fungus wrote:Giantrat, it wasn't you in my chicken run the other day was it?
Sorry, I just couldn't resist it. Welcome to the forum. You'll find us a friendly crowd in general.
richie349 wrote:Bit of a shame that when someone takes the time to response to a question and make constructive suggestions on this forum, the original poster (or anyone else for that matter) doesn't bother to respond. Hardly surprising that people "lurk" but don't contribute if this is what happens.
Gareth wrote:richie349 wrote:Bit of a shame that when someone takes the time to response to a question and make constructive suggestions on this forum, the original poster (or anyone else for that matter) doesn't bother to respond. Hardly surprising that people "lurk" but don't contribute if this is what happens.
If you want people to engage with you then perhaps you should also be prepared to engage when they respond to your comments.
richie349 wrote:I must admit to being a regular lurker. I visit this site to have a quick glance over current forum topics. For what it's worth, I've always thought the topics seem to linger a bit and become stagnant. On any kind of forum, you'd expect to see new topics and discussions at least on a daily basis.
Based on my experience of running forums, ADUK would benefit from closing topics to new posts after a period of time. This would hopefully cause fresh content to be posted. Once an original post has a large number of responses, people are less inclined to sign in to add their bit as it will probably not get seen, and a previous conversation is likely to continue (rather liked being talked over in a face to face conversation).
It might also be worth considering adding a "guest" forum, where visitors to the site can make restricted contributions without actually registering first.
The latter is a risky strategy due to SPAM, but it could always be removed if the worst happened.
I'm now registered and logged in, so will do my best to be more active in future. Hopefully you find my suggestions worthy of consideration though.
martine wrote:richie349 wrote:I must admit to being a regular lurker. I visit this site to have a quick glance over current forum topics. For what it's worth, I've always thought the topics seem to linger a bit and become stagnant. On any kind of forum, you'd expect to see new topics and discussions at least on a daily basis.
Based on my experience of running forums, ADUK would benefit from closing topics to new posts after a period of time. This would hopefully cause fresh content to be posted. Once an original post has a large number of responses, people are less inclined to sign in to add their bit as it will probably not get seen, and a previous conversation is likely to continue (rather liked being talked over in a face to face conversation).
It might also be worth considering adding a "guest" forum, where visitors to the site can make restricted contributions without actually registering first.
The latter is a risky strategy due to SPAM, but it could always be removed if the worst happened.
I'm now registered and logged in, so will do my best to be more active in future. Hopefully you find my suggestions worthy of consideration though.
Richie - I didn't respond as I'm not sure I agree and didn't want to taint the discussion with my own thoughts...but since no one else has responded, here goes...
Firstly, the idea of ADUK is not to get loads of traffic - we don't require funding from advertising etc...it's not that sort of forum. ADUK is a place for discussion of all things 'advanced' in hopefully a polite and considered environment. We occasionally get together face-to-face (as you know) and it's a convenient way of organising driving days.
I think if we closed topics, we'd get loads more repeat threads - which might make it disjointed. I daren't open a 'guest' forum - we get quite a few sign-ups each week from spammers but they are usually intercepted at the 'activation' stage...if we had an open forum I am sure it would quickly be overrun with spam and I am not prepared to spend the time endlessly deleting inappropriate posts and banning users.
There are 3 admins here - they may have different view of course.
martine wrote: I think the lurking question was posted to see if anything in particular was putting people off
martine wrote: I think it's fair to say Advanced Driving is a minority sport and even the pistonheads AD forum is remarkably quiet sometimes.
martine wrote: Can we get back to talking about driving and fantastic roads now?
waremark wrote:I think Darren initially set out to encourage more people to enjoy improving their driving. I don't think we achieve that particularly well. I don't know how it could be achieved.
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