Willie,
How do you become a senior member and get admin rights to delete ads or messages I put up by mistake?

for the senior memeber ranking you have to reach 100 posts.
to get admin. rights....a miracle

Moderators do not have admin rights, only power to manipulate posts within their respective forums. I've known Dirk almost since the very beginning but that doesn't mean anything. When this forum was created, I requested to be a moderator since I carry with me a vast amount of knowledge on third gen Camaros. Drew, the other original moderator, has as much knowledge but for Firebirds.

When the Convertible forum was created, Dirk selected Lon Salgren and I to be moderators for it. Hope this answers your question.

Willie

That site doesn't go back as far as the archives here used to. Black background with yellow and red text. It looked neat but was hard to read.

I still check in here once in a while to see if there's anything new. Most of the time I don't post anything unless I see something that is so blatantly obviously wrong that I feel it needs to be corrected, or if I see something that relates to me directly.

I'm glad someone asked this question, I've always wondered about the history of TGO.

I am the administrator of my own fbody board, (http://www.rochesterfbodyclub.net/phpBB2/) but I think it's safe to say that I spend an equal amount of time here. When I got my 1992 Heritage Edition RS a few years back, this was the first (AND ONLY) place that I referenced in my quest to restore and upgrade the car. There's simply no such thing as a question that can't be answered on this forum

I agree that vBulleitin is sometimes an easy hack, but its stability pretty much makes up for it. I just hope that someone schedules consistent backups of the database. I can't even begin to imagine how massive it must be.

I have always kind-of hoped that I might someday have a chance to moderate here on TGO. But they've got so many loyal moderators, I may never get that opportunity.

Anyway, tons of good info here, it probably wouldn't make for a bad sticky...

Last i was aware, nightly backups were done. It's a simple job to backup the mysql database. Not knowing him personally, i have gathered he is very knowledgeable and knows how important it is to have recent backups.

As far as vB, other than cost/license when compared to phpBB2, i think vB's software is pretty good. It's easy to "hack" away (much more beyond the simple admin template stuff) and make the software do what you want, if you know what you're doing.

April 1998: As a joke, someone reconfigured thirdgen.org so that it pointed at the Titanic (the movie) fan club's website and forum.

We all descended onto their user forum and took it over, talking cars whilst the little girls all swooned over their Leonardo Dicapprio...

We drowned them out with the sounds of eighties rock and roll and smoking tires.

It was funny as heck.

I think we even started a thread on the average gas mileage of a luxury liner, and we debated if it was 14 gallons per mile ot 10 barrels per mile, I dont think we ever figured it out...

That was an April fools joke. Every year something is done like that Dirk loves to watch everyone freak out for a day.

Outstanding info about TGO, which will unfortunately get lost if not stickied somewhere.

Hey Mods: This info should be condensed and stickied over in Comments / Help / Suggestions.....or here in History......

Thread title: About ThirdGen.org

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AGREED!

Has anything changed with this since 2005? Does Dirk still own the site?

ThirdGen is owned by Internet Brands. Internet Brands acquired ThirdGen in 2007 from a small company called Xoxide. Xoxide had purchased ThirdGen from Dirk in 2006.

ThirdGen is one of the only sites I check on a regular basis. I've enjoyed learning the history, having such a great resource for repair/replacement issues, and learning the stories behind the cars we all love.

Thanks to all of you who are involved. I appreciate the efforts in keeping this site going and available for us to use.

PS It would be great for a get together. Lots of the members cars I would love to see.

What's the hierarchy? Who is top moderator and who do they report to at IB?