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Boxster Sypder - Sub Forum - now is the time

gdavison

gdavison

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With the announcement of the new Spyder, please please please can we have a sub forum for the new Spyder so that we don't get another 14,286+ posts in one thread. This is useless to the Spyder owners wanting to source info and/or discuss specifics to their variant and often annoying to folk "not interested" and have subscribed to the generic Boxster forum and now get multiple emails a day from the "Are Spyders Becoming Extinct At OPCs! " thread

thanks G
 
Having more car registers or sub-registers has been discussed before and it wasn't an option. That included separating 987 from 981, for example.

For that reason it is useful to Spyder owners who tune in regularly to the same thread rather than missing Spyder banter on many new threads that may or may not have 'spyder' in the subject title.

I presume you mean you are subscribed to receive every post in the Boxster register? You can subscribe to individual threads in the Boxster register and therefore only receive emails from those. Whether you can unsubscribe just the Spyder thread if you've subscribed at the register level I do not know. Other than that I don't know what to suggest.

Hope you find a way around it.
 
I think there's a lot of merit in dramatically reducing the forum areas, not increasing them: so many are under-used, many are empty.

It was mentioned ages ago that the infamous Spyder thread belonged in the chat room, rather than the Boxster forum?Easy to move it if people agree. [:)]
 
Hi Paul

Occasionally we get requests to shut down or move the Spyder thread, as if it should become a victim of its own success. It is indeed a very popular model and so moving the thread to the chat room I don't think will help.

Just yesterday we had a new thread started announcing the new 981 Boxster Spyder when all other Spyder followers had already been discussing it on the single thread from the day before (keeping themselves to themselves so to speak). I think if you move the single thread you will have lots of Spyder threads popping up and that will not solve gdavidson's desire to subscribe to all emails in the Boxster register with a view that the Boxster register be quiet enough to do so. If anything you'll get duplication of discussion of this popular model and thus more posts in the Boxster register.

It's possibly the largest Spyder community on the Internet and demoting it to chat room status would be a bit of an insult from the Club IMHO. This level of enthusiasm about a Porsche model is just what the Club needs and I think a few contributors attracted to this thread as non-members have since joined the club as 2 recently were asking for their forum status to be updated from Guest to Member.
 
you could always start a new post that includes both spyders.ie 987 vs 981 spyder!
i for one who currently own the 987 spyder and have been offered a 981 spyder but not sure what to do,whatever i do i will still have an interest in both cars like many others on the said long running post.this will also have the advantage of bringing other posters to the fold

 
The thing is, the length of the thread and the title of the thread are often misconstrued. The thread is no longer about what its title suggests, it's about all things to do with the Boxster Spyder. If you start a new thread you'll still have people posting at the same rate on a new thread, such is the popularity of the model. The length of the thread isn't really relevant or doing any harm (though it is a nice indicator of how popular the model is, by the length of conversation about it). The value is that everyone knows where to post their Spyder query and have the attention of every enthusiast to help answer their query, because they're all committed to it. It's not about whether you can sift through 700 pages or not. Some will be subscribed to the thread, such is the community built up with it. Starting new posts for every Spyder topic would lose the ability to subscribe to the Spyder community as you couldn't subscribe to multiple new threads that you don't yet know exist.

What we do need to do though is to try to reduce the amount of catty confrontation which sometimes arises as that is what will have us perceived as chat room.
 
P.S. similarly a GT4 thread has been set up in the Cayman register where all things GT4 are discussed. Individual threads would get interspersed with other Cayman topics and some GT4-ers missing them unless they subscribe to the whole Cayman register or log in every day to check if any new threads are about the GT4. But the individual thread replaces the fact that the GT4 will not get its own register and they have coped through using the same solution. Cars like the GT3 don't have this problem because they have their own register.

But to be clear, i'm not asking for a register, we're coping without that.
 
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Lol. I think Tracy and Paul have given us more than a stay of execution. If all Spydermen start posting here, then we will be classed as a nuisance![:)]
 
My intention was that to recognise the importance to the owners and potential owners of spyders that a unique source of info exists for them. In addition recognise the level of passion to their owners and predict that the same will happen again for the new one. However all the info being in one thread limits the ability to find any info to close to none existent due to limitations of search and human attention span.

However folks seem to think otherwise and dont see value in a sub forum which is fine as life is generally about what the majority believe.

Going forward I wish spyder owners the best in their search for their info and recognition of their unique vehicle .. as to my inbox being filled with what to me are "irrelevant" posts, that was not the intent .. I have a sliding scale of choice of continuing to live with it (and the potential new one for the new Spyder) through to desubing from the whole Boxster forum and falling back to online checking things when I can get around to it
 

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However folks seem to think otherwise and dont see value in a sub forum which is fine as life is generally about what the majority believe.
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As per above, we all see value in a sub-forum. We have asked in the past, so we don't disagree with you. However as Paul says the Club already views that there are too many registers and if anything need to reduce the number. That being the case we have accepted what we have. We're only saying please don't banish us to the chat room[:)]
 
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