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Old 06-25-2006, 01:55 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Lose the useless "Super Off Topic" section.
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Old 06-25-2006, 02:01 PM   #22 (permalink)
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1) Then you might as well not post the thread...it is going to get buried in the forum and it is going to get lost.
It wont get lost to me, and when I make a change it will come to the top of the forum and hopefully people who are INTERESTED in the changes will be SUBSCRIBED to the thread so they'll get notification.

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2) I don't understand the "too many areas" arguement...We can put in a super off topic and breakout of regions into specific areas, but we don't have room for new areas for discussing FJ topics?
We dont have room for areas that are unecessary, IMHO. You can create a million "FJ Topic" -- but are all of them necessary? Are some of them redundant? I mean, is it worth it to have a section thats going to get maybee 5 or 6 threads a month? IMHO, Its not.

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3) My thoughts on do it yourself were for the various installs and stickys posted...would generate more members to post their topics in a dedicated area than just Admin selecting one or 2 "good posts". Also different from slef help...whihc is more at rying to fumble through forum operations and activities. As a newbie at one time, I can attest that if you're not a super techno, doing just basic posts can be challenging.
I still dont see the difference between a DIY and a HowTo section. Unless you mean the DIY would be directed at the FJ, and the Howto would be directed at how to operate on this forum, in which case thats what the forum FAQ is for: http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forums/faq.php

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4) I disagree with the amount of traffic...I actually think it will be one of the higher trafficed areas. This site lacks any comparison to any other vehicle of similar class and function. Sure, if you scrolled through 1,000 posts, you might find that JEEP owner who will make one comment about it compared to an FJ. I say give it a try, and if it doesn't work out, remove it...
Well, on this one I guess we just agree to disagree.

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5) Thread versus topic area...if I was an admin guy then I might say thread as well. If I was the noob, I definitely would say topic area. As an addict, I'd say topic area because it is easier for the members to find things. so that makes the vote 2 out of 3 for a topic area As much as I hate it, the elcova does a better job IMHO of making it easier to navigate to what you want...I essentially go into a huge @ss topic are and then hope to god that someone posted to that thread within the last day or two so I don't have to dig through page after page of threads...
Different strokes for different folks I guess. We cant please everyone at everything... and I think you had some great suggestions that we will be implementing, but I dont think we will implement all of them.
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Old 06-25-2006, 02:04 PM   #23 (permalink)
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thats why you are site admin...no what about the rest of us...would have never knwo thatunless you hadn't of posted a post on it
Thats what this entire forum is for. Asking questions and getting answers.
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Old 06-25-2006, 02:08 PM   #24 (permalink)
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so I have an ego b/c i thought the change was cool??? Lighten up man............
No, all the noob BS just gets old after awhile. There are people on here with very few posts with good info who make a contribution so who cares if you have 1K in posts asking stupid polls,inane replies to boost post total or 2 and ask a legit question.Anyway I can't believe that the phrase "switch removal" has not been entered on this forum cause it doesn,t search. Paul H
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This forum improvements exchange is good. Here are additional minor options/features I'd like to see:

1) User option to set search default to show results as posts instead of threads.
2) User option to pull in more text associated with each search hit. It would be best if the entire post could be pulled in so that we could just scroll and not have to enter each post to see the meat.

Also, does a newsreader like Thunderbird work with this site?

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No, all the noob BS just gets old after awhile. There are people on here with very few posts with good info who make a contribution so who cares if you have 1K in posts asking stupid polls,inane replies to boost post total or 2 and ask a legit question.Anyway I can't believe that the phrase "switch removal" has not been entered on this forum cause it doesn,t search. Paul H
Well, apparently it hasnt. The search brings up the term now:

http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forum...earchid=248019

Which only shows this thread.
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Old 06-25-2006, 02:17 PM   #27 (permalink)
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This forum improvements exchange is good. Here are additional minor options/features I'd like to see:

1) User option to set search default to show results as posts instead of threads.
The software does not support defaults like that on a PER USER basis.

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2) User option to pull in more text associated with each search hit. It would be best if the entire post could be pulled in so that we could just scroll and not have to enter each post to see the meat.

Also, does a newsreader like Thunderbird work with this site?

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#2 I dont think is possible but I will look into it. And yes, this site supports RSS:

http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/forum...l.php?type=rss

Also, I've "collapsed" the regional forums so they dont take up so much room. What does everyone think?
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Old 06-25-2006, 02:34 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Kudos on the new ranking system.

And RSS is kewl. ekool, in fact <s>. haven't played with it yet, but looks to be really great.

Nice to see the changes!
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No, all the noob BS just gets old after awhile. There are people on here with very few posts with good info who make a contribution so who cares if you have 1K in posts asking stupid polls,inane replies to boost post total or 2 and ask a legit question....

In this case, how about not counting Off-Topic posts on the post count??
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In this case, how about not counting Off-Topic posts on the post count??
Already done. OT posts dont count towards a users' post count (as of about an hour ago)
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