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OK thanks Karl
At the moment, I don't feel I have anything useful to add
On the other hand, as I have made a clear above, I haven't done anything at all to sustain and build this forum yet. Lots of people clearly have, and their voice is obviously the most important.
how do you know if you have posted 10 times or not? Don't want to be just posting drivel for the sake of it. Also, where the "introduce yourself" section - I haven't found that - link would be good. Thanks
And then upgrade to Premium and support he cause further perhaps albeit ITS OPTIONALI agree, I think by "forcing" new members to post by the time they've got their 10 posts they spoke to a few people and will be more likely to continue to be active members.
Above the bedDid she make you put it back on the ceiling?
And I wonder which thread that was KarlJust to show, the numbers I quoted yesterday are not fictitious... here's a screenshot of the stats from the forum. This shows the total number of posts (blue line) and the total number of likes (orange line) from 1st Jan this year (which was a big step up from 2017!) to yesterday.
You can see the last 3 days have seen a massive increase in activity! So we are driving the club in the right direction!
The points are "posts/lines" per day... so yesterday saw the highest number of posts ever on this forum at 677 and total liked posts went up to a massive 1218!!
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When I decide to sell mine matey I will bell you.I agree that this isn't straightforward, so to play devil's advocate.
I have always been a bit of a petrol head and been a member of several forums of both specialist motorbikes and cars.
I feel I know quite a bit, but I know nothing about Elgrands. One of the most important bits of knowledge to have is to know when you don't know anything! - this is why I joined the forum: to learn more about them before making a better advised purchase. Hopefully, next week or in a couple of year's time, I will buy one, then I will undoubtedly modify, upgrade etc and most probably put up pics and build posts to help others, like I have done with my bike and car builds in the past. At the moment, I don't feel I have anything useful to add. I did have lots of questions, but a few minutes browsing almost always shows that others have asked the same question before, so I try not to waste anyone's time with the usual 'how fast do they go?', 'what should I look out for?', 'what's the mpg?' questions.
I would also rather buy a vehicle off someone who knows about and cherishes it, preferably knowing something about previous owners etc, hence keeping an eye on the for sale section. I can never understand why a forum would want to narrow the potential market for their members who invariably are only reluctantly selling because they have to.
On other forums when the minimum post rule's been put in, people just put in nonsense 'yes mate', 'me too', luv ur motor, ' nice pics' posts until they made the requisite number of posts (50 in the case of one forum!). It gets very annoying.
On the other hand, as I have made a clear above, I haven't done anything at all to sustain and build this forum yet. Lots of people clearly have, and their voice is obviously the most important. This is an immensely impressive and useful resource from what I see(saw) and, importantly, it seems like it is a really friendly community too. Not all are,
And for what its worth, I'd be happy to pay a fiver to be a basic member as long as it was easy (paypal?)
When I decide to sell mine matey I will bell you.
No not above the bed, the wife said it would look like a giant speleothem. I bet someone Googles that.Above the bed