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Defining sections within the forum

Bryan@MACBryan@MAC
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I think these should be set up before the forum is open to the public. I liked JR's initial ideas of having an outlet for commercial vendors, a review section, a gear swap section and an upcoming event section. What do you guys think?
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  • kennykkennyk
    I'm B) with it.
    ............. could you hum a few bars.
  • mattsk8mattsk8
    Good idea for sure on the classified section and the review section. Maybe have a review section for speaker kits, as well as gear too??
    greywarden
  • JasonPJasonP
    JR already outlined his thoughts on sections, which got dumped into the thread about Terms of Service because it was in that same email to me. Let me post that in here too.
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  • JasonPJasonP
    From JR's email:

    Some ideas for forum sections (in addition to the regular stuff)…

    1. Commercial vendors need an outlet. People like Roman selling Viawave, Ryan selling Vapor, Clearwave, GR Research, PE, Mad, Meniscus, etc. I don’t want to run a store front, but these guys can drop a line and mention a new product line or announce a sale. We will be sure to provide a separate and distinct ToS for this section.

    2. Group buys… This will be popular.

    3. Special purchases/sales/buyouts/clearance etc… - members only can post strictly non-commercial items (keep people like Steve over at Apex Jr from flooding it, just an example – not sure he even knows how to use a forum).

    4. Same with classifieds – if Peter and Ryan want to sell something, they can provide a short post in the commercial forum. I don’t want to discourage commercial involvement, but I don’t want to pander to them in any way, either.

    5. Reviews. We will moderate this one heavily – not to protect someones ego (as in if someone posts a negative review about anything JeffB or Wolfie has done, it typically gets marginalized and brings out the crybabies in both of them) but to make sure they are not out of spite and malice. I can see someone like Zissy bombing that forum with his whining bullshit. The guidelines will link to a few formal reviews on the web that we agree represent the tone and nature we want to see, perhaps two positive and two negative reviews as examples. I want to encourage people to develop their writing skills and critical thinking skills so we will only allow reviews that demonstrate a certain level of proficiency. We will obviously let people defend their product/design/whatever but only if they can be professional about it. Stereophile does it right, and I believe our community possesses at least the talent level of anyone over there. I believe a forum full of well written reviews will gather a lot of attention for us on a national level – that is how Audioholics more or less got started. We have people who can measure, people who can write in flowery language, people who have access to a lot of different gear at many price points.

    6. Gear swap – I bet this would be popular, as well. Different from classifieds. I send you an amp, you send me a DAC, we play.

    7. Upcoming event announcements. They can use our forum or use it simply to announce and provide a link outside.
    greywarden
    = Howard Stark: "This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out."
  • Bryan@MACBryan@MAC
    Time to define some sections and get more invites out. What say you?
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  • jr@macjr@mac
    Agree
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  • R-CarpenterR-Carpenter
    Audio shows announcements!
    https://www.chestergroup.org/newyorkaudioshow/2016
    I am going.
  • jr@macjr@mac
    So should we consider an "announcements" sub? For anything audio related? Shows, press releases from manufacturers, etc? I'm down.

    Related: I think next year I will be trying to go to Lonestar or RMAF in addition to Axpona.
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  • R-CarpenterR-Carpenter
    I think you should definitely consider "announcement" sub!
  • Bryan@MACBryan@MAC
    Yes, an announcement sub should be done for sure.
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  • JasonPJasonP
    Tomorrow I'll add the categories:

    Classifieds
    Announcements
    Commercial
    Group Buys
    Gear Swap
    Reviews
    = Howard Stark: "This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out."
  • kennykkennyk
    Like it
    ............. could you hum a few bars.
  • isaeagle4031isaeagle4031
    sweet!
  • JasonPJasonP
    All of the above categories are added.
    = Howard Stark: "This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out."
  • Bryan@MACBryan@MAC
    edited September 2016
    JP - Is there a way to open Rumbletalk Chat in a sep window?  In Chrome, it replaces the current window.  If that's the case with all browsers, it means people are being redirected off of the forum.  Am I nitpicking again?
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  • JasonPJasonP
    Yep, that I can fix.
    = Howard Stark: "This is the key to the future. I'm limited by the technology of my time, but one day you'll figure this out."
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