View Poll Results: How do you think we did this year?
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Great! Love the changes and keep up the good work!
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Ehh, Not so sure on all the changes... I liked it before...
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Huh?, There were changes?
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2007.12.21, 10:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Brooklyn. Got a problem with that?
Posts: 1,498
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Hey arch,
I found it. You only have to quote. "mclaren body" gives exactly what i wanted. I think it would be very useful to link to a file that will explain this and other possibilities from the advanced search page. What do you think?
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2007.12.21, 11:23 AM
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#17
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 35,480
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if you have a link to such info, please let me know and it will be an faq
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2008.01.01, 09:05 PM
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#18
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4play
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Reflex Racing, everywhere
Posts: 2,602
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Quote:
Originally Posted by arch2b
i too was having this discussion with david briefly. i think he had talked with ruf actually. please send/email me any formating suggestions you may have as i'm in agreement with you regarding initial breakdown of forums/subforums. we may actually have the same amount as we previously had since new subforums were added per requests/suggestions and some were compiled per requests/suggestions.
i don't believe is resting on our laurels so to speak. i know it's not perfect and there is ALWAYS room for improvement.
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Hi Arch, sorry I just checked this thread... I'll get back to you guys with ideas soon. Hands a little full right now.
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2008.01.03, 10:21 AM
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#19
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DCGTG FET Guy
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Posts: 3,444
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Quote:
Originally Posted by arch2b
iwaver and firelap are 2 seperate brands despite being owned by one party.
we are going to need to keep subforums no matter what. but as spoon suggests, maybe we change the heirarchy/they way they are displayed.
i'm all for doing away with subforums that create overlap ie; mini-z science, gallery, etc. custom bodies, etc, etc. there are several i think.
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Just resurrecting this post a little bit here. Based on Arch's pdf a few posts earlier I made a new pdf with my suggestions. I can attach a word version if someone wants to make adjustments.
It's still a bit large for my tastes. There are a lot of chassis sub-forums and a lot of high level forums as well.
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2008.01.03, 10:53 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Washington, DC
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i like the changes. i'd change the verbage in titles in some places but overall, very good suggestion.
simply put, there is no way to avoid the multitude of subforums as there are simply soo many specific areas for discussion. combining any of these would in my opinion make it even more difficult to find info. related to specific chassis's.
what we can do which you've done, is combine and or eliminate some of the misc. subforums inorder to make them more efficient.
i'd like to explore other means of displaying the tree. if you look at our new community forum, robokojo.com, it uses a different approach. i'm sure vb has options we can explore, we just need to look into them.
also, this would be a drastic change in policy (i've been know to push david's boundaries) but if you look at the marketplace subforum on hisstank.com, they subdivide a space just for ebay related transactions. i know our current policy prohibits the use of ebay transactions unles going thru the auction thingy but that has proved to be useless for the most part. i'm tossing it out there for discussion that maybe we reverse course and embrace ebay despite concerns of it's misuse and implement a sim. controlled subforum as you find on hisstank. interestingly enough, they also incorporate your ebay account into your forum profile which i find very interesting.
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2008.01.03, 12:53 PM
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DCGTG FET Guy
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Posts: 3,444
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Responses Below...
Quote:
Originally Posted by arch2b
i like the changes. i'd change the verbage in titles in some places but overall, very good suggestion.
Sounds good. I didn't spend too much time worrying about the wording, I figured some of it would change/get standardized.
simply put, there is no way to avoid the multitude of subforums as there are simply soo many specific areas for discussion. combining any of these would in my opinion make it even more difficult to find info. related to specific chassis's.
Agreed
what we can do which you've done, is combine and or eliminate some of the misc. subforums inorder to make them more efficient.
i'd like to explore other means of displaying the tree. if you look at our new community forum, robokojo.com, it uses a different approach. i'm sure vb has options we can explore, we just need to look into them.
I am not so stoked about the way robokojo looks. That's the same format as tinyrc right? I guess it could be okay if we stuck with the mzr.com color scheme. The colors could be distorting my opinion. I don't feel strongly on this one either way.
also, this would be a drastic change in policy (i've been know to push david's boundaries) but if you look at the marketplace subforum on hisstank.com, they subdivide a space just for ebay related transactions. i know our current policy prohibits the use of ebay transactions unles going thru the auction thingy but that has proved to be useless for the most part. i'm tossing it out there for discussion that maybe we reverse course and embrace ebay despite concerns of it's misuse and implement a sim. controlled subforum as you find on hisstank. interestingly enough, they also incorporate your ebay account into your forum profile which i find very interesting.
Interesting thought. I would leave that up to you and David.
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2008.01.03, 01:09 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 35,480
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oh no, i was not suggesting a theme change, just that robokojo lists the forums and subforums much differently than mini-zracer. i'm talking pure asthetics on how they are displayed/organized.
the auction area (ebay is nto the only game in town anymore) was more for putting it out there. it's something i've been thinking about ever since i got the marketplace up with byebye and david.
Last edited by arch2b; 2008.01.03 at 01:11 PM.
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