That's simply not my sense of this forum in looking back over the past five years. What I see from the active posters is mostly a group of car enthusiasts who have chosen or want to own Lucids who come here to share their experiences across the ups and downs of those experiences.
Yes, there are a few trolls who arrive ready to trash a company for their own personal agendas, just as there are a few die-hard apologists for anything and everything Lucid does. But I think the bulk of discussions on this forum fall somewhere near the middle, which is exactly what I would expect of a product as devilishly complex as an automobile..
The fact is that Lucid designs and engineers phenomenal cars that have moved more needles forward in more automotive technologies simultaneously in a few short years than I have seen done by any other carmaker in my lifetime. It's why I now own three of them.
The fact also is that Lucid is thus far finding it difficult to produce those cars with the initial quality and reliability of more established brands. This is to be expected and is something that I am sure will resolve as the company matures.
Right now we are passing through a new-model introduction phase where the reports of problems will dominate for a while among people who are active on the forum. This, too, is to be expected and is not unlike what happened during the early months of the Air's introduction when so many of the car's underlying fundamental strengths were overshadowed by owners having to cope with a raft of mostly-software issues.
If this forum were more heavily weighted toward unbridled praise of Lucid and its products, I would find it less useful and less interesting . . . and I would have long ago moved on.
I understand your perspective. Nobody, including me, wants a forum full of unbridled praise (unless warranted, and we ain’t there).
However, you only see the threads and posts after moderation. You don’t see the permanently moderated folks, the ones who join and whose first 3 posts never make it because they are useless drivel, the deleted personal attacks, and so on.
It’s actually spectacular to hear that that is your perspective. It means we’re doing a good job moderating.
But it doesn’t mean it doesn’t take a lot of work to keep it that way.
I stand by what I wrote. I’m also okay to disagree, as both of us is operating on feelings (I really should write a sentiment analysis script at some point), and I don’t have stats.
But based on what the mods see, we generally agree it tends to skew negative, and it takes effort to keep the forum balanced. Conversely, managing “overwhelming positive praise” is less of an issue, as people simply don’t show up to scream about what they like from the rooftops at nearly the same clip.
That doesn’t also mean there aren’t real issues. Don’t take any of this to suggest the car is perfect or people should stop discussing both the good and the bad.
