Voting On Forum Relocation To The Mothersite

[SABBAi]

Hi All,

As you may or may not be aware, we are reviewing the Pro's and the Con's in moving our forum back to the Mothersite (www.SkylinesAustralia.com). This is a decision we are taking very seriously as this will influence the way the club operates. As the execs are not here to dictate rather facilitate the running of the club, we require the decision in the move to be voted on by our members.

The discussion is open to all members of the forum to participate, however voting is only open to paid members of the club. A blind poll will be launched in the up coming days and all paid members will be notified on the poll.



Here is a list of Pro's and Con's for moving our forum back to the Mothersite.

PROS.

• Public Exposure
• Traffic flow
• No cost to the club to host our forum
• Constant update to the forums - free of charge
• Separate members area to be arranged in any way we deem suitable
• Our own moderator within our club area
• Page can be laid out as we wish

CONS.

• No Admin control
• No ability to email from the forum
• Previous tainted history between SAuQLD and Skylines Australia Moderator/Admin team.

Here are a list of Pro's and Con's for keeping our forum on SAuQLD.com.


PROS.

• Admin rights.
• Mass email
• Can layout the forum as we wish
• As many Moderators as we wish

CONS.

• Low public exposure
• Low traffic flow
• It costs the club to host the forum
• Forum/site Updates required may need to be purchased
• Less ability to do forum membership recruitment
• All forum maintenance is to be completed by us
• Less likely to build a rapport with other states due to lack of presence

As this is an important club decision, we encourage discussion and want to know your opinions before a decision is made. So please spend a few minutes thinking how this move will impact you and your club and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Cheers

Scott.

[t5iv]

Reserved.

[t5iv]

Excellent work mate. Sounds great. I'm all for moving back. What do you guys think? I know guys like Purchase very rarely jump on the other site.

[Captain Natro]

Scott/Tony *raises can of redbull*

I believe my view has already been expressed many times over the course of the last month or so, but in my opinion we as a club would be better off moving our banter as a whole back to here.

I see no reason as to why members who frequent the whoretown/forum on the SAu Qld site can't simply migrate over here and talk the same level of er intelligent discussion in these forums.

So looking at it from that pov we have alot more to gain (a much larger base for members to come from) than what we have to lose.

Admittedly losing some of the exec moderator control is annoying, but moderator control can be delegated to specific sections of SAu Aus so why not simply limit our moderator power to the qld sub forum?

Basically I'm all for moving us back to here

[Seano350GT]

It is weird every time i see POV i think of porn?

[Captain Natro]

It is weird every time i see POV i think of porn?

Not at all....

(I'm just glad you read far enough to get up to POV)

[t5iv]

There's a lot of... interesting... banter going on over there about this.

[Seano350GT]

Not at all....

(I'm just glad you read far enough to get up to POV)

oh of course, i don't have much happening at work right now so i can afford to read more than usual

[Captain Natro]

There's a lot of... interesting... banter going on over there about this.

Yer I'm flipping between the two sites as I type now.... The problem is none of them will ever see this post AS THEY DON'T COME HERE!!!

[Adzmax]

You have a separate forum Scott? Where is the love!?

[t5iv]

No love for the Victorians.

[Captain Natro]

You have a separate forum Scott? Where is the love!?

There's a link mate

http://www.aroundyou.com.au/activities/lego-club#.UXdil2Qayc0

[Captain Natro]

The support of here is looking low ....

[Cadmoon]

I'm not that surprised, as I said on there I like SAUQld more but moving back is best for the growth of the club.

[japtaxi]

It is weird every time i see POV i think of porn?

[r34davE]

CONS.

• Previous tainted history between SAuQLD and Skylines Australia Moderator/Admin team.

As far as I can see, this is the only valid reason to keep a separate forum. I think some adult discussion is required with some assurances from SAU that we will still be free to moderate our part of the forum as we collectively see fit. Things can often get rather awkward when dealing with power-hungry keyboard warriors... Thoughts?

[Smity42]

I think some adult discussion is required with some assurances from SAU that we will still be free to moderate our part of the forum as we collectively see fit. Things can often get rather awkward when dealing with power-hungry keyboard warriors... Thoughts?

This discussion has been had, between members of the executive and admins on this site. We believe that this issue will not be a problem any more.

[Rhinorebel]

Name names please Martin, who are you dealing with????

[Captain Natro]

Name names please Martin, who are you dealing with????

Names aren't important, all we need is confirmation that they'll let us run our own show... Which I cant see any problem with, why not let us run the qld section we're the ones that live here ?

[Captain Natro]

*grabs big ass chair and waits*