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6-21-08
Zero guesses as to what the AACA straw boss has in mind in this one:

http://forums.aaca.org/ubbthreads.php/topics/518412/Re_Are_Egge_pistons_any_good#Post518412

6-22-08 update:
NOTE: The above link has been changed from the original thread to the AACA Posting Agreement policy.

The original posts of the thread were civil and objective regarding a particular vendors wares. Some posts were negative and some were positive about the vendors wares.

I'm suprised that they let it go this long, that last post will frost them and get action. Try talking trash about an auction company and see how long your post lasts.
I had some deservedly bad things to say about a collector car transport company who shall remain nameless (think of a document you must present when traveling abroad) on a thread over there and I got a PM from a moderator with the "no trash talk" reminder, so I invited others to PM me and I gave it to them straight.

Oh, by the way, Petey is back over there.

If you post on the AACA Forums, be prepared to deal with the owners of the site:

Eric: Your picture that you posted says it all about the HAM & EGGERS running the AACA web site.

John F. Shireman

See update note in the first post of this thread.

I dunno what all the flap on the admin side is when all they have to do is display a disclaimer that the posts are the sole repsonibility of their authors.

In my humble opinion, I feel that club's position has more to do with advertising and other revenue than any threat of lawsuit. While many vendors happen to be dues-paying members (no doubt so they can be eligible to purchase swap meet space), that's no defense against providing substandard goods and services.

My hat's off to those clubs who, upon discovering customers are being ripped off, will ban a shoddy vendor from advertising in their publications for a substantial period of time.

Hey, there's no need to offend Nazis with such comparisons - LOL!

First, I am not one that gets their knickers in a twist at the slightest provocation. I am also a fan of packardinfo.com. And, I want packardinfo.com to continue to be the great site it is.

That said, this thread is ridiculous. Conflating the AACA website folks with Hitler is f---ing ridiculous, and seriously demeans the truly horrific crimes perpetrated under his leadership. To equate the monitoring of a web forum in a way one does not see as prudent with the perpetration of a war that led to the death of tens of millions is truly offensive. I do not defend the policies of AACA. Nor do I disagree with said policies. They are what they are, and that is why having more than one site we can visit is great.

Tom

Tom, I can understand where you are coming from, and I am sure it was not any of the posters intent to offend anyone or make direct references to any of the horrors that happend during WWII. I belive they were just being saterical in regards to censoring that occurs on some of the various AACA froms and how it is handled. Hindsight being 20/20, perhaps their choice in saterical comparison was a bad choice.

But I will let them speak for themselves.

My point with the photograph is that the way the AACA runs it's site is exrtemely hard nosed and intolerant of opposing views. Sound familiar? If it offends some people, so be it. The truth hurts some times and the whining that goes on over there about "can't do this or can't do that" is absurd.

That being said, yes, it IS a satire of the moderators of said site. If the picture of the Fuhrer offends some, how about this one:




Caption: "Stop making those posts!!!"