Practically Classics Forum

1) Why are some members names in red?

2) I can see all/most of the usuall names have made a welcome return except Mr Rusty! where is he?

It's good to see old faces returning. I'm not sure the mention in the magazine was big enough for most people to notice it. Bauer should post a link to this on the front page of practicalclassics.co.uk, that would probably bring more people back. I'm sure Neil will arrange for that to be done before too long.

Users with their nickname in red are message board administrators. Responsible for removing spam, moving posts made in the wrong forum to the correct one, etc.

Maybe it would be a good plan to post a link to here at the other, well-attended (is "attended" the right term? You know what I mean though) fora such as Popular Classics, various single-make car club sites, Car Mechanics, Irish Vintage Scene and in the classic car sections at boards.ie and boards.uk.
This suggestion is in no way made as a criticism of any other, similar facility out there, but if you don't ask, etc.

JPB wrote:Maybe it would be a good plan to post a link to here at the other, well-attended (is "attended" the right term? You know what I mean though) fora such as Popular Classics, various single-make car club sites, Car Mechanics, Irish Vintage Scene and in the classic car sections at boards.ie and boards.uk.
This suggestion is in no way made as a criticism of any other, similar facility out there, but if you don't ask, etc.

Are you one of those Irish buggers? .No dogs or Irish on this site . Seriously I find the vintage scene site to be dead really, with very little activity on it.Now boards.ie is a different story.Its very active on all the sections including the motors and,classic cars threads.I am a regular contributor to that site and especially on the motors section.

Haven't been on IVS myself for ages, but they were good for the tractors as I recall.
Not from Ireland, but have partaken in many a good pub crawl there.

JPB wrote:Maybe it would be a good plan to post a link to here at the other, well-attended (is "attended" the right term? You know what I mean though) fora such as Popular Classics, various single-make car club sites, Car Mechanics, Irish Vintage Scene and in the classic car sections at boards.ie and boards.uk.
This suggestion is in no way made as a criticism of any other, similar facility out there, but if you don't ask, etc.

Good call,I've stuck a link up on Popular :-

http://popularclassics.forumcircle.com/ ... 926#194926

Mrotwoman wrote:I've stuck a link up on Popular :-

http://popularclassics.forumcircle.com/ ... 926#194926

Oooh, ta mate! Nice one.

We started off slowly here, but membership and activity has got a lot better recently - could always do with more though!

Cheers

Not a critism, just I hope a useful comment...

But there appears to be a lot of Admins here, is really that necessary?

I remember on the old board there was a string of both Admins and Moderators (yet the reality was only one was really an active Moderator on a day to day basis), as I say it's not a criticism, just that I have found that it can be something of a turn - off for some would-be-members as it can give the impression that the forum is in fact over administered.

DoloMIGHTY wrote:Not a critism, just I hope a useful comment...

But there appears to be a lot of Admins here, is really that necessary?

I remember on the old board there was a string of both Admins and Moderators (yet the reality was only one was really an active Moderator on a day to day basis), as I say it's not a criticism, just that I have found that it can be something of a turn - off for some would-be-members as it can give the impression that the forum is in fact over administered.

the more there are, the more likelly one will be online if something needs fixing

DoloMIGHTY wrote:Not a critism, just I hope a useful comment...

But there appears to be a lot of Admins here, is really that necessary?

I remember on the old board there was a string of both Admins and Moderators (yet the reality was only one was really an active Moderator on a day to day basis), as I say it's not a criticism, just that I have found that it can be something of a turn - off for some would-be-members as it can give the impression that the forum is in fact over administered.

I personally don't think the forum can be over-administered as long as all of the admins are fair and on the same wavelength (which i think we are). I know i keep saying it, but this is now officially an unofficial forum, so we have a lot more freedom over what we do and how we run it. I'm sorry if having lots of admins seems in some way oppressive, but it isn't meant to be big brotherish in anyway. There are now no moderators on the forum, only admins, so if any of the admins spot spam they can deal with it directly, instead of having to email me with the details so i can deal with it (like on the last forum). So for example, before if i was on holiday there was no-one to delete the spammers so the forum would fill up with rubbish - now, that simply won't happen.

Hope you understand Alan!

Cheers, Neil