Posting No More

[mctwistuk]

Due to the amount of posts regarding the number of posts I make on here I will now not be posting any new threads or replying to threads unless it is to welcome a new member or to respond to any events or if there is posts about club related things that I have views on or if I have a technical question I need help with.

Maverick out

[thebigfelly]

you been getting some stick chris?

[g1983]

You should have heard the ribbing Paul and me got on the fling

[lewisscoob]

FFS!! Alienating the most active members in the club. What a load of horse sh1t.

I'm more than a bit sick of this place! I get on with everyone and will happily yap away to anyone - as seen at te weekend there but seeing this happen makes me wonder if I want to take an active part in the forum. I've seen it happen in other places and I'm not hanging about to watch it happen here too.

[monsterenergy]

Sometimes I post for the hell of it

[monsterenergy]

but sometimes I don't

[g1983]

Infact, don't be so dramatic. Posting is healthy

I should know

[davey l wrx]

one extreme to the other with some people!

[mctwistuk]

FFS!! Alienating the most active members in the club. What a load of horse sh1t.

I'm more than a bit sick of this place! I get on with everyone and will happily yap away to anyone - as seen at te weekend there but seeing this happen makes me wonder if I want to take an active part in the forum. I've seen it happen in other places and I'm not hanging about to watch it happen here too.

I touch goats mate.

Chris

[lewisscoob]

The poor goat looks like it had more of a happy ending massage than a touch...

Regardles of this being in tongue and cheek and a piss take, I still feel there is too much negativity in the direction of certain members and it can not be doing any good for the confidence of noobs reading and not knowing its merely a piss take.

[StrikE]

You should be given an award FOR posting as much Chris and don't stop! I for one appreciate the random [read interesting] topics you post up.

Keep up the good work

[jamesm]

Chris, hats off to you. You hve single handedly brought life and activity to this place. Keep up the good work!

[Midnight21]

I think Chris has just been missing us all from the weekend.

He'll be fine I'm sure come Wednesday night for the meet at the Hillington Harvester (7pm).

Group hug is all our Tom needs, ain't that right bud ?

Lol now we definitely need pics of that (who's Tom )

Keep up with the posting...... and don't let anyone stop you!

[thebigfelly]

cant loose one of the amigos...

[Midnight21]

You should have heard the ribbing Paul and me got on the fling

You think that was ribbing.....what about me?

[fai17]

It's never easy at the top mate.

[colin_ross]

Well I've got to say I've got some mixed emotions over this thread.

I do miss the good old days of lots of members, banter and posts and I can see that your heart is in the right place Chris but I for one could do without the "filler". If people want to open threads with random links to youtube nonsense, what they bought at the garden centre or a shit joke someone sent then on facebook then that's fine but don't do it here. IMHO it makes people less likely to post, not more. If that's what you want to discuss then mumsnet might be more to your liking. I come on here (less so these days) to talk subaru.

Some of the best boards I'm a member of have few members and maybe a dozen or so posts a day but ever one of them add something. That's why I always go back to them.

I guess it comes down to what you want to get out of this place. I've always been a quality over quantity type of person but maybe I'm the odd one out.

[lewisscoob]

You think that was ribbing.....what about me?

Specialist weekend activities Cathy?

[fai17]

I don't think this forum is about quality over quantity.

That's what 22B.com is for.

Fire away Chris.

[stum450n]

Does it matter? Surely everyone has different reasons for using the forum? Some post once to say hi and then go back to lurking, some post regularly but specifically Subaru related and some see it as a social environment for chat and banter. It's all things to all men and that's the beauty of a forum - Facebook, twitter et al have to be one or the other - a forum is whatever you make of it.

My one small point would be to make more use of the search tool and look in the suggestions thread before making suggestions - it's hard for us not to come across as negative when we have to say "tried that", "suggested that last year", "we did that but nobody used it" etc

Personally I think that as a member, it's your forum to be used as you wish (within reason, for the benefit of other members). Everyone will have an opinion but as long as you're doing what you feel is in the best interest of the wider community, why should it matter how frequently or infrequently you post? After all, the forum is only one small part of the club.

[jebus82]

if you want to post....post!

if you dont want to post.......dont!

if you want to read a post.......read it!

if you dont want to read a post......dont read it!

it really is that simple

[scoobywho]

Hahaha suprised the young skinny tom cruise hasnt had any more input

[monsterenergy]

I don't like busy boards really - find it too difficult to find the hot topics or find a thread again that was interesting me.

That's why I hardly log onto the .net site... I just find that there's far too many posts and I can't find interesting ones.

I also really trust the info from the members on here - whereas on a busy forum it's difficult to find out who knows what etc.

SIDC rules

[baldobaz]

My biggest gripe is when somebody posts something for a bit of advice or help and its completely blanked, no replies, no answers etc, yes i appreciate there is a search bar, but most of the time i post from a mobile device rather than a pc, i actually find it quite off putting and verging on snobbery, its not really the example to set new members.

I actually find chris's posts entertaining and go somewhat to making it a friendlier place.

[mctwistuk]

Ok people. Part of my aim of this post was to find what people really used the forum part of the website for. If you read what I won't post all I wasn't going to post was spam threads. Now if you take time to read the responses there are mixed reasons for why people use the forum. Some prefer quiet ones with few posts but what posts there are relate to the forum topic and others like banter and spam etc and a busy forum site. I did what I did to find out the real reasons why people use the forum and if I just asked the question straight the info probably wouldn't have been as good. It also let's you see how the people on here care about each other which is one thing that the sidc can take pride in. We seem to have most of the right areas on the exisiting site but they probably just don't get used properly. We will never please everyone.

If you haven't read all the responses then take time to read them and am sure you to can learn a lot.

Chris