I hate to come back from the dead, making changes, and trying to act like your real dad and all that... But I was just thinking, do we really need the" 2001 Audi A4 1.8T Timing Belt Job In 5Min!" sticky? I think I put it there before to make Josh happy, and it is cool, but it's really just eye candy and nothing technical. Not even a writeup of any sort. I'm not sure we need it stuck there...? What do you think? We could merge it with a different sticky, but which one? Or just unstick it and see what happens... Your thoughts!? Just trying to make it clean.

 

remove

 

I say move that video into the modifications/maintenance page. but make a new b5 picture gallery sticky so there aren't so many threads about new pictures taken and it'll be useful. and/or split up the "Official: Members & Their B5's" link back to three stickies

 

i completely agree

 

When I first got my a4 and found these forums I clicked that sticky, I watched the video and my jaw dropped as I realized what I had just gotten myself into. I can understand wanting to clean up the stickies but in a sense I find it's a good thing for everyone to get the German engineering experience right off the get go :P

 

I think there should be a seperate page for just stickies. It's annoying that almost half a page is taken up by some useless ****, and some useful **** that people skip right over and them make their own new thread about what chip they should get or what oil they should use or should they get a BOV.
Jus sayin

 

I agree about a single link for the different stickies... It is sorta a mess.. I'm actually surprised nobody has done it while I've been out! Well, I stickied most of them so I guess I shouldn't feel like I'm stepping on toes if I change it up..? Hope not, cause I'm gunna DO it. We can always change it back if we get big protests from other members/mods.

 

just put the link in the maintenance thread that has all the other links.....

not to be a thread ****, but i kind of agree with faster on the whole oil/bov/noob ****

i think that if someone makes a noobish thread like the ones that have been answered a million times they need to be erased or merged, and a pm or email is sent to the poster directing them to the noobie section..... one thing i liked about this forum when i first got my car is it was the guide....... i feel like the noobs nowdays just post.... and the less than 100 post "senior" members are still noobs....



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0-150ish noob
150ish - 250ish junior member
250ish - 350ish member
350ish - 450ish advanced member
500 + senior member


or if they have been around a while and show that they have knowledge



maybe i am way off, i don't know

 

We'll always have the noobs and their noob questions that are stickied and probably talked about 4 times on the 1st page. I think we've got to accept that.. I have compiled most of the stickes into the modifications - maint. - members sticky, now. It's cleaned up a lot, I think. As for the post count according to status/rank/title.. I've never even paid attention to that, and it's not something I could change if I wanted to.

 

Post count has little to nothing to do with knowledge or helpfulness. All post counts really do (in my opinion) is to facilitate spitting contests between members over how much time they spend on a forum.

Some of us just more reserved about our posts and comments. "Tread softly and carry a large stick", if you will.