Mike

That link is a referral (obviously) but the actual link can be found on the main page blocks. It comes from "Tell a Friend" and clicking the Share option. Each user has a unique referral code and you will get credit for referring others. Other people cannot use it unless you specifically sent it to them or post it somewhere. Mike

Well, thanks for derailing my thread.. issue fixed. 😛

Ok, thanks I'll look into it.

Since the AI bot pretty much scans the Internet for various bits of information, it looks to me like it took those words from our club description and put some extra content around it. It's not always correct because I did run into some strange information a few times. It's worth some time to re-generate content over a few inquiries before it gets the information mostly correct. But since it simply scans the Internet, who knows what kind of real true answers you'll get from the thing.

Here's what is says when I ask it "What is the Classic Zcar Club"

So I've been working with AI for the last several years of my career. Most of my experience is with graphics and video AI. However, after running into this new text-based chat system, called Chat GPT, I decided to give it a try with our Z hobby. Here's some text generated with my inquiry "Tell me the history of the Datsun 240z"

Wanted to give a special thank you to our veterans for your service and sacrifice on this day. THANK YOU service men, women, and your families. Grandfather - Commanding officer in the Navy. Stepfather - F4 Phantom pilot in the Air Force. Uncle - Tank commander in the Army. Uncle - Corsair II pilot in the Navy. Uncle - Marine ship engineer in the Navy. Mike

Nice! You can do a search on the upper right of the screen and search the term. Make sure you set it to search 'everywhere' to get the most amount of results. Here's a link to one I did as an example https://www.classiczcars.com/search/?q=seat rails&quick=1 Enjoy!

I did some work on the site, it may have been around the time you logged in. However, that said it looks like things are a bit more speedy! I configured our caching system to render our pages first (before any external resources).... apparently it was configured to wait for all resources to load before it would show you a page. Let me know if you guys see any problems. Mike

Ok great, good to know. I have a feeling the 'show signatures' option is new and it defaulted to off. So you'll have to switch it on manually. I'm trying to see if there's a way I can turn it back on for every user in certain groups. We'll see how it goes... m

Hmm... not sure. Let me do some digging.

Must have been a few changes after the last update. I didn't even notice it. Ignore topic is back now, it was disabled because it required a separate update. Not sure about signatures though, maybe it's now shut off by default. I'll leave it this way unless you guys think we should really go back and enable all of them by default. m

Looks great so far. They have some more work to do with images and clean up, but it's a great improvement.

Yeah he did a great job on the first edition... should be good

No matter what material, those photos could almost be turned into a piece of art! Very well done! Mike

Happy 4th of July guys!! Proud to be an American, even if things are tough right now. Have a safe celebration today!!

I know this is an older post but I also wanted to chime in about your member ID for discounts at MSA. You can see your member-id under your profile. Click your name in the upper right and select 'Profile'... it will show up on the left side like this:

You can buy non-ethanol fuel at your local boat dock. Ethanol is highly frowned upon in the yachting world for gas engines, and typically very good quality. I remember the days when I was running my grandfathers airport fuel business in San Diego. I used to buy 130 octane leaded gas for around 55 cents or so. I'd pull my Z right up to the truck, connect the static line, and pump it directly into the car. Those days are long gone and you cannot fill a car with aviation fuel (for tax reasons apparently). But my Z ran like a top and I remember seeing greyish soot in my tailpipe instead of the typical black soot. I still remember taking her out on the taxiway and driving as fast as I could (those days are ALSO long gone). I loved being 18-19 years old with a classic Z...

I dunno, I think that original roof rack with a pair of old wooden ski's would look pretty trick on a restored z.

Thank you!! As I get older I try to forget these but the system sure doesn't forget!! 😉 Hope y'all are having a good time with your Z's. I need to dig mine out of the garage and have a little more fun this summer. Mike

We were only hit by a random bot software. Not a big deal, other than a bunch of crap in our forums.. I removed them this weekend. Mike

Hey guys, Yeah thanks for your patience as I weed through the posts. These kinds of posts typically come in waves. We'll see a bunch of them and then they will taper off again. I'm not too worried about it because our post-process system is great. The best way you can help is to continue reporting the posts. I will then look at the member account, flag them as a spammer, and they won't be able to log in again. Best thing is I can restrict based on IP address. Most of the latest ones have been coming from India, so it's been great to collect the address pool and I can restrict the entire network segment. There's no real way to prevent this kind of thing, sadly. Recaptcha is a great idea, but it doesn't work anymore. The bots have all worked around the recaptcha security and it's worthless these days. The first post idea is a good idea but it requires that we screen all posts from new members. Since I'm not on every day this can ruin the new user experience. Our software also has methods to detect potential scammers by filtering emails and IP addresses through a known list of spammers, but again these guys just go out and get new IP's. From what I've found, it's better just to let them post so we can create a database of network segments, and then just shut them off in their tracks. I can do this at both the root level and in our software. 😉 Mike

Looks like mine! I have the license plate cutout version. Purchased from MSA.

FYI, here are the activities that will get you more badges and increase your rankings. I'm not saying which ones have more power though, that would be unfair... 😉 Create new threads Reply and participate in conversations Follow content Follow members Give reactions Frequent sign-ins Purchase subscription (badge only - basically you can't buy your way to Grand Master (you have to earn it) Let me know if you have any questions/concerns. Mike