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Before anyone gets the wrong idea i'm not trying to teach anyone to suck eggs, this is a great forum and long may it last! "Readers Rides" - Doesn't "Readers Projects" fit the bill a bit better? I'm seeing full-on projects there not just a few glossy photos - love it. I readers rides - When one posts his/her project diary/blog the flow is constantly interrupted with other peoples comments. Nothing wrong with talking about and encouraging but it kinda breaks the flow. I have mod rights on the forum i use (will be moving here soon as its dead there) and every month i purge other peoples comments unless they are directly linked the the project. Infact here it is- z3.invisionfree.com/TuningHouse/index.php?showtopic=921&st=150last7 pages of pure uninterrupted writeup, easy for anyone to start from the first page and not have to pick through. Anyway unless someone could have mod rights on just their thread it ain't gonna happen i guess. The other way is like they have on the fiat coupe UK club. A person has 2 threads for each of their cars - One project thread where one he/she posts and one "discussion" thread with quotes to the relevant section of said project thread. Anyone feel the same way? Thanks for listening- Guy
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luckyseven
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Owning sneering dismissive pedantry since 1970
Posts: 3,839
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Anyone feel the same way? No. Or to be rather more elaborate, I think the banter, cross-flow of ideas and the interjections are part of what makes a forum interesting. Much as I love reading and looking at people's amazing builds, this is a forum I.e. a medium for interaction. If you want just dry technical exercises in a single "voice" then surely blogs or homepages are more the metier? I think there's a great balance on here, most people realise when a thread's gone far enough off-tangent or been filled with ephemera enough and bring it back to the core topic. There are a few exceptions ( that build that degenerated into 15 pages of wheel suggestions, for example) but by and large I think they are the exception rather than the rule. Speaking personally, if I spent three pages writing up my car's creation and I didn't get one remark, even if it was only "your car's cool/rubbish/ugly/too high/too low/delete as applicable" I'd think I was doing something wrong. We all build cars for ourselves ultimately but it's also nice to know they're at least provoking a response in others, even if it's only to keep them awake!
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bl1300
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Disagree I'm afraid.
It's disheartening to write up a progress report on your project and get no reponse to it, to the point that it can actually make someones project stall or even fail due to lack of mojo. The responses and discussion of the project are important for that reason.
Looking in at a thread and seeing nobody but the original poster will also put people off reading through it as they might feel that as nobody has commented that the thread isn't worth reading, their own project doesn't get the inspiration it needs, its nowhere near as cool and nuns and kittens die.
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I prefer it as is, on the forums that have two threads I always think its a bit dis jointed,
from a personal point of view I welcome comments, suggestions and warnings of doom over what I am doing,
on other threads I skip most of the other short sentence comments and figure if someone has something interesting to say, then it will take more words, this isn't always the case though,
I try not to drivel over every thread, but know that positive comments can boost mojo, and criticism can be positive!
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I prefer it as is, on the forums that have two threads I always think its a bit dis jointed, Yeah i think you've all got the wrong end of the stick, i'm not against people commenting on others projects. The fact that i prefer to keep other peoples comments separate would be besides the point with 2 threads, if someone was dead against that then they could just post a project thread and not start a discussion thread. I can't imagine anyone would want to do this mind you, but with 2 threads it keeps everyone happy. I can't believe nobody agrees that the write-ups look fragmented with other peoples comments here and there. I suppose i could post a link to the other forum i use and use it like a blog and have a comments/Q&A/suggestions thread on this forum. Guy
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I prefer it as is, on the forums that have two threads I always think its a bit dis jointed, Yeah I think you've all got the wrong end of the stick, i'm not against people commenting on others projects. The fact that I prefer to keep other peoples comments separate would be besides the point with 2 threads, if someone was dead against that then they could just post a project thread and not start a discussion thread. I can't imagine anyone would want to do this mind you, but with 2 threads it keeps everyone happy. I can't believe nobody agrees that the write-ups look fragmented with other peoples comments here and there. I suppose I could post a link to the other forum I use and use it like a blog and have a comments/Q&A/suggestions thread on this forum. Guy It's not that i don't agree that they look fragmented, just that it is a better solution than 2 threads, you OCD or something?
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you OCD or something? Worse than that, i'm an engineer! ;D Guy
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
www.vintagediesels.co.uk
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Jan 14, 2013 18:16:55 GMT
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Personally I've always welcomed comments and suggestions on my threads, and to remove them would break the natural flow of the project and the the thought process would get lost a little if bits were just deleted. Having 2 threads on the same subject sounds utterly confusing and unneccesarily complicated. I like it the way it is. It's simple and it works. (I'm also an engineer btw )
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Jan 14, 2013 18:34:24 GMT
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I have mod rights on the forum I use (will be moving here soon as its dead there) and every month I purge other peoples comments unless they are directly linked the the project. Anyone feel the same way? Thanks for listening- Guy Maybe it's dead there because overzealous moderators delete everybody's comments. Personall I like feedback on the forums too, if you've after somewhere to post a build thread with photos / spec list / updates without comments from others I'd recommend www.thrll.com it's got a great interface.
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Jan 17, 2013 22:29:27 GMT
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If i've got this right, your forum is dying on its feet, so you're gonna move to this one, but before you do you're proposing that this forum ought to change its format to be little more like yours. Good idea!
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Jan 18, 2013 16:50:01 GMT
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If i've got this right, your forum is dying on its feet, so you're gonna move to this one, but before you do you're proposing that this forum ought to change its format to be little more like yours. Good idea! As ever Mr Xbo11ox, sarcasm at it's best ;D
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sp1tom
Part of things
Posts: 46
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Jan 20, 2013 16:41:22 GMT
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all i see on tuning house from this year is your thread and somebody trying to sell Spammy spam spam spam, no thank you, man.!
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