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[feeutfo]

personally, i think we should be banned from posting in general crap, until at least one post placed in one of the help sections per day, per member.

I don't need to post in the help section everday, unless I was to drive the Mig everyday......

and the spirit of oof? 

If you look around you will find me...........

on a general level, no. I dont mean this on a personal basis. My point, generally, not enough help going on imo. And if not able to help, then looking to learn at least.

Fair comment? or not?

and i dont mean you personaly of course. There are no rules to it obviously, just alot of "I" "Me" and "mine" going on lately. Or is it just "me"

[feeutfo]

i don't know a thing about cars tho 

yet you have in excess of 2000 posts on a car forum. :-/

oh alright, a bit strong, but you see my point?

[Mr Skrunts]

i don't know a thing about cars tho 

yet you have in excess of 2000 posts on a car forum. :-/

oh alright, a bit strong, but you see my point?

I think it is about the taking part that matters.  If you took away general chat then no one would bother hanging arround on the forum as they do.

There are 1000's of members who came here to get advice, but maybe have never even said hello.

You could penalize members that dont drive miggys like Mike, or peeps like Banjax who know nothing about cars, but the thing is they/we turn up most days for the banter, why, because they like. 

If there were any rules on posting then all it would do is cause friction. 

[feeutfo]

i don't know a thing about cars tho 

yet you have in excess of 2000 posts on a car forum. :-/

oh alright, a bit strong, but you see my point?

I think it is about the taking part that matters.  If you took away general chat then no one would bother hanging arround on the forum as they do.

There are 1000's of members who came here to get advice, but maybe have never even said hello.

You could penalize members that dont drive miggys like Mike, or peeps like Banjax who know nothing about cars, but the thing is they/we turn up most days for the banter, why, because they like. 

If there were any rules on posting then all it would do is cause friction. 

needs a better balance if we're honest with ourselves.

[albitz]

The one thing it could do with these days imo is more fun.It used to be a real good laugh on here most nights but that ( and most of the people who usually instigated it) is quite rare these days.

[feeutfo]

would more interaction in other sections help? bring more members in "from the cold" perhaps?

[feeutfo]

or maybe they are hacked off with all the polotics threads? :-?

[Mr Skrunts]

People will post where they feel most comfortable.

A question wanting help very rarely goes without a reply, even in the early hours when I think newbies feel comfortable they are amazed why someone replies to thier question.

I wasnt too sure of the suffle round when the forum was reorganised, but now I would hate it to go back to less sections.

I hvae no interest in the bus thread, I hate politics, but if they were reduced to one thread like the buses I might pop in for the odd nosey.  but if you condence that thread, then do you do that with other threads.

If members took over, then there would be a politics group, and joke section, Tunnie would want his own sky section, ladies would want thier bit.


We all have to face it, the forum is growing rapidly, Admin have thier hands full as it is. There are the Omega and non omega help sections and every thing else lands in General chat.

There are a hell of a lot of clever people on here, fortuneately we all want to talk about different things.

[cem_devecioglu]

Can we have a 2nd poll with proportional representation for the Limpdem supporters ?

Dont really see the point tbh. There is a thread which is about 35 pages long about buses. I am not remotely interested in buses so I have never looked at the thread.

  similiar..

[TheBoy]

The one thing it could do with these days imo is more fun.It used to be a real good laugh on here most nights but that ( and most of the people who usually instigated it) is quite rare these days.

Well said that man.


Who knows the reasons why that is?


The forum is primarily about Omegas, and helping with those problems.  However, when this place was conceived, we wanted to retain a 'community spirit' that we were denied at our old home.

To me, personally, much of that seems to have disappeared of late.  Maybe its because we get bogged down with loads of politics threads and other links for online media resources? Maybe its the tired old jokes that constantly get posted? Maybe, more worryingly, is that OOF is splitting into 2 - those that hang around help sections and those that hang around chat sections?


What is the solution?  We used to run a weekly/fortnightly 'pub quiz', but only ever a handful of people took part, and it was the same people always volunteering to set the questions. Yet the quiz works well the meets (assuming the quiz master is sober enough to read the questions ).


I think Hotel21 may be on to something here, as if you have no interest in politics, and you've seen all the same old jokes before, and find utube pretty boring, then you will open General Chat and be swamped with 2 or 3 pages of stuff that doesn't interest you, and not return in there.

Was splitting Car chat and General chat was a bad move? It was done because car chat (remember, we are a car forum) was getting lost in general chat.

[Jimbob]

maybe the 'long' thread idea could work well.

Been on some forums with very few active topics, but the ones that are active, are all very long, does make it easy to ignore what you dont want to see, be it political / environmental / semi naked ladies. 
Keeps those topics together for those that want them, and makes it much easier for everyone else to see other interesting stuff.

[Kevin Wood]

Was splitting Car chat and General chat was a bad move? It was done because car chat (remember, we are a car forum) was getting lost in general chat.

A valid point worthy of some consideration, IMHO.

We are a diverse cross-section of people brought together by a car. Hence, although some of us have common interests outside motoring (beer, buses, trains, politics, perving on youtube, etc. ), what we mainly have in common is an interest in cars.

We moved our main area common interest out of the chat section into its' own. Has it left the chat section a little barren, only to be in-filled by old jokes and political ranting?

Kevin

[TheBoy]

Was splitting Car chat and General chat was a bad move? It was done because car chat (remember, we are a car forum) was getting lost in general chat.

A valid point worth of some consideration, IMHO.

We are a diverse cross-section of people brought together by a car. Hence, although some of us have common interests outside motoring (beer, buses, trains, politics, perving on youtube, etc. ), what we mainly have in common is an interest in cars.

We moved our main area common interest out of the chat section into its' own. Has it left the chat section a little barren, only to be in-filled by old jokes and political ranting?

Kevin

And done in an effort to 'fix' something we/I thought was 'broken' - the fun element of the forum.  In hindsight, possibly a bad idea, and I think correctly summed up by your good self as to why...

[TheBoy]

beer, buses, trains, politics, perving on youtube, etc.

You missed out playing with explosive substances


Which reminds me, I have 2 airbags sat on the patio 

[Kevin Wood]

beer, buses, trains, politics, perving on youtube, etc.

You missed out playing with explosive substances


Which reminds me, I have 2 airbags sat on the patio 

I probably missed out quite a lot of things.

Airbags, eh?

Who gets to sit on them? I'll bring my camera.

Kevin