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The only problem I have with thread-deletions and shut-downs is that it drives away members. Members here are a commodity. We are sold to the vendors, that's why they pay for a vendor account. Very simple. If you wanna sell to Camaro5 you have to pay to play. If there were no members here then there would be no business as vendors wouldn't hold C5 accounts. Some of these threads that were deleted weren't just pictures of sexy, sexy ladies, many off them were long-time members getting to know one another. Think about fest. Do you go to fest and try to meet the person who posted a thread about what their license plate should say? Or did you meet people and talk about the thread they started about something meaningful to them? Off-topic forums are essential to many forums because your initial subject matter (in our case the car) can only stay fresh for so long. If you look at the post counts of the people in the off-topic area you'll see they've been here a while too. I'm not excusing any wrong doing that some members may or may not have done, and I believe that this place should be kept relatively clean, but some people got threads deleted that were FINE.
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