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- Feb 17, 2007
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I’d like to ask a question here, it is not engineered to be disruptive or disrespectful to the club or the site moderators in any way so please let’s keep it a clean debate.
Obviously the reason we are here is we either own or have an interest in Nissan or Ford Maverick 4x4’s, I’m sure that we are all agreed on that one?
The success of any Club/Web community is for its members to get to know each other, offer help and share ideas and experiences etc, be that through physical meets or virtually through forums such as this one. The fact that I’m asking this question here means that predominantly we are a web based club as most of our communications are conveyed through this media.
The heart of many clubs/communities is not the subject matter that brings them together (in our case our vehicles), it is the social networking side. On another site that I am a member of we have monthly meets in most areas plus half a dozen National Events each year.
On the web site we also have a similar Pub/Chat area to this one and there is quite often a thread started most Fridays called “Bloody hell it’s only Friday already, what are you up to the weekend”. People post what they’re doing where they’re going etc and it gives everyone an insight to what that person is like and their lifestyle etc. I guess it is human inquisitiveness that makes it a very popular thread to read with many contributing.
Ok, I’m starting to waffle here, I guess what I’m trying to say would it not be a good idea to allow more sociable threads/posts to be made here without being frowned upon for not being about Nissan/Ford 4x4’s. Yes by all means continue to offer the help and advice about our trucks too but can we not broaden our ‘chat’ without post being closed/locked edited etc.
As I said at the beginning, please don’t cause this debate to spiral into personal attacks, if you don’t agree with what someone says just ignore it accept that people have differing views.
Lets try and encourage the none posting members out of hiding and post there opinions on this one and try get to know a little about each other too.
-cheers-
PS Lucy is off to London later today so I have the whole weekend to myself -mex-
Obviously the reason we are here is we either own or have an interest in Nissan or Ford Maverick 4x4’s, I’m sure that we are all agreed on that one?
The success of any Club/Web community is for its members to get to know each other, offer help and share ideas and experiences etc, be that through physical meets or virtually through forums such as this one. The fact that I’m asking this question here means that predominantly we are a web based club as most of our communications are conveyed through this media.
The heart of many clubs/communities is not the subject matter that brings them together (in our case our vehicles), it is the social networking side. On another site that I am a member of we have monthly meets in most areas plus half a dozen National Events each year.
On the web site we also have a similar Pub/Chat area to this one and there is quite often a thread started most Fridays called “Bloody hell it’s only Friday already, what are you up to the weekend”. People post what they’re doing where they’re going etc and it gives everyone an insight to what that person is like and their lifestyle etc. I guess it is human inquisitiveness that makes it a very popular thread to read with many contributing.
Ok, I’m starting to waffle here, I guess what I’m trying to say would it not be a good idea to allow more sociable threads/posts to be made here without being frowned upon for not being about Nissan/Ford 4x4’s. Yes by all means continue to offer the help and advice about our trucks too but can we not broaden our ‘chat’ without post being closed/locked edited etc.
As I said at the beginning, please don’t cause this debate to spiral into personal attacks, if you don’t agree with what someone says just ignore it accept that people have differing views.
Lets try and encourage the none posting members out of hiding and post there opinions on this one and try get to know a little about each other too.
-cheers-
PS Lucy is off to London later today so I have the whole weekend to myself -mex-
