So all r3v's porn is gone...

[Deltron Dirty30]

this gif always cracks me up.

[jw 325ic]

:(

haha man i was just jokin about the whole freedom things. it's your site and i completely agree we shouldn't have all that here when people are conducting business and trying to get information about fixing their cars. it was a good step to cleaning up the forums. i mean when you search google for "r3v n" and nsfw pops up...that's ridiculous. never saw a reason for it here....

[wildstoats]

i vote NO. return our woman!

:hitler: Does this look like a democracy to you? :hitler:

Fun while it lasted but definitely not the end of the world.

[Holland]

If everything was stuck to one NWS thread, then there probably wouldn't be too much of an issue. There were four threads and a fuck ton of random, disturbing pictures in other threads where they didn't belong for trolling or whatever. Those threads were never labeled NWS because they weren't until fuckmetroll Jimmy decided he needed five seconds of fame. I believe that more or less was the underlying issue.

Also, I thought I would add that some sites do only display OT to strictly members, that might help the whole google and search thing.

[Simon S]

it's cool..

Searches here with "ffm" weren't turning up anything anyway..

[Wh33lhop]

See, that's where the problem is: since when does 'oh my God there's BOOBS in them thar hills' equate to 'not a serious E30 community'?

While technically you are correct that the two are not necessarily joined at the hip, pornography does not exactly cultivate a serious image to the more judgmental mind. I am not particularly pleased with the direction we are shifting in--part of what makes r3v different from other sites is that it is mainly privately funded and James does not have dollar signs in his eyes when it comes to the r3v community, and therefore the community as a whole is not policed to be particularly diplomatic. However, the guy pays for the site out of pocket and maintains it himself--it is his prerogative and we are not in a position to bitch.

[nomansland92]

Soon enough all porn will be deleted from the internet and there will be only one website left and it will be called "bring back the porn!"

[slammin.e28]

Soon enough all porn will be deleted from the internet and there will be only one website left and it will be called "bring back the porn!"

....and it will cost an astronomical amount to view said porn, I don't even wanna think about the live shows! That's it, I'm moving to Amsterdam. There's cool e30s there and live sex shows. Peace.

[red325]

well this sucks

[Dj Buttchug]

Heres how I see it. Theres car forums, and then theres r3v. The USA of car forums. The place where you enjoy freedom.

I mean its not really that the titties are gone. its more the principle behind it that bugs me a bit.

[HarryPotter]

I say we just merge e30 tech with r3v now, it would be so sweet!

[ALYKZANDYR]

Jesus, never seen so many horny teenagers that are too lazy to google.

[z31maniac]

I will say, that I would be completely willing to contribute to running costs so that we arent beholden to advertisers.

Either way I will still come here for the mostly "anything goes" attitude and the people here.

But, James, Josh I bet you'd be surprised what the cheapasses would pony up for to keep this place the "wild west of car forums" but ill be here either way

[delatlanta1281]

Meh. I usually just jerk off to the honey badger anyways.

f1x3d

[nmlss2006]

While technically you are correct that the two are not necessarily joined at the hip, pornography does not exactly cultivate a serious image to the more judgmental mind. I am not particularly pleased with the direction we are shifting in--part of what makes r3v different from other sites is that it is mainly privately funded and James does not have dollar signs in his eyes when it comes to the r3v community, and therefore the community as a whole is not policed to be particularly diplomatic. However, the guy pays for the site out of pocket and maintains it himself--it is his prerogative and we are not in a position to bitch.

Well, first of all we have to decide if, as a community, we want to be concerned with judegemental minds. Given the status of r3v, for far more than four pictures with boobs on them, the answer simply is 'no' - and removing the boobs, incidentally, doesn't change that - the phrasing of 98% of the posts would need to change and the attitudes of 101% of the posters would also need to change. So you see, the more judgemental mind can rest easy on bimmerforums, where it is now disallowed to write 'fuck', apparently. However, having been here for a few years now, it didn't seem that r3v was geared that way and the fact that this needs to change (even in a way that I just myself described as minor) due to external forces makes me uneasy, especially when said external forces are effectively paying lip service to their fairly distorted concept of decency, while actually being indiscriminate in substance.
As to James running the site on his own money: I appreciate that - by the way, I do the same myself for other sites - but I would hope that the 'right to bitch' would be preserved. It's a very bad day in any community when feedback becomes undesireable, even though forums (and mailing lists, yes, I've been doing this intarwebs thing for a while) are not a democracy.