Sorry, not a fan.
May as well have separate sub forums for manual or CVT transmissions!
You missed gavoons post, adjustments will be made.
As for a suggestion, take a look at the forums owner, Vertical Scope
http://www.verticalscope.com/ forums at the bottom of the page, particularly any that would also incorporate hybrid models into an existing forum currently for ideas on how to integrate the needs of the various models and their owners need for separate discussion areas. Using prefixes in titles are another way that would alert members to specific model topics in the existing forums. More on your visit.
There will still need to be specific sub-forums for some models, but not an entire set of duplicates. As mentioned, look around at the various forums listed at the bottom of the page, just as many of their ideas have been absconded from other forums to work just as original thought was implemented. No shame in borrowing. Discuss the options with your Moderating team, hopefully by then they will all be Super Moderators with the same capabilities. Once all input has been taken and decided upon, contact CS (Community Support*) for some real time dialogue (this can be difficult with everyones time zones and I'm not sure how flexible they are with their hours) that way when you ask the question, and you'll be reading their response in seconds. My first question to Community Support would be... Why did you not explain the difference in Moderator vs Super Moderator and the difference in their capabilities?
*Primer; the forum here and the many others listed at the bottom of the page and hundreds others not seen, are owned by the Toronto, Canada based company Vertical Scope. Brilliant minds saw an opportunity to use existing forum platforms they purchased to run revenue generating ads and Vendors who pay a fee to participate in the forums. It took a few years before non-VS owned forums could do the same and become stable financially, some still require members donations or member fees. All these VS owned forums are run by non-paid forum members, some are existing Administrators and Moderators from the time of the purchase. Years ago the software developer had also introduced Super Moderator capabilities who can perform additional duties previously not available to plain Moderators and can do so in any forum where often Moderators were only given specific forums to Moderate, limiting the time to respond to issues in other forums. Forums with Super Moderators require fewer Moderators as they can be everywhere and carry on their duties in any of the forums (there is a loosely based formula).
*New forum platforms such as this one have Community Support (CS) in place of an Administrator although the title Admin still remains including Private Messages. They are the only ones (if the originals Administrators are non-existant) who can make software requests by the Super Moderators such as adding new forums, sub-forums etc. The problems I see is that more often than not Community Support are tech people, not automotive enthusiasts like many of us (no offense techies). On my home forum where I also Moderate, over the years of VS ownership, we've only come across a handful of car enthusiasts which easily help translate our requests for changes and have found many of the acting techie's simply participate on just tech forums (we've asked, really they're just different enthusiasts). They used to be contracted and moved frequently from forum to forum which often required going over the same things, frustrating when requesting changes. CS is now an integrated part of Vertical Scope, which should benefit the forums if they remain constant.
Sadly as gavoon can tell you and the many members (mostly Australians) who joined first. The forum was set up poorly and maintained by an absentee Administrator. Often if you did not find a forum that allowed you to link to Registration, you were **** out of luck becoming a member. It took a call to VS because the then Administrator was not responding to PM's or threads. Another Administrator stepped in and fixed things up, added some forums as gavoon and arnoldc (the first Super Moderators of the forum, ScoobyXV-L too) requested, but soon that Administrator was gone and that's pretty much how it was left till CS got set up.
Some forums are blessed by still having founding Administrators and Moderators (mostly changed to Super Moderator status), those Admins still have the title and the powers to make changes that a Super Moderator can't. I don't expect this forum to mirror my home forum SubaruForester.org, but I have presented food for thought, some of it taken. The use of discussion runs deep where I come from but also as Super Moderators we are all equals. I hope the same will be true of the new and existing team members. Theres competition or better considered allies that we should get along with ClubCrosstrek.com
http://clubcrosstrek.com/ and now the XV Source
http://xv-source.com/content.php?, many of our members participate on them too (although to much of the same cross-posting for my liking
).
If you haven't noticed, I'm not one to be shy or short of wind as you can gather.
Cheers Everyone
Doug
