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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 2:55 pm 
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Jason Mauldin wrote:
One of the worst things that the current admin was handed was this completely "private" forum. It is doing you no favors.
Obviously said by one who has not run a public ("any drunken idiot with a phone can spew whatever they want") forum. FB is Very Bad(tm) because it's totally open, and we don't have (and CANNOT have) 24/7 moderation. And then there's the population of 12yo's ranting there.
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Edit:- We could always run NASA rules and see heads explode, :mrgreen:
And make everyone have a Competition License(tm).
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the Pivot Cone Box
Sounds like it would go over about as well as the chicane at VIR. :?


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:51 pm 
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We have had NCAC at Danville


It's more than a little bit of a joke to have the NCAC in Virginia.


True, but it is close to both us and TSCC. You use what you have.


I contend that THSCC would have been better represented to not host NCAC at all than to host it at a mediocre site in Virginia. Obviously opinions may vary on this, but that's mine.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:40 pm 
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Chuck Branscomb wrote:
Arthur McDonald wrote:
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Think slow and technical with turn arounds.


I vote for at least 3 pivot cones!


Art has invented a new autox element -- the Pivot Cone Box, i.e. PCB. 200' x 100' box, two pivot cones on each end of 200' dimension.
Enter mid-box on the 200' side and require 90° turn toward pivot cone #1; pivot around that cone then full acceleration to pivot cone #2 at the other end of 200' box; pivot around cone #2 and back the length to the pivot cone #1; pivot around cone #1 again and proceed to exit (which was the entry).

I know I'm a bit ill when I think I might actually enjoy this PCB.


I think this would make me ill too, but let's try it first at NCCAR. They have experience with PCBs in that part of the state. http://courses.cropsci.ncsu.edu/cs727/case3.htm

For the NCAC, I simply propose 1 pivot cone, preceded by a 60+ mph approach. We did that NCCAR once too :)

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
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Arthur McDonald wrote:

I think this would make me ill too, but let's try it first at NCCAR. They have experience with PCBs in that part of the state. http://courses.cropsci.ncsu.edu/cs727/case3.htm


They did that in our part of the state too, didn't they? I seem to recall seeing that stuff along the sides of Highway 50 on the way toward Benson (i.e. the old way to get to I-95 way back long before I-40 existed).

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
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Jason Mauldin wrote:
One of the worst things that the current admin was handed was this completely "private" forum. It is doing you no favors.
Obviously said by one who has not run a public ("any drunken idiot with a phone can spew whatever they want") forum. FB is Very Bad(tm) because it's totally open, and we don't have (and CANNOT have) 24/7 moderation. And then there's the population of 12yo's ranting there.

Sigh, why does my personal background about running forums have to be brought into this? I have ran several public forums. One of which I sold for a decent amount of money. It's not rocket science. But like anything that you want to be successful, it does require effort.

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:05 am 
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Arthur McDonald wrote:
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I think this would make me ill too, but let's try it first at NCCAR. They have experience with PCBs in that part of the state. http://courses.cropsci.ncsu.edu/cs727/case3.htm

For the NCAC, I simply propose 1 pivot cone, preceded by a 60+ mph approach. We did that NCCAR once too :)


I was going to say that PCB problems remind me of my homeland. Then I got to this part.

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Q: What killed the grass in a six inch band on the road shoulders and what was the pungent odor?
A: Liquid junkmen from NJ who were in the business of disposing of used transformer oil dribbled the material along 210 miles of NC highways at night.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
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Triad has a public forum. It's a ghost town, no one really posts there.

Seems like that would solve the vast majority of our problems.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:37 pm 
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Arthur McDonald wrote:
Chuck Branscomb wrote:
Arthur McDonald wrote:

I vote for at least 3 pivot cones!


Art has invented a new autox element -- the Pivot Cone Box, i.e. PCB. 200' x 100' box, two pivot cones on each end of 200' dimension.
Enter mid-box on the 200' side and require 90° turn toward pivot cone #1; pivot around that cone then full acceleration to pivot cone #2 at the other end of 200' box; pivot around cone #2 and back the length to the pivot cone #1; pivot around cone #1 again and proceed to exit (which was the entry).

I know I'm a bit ill when I think I might actually enjoy this PCB.


I think this would make me ill too, but let's try it first at NCCAR. They have experience with PCBs in that part of the state. http://courses.cropsci.ncsu.edu/cs727/case3.htm

For the NCAC, I simply propose 1 pivot cone, preceded by a 60+ mph approach. We did that NCCAR once too :)


At NC State Sports Car Club when I was there we had what we called the cloverleaf. 4 cones at the corners of an imaginary box. You entered through one side of the box and went 270 degrees around 1 cone, across the box and 270 around the second cone, across the box and 270 around the 3rd cone, across the box and 270 around the 4th cone and out of the box.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
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Triad has a public forum. It's a ghost town, no one really posts there.

Seems like that would solve the vast majority of our problems.


Most.................. :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:06 pm 
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Facebook is being Facebook again.

https://www.facebook.com/NorthCarolinaA ... 3094219657

We should just do this at NCCAR. Fuck Triad/CCR.


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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:23 pm 
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Chuck Branscomb wrote:
Arthur McDonald wrote:

I think this would make me ill too, but let's try it first at NCCAR. They have experience with PCBs in that part of the state. http://courses.cropsci.ncsu.edu/cs727/case3.htm


They did that in our part of the state too, didn't they? I seem to recall seeing that stuff along the sides of Highway 50 on the way toward Benson (i.e. the old way to get to I-95 way back long before I-40 existed).


Yes, but I was most aware of the spills along US 158 in Warren and Halifax counties, since it was on the way to my grandparents' home in Roanoke Rapids.

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
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JamesMilko wrote:
Facebook is being Facebook again.

https://www.facebook.com/NorthCarolinaA ... 3094219657

We should just do this at NCCAR. Fuck Triad/CCR.


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George Bright wrote:
At NC State Sports Car Club when I was there we had what we called the cloverleaf. 4 cones at the corners.....


Too bad the shot clock ruined it.

The ultimate course design insult (and I regret that I cannot find the old course map) is an element once used at the old Morrisville site -- the "Spitzner Spirochete". A 720 degree counterclockwise spiral to a pivot cone in the center and a 720 degree clockwise spiral to the exit.

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
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JamesMilko wrote:
Facebook is being Facebook again.

https://www.facebook.com/NorthCarolinaA ... 3094219657

We should just do this at NCCAR. Fuck Triad/CCR.

We could do 2 trophies, just have a gold toilet seat for the "this is how things have always been" rules.

It's about the fastest club overall, which a median time would indicate. If they can't step up their game and help new/slow members improve then what is the purpose of the club in the first place?

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 Post subject: Re: Facebook page goes bad again
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Let's timeline this garbage

8:22pm:
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The 2015 NCAC Committee has adopted the following By Laws for all future NCAC's. If you have any questions or concerns please contact one of your NCAC Committee members.

Each Club will appoint 2 members to srve on the NCAC Committee . This Committee will have final say over any controversial decisions .
Each NCAC Event will follow the basic Sups from the SCCA National Tours
All SCCA Classes will be available , Classes may be combined (ex Ladies to 3 Paxed groups) but must be represented .
Course Maps , Grid and any Class Changes must be approved by one appointed member from each Club .
The Club Cup will be determined by the Top 10 highest Paxing members times each Club , lowest total win .
The number of members counted may be reduced with approval from the NCAC Committee .


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In the past the Club Cup has always been the Top 8-10 in Pax from each Club ..This had been determined by past NCAC Committee's as the easiest , most fair and least likely to be manipulated formula . This years hosting Club would like to average the Pax from EVERY Club member present for each Club . This was rejected in previous years because it was easily manipulated by having slower drivers chose not to drive or not to choose a Club affiliation . It was even discussed that a Club could easily bring their better drivers and ask their slower drivers not to choose an affiliation . The past Committees determined as stated it was an easily manipulated format and also alienated some of the drivers who were proud of their Club affiliation but would opt not to choose an Affiliation so they didnt hurt their Clubs score . The current NCAC Committee would like the NCAC Members in put on this format.


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