"overrated" Condition

[Mechanical Sympathy]

Hello, I'm new here so I hope I don't ruffle any feathers. After a long time away from tinkering on old corollas (I was on the Oldcorollas yahoo mailing list back in the day), I decided to jump back in again. I have a couple of projects on the go - a KE55 CS sedan and a KE55 XX coupe - so I've been reading (lurking?) Rollaclub in earnest recently.

 

Some of you guys are doing some amazing builds. Things have come a long way with SR20's and the like, from when I last slotted a 5k into a '35 ten years ago.

 

One thing I've noticed on here a lot though - a lot of cars or parts are described as being in "overrated" condition? To me "overrated" means to overestimate the merits of, or to rate too highly ie:

 

"Do you like that car?"

"Nah it's full of bog, I think it's an overrated POS!"

 

If I bought something from eBay that was in overrated condtion I'd be PO'ed and would leave negative feedback.

 

Does "overrated" have a different meaning in automotive discussions?

Edited July 15, 2013 by Mechanical Sympathy

[Hiro Protagonist]

A while ago this forum was having issues with people trying to sell rust-boxes and crapped-out cars as "m_i_n_t". To try and combat this, a word filter was rather humourously implemented to automatically change the word "m_i_n_t" into "overrated", to stop people trying to use it to sell cars that weren't in what would be classed as actual "m_i_n_t" condition (ie perfect paint, no tears in the interior, spotlessly clean, little/no modifications etc).

 

And to try and stop people getting around the filter by replacing the "i" with a "1", the word "m_1_n_t" was filtered out and replaced with "of questionable quality"

 

Note, the underscores are there to get around the word filter :P

Edited July 15, 2013 by Hiro Protagonist

[Mechanical Sympathy]

Aha that's actually esoterically funny!

 

Thanks for clearing that up.

[carbonboy]

As has been said before, it is the joke that just keeps giving. Every few months it crops back up, nice to see you've stepped back & asked what the go is, rather than get into an epic rage over it. :)

 

There's a few other filters, but we might just let you find them on your own. ;)

[luk3333]

Haha this is genius, I wondered what was up with people using overrated oddly

[LongJohnSilver]

Note, the underscores are there to get around the word filter :P

 

There are other ways around it.

 

min­t.

[LittleRedSpirit]

The last guy was the funniest, he got mad and accused people who didn't like him of hacking rollaclub to disrespect his car or something. This one is only half as amusing because the OP has enough sense to ask before going troppo.

[Mechanical Sympathy]

I just feel sorry for the guy with the overrated green Ke50

[altezzaclub]

min­t.

 

Just testing... I wondered how you did it.

 

There are other ways around it.

[altezzaclub]

I just feel sorry for the guy with the min­t. green Ke50

 

I just feel sorry for the guy with the min­t green Ke50

[Mechanical Sympathy]

There's a few other filters, but we might just let you find them on your own. ;)

 

Does one of them change "hydraulic" to "hydrolic"? /test

[parrot]

Hmm, what will Irokin come up with now his secret code has been cracked!

[philbey]

Trev cracked it the day we turned it on. Crafty bugger. So we had him killed..... (well I haven't seen him for a while so I assume we killed him)

 

I reckon we need to fix manuel to autocorrect to manual. At least as far as I'm aware all these KE70's don't come with a free spanish butler.

 

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Change it so that picture comes up. Id die laughing every time I saw it.

[philbey]

Haha.

 

Ben, are you on that one?