[fly] <[/fly] The Dr Mac trip is set for Saturday July 26. We would like to get some car pools setup in advance to save gas. If you can drive please pm me. For northern members we will meet at the Bear Library at 8 am to arrive at Dr Macs by 11 am. Icy will setup the Dover car pool. http://www.mapquest.com/maps?city=Mardela+Springs&state=MD&address=107+School+St&zipcode=21837
Please post here if you are coming and how many additional people are coming.
With 10 DRC members we will get a [glow=red,2,300]discount[/glow] and Lunch provided.
I am going but the wife will not be able to attend; 4 weeks to go! For once that smell won’t mean its time to clean the skimmer cup
Me and Keleigh will both be going, and we can fit 2 more in our car comfortably. If anyone from the Dover area would like to come along just let us know.
I’m fine with having my thread moved if we have a sale forum it belongs there. Problem is how many people check the sale forum daily on this site? I was hoping to sell things before the picnic. How many people pear into each one of the 15 forums on the site? I don’t think that there is enough chat currently to divide things up, but I said that in the past and apperntly not everyone agreed.
In my opinion I would have people just add “OT” for “Off Topic” infront of there posts and “FS” or “FT”, for “For Sale” or “For Trade”. If people forgot or didn’t know the moderators could add it and then send the user a PM reminding them to do so. Then all the chat could be condensed down into a couple of forums.
I know there is an option to go into each forum and tell it to notify you when you someone posts something new and then to make sure it says “enable” vs “disable” and I went and did this the other day, but why should we make the average person learn to do this? Just let them check one big forum and see what is up and ignore the FS or OT if they choose to.
Just my opinion. I assume since this is a topic about the “Website” it will soon be moved to the “Website” forum and Joe will get a message that his thread has been moved, LOL. >LOCO<
I agree 100%, the forum is subdivided into WAY too many categories. I think there should be maybe 2 or 3 at most then the vendor forums. Its more work browsing the different forums than it would be to sort through one forum.
oh wait…should this be moved to the website forum now? lol j/k
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I’m fine with having my thread moved if we have a sale forum it belongs there. Problem is how many people check the sale forum daily on this site? I was hoping to sell things before the picnic. How many people pear into each one of the 15 forums on the site? I don’t think that there is enough chat currently to divide things up, but I said that in the past and apperntly not everyone agreed.
In my opinion I would have people just add “OT” for “Off Topic” infront of there posts and “FS” or “FT”, for “For Sale” or “For Trade”. If people forgot or didn’t know the moderators could add it and then send the user a PM reminding them to do so. Then all the chat could be condensed down into a couple of forums.
I know there is an option to go into each forum and tell it to notify you when you someone posts something new and then to make sure it says “enable” vs “disable” and I went and did this the other day, but why should we make the average person learn to do this? Just let them check one big forum and see what is up and ignore the FS or OT if they choose to.
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You wanted to sell them before the picnic… Your thread was in the general forum for a long time yet you didn’t sell them. So did moving it yesterday really hurt?
You don’t have to pier into every catagory since there is a blue box showing new entries in the catagory. Click the blue box and only new entries show.
I said we dont want to break everything up and you, myself and several others felt/agread that a few break outs of a few key topics would be better.
I am not editing every post to add OT or FS or pm every person who forgets. Why should we make the average person learn to do this vs. looking in a For Sale topic.
Not every thing on the site pleases me either. But as a wise man said in another thread
[i]originally posted by gordonious…
Also if it is not broke don’t fix it. What problems are the users having? What difficulties are we having working on the site?..
Their are many inhancements we can make and will make. Most will happen slowly as free time allows. If you don’t like the setup or layout of the forums bring it up at a meeting. I am all for changes. This is about having fun and trading information. We are not broken up so much as to not be able to find things. Try finding whats new here: http://www.delvalreefclub.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=28 or here http://www.njreefers.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26
They have spent a lot of time to make their sites sook great but it is hard to find the newest posts and information. We can remove some topics if they are not being used (Freshwater and peanut gallery) and move these into the regular forum. And in case you are wondering before anyone retorts; These were both my doing. I do like the DIY section since when you want to go back to find something it is easier. Also new people who visit the site can see information that they may otherwise miss if it is burried 10 pages back in the middle of everything else.
And for the record if you put something for sale and talk about the website and its off topic We split it >LOL<
Ok I spent some time and moved the topics out of freshwater and the peanut gallery and put them in the general forum. I combined the topics from equipment and fish into coral, renamed and moved it up. I then deleted the extra catagories.
Little better?
We are just razzing on you Al. The fact is the site works and hasn’t had any disastrous problems. The only thing that really bugs me is that I wish I could type HTML code in the forum like I can on RC, but I am probably the only misses that.(It also pushes me to put all that on my own website which is good)
I like that look a lot better. I hope one day we can create a little page somewhere else with photos about meeting stuff vs. the “Archives of Meeting Minutes and Noticesâ€ÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ. I’d like to get some more solid content on the site besides just the forums. Perhaps later on down the line we could have a monthly article or even an only magazine like reefkeeping.
I am now here to help as well, Al. Hopefully I can be helpful and not just a pain in the ass, lol.
I remember you taking pics at the BBQ; Why don’t you write a quick article about that(with pics) and add it to the main page. Then ad a link to the forums. Also did you ever get through the rock article I sent you? If its good as is I will post it.
The rock article got lost in the thousands of e-mails I have in my inbox. I’ll look for it again, if you can resend it I will look over it tonight.
The pictures I took at the BBQ didn’t really come out that well. It would take a good bit of editing to make them decent. I’ll take a look at them again, we’ll see.
Your wife won’t count. Only members are counted towards the discount but wifes and girlfriend are welcome to come. I hope they have the puppy there this time. He was cool.
We are a bit light but this is the first event we have tried in July. Seems the club really shuts down in July and August.
