don't forget Kelly (kcobean). He'll get his feelings hurt.
Interesting, I never noticed that link before, for some reason. Why not make that your shortcut on your desktop if that's the first place you usually go? .
Actually, when we do make the rare "multi-forum" post, it is indeed for very specific reasons and national business. A few examples:
Thats funny!)Actually, when we do make the rare "multi-forum" post, it is indeed for very specific reasons and national business. A few examples:
RAFFLES: They make or break the club treasury and we will advertise them until we go blue in the face or the tickets sell out. We aren't looking for multiple discussions - just eyeballs on the raffle car so we can sell more tickets.
SRT CHATS: These are important not only for folks to know about, but for the club to have a good showing. These chats are held on other SRT-related forums and invariably bring a LOT of people to chat with the engineers. With the Viper ownership pool considerably smaller, we are often challenged with getting a good showing. This is why we have started taking questions in advance so as to assure that we keep the engineers busy for the full two hours allotted to us. The one time we had a very poor showing (so Herb, um, how's the weather in Detroit?), they almost canceled them going forward. Thus why we post something at the top of each forum when they get scheduled.
Of course now that you have two examples you will get to see them both go into action: We have our next SRT chat scheduled for Wednesday, March 3rd at 6:00 PM EST and raffle tickets for our Snakeskin Green ACR will probably go on sale later today (Thursday). Stay tuned!
Just on a side note to the original post (not trying to stir up the debate again) but do consider the new people to these boards or the ones that do not use them often. Everyone that can comment on this thread so far I would call very VCA forum savvy. They know where the New Posts button is and they know how to use the boards and their sections.
For the others that use these boards though, it can help. I know it did for me when I first started using these boards, and I know of people now who it helps. Dont forget, we forum users are very comfortable with posting everything. Earlier today I was helping a new member just navigate the forums! He was wanting to know how to use the boards and how to post. I get these simple questions often. Many who do not spend much time on here, DO only look at their local chapter and therefore would not see some things if it were not in multiple forums.
Guess what I am trying to say is, if it is not hurting anyone, and it is not often done (in this case, someone from KY may end up at the party in question as they see it is close enough to them when they saw it listed in the KY forum), where is the harm in helping the newer members? Those of us who know this site better than the back of our hands should just ignore the multiple posts if we dont want to read them, and know that they are helping those who are not so savvy. This is the VCA. We are all here for the same reason: To enjoy the car and help others.
My 2 cents. (Ok, it was more than 2 cents!
. A better idea for the newbies would be a sticky in the General Viper Discussion and/or New Owner Questions forums (or somewhere better 
) that would provide some direction on how to use this site. I don't think dumbing down the entire site for newbies is the answer...just my opinion ...and probably on worth 1 cent.
Just on a side note to the original post (not trying to stir up the debate again) but do consider the new people to these boards or the ones that do not use them often. Everyone that can comment on this thread so far I would call very VCA forum savvy. They know where the New Posts button is and they know how to use the boards and their sections.
For the others that use these boards though, it can help. I know it did for me when I first started using these boards, and I know of people now who it helps. Dont forget, we forum users are very comfortable with posting everything. Earlier today I was helping a new member just navigate the forums! He was wanting to know how to use the boards and how to post. I get these simple questions often. Many who do not spend much time on here, DO only look at their local chapter and therefore would not see some things if it were not in multiple forums.
Guess what I am trying to say is, if it is not hurting anyone, and it is not often done (in this case, someone from KY may end up at the party in question as they see it is close enough to them when they saw it listed in the KY forum), where is the harm in helping the newer members? Those of us who know this site better than the back of our hands should just ignore the multiple posts if we dont want to read them, and know that they are helping those who are not so savvy. This is the VCA. We are all here for the same reason: To enjoy the car and help others.
My 2 cents. (Ok, it was more than 2 cents!
. There are reasons that there are so many forums...I'm guessing the main one is to differentiate information. My original point is that most of the time multiple identical posts aren't needed. New users, friends, others, kids, Haitians, puppies...anyone using this forum needs to learn how to use the forum...it's one of the easiest ones that I've seen...limiting the advertising 'crap' makes it very readable and understandable. Hey, if I learned, then anybody can .
