CII Belly Up Again Options

[Kazz5]

It's been a few days. I know most of you don't really care nor go there anymore. But there is SOME value there. A couple of other sites have popped up I've noticed but, dammit, I can't just add another site to a list I don't have time to go through daily now ...

I knew I should have jumped in and found a way to take that site. Oh well... *laughs* There are others more motivated than myself. Now, if we can find those more capable of operating I guess ... *shrugs*

Every time it comes back I'll drop in every once in a while until it becomes a habit - then it pukes in my face again. I wanted to go bitch about the lack of Peoria area auto-x's and some of the decisions car mfr's have made of late - oh well.

Now that I've bitched. Anyone know what the real status is? Is she done?

[Booztd 3]

The server has a bad raid card.......

I dont know if anyone has any plans to fix it

[awd4kicks]

Kazz... Please feel free to discuss auto-x issues here anytime.

[99Spyder]

Well, you could just call up Travis and talk with him. His number is 217.721.6451 Offer to buy it. He's all about selling stuff.

I am suprised that you have not bought it to put up an F-U shrine to KOU

[Turbo Tension]

Well, you could just call up Travis and talk with him. His number is 217.721.6451 Offer to buy it. He's all about selling stuff.

I am suprised that you have not bought it to put up an F-U shrine to KOU

Something else was in the works but it got sucked into a big hood scoop somewhere and now we can't find it!

[scrapin_frame]

i talked with corey about this... like andy said, it is a hardware issue.. corey said he was willing to go fix it, but he isnt gonna pay out of his own pocket to fix it... and i dont think travis cares enough to fix it

[99Spyder]

Sounds like it is time for a hostile take-over...

[MidwestDSM]

I just think its funny how everyone is always like "f**k CII its so gay I don't see why anyone ever goes there" etc etc and then talks about it on other forums.

[scrapin_frame]

cii is my mistress... that inconsistent, unreliable bitch!

[93Cobra]

i wish it would come back up just for the simle fact that there are a few people i need parts fvrom on their and i dont know any other way to get a hold of them and i heard css is the new cii but ive tried tog et a sn on their with two diff email addys and neither have had a conformation email sernt to them so wtf ever plus there is this mofo on their talkin some trash that i bought a car from So I heard not saying its true i just heard it and id like to justify some things

[Kazz5]

Wow, look what I started.

Sorry ... good for a laugh or two I guess, though.

[Shaun@AMS]

well its back up now

[93Cobra]

thanks imagine I appreciatew that

[scrapin_frame]

and now its gone

[scrapin_frame]

i wish my sex life had that much activity... i'd especially love for a thread to be started about it

[Super16G]

I got in on it just in time. SOLD the MX6

[scrapin_frame]

todd that wasnt so bad... shoulda just cut it convertible

[Turbo Tension]

Then people would have thought it was a Mazda Lebaron

[scrapin_frame]

that would be some hot shit... cut convertible with some button crushed velvet interior, some 13" wire wheels... the car would have been untouchable

[Kazz5]

Wow. Go on vacation for a week, come back, still dead. I think it's terminal ...

[scrapin_frame]

hahahaha

i'm sure he doesnt care about fixing the problem with the server.. so if we want it fixed, we have to pay for it

[Turbo Tension]

something like that I bet.

[99Spyder]

Pay for it... only if ownership was forfeited.

[scrapin_frame]

Pay for it... only if ownership was forfeited.

thats what i'm thinking.. i would gladly offer to take over the site.

benny should have just sold it to me when i offered

[Turbo Tension]

Pay for it... only if ownership was forfeited.

thats what i'm thinking.. i would gladly offer to take over the site.

benny should have just sold it to me when i offered

Then it would have just turned into a porn site for barely legal asian women!

[haunter]

I am certainly not purchasing a brand new top of the line raid card

[scrapin_frame]

Let it die. Sell the server on Ebay and give people a percentage of there money back that donated money to buy it..

Like travis would ever give up possession of that.

the server doesnt belong to travis, it belongs to the nfp. so really all that would need to be done is for the nfp to take the server and just change the name of the site.. pretty simple really. its just if anyone knows who is nfp anymore

[scrapin_frame]

well i doubt anyone has records of who all donated.
i think most of the current users would like to have the site back.. so the nfp taking the server and building a new site with the same name but slightly different url would be the best course of action at this point.

otherwise, the members that still care will have to take a collection and buy the hardware needed to fix it and then still be under some bogus rules.. not all are bogus, but some are.

and for those that doubt the integrity of the site if i had bought it from ben instead of travis, i would have just turned over control to the nfp cuz that is where it belonged.

oh well, no point in even talkin bout this.. travis wont give up the site

[Turbo Tension]

well i doubt anyone has records of who all donated.

actually some documentation may or may not have survived the apocalypse.

[Shaun@AMS]

i donated, i want the site back or my money back, this is bullshit

[Turbo Tension]

i donated, i want the site back or my money back, this is bullshit

FYI, when you donate, you don't get the money back.

[haunter]

i donated, i want the site back or my money back, this is bullshit

exactly how much did you donate and when might i ask

[Turbo Tension]

Is it ok for me to say i told you so now?? I knew shit was going to get ruined when Travis took it over and not ONE person would listen to me..

So now i am laughing my ass off in everyones FACE!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

one of my old roomates felt the same way.

[Shaun@AMS]

i donated, i want the site back or my money back, this is bullshit

exactly how much did you donate and when might i ask

10 bucks on the Arctic Cruise!

[haunter]

i donated, i want the site back or my money back, this is bullshit

exactly how much did you donate and when might i ask

10 bucks on the Arctic Cruise!

that money has nothing to do with the server even.

[Kazz5]

Get the crap hardware out of it and put in something that works. Hell, I don't understand why RAID's even required for a POS BB. *Shrug*

Really, what I don't understand, is why you'd not get this done through a company that professionally supports the hardware and the network connection for it. I know they cost cash but do you want a POS on the cheap or do you want something that rocks ...

DSMCentral's got a real niche, you know, but imports in Central Illinois - while not huge - could get some real traffic done-up right. Gotta have the time and the seed cash I guess.

Oh, and no, I don't want to buy it. *Laugh*

[Shaun@AMS]

i donated, i want the site back or my money back, this is bullshit

exactly how much did you donate and when might i ask

10 bucks on the Arctic Cruise!

that money has nothing to do with the server even.

wtf did i pay for then? i know its not just sittin in a bank somewhere.......

[Turbo Tension]

NFP membership.

[Recoil2]

What was all of the NFP membership money spent on? Is it still around? Could that be put towards a new card?

[haunter]

What was all of the NFP membership money spent on? Is it still around? Could that be put towards a new card?

There is like 50 bucks maybe, getting the VB license renewed hosed the NFP coffers bigtime


I also see no reason why the NFP would pay to fix the server so it can run CII

when half of the board was banned from it by Travis, and the other refuses to go to the site.


Travis called me yesterday, he was in France on his honeymoon I guess.



Justin @ MTIN thinks its a powersupply issue, which is funny, cuz they didnt bother to plug all 3 in, just one at a time and coudlnt figure out why it would freakin die


there may actually be NOTHING wrong with it.


but still. I see no reason why it should go back to MTIN and host CII, as I certainly would vote otherwise. and really....everyones membership is expired by now, save the board members that would be me myschel jim and netter

travis says it should be back at MTIN, but again, he has no acutal claim to it, its up to the NFP if he can still use it anyways

[scrapin_frame]

i vote to rebuilding the site with the same url but .net or .com

i'd really like to see bennyz come back to it

[Shaun@AMS]

so if we renewed the vb, why is it not working.......sell it to spy so we can actually have a site, its goin to rot away otherwise

[99Spyder]

i vote to rebuilding the site with the same url but .net or .com

i'd really like to see bennyz come back to it

.com is already registered but .net is available.

[99Spyder]

so if we renewed the vb, why is it not working.......sell it to spy so we can actually have a site, its goin to rot away otherwise

If the server and domain name do in fact end up for sale and Spy has burnt too many bridges to be considered...PM me.

[AWD DSM 1]

Spy for President!

[Taxiwardance]

Hmmmm he is going to need a running mate........... Image???

[Super16G]

I never seen it going anywhere.How many trips to Bloomington did I make to sit in someones basement or living room to hear about bullshit "MONEYS" that had nothing to do with the Site? I think it's a shame that somethig that united so many turned in to such a smoldering pile of shit. I say damn The man!

[99Spyder]

so if we renewed the vb, why is it not working.......sell it to spy so we can actually have a site, its goin to rot away otherwise

If the server and domain name do in fact end up for sale and Spy has burnt too many bridges to be considered...PM me.

Yeah, I was the one that forced travis to wreck the car.
I was the one that let everyone know all about it.
I consider that bridge burnt when Travis banned me on CII (after wrecking the car) and then instructed Haunter, Xian and all others present to not breath a word, or he would revoke shop privs to those that talked.

Ill own it, and let hetmen, lenzy, urbanac and everyone else involed in the car community that loves to drive, take it over.

Burnt to many bridges.
I have buildt more than burnt.


Image and I going back and forth is just that. Internet banter to keep it real and fun, unfortunately that one went a bit farther than it needed to, and I have made reperatinos.

Just to clarify a bit here. The domain name is registered to one Mr. Jeffrey for another year. After the whole "wrecked car" fiasco it is my impression that Spy might be one of the last people that the site would be offered to.

I was merely saying that if this turns out to be the case that instead of letting the site die I would also be intrigued by the thought of such a purchase. Hence PM me if the sale is available...

[99Spyder]

So buy the server from the NFP and change the domain name. Keeping the site and content intact. I say go for it!

[Shaun@AMS]

god i hope you buy it spy, so it will be back and stay up for more then a couple days at a time!

[mitsu90]

spy i will chip in a few pennys if ya need them.

[haunter]

god i hope you buy it spy, so it will be back and stay up for more then a couple days at a time!

information that I have recieved actualyl leads me to believe that in fact MTIN is responsible for a large portion of the downtime. Leaving a 3 PS server plugged in on ONE PS till it shuts down then plugging a different one in is a bad way to keep hardware in tact

[scrapin_frame]

the .com should still belong to bennyz. dnace would know who owns it

[Kazz5]

Either way, Ive offered to purchase and put the $ forward to get the site operational.

Need more targets to play with, spy?

[Mitsu 77]

4 reeeeel

[Cyclone93]

bout time is all i can say

[marty]

the phone number, 2173900678, with which he registered the site interests me.

does he have more than one phone number? is that andrea's?

[scrapin_frame]

there is no nfp anymore. i think selling the server is bullshit. it should be given to someone that actually cares about cii and will try to restore it to its former glory.

but who gives a shit what i think.. i've only cared since the very beginning.. i'm the one that offered to buy the site, but was assured that it would be in good hands.. and look whats happened to it

god forbid anybody see me for more than a post whore..

whats that saying about judging a book by its cover???
f^ckers

[scrapin_frame]

there is no nfp anymore. i think selling the server is bullshit. it should be given to someone that actually cares about cii and will try to restore it to its former glory.

but who gives a shit what i think.. i've only cared since the very beginning.. i'm the one that offered to buy the site, but was assured that it would be in good hands.. and look whats happened to it

god forbid anybody see me for more than a post whore..

whats that saying about judging a book by its cover???
f^ckers

I too care for Cii's future, young moderator.

hmmmm are you trying to lure me to the dark side?????

i just have to ask this one question.. are there hot pink panties on the dark side???

[AWD DSM 1]

I think the real question is who's butt are they on....

[scrapin_frame]

so if you get it, what will you create? CISPY?

[marty]

so if you get it, what will you create? CISPY?

and if you got it, it would be something like CIUAAG?

(thats central illinois underage asian girls)

[scrapin_frame]

ahhhh... underage asian girls... i've had a couple.. in my younger years... not grossly underage or anything... nothing perverted

perhaps when i move to asia, i will set up a mail order bride business and set up a group buy for dsm central

[haunter]

there is no nfp anymore. i think selling the server is bullshit. it should be given to someone that actually cares about cii and will try to restore it to its former glory.

but who gives a shit what i think.. i've only cared since the very beginning.. i'm the one that offered to buy the site, but was assured that it would be in good hands.. and look whats happened to it

god forbid anybody see me for more than a post whore..

whats that saying about judging a book by its cover???
f^ckers

a) travis owns the domain name



you know what, I HAVE it, so right now its mine so there and netter and curt paid for 95% of it btw


c) the NFP is no more as a state org, doesnt mean it 'doesnt exiast' enough to own it, so technically its up to the board members, me netter jim myschel


d) the local car scene probably benefits more by CII being non-existant

[haunter]

the phone number, 2173900678, with which he registered the site interests me.

does he have more than one phone number? is that andrea's?

his old sprint cell #

[Turbo Tension]

there is no nfp anymore. i think selling the server is bullshit. it should be given to someone that actually cares about cii and will try to restore it to its former glory.

but who gives a shit what i think.. i've only cared since the very beginning.. i'm the one that offered to buy the site, but was assured that it would be in good hands.. and look whats happened to it

god forbid anybody see me for more than a post whore..

whats that saying about judging a book by its cover???
f^ckers

a) travis owns the domain name



you know what, I HAVE it, so right now its mine so there and netter and curt paid for 95% of it btw


c) the NFP is no more as a state org, doesnt mean it 'doesnt exiast' enough to own it, so technically its up to the board members, me netter jim myschel


d) the local car scene probably benefits more by CII being non-existant

the less forums the better, period.

All of the dumbasses on CII who refused to registere on any other site can now suck it. We have all records so IF we did sell it the money could be doled back out based on percentages. In addition, all of the money for the server in itself was DOUGH NATED. I hope I spelled that so you understand That means you put the money in the trusting and loving hands of the NFP to do with what they please.

Anybody is free to start whatever central illinois forum they want. But CII will not ever be returned to it's former glory thanks to a certain person who owns the domain name. CII and whatever else is his, so would be up to you or anyone else to make your own website, but with CID, DSM C, CSS, and Euroturds I think there's enough.

[antirotor]

hmm... what an interesting topic. thank god travis doesnt own the server. i bet that really chapped his ass when he found out it had been taken!

[scrapin_frame]

there is no nfp anymore. i think selling the server is bullshit. it should be given to someone that actually cares about cii and will try to restore it to its former glory.

but who gives a shit what i think.. i've only cared since the very beginning.. i'm the one that offered to buy the site, but was assured that it would be in good hands.. and look whats happened to it

god forbid anybody see me for more than a post whore..

whats that saying about judging a book by its cover???
f^ckers

a) travis owns the domain name



you know what, I HAVE it, so right now its mine so there and netter and curt paid for 95% of it btw


c) the NFP is no more as a state org, doesnt mean it 'doesnt exiast' enough to own it, so technically its up to the board members, me netter jim myschel


d) the local car scene probably benefits more by CII being non-existant

i know you have the server numbnuts.. i saw it with my own two eyes.. remember when you had me bent over the pool table..

i'm not gonna act like i know everything.. but from what i was told by ben back when he purchased the server is that netter donated like $3xx.. he never mentioned how much curt donated.. whats funny is that we had to raise $1000 but the server was purchased on ebay for $7xx
anyway donation is a donation.. not buying your way to a decision

i know travis owns the domain name.. but you could resurrect the site under a slightly different name

anyway, i have noticed that i dont spend as much time online now.. i must say, i honestly miss cii.. it was nice having a little bit, ok alot, of off topic.. plus there are so many members that arent registered on these other sites.. you cant blame it on them sucking or being lame or stupid.. if they dont have a domestic, or a euro, or a dsm.. why would they join those sites?

the whole situation sucks

[scrapin_frame]

the last i saw the engine was still headless.. from what he told me was that james was supposed to do the engine work.. and he says the title is in his name

[haunter]

Haunter??

d) the local car scene probably benefits more by CII being non-existant

I was wondering why you feel this way after being one of it's bigest supporters all these years?

Bigest downfall to Travis owning CII is it gave him new people to screw over.. He took as much as he could until he burnt that bridge and i'm sure he will move onto the next venture in his life to screw those people as well..

Thats probably why he doesn't care if CII is gone hell for the past year he has been mainly on Chicago velocity forums because it is a new group of people to screw over now and buy his story that he is a good guy always getting the short end of the stick..

because all it had been the last 8 months was stupid import fanbois making fun of everything domestic and teh domestic guys firing back that all the domestics on the site were faster.

It was nothing but retarded trolling which is why I quit going/moderating the place at all. Travis drove off/banned almost every one of quality and pissed so many of them off that most won't ever go back anyways.

Now when I read/hear CII I get a sick feeling in my stomach and never want to hear its name again, I know David and Curt and Jim all feel the same way.

[haunter]

i'm not gonna act like i know everything.. but from what i was told by ben back when he purchased the server is that netter donated like $3xx.. he never mentioned how much curt donated.. whats funny is that we had to raise $1000 but the server was purchased on ebay for $7xx
anyway donation is a donation.. not buying your way to a decision

most people outside of Curt and David donated 10-20 dollars, Curt and Netter together donated a total of over 500 bucks. I have all the paypal records, the only other remoptely sizeable 'donations' were payments for advertising on CII which also helped pay for it as well.

The server was 784 dollars, now its worth maybe half that

[antirotor]

let CII die. its the right thing to do.

[Kazz5]

let CII die. its the right thing to do.

*NODS*

... and the same to this thread, please! *Laugh*

[awd4kicks]

I agree this thread has come full circle and has been as usefull as it's going to get.

I also agree there are probably enough web sites out there for our local group. Just as Image stated we are also very open to other owners and some topics as seen in this thread, but the main content of this forum will always be centered around DSM's as it should be.

BTW - There were absolutely no other local web sites for our hobby when I started DSMCentral. It's been very interesting to watch the rise and fall of these things. It's a tough thing to balance and God knows DSMCentral is not perfect, but we have a very strong core group of members that keep this going in the right direction.

[Shaun@AMS]

Its a shame, Ive called him 3 times in the past month, and have yet to recieve a single call back.. Even left a voice mail...

you too eh.......

[Turbo Tension]

BTW - There were absolutely no other local web sites for our hobby when I started DSMCentral. It's been very interesting to watch the rise and fall of these things. It's a tough thing to balance and God knows DSMCentral is not perfect, but we have a very strong core group of members that keep this going in the right direction.

the DSM Central mailing list was THE first mailing list/user group I ever signed up for.

[scrapin_frame]

BTW - There were absolutely no other local web sites for our hobby when I started DSMCentral.  It's been very interesting to watch the rise and fall of these things.  It's a tough thing to balance and God knows DSMCentral is not perfect, but we have a very strong core group of members that keep this going in the right direction.

the DSM Central mailing list was THE first mailing list/user group I ever signed up for.

same here!

i only found cii because of dsmcentral

[Slovo]

I had wondered what happened to CII. I think the site would still have some life left in it if brought back.

[Turbo Tension]

I had wondered what happened to CII. I think the site would still have some life left in it if brought back.

the person to contact about that would be mister Cow himself.

[Slovo]

I had wondered what happened to CII.  I think the site would still have some life left in it if brought back.

the person to contact about that would be mister Cow himself.

Who is mister Cow? Travis?

[Turbo Tension]

I had wondered what happened to CII.  I think the site would still have some life left in it if brought back.

the person to contact about that would be mister Cow himself.

Who is mister Cow? Travis?

KOU = Cow if you sound it out

[Turbo Tension]

www.centralillinoisdomestics.org is back up if anyone cares.

[AWD DSM 1]

Thanks for the heads up!

[haunter]

rock on