Suggestion Box (formerly: Model Car Subforums)

[flyonthewall]

Originally posted by huudo




With these kind of discussions we are scaring newbies off, like Sennake said in the other thread. He is for example a very good modeler who could contriburte a lot to AF. So please have this issue resolved asap.

Very good point, we don't want to make the new guys feel uneasy and frightened to post.

The problems that have risen on AF has nothing to do with newbs per say, it's kids!!! In particular newb kids! I've got no personal problem with this, i think its fine and its great to know the hobby still attracts younger people. My point is that alot of you guy's need to understand that kids are kids and we need to accept that and tolerate what they do - to some extent. The postwhoring we get on here is over excitement, thinking they know it all is naivety and flaming and going OT is immaturity.

Some of the older guy's need to chill a little, the youngers guys just need to grow up a little and both need to have a little more respect!

[fullbloodchop01]

i didnt think AF would be coming to this, but i guess if it has to happen, it has to happen. but 1 problem i know will definitley happen is that someone would post the thread in the wron section and then the mods would have to moove themand that can get pretty anoying, but it seems like it would help out alot so go for it JAY

[Hiroboy]

Originally posted by flyonthewall
Very good point, we don't want to make the new guys feel uneasy and frightened to post.

Being a new guy to this forum, i'm starting to worry about my posts
as Chris said.
I hope my posts don't offend anyone

[hirofkd]

Originally posted by flyonthewall
Very good point, we don't want to make the new guys feel uneasy and frightened to post.

Same here. What I worry about is to scare new people and young kids off.
I think the forum is just fine for now, but just advise people to put an easy-to-understand thread title, so that if one doesn't like it, (s)he can simply skip it.
One thing I noticed after the new server was installed, was that unread thread gets to the bottom of the 2nd page only after a day of absence.
That's an unexpected drawback, isn't it?
When it gets to 3rd or 4th page, we might have to think about sub topic, but until then, I like all the thread in one place.

[crab]

I think the scale modeling section of AF needs to be heavily modified...

We need these sections:


1. Model Gallery
2. Reviews/Articles/Features
3. Trading Post/Hot Deals
4. Tips and Techniques
5. Random Chat


I think these 5 categories pretty much summarizes all aspects of scale modeling

What do you guys think?

[clatescivicr]

Then where do you post Progress threads?

I thought it would be good to have it into sub sections, because it shows that there are a lot of people here. Also when you need help you can go to the correct forum and post there and have people that really want to know/help about that post. This would make finding things much easier too.

Originally posted by crab
I think the scale modeling section of AF needs to be heavily modified...

We need these sections:


1. Model Gallery
2. Reviews/Articles/Features
3. Trading Post/Hot Deals
4. Tips and Techniques
5. Random Chat


I think these 5 categories pretty much summarizes all aspects of scale modeling

What do you guys think?

[Jay!]

Originally posted by flyonthewall
I think we should give it time to see if the issue's that are annoying us here settle down. I'm not to keen on the idea of subsections, i much prefer to have all the threads on one screen in front of me so i can sift through them, good or bad.

Apologies; I did not mean to imply by my first post that subforums were the only solution. We are interested in hearing ALL possible solutions, and there are some very good ones in here so far.

More, please!

[primera man]

There's some really good idea's coming out and being talked about...thankyou.
As Jay said in his post, the sub sections are only a idea that we thought about last night on AIM to try and sort things out.

So keep the replys coming.
The bottom line is we want this to be the best place on the web to come and visit about models and enjoy ourselfs

[BWheel]

Hi All,

I think the subtopics, or any way of splitting into seperate forums will be pretty negative, as then you'd have to trawl through all over the place to find stuff. I myself will check things quickly while I wait for a job to complete, or over lunch or something.

What would be cool is if we could get some classification system, or grouping ability, that you would then be able to group, like a VIEW in Outlook or similar. This way, if you aren't worried about the Noob stuff, or just want to check out all the Painting tips, then you can quickly select that option, and go through them one at a time, while ignoring the other topics until a later time, or whatever.

Some classifications I'd like to see:
Retail Talk (What people think of shops/ sites, experiences etc)
Tips (Painting/ Customising etc)
Progress (Obvious)
Finished Goods/ Gallery
Intros (For the Noobs, or similar)
Hints (I don't know what to build.../ I'm colorblind)
General - for the OTHER stuff (Why does everyone call it 'Off Topic'? It's still about modelling???)
Oh, and RANTS - which we can all ignore!!!

One other thing - people should still be able to post without topics. This will just end up in the 'clean' view, and not in any of the sorted views.

I'm sure there's some way of doing this with vBulletin. Good luck with it, and let's get some models built...

[Suislide]

my one idea that i posted in another thread...

it seems that alot of people (especially most newbies that haven't yet discovered the other AF forums) like to post OT stuff to get the modelling forum peoples opinion's. since they haven't taken it upon themselves to roam AF and get to know other AFer's yet, the modelling guys might be the only AFer's they know, and hence if they want an opinion about something, they really have nowhere to go to get the opinion of people that they know. since this seems to happen alot, maybe a sub-section of the modelling forum should be made for OT stuff, such as asking where everyone lives, threads like the "real name and age" thread, asking if people on the north coast got a snow day today etc.etc. it would be something to help make the newbies feel more at home. i know there's already COT, but since some of these guys don't "know" the people in COT it might scare them off from posting there. just an idea...

[tonioseven]

Originally posted by flyonthewall
I think we should give it time to see if the issue's that are annoying us here settle down. I'm not to keen on the idea of subsections, i much prefer to have all the threads on one screen in front of me so i can sift through them, good or bad.

I'm with Chris:grey:

[Midnight Racer]

Here's my idea for the sub-forums sections

Tutorials/Tips (post your tutorials and tips for building)
Sell/trade parts sections (sell and trade parts)
Progress (progress on your model)
Finished (Finished Pics of your model/s)
Newbies (introduce yourselves)
Look what i bought (here you can post what you purchased)
Help (post problems or questions here)

These are just my idea's if the Mods decide to do the sub forums.

[TURBO_EK4]

Originally posted by S13_Iketani
my one idea that i posted in another thread...

it seems that alot of people (especially most newbies that haven't yet discovered the other AF forums) like to post OT stuff to get the modelling forum peoples opinion's. since they haven't taken it upon themselves to roam AF and get to know other AFer's yet, the modelling guys might be the only AFer's they know, and hence if they want an opinion about something, they really have nowhere to go to get the opinion of people that they know. since this seems to happen alot, maybe a sub-section of the modelling forum should be made for OT stuff, such as asking where everyone lives, threads like the "real name and age" thread, asking if people on the north coast got a snow day today etc.etc. it would be something to help make the newbies feel more at home. i know there's already COT, but since some of these guys don't "know" the people in COT it might scare them off from posting there. just an idea...

Im definately gonna have to go with S13 on this one.

[bvia]

As long as we're complaining...some of y'alls signature pics are WAY TOO FREAKING BIG!!!! (hint lowryda). Hey forum leaders, can we limit the sizes of some of these signature pics? I love pics of someone's hard work and the small box images of what's on the workbench, etc...but not to thrilled about looking at a pic someone just grabbed off the net...esp, when it's as large as the above mentioned.

Bill
:bandit:

[Bimmerkid]

I think there should be a "Customizing" sub-forum, for all the modelers looking to journet into putty and styrene (me )