"Just wondering - can Gibson call it the New Airstream Forums? Isn't it WBCCI's forums?" - SimonWell, what was goal number one? Wasn't it to get back at the very forum that banned some sorry @$$ USED Airstream flipper/exporter from Airforums.com, for their personal antics?
So, while you're riding the coattails of a 54 year old prestigious club, why not try to lure people into believing that you're the successor to the most popular Airstream Forums on the Planet
Airforums.com?
I've never been impressed by the 30K+ members registered at Airforums. Too many dead and inactive accounts. For legitimacy they should clean house on anything 2+ years old that's inactive (IMHO). They'd gain far more credibility with whatever those numbers might be, but here are some Airforums numbers that are simply undeniable and
I am wholly impressed by them:
JUST TODAY --
~775 Individual Members CHOSE to log on instead of lurk. That number is HUGE - it's enormous for a forum, and it's only 4:27pm Pacific!
The NEW (cough, cough, cough) Airstream Forums never had a chance. Most Airstream owners won't put up with that TOS, Leaders HIDING in the dark behind a moniker, and the infliction of over moderating everything. Never mind what if someone has intentionally and deliberately installed a hack designed to frustrate anyone and everyone the owner so chooses.
Stories evolving out of leadership behavior over there echo the pre-internet days complaints with the all powerful club flag police.
You can try and keep the dirt under the rug, yet the pig-pen aura remains.
We have a purpose here, and people find us because we'll tell them what leadership won't. Their audience is captured and lured by how many pieces of Vintage-Airstream.com SPAM? I opted out -- how about you?
Yeah they can call it whatever they want, but with the overwhelming majority of Airstream owners avoiding 50's impersonators, and Pleasantville forums,
Airforums.com will just keep cleaning their clocks by orders of magnitude. I remember first joining the club and logging into the club forums -- it was a GHOST town. It was a ghost town because LEADERSHIP failed to participate, so members couldn't be bothered. Remember last year's drive-by shooting by the IP?
One and done -- goodnight folks, Elvis has left the building!
Leadership has poked it's head in over there, but until they stop the nonsense and take their forums back, it will likely devolve into what it was before. A nowhere place for nowhere members... [he's a real nowhere man, living in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans, for nobody (you gotta love that song
)...]
It's the exact same story with the membership. They talk a good game, but for all the money they drain from the kitty, membership is the poor peon member's responsibility, because at the top, it's all about the annual North American Tour. When the club can't afford to furnish them with their annual tour anymore, or they can no longer suck $125K+ for travel and attendance reimbursements, they'll just raise YOUR dues instead... PEONS!
Oh and really back on point -- it was last year's IP that drove around in "Airstream One", not "WBCCI One" and that should tell you plenty about who is proud of the WBCCI and who would feel better to associate themselves with AIrstream instead... So this false title is just a repeat episode.
Too bad Airstream ownership didn't revolve around the WBCCI, but all you have to do is look at leadership, leadership, leadership to understand what's going wrong, wrong, wrong...
