Razor Blade

Serously now I am split between the top three so my suggestion is as follows
to shut for a short time to hopefully fix the problems & limit users rights to stop the one of posters this will hopefully ween out the non interested partys thus keeping those that wish to partake in this community.

If all else fails then we do the third & move on to a better setup but this will most likley require some form of donation - i do not condone this approach as there are many people willing to participate in this approach but however the fee to join suggestion would cut all our throats & not just Dougies leaving this a small yet freindly community with no chance of expansion & growth.

Funds could be obatined by the sale of club items to members & when we start to have larger gatherings @ meets then we could start raffles & even kitty pots to supply booze & nibbles.

@ Rob - Ditto really

@ Jim - If we go for a Phpbb3 Forum firstly who is paying for it they dont come free? secondly who is webmastering it as i have no idea how they operate? ideal if we had more assisatnce from those in the know sadly until that time impossible we have a build guide forum no one uses, we have a blogs area few have used so what makes you think adding more "extras" would make people use them, i'm intrequed to klnow the rational behind your thinking.

I continue that i still as does my "proffesional" helper btw beleive we have far to much information freely available without having to do anything in oder to gain that information, by this i do not mean free as in charge i mean in respect off all a member has to do is register, most havent even done this correctly! or fully it seems everyone if you let them will use our site glean what information they can and go never to return, the advice i am gaining from the pros is to shut down and re-open as a invitation only site i have said it before and i shall again or failing this move a lot of our webbpages into our forum at least so as they MUST at least register [and tighten up the registration process] working on a scale off posts to gain access to teh differenmt parts as Chas will tell you setting up a "How To" lets say takes time energy and commitment which is to easily being able to be viewed if it was harder we would at least be gaining forum posts, giving us a better chance at keeping our members actively involved.

From my recent involvement with this site all I can do is congratulate you all on how good it is. Like I said in a posting a day or two ago, it's those who don't have the hobby which includes making new pals that I feel sorry for. I feel that I have some new pals here. Even if this makes you want to reach for the sick bucket, it's the truth.

Sincerely

Bomber

@ Bomber - I'm not sure if you realies this whole community was set up by me so i'm to blame i suppose for gathering this group of rebrebrates together then, on the whole i still manage it single handedly with events organised mostly by Chas and Rob does our secretary stuff [but is selfconfessidly just learning soi i do a lot there to for now] i love it as it keep me going gives me a sense of meaning if you see what i mean being unable to work i have little else to do really [except wind you lot up] the reason i put the post up was after a few things going crazy with the set up off our community making a few things not work........ i am basically happy with it as is but naturally want to progress our community still father ..... the idea was never to be the biggest, or for that matter the best but you have seen what we are all about quite quickly if only more would so we have a constant change of topics and people to talk to....... We have now had a few successful meets and running our meets with-in other major events is definately the way to go without a doubt raisng awareness of our presence and importantly what we are all about ....... The problem here is keeping members most come in get what they want and dissappear whilst this is common on forums we are not large enough for this not to make a large difference [for a long time i was being accused of posting to myself and at times it really did feel this way i can assure you]....

I am strongly against any sort of charge however small for 2 reasons one it starts more squabbles as to where this raised money goes who controls it etc etc apart from the fact we dont need to i supply the domains we operate under i own them and one was a gift to us and secondly it costs nothing to operate apart from time [if i was to charge for it we would be several thousand down already] i seriously dont seek gratitude praise money or other glory for my efforts i set out with the intention off supplying an alternative to the normal as you so correctly put it clique groups and think i have single handedly done not to bad a job of it thus far...........yeah i may not spell everything right all the time but im sure most understand me most of the time and when they dont, worry not as i dont most of the time [punctuation and rambling are my two failings]

As for where we go from here i will NEVER please everyone all off the time and do not try to my main concern is that NEW members are cordially greated and shown what we are all about in doing so we have attracted a few likes of yourself, Glen, Rob Earthman [sometimes] and a growing amount of other users but it is so very hard when all you get is this doesnt work, that doesnt work instead of offers to help cure issues, problems sadly most want everything for nothing and i nor we will never change that fact [sadly the main problem in the UK today apparently] so i always aim to keep my main members that contibute daily or whatever happy the likes of Chas has been here since day one almost and as far as i can see is happy i have the overwelming urge to make us a bit more streamlined. efficient etc and i shall but withgout my members views its impossible hence posts like this appear from time to time........

I make no excuses i am no proffesional at this as is none of the rest of the gang everything we use is a gift or Free i do not believe that anyone should be out of pocket we dont need to be, we are all equals as far as i see it as such we should all be conbtributing if we dont there is little or no point in continuing ....

But guess what i dont care WHY ?? simple i have just had the call i have waited 7 whole months for .......

@ Jim - Silver Members dont and never have had the ability to edit their posts its an unchangeable fact nothing i can do about it i'm afraid i am working with a designer to try and iron out some of these issues which it is hoped we will do shortly some code is being written in an attemptto resolve some of the more common things ....