[MrBaseball]

Im quite impressed with all your members and was wondering how u got so many! i mean 29,000 is a lot. What do you guys do to get all this traffic??

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by MrBaseball

Im quite impressed with all your members and was wondering how u got so many! i mean 29,000 is a lot. What do you guys do to get all this traffic??

Longivity. But GTG hasn't been around for years and years, either. Only...? three or four?

The 2700 active member figure impresses me more. This shows me a wide interest range, good moderation, a user-friendly program, and discussion not reduced to the lowest intelligence common denominator. It's the best forum I've run across in a long time.

[Robertdjr]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

It's the best forum I've run across in a long time.

I couldn't agree more, Mr. Tanner. I've been around forums and message boards a long time, and GTG is by far the best.

[desertrat]

From what I can see, the vast majority of active members are most active in the racing forums. If you like NASCAR, no doubt this is the best board for it.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by 3fanforever

I couldn't agree more, Mr. Tanner. I've been around forums and message boards a long time, and GTG is by far the best.

Mr. Tanner was my father, God rest his soul. I'm Bob.

[Robertdjr]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Mr. Tanner was my father, God rest his soul. I'm Bob.

Sorry, it's just an old habit of mine to still say Mr. to someone who's older than I am and who I respect, especially if I know their name, like I do yours. Guess that has to do with the way I was brought up. But I'll remember to use Bob from now on, since you pointed that out.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by 3fanforever

Sorry, it's just an old habit of mine to still say Mr. to someone who's older than I am and who I respect, especially if I know their name, like I do yours. Guess that has to do with the way I was brought up. But I'll remember to use Bob from now on, since you pointed that out.

Not to worry. It was the "Mr." that threw me for a second.

[Team Yates]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Mr. Tanner was my father, God rest his soul. I'm Bob.

Originally Posted by 3fanforever

Sorry, it's just an old habit of mine to still say Mr. to someone who's older than I am and who I respect, especially if I know their name, like I do yours. Guess that has to do with the way I was brought up. But I'll remember to use Bob from now on, since you pointed that out.

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Not to worry. It was the "Mr." that threw me for a second.

How about Mr. Bob!!

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by Team Yates

How about Mr. Bob!!

Hearing "Mr." before a first name is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. They do it down here in LA all the time and I dislike it. It's like the feeling you probably get whenever I write the title "Roush/Yates."

I guess, in summation, I will defer to The Bard, when he wrote, " What's in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet." (although I in no way be confused with plant life, unless maybe a catcus, and I smell more like Canoe than I do rose petals)

[Team Yates]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

Hearing "Mr." before a first name is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. They do it down here in LA all the time and I dislike it. It's like the feeling you probably get whenever I write the title "Roush/Yates."

I guess, in summation, I will defer to The Bard, when he wrote, " What's in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet." (although I in no way be confused with plant life, unless maybe a catcus, and I smell more like Canoe than I do rose petals)

My one friend had her kids call me - Miss Vickie
She said it was "respectful".

[Weird harold]

Instead of Mr. , how about DR. ?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/mu...-Doctorbob.jpg

[Bette]

Originally Posted by Weird harold

Instead of Mr. , how about DR. ?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/mu...-Doctorbob.jpg

I like the picture WH.

How about Sir Bob, Royal Knight of the Round Table of Nascar?

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by Team Yates

My one friend had her kids call me - Miss Vickie
She said it was "respectful".

It's a "Southern Thang." I'm not Southern.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by Weird harold

Instead of Mr. , how about DR. ?

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/mu...-Doctorbob.jpg

Nope. I missed that by four hours and a completed dissertation. (I've got a box full of research material and about a hundred pages of my dissertation onThe Analytical Psychological Implications of Home Schooling in the Twentieth Century, which I would part with for a good price.)

But, thanks for the thought.

[Racer Duck]

Originally Posted by Team Yates

My one friend had her kids call me - Miss Vickie
She said it was "respectful".

I'm glad to hear you have a friend, "Miss Vickie"...

Seems to me either "Bob" or "Tanner" or "BT" will get the job done sufficiently, 'course there's always the Curmudgeon thing, but it's so hard to spell....

Myself, I don't care what people call me as long as they call me when it's time to eat!

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Now, back to the business at hand: the primary way we got so many members is the owner tutored his mods and admins to focus on making thread titles search engine friendly. By far, most of those 29K+ members found their way here thru a search engine (mostly Google, but others also). Because of the standards he set in the beginning, the "habit" was created and now (mostly) everyone follows suit. Very seldom do we have to "fix" a title, but it does happen. Plus, we're very picky about "newbies" making short or nonsense posts (they won't be picked up by a search engine.)

But mostly it's having good members who want to have a place to discuss their sport and having fair rules that allow them to do so and having a good group of moderators who promote discussion while policing rule breakers.

The long time members can tell plenty of stories about various folks who thought they could do whatever they wanted, or who thought they were smarter than the staff, or who were continually berating (flaming) other members. In every instance those folks were either shown the door (permanently) or changed their attitude. Plus, we (the staff) have "long memories" and "resources" we use to track troublemakers so we know when they try to come back "incognito."

Basically, good people attract good people. No matter your age, gender, location or opinion, you receive respect from everyone here. We may disagree, but we do so respectfully. And that's really what everyone wants in the first place: somewhere they can state their opinion without being berated.

Aside from the number of members, what is it about GTG that attracted you, MrBaseball?