Posted: 03/19/2008 at 10:37am | IP Logged

Let us know what you think would be a good idea for the forums?

Just post your comments, suggestions, even criticism (constructive please ) right into this thread.

We'll see if we can implement your ideas and get the credit for it (attaboy, attagirl - not cash credit ) for it.

Posted: 03/19/2008 at 10:55pm | IP Logged

Wildcat,

Please stress no politics or religion on the polls. It causes devisiveness in forums

Posted: 03/19/2008 at 11:20pm | IP Logged

Note taken - thanks!

Posted: 03/24/2008 at 12:28am | IP Logged

Come on folks, don't be bashful, we really do want feedback. An amendment to the posting rules is taking shape, setting a deadline for the initial instructions April 1st (yes I know its fools day, but can't help that) , nature of the beast I suppose.

I suspect though the rules will be modified/amended/added during the course of the next couple or so months before we finalize it. We want to keep it as simple as it can be and cover the bases. I also suspect I might hear more from you folks once you see the initial set on the 1st.

If you don't feel comfortable posting feedback here, then by all means send a pm to either an admin or moderator.

Thanks.

Posted: 04/28/2008 at 10:51am | IP Logged

Well, I'm new to this forum, but I will make one suggestion.

I'm a member of the Cessna 150-152 Club and we have 'Daily Jokes' section on our forum. 

Hate to say this - don't tell my boss, but I usually check the 'Daily Jokes' section every morning just to see what been posted. 

Our members are responsible enough not to post anything bad; I've never seen anything objectionable, but there sure is a lot of funny posts.

Just an idea 

Regards

Ramrod25

Posted: 04/28/2008 at 11:34am | IP Logged

I am a member of iboats and they have a section called stupid human tricks while boating\fishing. I frequent that one as well. Its a good place to post smomething stupid that you have done or seen someone do so that everyone can learn from eachothers mistakes.

Posted: 06/23/2008 at 9:00pm | IP Logged

Tryed to responed to Submit your story to scbadiver and got Sorry, you do not have permission to reply to posts in this forum. Is this right?

Thanks, Mike

Posted: 06/24/2008 at 12:35am | IP Logged

My mistake,

 I will summit my story, and it is a little embarrassing. So if I can do it so can the rest out there.

Posted: 06/25/2008 at 4:41pm | IP Logged

  Sometimes when I have not been here for awhile. Maybe boating for the weekend. Anyway when I come in I'll check and see whats been hapening here. If the posts have been busy I'll be somehow distracted before I gat a chance to review the active topics. Or a least all of them. Sure I could forum jump to find them but that is a p. i. a.  I've wondered weather it could be set up simular to iboats on this aspect. I can log out and come back and pick up where I left off. I find this handy when I can't  spend the time at the moment to read all the posts.

 Gregg

Posted: 06/25/2008 at 5:08pm | IP Logged

Ahoy Bamby,

         Welcome Aboard, What we have close to Iboats is at the top of the page ACTIVE TOPICS, Click there and you can pickup from an hour to a week to 6months, In the future some new software will be available that will allow you to save your favorite topics............Let's face it for pontooners......This is the PLACE

Happy Pontooning..................Mike

Posted: 06/25/2008 at 6:58pm | IP Logged

  Maybe I was not clear enough. Lets say I'm reading the forums in back of house. Wife hallers thats dinner is ready. Never late for dinner are you? Anyway sometime after dinner I log back on. After I hit the active  topics it may say no active topics since say the previous 45 mnts. since I went to dinner. Then if wou want to review anything you didn't have a chance to read you have to forum jump to find it. Does this make since or am I doing something wrong?

 Gregg

Posted: 10/20/2008 at 11:09am | IP Logged

   Have you considered a roll off topic? What I mean is I know you are reluctant to take up forum space for photos for instance. Is it possible to develop a topic section that the posts roll off after a period of time? It could be a place to share things with each other that are maybe other than nuts and bolts. Could be you catch, scenery, etc. off topic things. And anyone posting there would realize its going away at some point. Could over time increase traffic to this site. What do you think Wildcat?  Just a thought on my part.

 Gregg

Posted: 10/20/2008 at 11:30am | IP Logged

Bamby, posts are closed after 6 months of no posts, after 2 years then they are deleted (if they are just normal topics). That way members can search the archives. Only posts that are actually deleted manually on a regular basis is those in the For Sale or Trade, and Want to Buy section.  We don't mind (and Jim/Andrea doesn't seem to mind paying for the storage) the photo's. I think when you said catch, you meant cache right? We have some other ideas in the offering (contest coming up soon). With the current forum software, I don't have much leeway in how it works. Could you be a little more specific about nuts and bolts? (my brain didn't kick in gear, stuck in neutral)

looneytune, other than the Active Topics button, this forum software is very old and hasn't been updated since it was put into operation in 2005, so you have to click on the last page and scroll down. But I've been on other forums and personally don't care to just read only new posts (then I miss out on the flow of the topic to get the full meaning). But I know what you're talking about. I haven't looked at all the new features yet of the updated software to see if that was configurable (its not in this version). I usually just click on the last page of the Active Topics of the topic I want to catch up on. Does that help? It does prevent you from having to read through say 3-4 pages of the original topic. Just keep in mind there will be times where you might have to change the Active Topics time frame from the current time to say 2, 4, yesterday, etc to catch topics that you missed that were updated previously (and the time refreshed on you).