Originally Posted by
BAMF
Hey Zate, why don't you make a feedback FORUM? Its on
The Corral , I believe. Either that or turbomustangs.com. I Bet both of those FAR exceed TR's traffic. And it works very, very, very, very, very well. But, you'll need to enable the search feature again for it to be truly effective.
And again, it works. Thats the important part.
I have one of them for shops and people can't get that right. I think you are totally missing the point.
Lets say I have a feed back forum, here's how it will go down.
I dont like BAMF, he slept with my dog one time and didnt call her the next day. He also has a faster car than me and one day 4 months ago made me look stupid in a thread.
I post in that forum saying BAMF is a dog rapist and people should stay away from him. I have 0 facts, I just make it all up, I get a couple of my friends to pop in there and make up something too.
BAMF doesnt like that, him and his boys jump in the thread and say some shit and it's on, full on flame fest. Before you know it thread is locked down, couple of warnings for ass hattery are issued and people move on.
Next day BAMF is making a post about this new dog he met, and I come across it, I make a smart ass remark and so does my buddy.. i find other of BAMF's threads (using the awesome new search function) and post up what a dog fucker he is and do some general trollery.
You get my drift?
I am sure it works great on other forums.. i know plenty of forums much larger than TR that don't even need any kind of forum. When TR was 500 people, this wasnt a problem. When we all hung out regularly, this wasnt a problem. The reason we dont have a Verbal Warfare forum anymore for people to sort out their differences is because it doesn just stay in that forum.
Do you know how many bogus TRader ratings i have to deal with every week ? Userbase can't get TRader ratings right, we have to heavilty moderate the TRShop review forum (tons of useless shit in there too) and you think adding yet another forum for people to make up shit and bash each other is gonna help?
I wish it would, but it wont.
We've found out through trial and error that letting the users sort out their issues OFF the forum is the best way. Someone rips you off, contact the police, or do what ever needs to be done to deal with the issue, just dont drag me into it, I dont know who is right or wrong, not my job.