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Or Greeks LT500 Used Parts Depot
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Or Greeks LT500 Used Parts Depot
I think the correct term is museum.

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One of the problems with staying on topic...without a reason to talk about something, nobody talked about anything.
For example, I start a thread about lightweight axle options, people talk about the usual JJ&A, LT230 axle with GForce hubs, etc. then someone brings up a titanium axle.
That starts a discussion about the merits of titanium and if it could be used on other things besides axles, and before you know it the discussion has nothing to do with axles.
Well, the thread went off topic, but now there's all sorts of great information about how to use titanium to build other stuff.
Without that thread, nobody would have bothered to talk about titanium parts on LT's.
Now that's just an example to describe what I'm talking about, not necessarily an accurate account.
Some of the off topic discussions there would have never been started if it weren't for getting people interested and thinking about a certain subject.
I didn't bother enforcing that kind of stuff too much because it would have detracted from the forum and made people lose interest in posting due to being chastised for going off topic.
Without new posts, a forum stagnates...and when a forum stagnates, that's a good indicator that it's going to die.
QRHQ wouldn't have lasted much longer anyway, regardless of Q shutting it down, because people lost interest and stopped posting useful stuff.
The older members got tired of answering newbie questions and would simply refer them to the search bar.
Newbies got tired of hearing that and wouldn't post their questions and ideas.
The bickering between fanboys drove most of the members that were somewhere between the two extremes away.
Not much left to salvage after that.

Trying to stay on topic is fine, but if that's the only conversation going on in a dying forum, then you'd better let it be.
Check out some of the big forums and you'll see a completely different dynamic.
You start a thread, lots of people are posting, people go off topic and nobody cares.
Why?  Because there's still plenty left to discuss and the off topic posts are buried under the on topic posts.
It's near impossible to derail a thread that has plenty of life in it.
Threads that go off topic and never get back on topic just didn't have much life in them.
A good example of this was the Daraji thread, people went crazy off topic but it always came back around because there was always something new going on.
Threads going off topic aren't the result of other people, but rather a result of a topic that's lacking in substance.
Not always the case, but it is for the majority of the time.

So, take that into consideration when a thread goes off-topic.
Either have off-topic posts, or have a dead topic that leads to a dead forum.

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Mirroring is at 290,000 links, 14GB worth of website copied so far.
Still no idea how much is left.

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Sorry John...... The domain name "QRHQ.com" belongs to RK, I just built the site and payed for everything.

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AND PAID AND PAID AND PAID............
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the Daraji thread is a perfect example of what off-topic and spam can do to a thread.  a 30-something page thread with about 5 pages of useful information. 

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Who was the Mod on that thread? Wow over 35000 post in the for sale section QHQ
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JIM!
Where you been hiding out at buddy?

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35000 posts and 34000 were johns so I feel he should just be given the domain!!! :)

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wonder if RK will sell it to me ;D
life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sidays totally worn out shouting "HOLY SH*T...WHAT A RIDE!"

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wonder if RK will sell it to me ;D

Raffle??




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If I log in over there I am locked out of everything but by PMs.  I can look at the forum if I am a visitor.  I could not find any of my replys.  I think Robert deleted everything that I ever posted after he made his very brief shooting star type re-entry.

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Jerry I'll take a look and see what I can find.

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If I log in over there I am locked out of everything but by PMs.  I can look at the forum if I am a visitor.  I could not find any of my replys.  I think Robert deleted everything that I ever posted after he made his very brief shooting star type re-entry.
Same here Jerry.
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Fixed your settings badmoon.
If anyone else has problems with the site, let me know.


Site mirroring is at 638,000 links, 28.33GB.
I hope it doesn't get much bigger because I elected to use my SSD instead of the 4TB HDD...the SSD had 36GB free and I though, SURELY it's not going to be anywhere near 36GB...

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Hey Tex I'm locked out also, I can log in but when I do I can not see anything it just says I do not have permission to access that page and that is on every page.

Old ID was: Quadzia

Thanks

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Got you fixed up bud

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Tex thanks again for copying all the info. I cant believe that there is that much information on the site its pretty impressive. 

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Hey guys, just wanted you to know a little tip for PM's on the old site.
If you have PM's there that you want to save, there's an easy way to do it!
Go to your private messages and scroll down to the very bottom left of the page.
You'll see this:

Download all Private Messages as:
XML | CSV | Text

You have the option of choosing whether you want them as an XML, CSV, or text file.
Unless you know what XML or CSV files are, I would highly recommend going with the text option.
Once you click Text, the forum will immediately compile all of your messages into a single text file (.txt for notepad/wordpad), sent and received messages are included, and will be downloaded to your computer.
I had 413 messages and downloaded them all in maybe 3 seconds.

Get to saving all the info you can guys, only have a few more weeks to grab it!

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Found a menu to display the access masks that were in place on the forum.
Anyone who is on this list that was denied access but not banned, now has access to the forum.

Alkyzilla
Chickenhawk
Deebo
DirtySanchez
dirtzilla
Jeremiah25
mallen
MasterBlaster250
maxxh2o
miatv
quadracer88
quadster
skcusq
TheWife
toydoc

I also went through the banned list and lifted the ban on anyone that I thought wasn't a spammer (had to sift through several thousand spam entries).
Hopefully that will give everyone access to get what they need!


One thing I want to add is that's it's pointless to post up BS on that forum, it'll only be up for a few more weeks, and all it's going to do is slow down the mirroring process or cause errors.

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Can,t fix stupid.:)

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I'll have to check the archive once it's completed, but it's very doubtful.
Might check with Skully, it's possible he still has those pictures on his computer.


Site mirroring progress:
879,000 links scanned
764,000 links saved
33.5GB total


Had to pause the download while I moved some files off my SSD, you'd be surprised how quick you fill up 120GB...

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Ok thanks.I,ll have to wait and see what turns up.
Can,t fix stupid.:)

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WestTexasKing have u tried the TI AXLE?

 

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