How do you speak to the forum admin ?

[flyingtrotter]

As the thread title highlights I am at a loss as to how to communicate with the admin

My request is to create a regional dimension as different countries/regions have different spec and the US diniance of the forum rather distorts discussion for those outside the US

I created what become the UK sub thread but it is approaching 40 pages and would benefit for a sub structure

I fear if this is not created soon as we have a decent number of vehicles in the UK the utility of this site will reduce - I don’t want to post into a US orientated vacuum

So………please can we have a regional structure

 

[Markarian421]

There was a thread about that before -- yes regional forums would be nice. You can message the admins, or we can try to summon them all by tagging them maybe?

@Dragoon @El Chorizo @Nuke @supersix -- is it easy to set up regional forums?

One possibility:

Top level is the Toyota regions:

• Japan
• North America
• Latin America
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia Pacific

In the North America region something like this (with sub-forums possible in each) shamelessly stolen from another forum with minor modifications:

• North East Region -- MD, DC, PA, DE, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, ME
• North West Region -- WA, OR, ID, MT, WY, AK
• Mid West Region -- MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, MI, IN, OH, KY, KS, SD, NE ND
• South East Region -- TN, AL, FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, WV
• South Central Region -- OK, AR, LA, MS
• South West Region -- NV, UT, CO, AZ, NM
• NorCal Region
• SoCal Region
• Hawaii
• Texas
• Canada
• Mexico

I'll let others suggest sub-forums for the other regions, but it sounds like Europe could use a UK sub-forum.

 

[RUN-8]

As the thread title highlights I am at a loss as to how to communicate with the admin

My request is to create a regional dimension as different countries/regions have different spec and the US diniance of the forum rather distorts discussion for those outside the US

I created what become the UK sub thread but it is approaching 40 pages and would benefit for a sub structure

I fear if this is not created soon as we have a decent number of vehicles in the UK the utility of this site will reduce - I don’t want to post into a US orientated vacuum

So………please can we have a regional structure

I prefer to speak to the Admin’s as if they are small children, or cognitively challenged adults.

….er wait that’s not what you meant is it?

 

[EOD Guy]

You can "start a conversation" with any of the admins and they will respond.

While creating regional sub forums may seem like a good idea, but exactly what would prevent someone from the US sub-forum posting on the UK sub-forum and vice-versa? (which seems like that's what you dislike). People currently dilute threads with so many different "rabbit holes" it's very hard to follow the original topic. I honestly don't think anything would change.

 

[jumpin]

Sub forums for North America wouldn't help. We all have, more or less, the same truck specs. I think that would lessen my experience here. I travel all offer NA and purchase from all over and many of the best ideas come from outside my region.

If we could have a signature feature that allows us to show country, and LC model owned I could have that context for reading each post. That would help IMO.

 

[cvx5832LC]

Make a poll! I’m for keeping things the way they are, however. Like so many other forums, everyone always ends up in the generalized section, anyway.

 

[Markarian421]

Sub forums for North America wouldn't help. We all have, more or less, the same truck specs. I think that would lessen my experience here. I travel all offer NA and purchase from all over and many of the best ideas come from outside my region.

If we could have a signature feature that allows us to show country, and LC model owned I could have that context for reading each post. That would help IMO.

The general forum would still exit. Regional forums are helpful for regional issues, like best dealers, best shops, get togethers, suggested trails, buy/sell, etc.

 

[EOD Guy]

The general forum would still exit. Regional forums are helpful for regional issues, like best dealers, best shops, get togethers, suggested trails, buy/sell, etc.

Which would be absolutely wonderful............ except, I don't think people would adhere to which region the thread was posted in and just post anyway............. so the only thing that would be accomplished would be....... just another layer to wade through.

There are so many threads that are so diluted that many stop reading when the original topic is no longer being discussed and jump to the end and post what they want to say, which is off topic as well. There are many examples on this forum where people don't even bother to see if a thread exists and just start another one, then people who posted in the 1st thread, post the same information (their post) verbatim in the new thread ........

 

[Markarian421]

Which would be absolutely wonderful............ except, I don't think people would adhere to which region the thread was posted in and just post anyway............. so the only thing that would be accomplished would be....... just another layer to wade through.

There are so many threads that are so diluted that many stop reading when the original topic is no longer being discussed and jump to the end and post what they want to say, which is off topic as well. There are many examples on this forum where people don't even bother to see if a thread exists and just start another one, then people who posted in the 1st thread, post the same information (their post) verbatim in the new thread ........

It works on other forums? I’ve been on the FJ Cruiser forums since 2007, it works well there. We don’t have nearly the critical mass here yet that they have there, but we’ll get there.

And again, people use the regional forums for regional issues, and the general forums for everything else. Which is most things.

 

[Markarian421]

There are many examples on this forum where people don't even bother to see if a thread exists and just start another one, then people who posted in the 1st thread, post the same information (their post) verbatim in the new thread ........

There’s a solution for that! This forum software makes it so admins can merge threads. I suggested that a while back, when duplicate threads appear they should just be merged. Of course that is more work for admins. They’d probably need users to tag threads as duplicates.