What's the story behind mazdaroadster.net?

[Cermivelli]

Been wondering about this for a while. This forum is obviously different than other miata forums, being "just right" But how did it come to be? What is The story of mazdaroadster.net? (If this has been answered somewhere else, sorry for this thread!)

[tsingson]

I will let Phat take this one. He would be the best to answer this.

[WASABI]

Yes, Randy (Phatmiata) will provide the best answer as to how we came to be, however, the site "is" what it "is", because everyone believes in keeping MazdaRoadster a good site. We can't do it without awesome members & staff.

[Hammerhead]

I already know how it came to be. :bow:

[Agent☣Orange]

Phatmiata had a small part in it too.

[kung fu jesus]

It came about as a result of the rapid disintegration of Club Roadster's integrity or 'program' shift, if you will.

[psulja]

Yes, Randy (Phatmiata) will provide the best answer as to how we came to be, however, the site "is" what it "is", because everyone believes in keeping MazdaRoadster a good site. We can't do it without awesome members & staff.

Who?

[The Driver]

Yes, Randy (Phatmiata) will provide the best answer as to how we came to be, however, the site "is" what it "is", because everyone believes in keeping MazdaRoadster a good site. We can't do it without awesome members & staff.

Awesome staff? :dunno:

[The Driver]

Who?

Some dude...

[Cermivelli]

Waiting on phat then for The full story! ;)

[atank]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/18/1358516188943/Top-secret-008.jpg

[WASABI]

Waiting on phat than for The full story! ;)

I remember it starting more like this...


http://youtu.be/vJMC_S-DB2I

[Sean5294]

someone throw a log on the campfire.

[Dandy]

just enough to wet your appetite for history . . .

a few bro stories here:
http://mazdaroadster.net/showthread.php?5762-How-did-you-find-MazdaRoadster-net

from the High Muck-E-Muck himself:
http://panjo-marketplace.blogspot.com/2014/09/randy-george-founder-of.html

[tsingson]

I really think that this site is what we as a community need. We have room for everyone and when I say everyone, I mean everyone. Stock, hard parkers, show, track, Everything. But it isn't just the Randy and the mods that keep this place respectful, lively and informative. Everyone that has made this site home has definitely done their part in keeping this site a great place to be.

[Cermivelli]

Posted this topic as i left a dutch owners forum yesterday. And it is remarkable how much respect there is to be found here for each others respective opinions and tastes. Something rare in internet communities.
A quote by JamieH from one of The threads Dandy posted which pretty much sums up why i was fed up with that dutch forum, and really love this one:


But, too much bullshit, too much hostility, too much "I'd have done it like this/you're doing it wrong." I don't expect people to treat each other like babies, but come on. At least be as civil as you would be when standing in front others.

So now I'm just dying with curiosity for Randy's story.

[Phatmiata]

The story as some others have mentioned is Top Secret ...

We created this forum to build a better membership, comprised
of dedicated owners and enthusiasts of the Mazda Miata MX-5.
Those members that wish to be a part of something better, as a
truly helpful community, and not for their own elitist, and self serving ways!

The back story, goes like this ................





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EPISODE IV

A NEW HOPE
(MazdaRoadster.net)

A long time ago, on a forum very,
very, very, very, far away....

There lived a ruthless race of beings
known as .... the Miata cup holder clan.

The evil leaders of Planet Cup Holder,
having foolishly outcast some of their
precious membership, had devised a
secret plan to take every member
away from the internet and beyond.

The Rebel Miata Owners, striking from a hidden
yahoo user group, had won their first victory
against the evil Cup Holder Empire, by
starting a new forum hidden deep in cyberspace.

During the battle, the Rebel Miata Owner spies
managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's
ultimate weapon, the Epic Cup Holder, an
enormous cup holder with enough room to
drink the entire water supply from a single planet!

Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents,
Phatmiata raced home in his HyperREV inspired
Mazda Roadster, he was the only custodian
of the stolen plans that could save his fellow
Rebel Miata Owners and restore
freedom to cyberspace...

http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-sw018.gif


If you can read this, you
don't need glasses.


Copyright (C) 2014 MazdaRoadster.net All Rights Reserved.


P.S. This is one of the best quotes in this thread..........


....... the site "is" what it "is", because everyone believes in keeping MazdaRoadster a good site. We can't do it without awesome members & staff.

[Hammerhead]

I think you guys are all building your cars wrong. I would have done it differently than all of you. Your cars suck. Mine is the best.

OK - I'm kidding. I love you guys, I love my cars and I love this site.

[Cermivelli]

Great story phat! Can't wait for episode V, VI, I, II and III :popcorn:

[tsingson]

Told you Randy's version would be the best.....

[Cermivelli]

Haha, yup

[The Driver]

Great story phat! Can't wait for episode V, VI, I, II and III :popcorn:

Episode I, has Jar-Jar Binks in it...

[Cermivelli]

Even in Randy's version? He wouldn't let that happen now, would he?

[Phatmiata]

Sorry no Jar Jar Binks here

[Hyper]

Great story phat! Can't wait for episode V, VI, I, II and III :popcorn:

Episode VI is all about the Quest for the Holy Grail, lol

All I have to say is that there is a new generation of Mazda owners that contradicts with another generation of Mazda owners that contradicts with an older generation of Mazda owners, and on and on and on. Each website has it's own empire that consists of its loyal members and followers. You are welcome to stay in this site because this is the coolest one of all where all the Master Miata Jedi hang out in peace and harmony, that's all.

[Phatmiata]

I just got done fighting with some sand people on that other forum, ain't nobody got time for that!


On my way to meet up with Obi wan kenobi at the local Miata meet........... bbl ...


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[kung fu jesus]

Yes, Randy (Phatmiata) will provide the best answer as to how we came to be, however, the site "is" what it "is", because everyone believes in keeping MazdaRoadster a good site. We can't do it without awesome members & staff.


Awesome staff? :dunno:


Let me tell you all how our 'Staff Meetings' go...

Phat brings donuts, which is probably the only way to get us all together, the lure of free food.

AO has difficulty keeping his hands to himself. Rotornut always smells like 2 cycle gas mix. Tsingson has stains on his shirt from his Philly sammy 'habit'. Psulja, no one *really* knows what he looks like without his touk. Martin smells like fiberglass and Walmart on a hot summer day. Wasabi mumbles a lot. Driver is always playing with knives. I bring the 'pants optional' flavor. Atank brings coffee, Maharaj brings flavored creamers. Bryan does yoga. MazdaRoadsterAdmin steals the donuts.

Nobody takes notes.

[The Driver]

Let me tell you all how our 'Staff Meetings' go...

Phat brings donuts, which is probably the only way to get us all together, the lure of free food.

AO has difficulty keeping his hands to himself. Rotornut always smells like 2 cycle gas mix. Tsingson has stains on his shirt from his Philly sammy 'habit'. Psulja, no one *really* knows what he looks like without his touk. Martin smells like fiberglass and Walmart on a hot summer day. Wasabi mumbles a lot. Driver is always playing with knives. I bring the 'pants optional' flavor. Atank brings coffee, Maharaj brings flavored creamers. Bryan does yoga. MazdaRoadsterAdmin steals the donuts.

Nobody takes notes.

I once helped Loren with the donuts... I still have the scars...

And no one told me that knowing how to write was mandatory...

[Agent☣Orange]

It was Twinkies, not donuts.

[The Driver]

It was Twinkies, not donuts.

You were playing with your twinkie...

[Agent☣Orange]

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[The Driver]

^ :fp:

[kung fu jesus]

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[Phatmiata]

It was Twinkies, not donuts.

Correct it WAS Twinkies, and also correct nobody takes notes!!

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[Martin]

Sorry no Jar Jar Binks here

Don't be sorry about that!


Let me tell you all how our 'Staff Meetings' go...

Phat brings donuts, which is probably the only way to get us all together, the lure of free food.

AO has difficulty keeping his hands to himself. Rotornut always smells like 2 cycle gas mix. Tsingson has stains on his shirt from his Philly sammy 'habit'. Psulja, no one *really* knows what he looks like without his touk. Martin smells like fiberglass and Walmart on a hot summer day. Wasabi mumbles a lot. Driver is always playing with knives. I bring the 'pants optional' flavor. Atank brings coffee, Maharaj brings flavored creamers. Bryan does yoga. MazdaRoadsterAdmin steals the donuts.

Nobody takes notes.

Mmm... fiberglass & Walmart on a hot day.

[tsingson]

Philly sammiches are the shit. He got it wrong though. No stains on my shirt. That's the design of my shirt.

[RotorNutFD3S]

What can I say, I like my combustion chambers build-up free.

[DK AFFECT]

Everybody who got kicked out of mnet, miataturbo, and clubroadster decided to make a website.

[tsingson]

That's funny, I'm still a member of all three of those forums. I'm even a model citizen over there. Not trying to start any trouble. Following the rules that are laid out. I don't even talk shit from behind my computer. Exception to the rule?

[atank]

^^Me too...................oh yeah--> http://saltandstraw.com/images/products/coffee-bourbonTitle.png

[The Driver]

That's funny, I'm still a member of all three of those forums. I'm even a model citizen over there. Not trying to start any trouble. Following the rules that are laid out. I don't even talk shit from behind my computer. Exception to the rule?

No, I'm still @ M.Net. I did kick myself out of CR...

[tsingson]

That's what I was thinking. Nobody got kicked out of the other sites.

[kung fu jesus]

Everybody who got kicked out of mnet, miataturbo, and clubroadster decided to make a website.

Is that why you're here?

[RotorNutFD3S]

Weird, I don't remember getting kicked off any other Miata forums...

[brontosaurus]

Posting pages and pages of dismembered bodies will do that.

[WASABI]

Everybody who got kicked out of mnet, miataturbo, and clubroadster decided to make a website.

Never got kicked out out of anywhere (not even a ban)... but, at MazdaRoadster, we have a chance to make a site that is fresh and respectable place for everyone.

[fwdtamiya]

Everybody who got kicked out of mnet, miataturbo, and clubroadster decided to make a website.
This place is not Australia, unfortunately. Dem girls :winky:

I've only ever been temp. banned from one website. I headed over here as soon as I could and am very happy with how the site is. Anyway, member history doesn't matter as long as they are polite on this forum. Here's to many more years and members. :drinkto:

[ScratchNSniff]

Posting pages and pages of dismembered bodies will do that.

Reposting the Screen shots wondering why they were put up for my "children" to see is what I kept doing...hehe...same thing with when PhillyB and the Mazdaspeedforums guys kept spam bombing Mazdas247 late at night...I still have pics of PhillyB's cock...I send them to him occasionally for the lolz...

247 is the only forum I have been banned from...although I did end up getting back on after a 3 year vacation...