FYI Just Slots is a very small invite-only Facebook group established by Josh Crutchfield around December 2013 to discus racing without the BS, drama, etc.
No IRRA™ involvement. Strictly Josh's site.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:14 PM
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:16 PM
I don't know if anyone has noticed but it is the same handful of people on both sides that are ALWAYS stirring up trouble?
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:17 PM
That was kinda my point of why it could be moved to IRRA™ page, it's more generally related to IRRA™ than the R4 directly.
Mike's very first post related to R4.
Mike's very first post related to R4.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:22 PM
Brian,
Why don't you post some instances showing where IRRA™ started "trouble", as opposed to have been responding to trouble started elsewhere.
Why don't you post some instances showing where IRRA™ started "trouble", as opposed to have been responding to trouble started elsewhere.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:26 PM
I am a member of that site. I had a couple of of posts there.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:28 PM
Certain individuals, not the IRRA™ as a group, as with the LLC. Just imagine how big slot racing would be if WE ALL worked together!
Greg, you know exactly what I'm speaking of.
Greg, you know exactly what I'm speaking of.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:32 PM
I am a member of Just Slots, too. I think the last time anyone used the site was over a month ago. Seldom used group page and definately not the LLC bashing room that so many think it is. That was clear in the first week.
It is strictly a place to talks slots. Any slot car politics and you would be quickly removed from the group.
It is strictly a place to talks slots. Any slot car politics and you would be quickly removed from the group.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:37 PM
If people were going to be removed for inappropriate comments, then why the need to keep it secret or private?
BTW In no way am I trying to imply Josh did anything wrong by creating it.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:37 PM
I am a member of Just Slots, too.
Can you check if I am?
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:39 PM
You are not.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 05:42 PM
No Mikes or Ralphs allowed, sorry... LOL.
I take that back... only room for one Mike... double LOL.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:01 PM
If people were going to be removed for inappropriate comments, then why the need to keep it secret or private?
Maybe he felt he didn't need Ron's or Larry's definitive opinion on everything slot car related? Triple LOL.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:06 PM
Obviously you have strong opinions about every issue in slot racing, but in the case of Retro racing, you know about 17% of what's going on because of your reluctance to get on Facebook.
Since I'm in the same camp as Bob (Lord help me) and don't subscribe to the Facebook brain waves, are we getting the good quality Retro content in our 17% or just the crap?
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:13 PM
The problem with Facebook is there is NO accountability.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:14 PM
FYI, an LLC BoD member belongs to the Just Slots Facebook page also. So if you if have doubts on the contents ask him.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:18 PM
The problem with Facebook is there is NO accountability.
Hi Brian,
That's why it is known as "Fakebook".
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Robert Mueller, special counsel (2013)
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"Fool me once, same on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
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Robert Mueller, special counsel (2013)
"... because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook."
Richard M .Nixon, Nov 17, 1973
"Fool me once, same on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:20 PM
Dan, nobody is doubting the content.
Mike, if certain people's opinions aren't wanted they can be restricted from posting without it being private.
Brian, I feel Facebook does hold accountability as your name is attached to every post similar to Slotblog.
Mike, if certain people's opinions aren't wanted they can be restricted from posting without it being private.
Brian, I feel Facebook does hold accountability as your name is attached to every post similar to Slotblog.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:28 PM
Mike, if certain people's opinions aren't wanted they can be restricted from posting without it being private.
That's good to know when I start my Facebook page for fast food wrapper shooting mega-stars.
Mike Swiss
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:30 PM
Being responsible for what you say on Facebook is my meaning. It can be totally untrue what a person posts and there is no accountability for that, Ralph, or any social media.
I'm a true believer in face to face discussions.
I'm a true believer in face to face discussions.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:37 PM
Sure there is. All you need to do is report it.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:43 PM
I've done that Noose and received no satisfaction.
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:45 PM
That's good to know when I start my Facebook page for fast food wrapper shooting mega-stars.
I'd pay to see that!
New sport.
Sam Levitch
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters, and if you do not have integrity, nothing else matters."
Robert Mueller, special counsel (2013)
"... because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook."
Richard M .Nixon, Nov 17, 1973
"Fool me once, same on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
George W. Bush
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters, and if you do not have integrity, nothing else matters."
Robert Mueller, special counsel (2013)
"... because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook."
Richard M .Nixon, Nov 17, 1973
"Fool me once, same on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again."
George W. Bush
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 06:51 PM
My PayPal address is in this post.
Whatever you think is fair.
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Two-time G7 World Champion (1988, 1990), eight G7 main appearances
Eight-time G7 King track single lap world record holder
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 07:12 PM
I've done that Noose and received no satisfaction.
Well, they make sure it is a legit claim first.
Joe "Noose" Neumeister
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Posted 10 March 2014 - 07:24 PM
I'm back .. Corn Chowder, biscuits and a Mountain Dew .. read to go. All in good snark!
Bob,
Do posts from LLC officials like below on an Facebook page, seen (yesterday or today) by about 60 racers, look like ones from an org holding out an olive branch?
I'm not counting that high.
Bob,
Posts like the above, and the constant railing by Ron this year that the Retro Hawks, an IRRA™ approved motor, can easily be cheated on, have me a bit skeptical and believing that their talk about a truce is nothing but a publicity stunt.
Like your former Senator .. "I don't know nothing, but I will check with my administration and get back to you on that".
I know you think if you get on Facebook, they (Facebook) will start transmitting microwaves to your brain.
Who said that? No fakebook, no gmail, no smartphone, google is blocked, hell I'm not even wireless in the house any more. But I do have a miccrowave ovenn and I already have helicopters flying circles over my house.
Obviously you have strong opinions about every issue in slot racing, but in the case of Retro racing, you know about 17% of what's going on because of your reluctance to get on Facebook.
You don't know me That well ... I have strong opinions about everything, why should slot cars be any different
17% is way to much, when the meter hit 3% I could see the _____ storm coming.
So please don't be surprised if a lot of your questions and comments fall to deaf ears.
I'm not ... only enjoy the surprise when anything I say gets implemented. I am fully aware of the "not invented here theory"
Back to Facebook, the LLC/Ron has even gone as far as now starting a second, public, PG-rated, less incendiary FB page, named Slot Talk (also the name of an existing Facebook page)
I really don't care how many FB accounts anyone starts, whose name they copy or how they are rated by the movie industry.
If they were serious about a reconciliation, it seems to me that they would of discontinued the "over-served on a barstool", Slot Chat version.
I don't drink ... hic.
Bob, please don't respond to this post unless you are going to answer the first question posed. TYIA.
Fair enough .. now where did I put that youtube? ..
Yeah, I ain't scared.... What me worry, I got a camera too.
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