Amiga.org Electrified.

[Pyromania]

I'll be adding an Electric car section to the Coffee House section of Amiga.org soon. Electric cars are like the Amiga Tech of the car industry, misunderstood, trolled and strong feelings for and against them. Like an Amiga when you try one you will understand why owners love them. Personally I bought an Electric car in March 2013 and it saves me about $380 per month in gas not including saving in maintenance and wear and tear on my other gas cars. Sadly I have the Nissan Leaf and not the Tesla Model S which is the best one. Nissan has managed to sell about 100,000 Electric cars worldwide. I am able to plug-in to most places in the Chicago area for free. The Coffee House has been around for a long time and has many sections I have no interest in. I keep it around because some Amiga.org members like it. I hope others that have a love of technology enjoy the new section and buy their own electrified cars. Great way to save money, help the earth and get rid of some of that nasty cancer causing smog!

[commodorejohn]

Putting aside all other issues with electric cars, even if other Aorg members give a crap, there just isn't a subforum's worth of stuff to say about them. If you want to talk about them, just start a dang thread.

[SysAdmin]

Putting aside all other issues with electric cars, even if other Aorg members give a crap, there just isn't a subforum's worth of stuff to say about them. If you want to talk about them, just start a dang thread.

More Electric car news comes out then Amiga/MorphOS/AROS news combined.

[commodorejohn]

And? That doesn't mean anybody cares about it, or that there's anything worth saying about it beyond that.

Just leave off the delusions of grandeur and start a dang thread like the rest of us mere mortals.

[spirantho]

This is a bit of a worrying precedent.
Electric cars have as much to do with Amigas as they do lederhosen - i.e. nothing at all.

Can't we just stick to Amigas on the Amiga forum? It's not like the forum is dead or anything.

I hope the sysadmins didn't just pick a random controversial topic to make a subforum of just to get postings and advertising revenues up... that's an even more worrying precedent.

Please, let's keep Amiga.org about Amigas. Let's not water it down - there's enough specialised forums for things like electric cars that people can go to if they have that interest.
I may not agree with a fair amount of what's said on this forum, but at least it's Amiga-related.

[klx300r]

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Please, let's keep Amiga.org about Amigas. Let's not water it down - there's enough specialised forums for things like electric cars that people can go to if they have that interest.
I may not agree with a fair amount of what's said on this forum, but at least it's Amiga-related.

+1

[arttu80]

This is a bit of a worrying precedent.
Electric cars have as much to do with Amigas as they do lederhosen - i.e. nothing at all.

Can't we just stick to Amigas on the Amiga forum? It's not like the forum is dead or anything.

I hope the sysadmins didn't just pick a random controversial topic to make a subforum of just to get postings and advertising revenues up... that's an even more worrying precedent.

Please, let's keep Amiga.org about Amigas. Let's not water it down - there's enough specialised forums for things like electric cars that people can go to if they have that interest.
I may not agree with a fair amount of what's said on this forum, but at least it's Amiga-related.

+1

I too enjoy cars (I own 80 Trans AM, 72 ElCamino, 97 Riviera supercharged, 96 Roadmaster LT-1, and some others great performers) and sometime even like to talk about em , BUT NOT on Amiga forum, dude! When I sit down, and open A.org I DON'T want to see any car b*****it.

[LoadWB]

get rid of some of that nasty cancer causing smog!

Electricity comes from unicorn farts.

[SysAdmin]

This is a bit of a worrying precedent.
Electric cars have as much to do with Amigas as they do lederhosen - i.e. nothing at all.

Can't we just stick to Amigas on the Amiga forum? It's not like the forum is dead or anything.

I hope the sysadmins didn't just pick a random controversial topic to make a subforum of just to get postings and advertising revenues up... that's an even more worrying precedent.

Please, let's keep Amiga.org about Amigas. Let's not water it down - there's enough specialised forums for things like electric cars that people can go to if they have that interest.
I may not agree with a fair amount of what's said on this forum, but at least it's Amiga-related.

But Amiga.org has had a Coffee House sub-forum for ages. I have no interest in Coffee House Politics for example but I keep it around because members have been using it for years. If I had been around since the inception of Amiga.org sub-forums like politics would have never been created. They have nothing to do with Amiga computers. Electric cars on the other-hand because of being technologically ahead of their time and against the status quo get as much hate and FUD thrown at them as the Amiga had/has. Great tech thats misunderstood, sound familiar?

Don't forget Electric cars use electricity just like Amigas. I once read that if the world had continued to use Amiga's instead of Windows machines the cost of electricity saved since 1994 would be just shy of 1.6 trillion dollars. Don't worry I have more Amiga's than Electric cars so your beloved Amiga.org won't be a-changin.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I am actually interested in electric cars. However I guess the others are right, after the initial discussion there is not much more to say.

You could just put in a Cars (in general) CH section.

[commodorejohn]

But Amiga.org has had a Coffee House sub-forum for ages. I have no interest in Coffee House Politics for example but I keep it around because members have been using it for years. If I had been around since the inception of Amiga.org sub-forums like politics would have never been created. They have nothing to do with Amiga computers.

The difference is there's actually a subforum's worth of stuff to say about politics.

Electric cars on the other-hand because of being technologically ahead of their time and against the status quo get as much hate and FUD thrown at them as the Amiga had/has. Great tech thats misunderstood, sound familiar?

Even if we were to accept this assessment at face value (which I don't,) I could make the same argument about, say, LaserDisc, or the Dreamcast, or any number of other things. Do those deserve their own subforums here?

Just start a freaking topic if you want to talk about them. There is absolutely zero point to creating a subforum unless you're trying to change the entire direction of the site.

Electricity comes from unicorn farts.

This  is archaic thinking, man. Everyone knows that the new research into  leprechaun wishes is the real future of energy in this country.

[desiv]

This is just silly..
If the SysAdmin wants a forum for Electric Cars, he can have one...

It's not like anyone is forcing anyone else to read the messages....
I never go to the Coffee House.  I know it's there, could care less, and yet it's being there doesn't negatively effect me in the slightest...

Sheesh..

desiv

[SysAdmin]

@commodorejohn

Per your suggestions I just added sub-forums for LaserDisc and the Dreamcast. Thanx for the feedback.

[Bamiga2002]

This is just silly..
If the SysAdmin wants a forum for Electric Cars, he can have one...

Yes , make a dang subforum for the dang electric cars and see all the countless posts just flowing in
(seriously...:smack:)

[commodorejohn]

This is just silly..
If the SysAdmin wants a forum for Electric Cars, he can have one...

It's not like anyone is forcing anyone else to read the messages....
I never go to the Coffee House.  I know it's there, could care less, and yet it's being there doesn't negatively effect me in the slightest...

I disagree. The problem is that this is just another instance in a long line of instances of SysAdmin thinking that this site exists just to give him a preexisting audience for whatever he really wants it to be this month, like when he was stirring up the CUSA flamewars in a transparent attempt to drive site traffic, or shilling for shítty headphones. News flash, SysAdmin: Aorg is not about you. I don't want to sound like a total ingrate, but face the facts: it's just not. If you try to make it be about you, you're just going to drive away the people who want a forum about the Amiga, like so many people have been driven away already.