faqs

[pauljmcnulty]

Hi all,

I've moved a few of the stickies to the "faqs" forum, and moved the "events" stickie here as it's so often updated and often missed.

Hope that's ok with everyone, I don't want the first page of the forum to be all stickied threads and the seperate "faqs" forum is the ideal place for them.

 

[ChasR]

Maybe it's worth stickying this post. Furthermore, how about maybe taking some FAQs from the forum members? I appreciate that Clark's guide covers many things very well, but there are things that are not cover and that often crop up as questions on the forum (I am happy to make a guide on cleaning a late dash instrument cluster and handbrake shoes spring how to.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

Furthermore, how about maybe taking some FAQs from the forum members?

Absolutely. Whether the 944 info gets put on the website or all bundled into the "faqs" section here, it needs content. I've said a few times, alright, many times, that if you do a job on the car take pics and write a few words. Don't worry about spelling, we can correct that! [&:]

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty ... Hope that's ok with everyone ...

What if it's not? What if moving threads to the FAQ's section isn't 'OK with everyone?' Do we protest? Post you some gruff PM's? Send the boys 'round? A letterbomb or two? An endless stream of un-ordered cabs and take-aways to your home address every Saturday night? Or just ignore you in a slightly sniffy way at the next PCGB event that we see you at? (My preferred method, for sure - I hate confrontations ... ) Just curious. That's all ... [] Oli.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

What if it's not? What if moving threads to the FAQ's section isn't 'OK with everyone?' Do we protest? Post you some gruff PM's? Send the boys 'round? A letterbomb or two? An endless stream of un-ordered cabs and take-aways to your home address every Saturday night? Or just ignore you in a slightly sniffy way at the next PCGB event that we see you at? (My preferred method, for sure - I hate confrontations ... ) Just curious. That's all ...

[][][] I'll happily take the endless takeaways, please! [8D] This is a democratic forum, as we saw when we tried to change the colours or in-post links recently. It's just that no-one ever actually suggests changing anything, so we have to try what we think will be an improvement and then deal with the flak! Hopefully, moving the "events" to the main page means more people will read it and attend. Particularly the Cotswold Rally and the optional rally at Frontrunner, which need to be pre-booked and always sell out.

 

[zcacogp]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty It's just that no-one ever actually suggests changing anything ...

Probably because, not that it is perfect, but it is more than good enough to serve the purpose. And people tend to use forums like this for the content more than anything else. The one thing about this forum that really annoys me is the time-out anti-flood control. It's a prize pain logging in, finding a few threads I want to reply to, and finding that replying to threads 2, 3, 4 and 5 is hampered by having to wait x minutes between each post. I fully appreciate the need for such a system (although PH seems to manage without one), but it does feel that the time-out is possibly a little long. Can it readily be made shorter? Oli.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

The one thing about this forum that really annoys me is the time-out anti-flood control. It's a prize pain logging in, finding a few threads I want to reply to, and finding that replying to threads 2, 3, 4 and 5 is hampered by having to wait x minutes between each post. I fully appreciate the need for such a system (although PH seems to manage without one), but it does feel that the time-out is possibly a little long. Can it readily be made shorter?

I'll check with Anthony. It used to be 1 minute IIRC, which was a pretty fair compromise. I know it was raised when the forum had auto-spamming problems, but I'll check it was reset. [] I agree with you about it being near-perfect though. The main issue is how to add masses of permanent content, like technical "how-to"s, without either clogging up the front page or people never seeing them. The idea is, I guess, that anything that needs to be updated regularly, like "spotting" or "events" has to be on the front page. Anything that's pretty much archived, like your clock replacement thread, or very rarely added to, like "colours", can go in the faqs sub-forum to keep things tidy and readable.