Dxs
22-11-2005, 08:17 PM
A have been a member for a while.. i am also a member of various other forums, and have also studyied some user interaction.. bla bla bla.. anywya here are some suggestions.
1) Create a 'Worklogs' forums. Much like the one on OCAU. Where people start a thread about their cars and do posts in the thread on what mods they have done to the car etc. Little write ups for the mods they do etc. This would be good to spread information throughout the community that may not be mentioned through conventional means..
2) Create a 'The Lounge' section and a 'General Honda Topic' section. I find it stupid that we have a section where people are posting videos of hot chicks as well as questions about what models have vtec etc. The topics dont match. Also by making two seperate 'general' forums it should reduce the ammount of people posting questions like 'which hondas have vtec' in say the 'civic' forum because they think semi technical honda questions dont belong in 'the lounge'
3) Do something about the sponsors section. It is not easy to just browse through the latest posted items for sale. If i wanted to do that i would have to open a new window for each sponsor.. way too many clicks and too much hassle. I would suggest a new layout. That has say the newest 10to20 sponsor posts at the top.. then a whole list of the sponsor subsections below it.. Basically i like the idea of browsing through the latest items for sale...
4) Dont be close/lock nazis... I think it is poor form because it reduces information flow. I often see a question where the original topic is answered so it is then a race as to which mod can lock the topic first. What i like about forums is the freedom of information, locking a thread limits this. It is often good if a topic goes off on a tangent from the original question IF the original question has been answered. This is because it gives the users/members oppurtunity to learn informationt that they may not originally set out to find out.
hopefully you take my suggestions into consideration,
cheers,
-Dxs/Dan
1) Create a 'Worklogs' forums. Much like the one on OCAU. Where people start a thread about their cars and do posts in the thread on what mods they have done to the car etc. Little write ups for the mods they do etc. This would be good to spread information throughout the community that may not be mentioned through conventional means..
2) Create a 'The Lounge' section and a 'General Honda Topic' section. I find it stupid that we have a section where people are posting videos of hot chicks as well as questions about what models have vtec etc. The topics dont match. Also by making two seperate 'general' forums it should reduce the ammount of people posting questions like 'which hondas have vtec' in say the 'civic' forum because they think semi technical honda questions dont belong in 'the lounge'
3) Do something about the sponsors section. It is not easy to just browse through the latest posted items for sale. If i wanted to do that i would have to open a new window for each sponsor.. way too many clicks and too much hassle. I would suggest a new layout. That has say the newest 10to20 sponsor posts at the top.. then a whole list of the sponsor subsections below it.. Basically i like the idea of browsing through the latest items for sale...
4) Dont be close/lock nazis... I think it is poor form because it reduces information flow. I often see a question where the original topic is answered so it is then a race as to which mod can lock the topic first. What i like about forums is the freedom of information, locking a thread limits this. It is often good if a topic goes off on a tangent from the original question IF the original question has been answered. This is because it gives the users/members oppurtunity to learn informationt that they may not originally set out to find out.
hopefully you take my suggestions into consideration,
cheers,
-Dxs/Dan