Ending my membership after poor treatment
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pauljmcnulty
Active member
A good point.
Porsche Post is the worst possible place to put any technical articles, if you think about it. The bloke who joins the Club in two weeks time will never read it. We should be building an online archive?
Articles with interest that's beyond one read should be on the website or forum. Porsche Post is for things you browse once, then bin....[8|]
Chris_in_the_UK
New member
FWIW - Porsche Post is many things to some but probably no more than 15 minutes worth of a read to others.
It's never going to be something that will reach and satisfy everybody. Personally I find the pages of regions and sections very repetitive and a waste of print given the low percentage of the membership who seem unable or unwilling to do some of their socialising and communications online.
It's better than it was when I joined (2 years ago) but it is not there yet - it is not a monthly new stand magazine, nor should it be IMHO.
I guess this will continue to be an ongoing heated debate but I felt I should pass my humble opinion.
It's never going to be something that will reach and satisfy everybody. Personally I find the pages of regions and sections very repetitive and a waste of print given the low percentage of the membership who seem unable or unwilling to do some of their socialising and communications online.
It's better than it was when I joined (2 years ago) but it is not there yet - it is not a monthly new stand magazine, nor should it be IMHO.
I guess this will continue to be an ongoing heated debate but I felt I should pass my humble opinion.
Some points well made.
Chris_in_the_UK
New member
FWIW Paul - I buy no magazines in print these days - all are downloads to the iPad.
I find it had to believe that we still have members who insist on the print version - incredibly expensive in comparison. Are these the same members who manage their finances and utility bills/affairs online yet want a paper version - dunno?, but the development of the online stuff (including Porsche Post) has to be the future both financially and efficiency.
I find it had to believe that we still have members who insist on the print version - incredibly expensive in comparison. Are these the same members who manage their finances and utility bills/affairs online yet want a paper version - dunno?, but the development of the online stuff (including Porsche Post) has to be the future both financially and efficiency.
I have a certain amount of sympathy for the OP here.
He seems to have been caught between the editorial changes at PP, and has been made promises that should never have been made. To then have the current editor ask for more contributors after having turned the OP away just seems massively harsh and unprofessional: If the articles are not required, or not in keeping, then at least tell the guy that up front instead of saying that you don't know when they can be fitted in.
Heaven forbid that the PP should have some articles on people doing things different with their cars other than just keeping them bone stock, as per pretty much every other car ever featured in the PP. I tend to agree with Paul that tech articles should be online, but PCGB seem to be incredibly slow at changing anything with regards to the interwebs.
He seems to have been caught between the editorial changes at PP, and has been made promises that should never have been made. To then have the current editor ask for more contributors after having turned the OP away just seems massively harsh and unprofessional: If the articles are not required, or not in keeping, then at least tell the guy that up front instead of saying that you don't know when they can be fitted in.
Heaven forbid that the PP should have some articles on people doing things different with their cars other than just keeping them bone stock, as per pretty much every other car ever featured in the PP. I tend to agree with Paul that tech articles should be online, but PCGB seem to be incredibly slow at changing anything with regards to the interwebs.
ORIGINAL: carreraboy
Hi Terence,
Modified 997 Turbo article, bring it on, subject to reading any submission, I would love to publish any Members Modified Articles in the Modified Register Section. This has been a bit neglected over the last couple of month's, as I have been on Civic duty for six months, which ended today[]
Got my life back now, so Terry (can I call you Terry, bit modified!) if you want to email anything already prepared please email me on modified@porscheclubgb.com that should get me, or my mobile 07768 814264 and we can have a chat and plan the sequence .....
Look forward in hearing from you sson.
Thanks,
Des.
Well the car has been getting various things done over a period of time. Not sure how adding it to a new column would work. Also I'm sure you would have as much difficulty as me getting it published. They seem to have their own agenda now. They want to make it look better, I'm totally for that, but not at the expense of the club members who are the people the magazine is aimed at.
I had conversations with both Chris S and Chris H like others have mentioned here and they both said similar things to me at those times, but six months later and nothing ever materialised. Chris H asked me for more photos, I was in New Zealand, you have no idea how hard it is to organise more photos when you are not even in the country, but I supplied them after a lot of favours were called in, and they were never used either.
After I called the club house to end my membership (over a month ago), the polite woman asked for the reason why I was ending my membership. I told her and she said she'd pass it on to Chris and Nick. I never had any contact from either of them. Now Chris sees this thread and he's telling me to contact him. It feels disingenuous, he's just trying to appear like a reasonable person to others reading it.
Carina
New member
I have 3 observations:-
Firstly, joining a club just because you want to have articles published in it's magazine seems bizarre. PCGB has so much more to offer.
Secondly, I absolutely agree with Gary about Porsche Post always being able to find space to re-publish excerpts form old editions which are of interest to only a tiny minority of readers. Get with the 21st Century please! Your future lies with younger members who will take the brand forward.
Finally, PCGB are evidently in an enviable position in having more content submitted than they are able to publish each month. I have experience of other car clubs who struggle for good quality content and have to chase their various Regional or model specific secretaries/organisers or pad out with advertising.
Firstly, joining a club just because you want to have articles published in it's magazine seems bizarre. PCGB has so much more to offer.
Secondly, I absolutely agree with Gary about Porsche Post always being able to find space to re-publish excerpts form old editions which are of interest to only a tiny minority of readers. Get with the 21st Century please! Your future lies with younger members who will take the brand forward.
Finally, PCGB are evidently in an enviable position in having more content submitted than they are able to publish each month. I have experience of other car clubs who struggle for good quality content and have to chase their various Regional or model specific secretaries/organisers or pad out with advertising.
MJB
New member
How do you know it is only a 'tiny minority'? I agree that we always need to be moving forward, but a few archive pages per month is hardly going to obstruct this. Yes, let's go forward, but let's also not forget how we came to be here.
Our new DMP should take us further into the 21st Century, although I am bothered that a number of officials have still to show much interest in the present one!
garyw
Moderator
It's fine to look back if say the magazine was struggling to fill the pages- It's obviously seems not to be the case!!
Towards the winter months then the articles and events are less forthcoming, so then I'd enjoy looking at the past articles from years gone by and I'm sure it would help the editorial team fill the space left in amongst the advertisers.
This months Porsche post was a busy one and at the height of summer I'd expect it to be, with numerous articles on Lemans, motorsport taking up a fair chunk and plenty of other events but still amazingly the space for a look back in time made - and yet in this month magazine posted elsewhere on the forum is a member who bothered to write an article and it was edited to unrecognisable as the original as sent off for publication.
The magazine is in a good position that many people offer their time to write articles for what is a club magazine, if those articles are continuously dropped, over edited or dumped then things could well change- although I guess we could re-run a my other cars a Ferrari article...[&:]
Maybe if we all sit here and be sheep then the club can continue on its merry way- STILL without a financial director.[8|]
pauljmcnulty
Active member
Great point. The magazine could just as easily be accused of having too much focus on people sitting around at picnics, or garage open days, and not enough on the cars!
I think a few pages of history are more interesting than news of the latest Porsche limited edition or another new SUV... [
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