Quote Originally Posted by AL14 View Post
I think this forum lately is too much result oriented.
If a driver has a good stage, he becomes the new Loeb, if another (or the same!!) makes a mistake it's a waste of space.

Please guys let's try to analyze facts in a more deep way (is "deep" the right word?), let's try to know and understand a little bit the context before coming to a conclusion.
Me too I should do it more, I bashed against wrc.com website for their new interface but it was actually ok.
We are not obliged to give conclusion every time. I'm sure we will all benefit from it.
I think two things are in effect here lately:
1. Lots of waiting + hype for the new cars + speculation based on testing + personal bias = many people having certain bias or expectations (perfectly normal) but are jumping on any sign that they are right and blowing it out of proportion.
2. Since it's the start of the season and the highest profile rally in mainstream media we get a lot of new members or inactive members waking up and posting some superficial stuff due to excitement or lack of information.

The combination of these two things leads to a lot of "noise" in the forum. In a way it's good because it means people are excited and interested but the downside as you say, is that it drowns out the deeper analysis or conversations. It was most obvious in the Monte thread where almost at each stage drivers were going from hero to zero and back again.