you to understand where the hostility in my original post comes from. If you can imagine dealing with it on one forum, imagine what it's like on 20+ forums. As i said, my sentiments towards you have changed, JUST because you actually came back for more than one post. I'm still not sure of your original intentions though, but just as ric said, I'm not the norm. I'm just a guy with a few posts myself, nothing like the 1000+ he has.
wooow, who pissed on your post toasties ??
way to welcome someone that just might be able to help us out...
Johnny@TPM, please dont think that hes the norm around here, pretty much everyone here are good people....
Id also be interested in something more geared to the 4th gens, lol
I don't know what a toastie is, but noone pissed on my honey bunches of oats. Anyone may or may not be able to help us out. If feel like everyone on the forum helps us out in some way or another. But if someone starts out with a plug for their site/magazine/forum and nothing else, I'm going to be VERY weary of them. Maybe you and I have a different approach for these types of things, or maybe we just saw the original post in two different lights. I hope your side of this whole thing is right. I'd like Johnny to be an insightful, helpful, and frequent poster on this forum, but I just don't see that happening, especially with him busy with at least 2 print publications and two websites with forums, blogs, etc.
And who are you to say I'm not good people? I'm sure you haven't been an angel in your 1000+ posts. Anyway, most people on this forum will try to defend it from spam/bad quality posts when they see them. As I said earlier, there is a chance that we just saw Johnny's original post differently, and reacted accordingly. No reason to insinuate that I am not good people. I don't want to start an on going flame war here, so let just try to put this behind us. Maybe one day I'll be able to get the money together to make it out to Colorado like I've always wanted to, and we can go wheeling together.
