I confess, I dont like splitting forums up – I am a member of a car club. The split the manufacturer up into different car types; fair enough. The they subdivide the car types into model years, and then each of those are split down into engine, powertrain, interior, instrumentation and electrics, interiors and so on. Its too much!
Bruce
Are we in the same car club? 😮 Seriously though – that’s exactly what we do in my club, and by “we” I include me as one of the web admin team of three.
We adopted an online forum structure (IPB) that we found many similar clubs were using in exactly the same way. There are teething problems, I wouldn’t deny that, but the search facility does get used, and can find the required information…
Mark12 – you made a very good point there about examples of long-running threads (I would use the LPG thread as an absolute gem, full of photos AND updates on the QRA shed rebuild)…. Those kind of threads are indeed archives full of fascinating information.
The ‘pure’ photo threads that I’ve been commenting about are equally archive material, but distinctly different (essentially they are online galleries).
If I may speak with my ‘moderator’ hat on from other forums, I much prefer the tasks of moving threads to the right section than dealing with censorship / arguments, etc… Should there be a need to moderate any new sub-sections it therefore shouldn’t be too much to ask any moderator to assist with….
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