Camaro Subforums

[89IROC&RS]

Hey guys and gals,

Your friendly AF admin staff would like your input on an idea we all had. (shocking i know) anyway, from what i hear the camaro forum is a pretty active forum on AF with quite a bit of traffic, and so we have been getting some attention thrown our way. Im sure that you have noticed alot of newbies asking questions about often answered subjects, and not knowing how to search the forum for the answers they are after. Well, in responce to this kind of activity, and in a general attempt to organize the forum as a whole, the administrators and moderators have been discussing the idea of subforums in the camaro section. Some ideas for subforums have been engine, suspension, bodywork, drivetrain, and perhaps even a forum on restoration facts and figures, such as RPO codes, build sheet decoding, how to decode a VIN number, that kinda stuff. Also if we choose to do this, i will be willing to make a sticky and locked FAQ thread at the top of each forum to cover the most commonly discussed topics. However we would like input from the members on this in regard to what you thought of the idea. Naturally the general forum would remain unchanged, and we would still have the same community, but the subforums would do a great deal to organize our community into a more effective technical reference for people with problems that need answers. Feel free to post ideas here or PM me with comments or questions regarding this.

-Erik

[y2icon]

Dont know how much weight a noob like me pulls but the forum are great but seem unorganized at times

[Genopsyde]

sounds like a plan.

[DaMoNe6969]

A subforum for FAQ's and commonly asked info and such (years, engine sizes horsepower, rpo codes, etc etc etc.. all the general info) restoration info would be great.. Somewhere newb's can go to get anything they need to know..

I dont think it needs to go as far as to branch off into different aspects like suspension, bodywork, drivetrain.. etc etc.. most questions asked on the forum are usually drivetrain associated, so you'd have a bunch of dead sub-forums, and than one or two sub-forums that looks like our camaro forum does now..

my 2 psi

[Xbox2202]

A lot of other sites have sub forums, and it seems that if you post on one of them that isn't popular, you probably won't get an answer for like a week. I like this forum because when I post something I usually get an answer in about 5 to 30 mins max, and it's usually useful.

[Genopsyde]

well what about just 2 subforums, Technical and General


Technical of course being tech questions, problem solving, troubleshooting, etc...

and General being basic camaro discussion like the opinion polls, "which car is faster" threads and so on.

[y2icon]

i am with geno except add a rant/video section

[Zwrangler]

yeah i agree with genopsyde. Sure sometimes this forum is cluttered but making too many sub-forums i think would be a waste coz i really think many of them will go unused. Having 2 subsections on the other hand is not a bad idea at all, I think thats the best option so far.

[drvngstorm05]

Originally Posted by Genopsyde

well what about just 2 subforums, Technical and General


Technical of course being tech questions, problem solving, troubleshooting, etc...

and General being basic camaro discussion like the opinion polls, "which car is faster" threads and so on.

[89IROC&RS]

aight guys, so what were saying is rather than specific sub forums, were looking at something along the lines of...

General
Tech info
performance mods
*rant/vid*

* ill have to see if we can get support for this from the other mods, ill bring it up but no promises, we dont want to in any way condone an *off topic* thread in the sub forums.

[Savage Messiah]

sounding niiice...
BTW this forum seems to have a better democracy than our country at times lol

[Genopsyde]

i'd figure performance mods and tech in the same section.

[Savage Messiah]

General, tech/performance, FAQs, and the "rant/vid" if possible

[nlghtcrawler]

i dunno, i love this forum, so many ppl that actually reply to ur questions/comments! its great knowning ppl r here to help, and in most times, have fun and joke around, me personaly i'd like to see the forums stay the way they are, i think their good! just have a sticky topic saying how to search for answers b4 they post about them.

[Savage Messiah]

but when I look and the entire front page is all new replies, well a little breakdown wouldnt be bad