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do not do it!!!!!

club forums are a no win situation.

either they are moderated, people get upset, and no body posts or it free for all and people get even more upset.
( the problem with forums are you get people like us using them! )

i think your better off with a facebook page, and use it like a message board for the club.

Originally posted by ex laser do not do it!!!!!club forums are a no win situation.either they are moderated, people get upset, and no body posts or it free for all and people get even more upset.( the problem with forums are you get people like us using them! )i think your better off with a facebook page, and use it like a message board for the club.

couldn't agree more...

The Draycote forum used to have some life in it, a bit of healthy banter like most active forums.   But then the guys that had the onerous task of 'moderating it' (used loosely, 'manage it' would be a better descriptor of the historic role- kill spammers, reset passwords etc) were told to start over editing and deleting sections as some of the views of some of the posts were considered 'contentious' by the new committee.

What this actually did was alienate some quite good content and some good ideas, if a little challenging. When this approach was later questioned, (free speech n' all that) some people were subjected to personal emails that were rude and curt from the 'powers that be'.... all for the sake of feckin' forum. all sense of perspective seemed lost and the forum's effectively tumbleweeded ever since.... clearly the signs of a healthy, active membership

I don't bother posting on there anymore, in fact the whole sorry episode has made a number of people question whether the draconian nature of how club members's views are/were handled is really something they want to be part of in the grander scheme of things.    

We set up a facebook page for the windsurfers instead... which seems far more successful and channels the relevant content far more appropriately.

Edited by rogue - 05 Jan 12 at 5:47pm

...oh and we also have a club forum and it hardly gets any traffic!

We do have a Facebook page, but it has little use, maybe some of the oldies arent on fb ;)
My plan is only allow users to register there own names as their user name. If you can't say it as yourself it's not worth saying :)

Alex

We don't don't bother with a forum at our club, we use Yahoo groups which gives an email discussion thing. Very good too and you can select how you want the emails delivered. I did try with a forum for a while but nobody used it so I deleted it.