Forum participation

Just a thought...there are 451 registered participants
on this forum. Most do not even have a profile.

Is there a way we can get clean-up of those who are no
longer interested ?

I was thinking everybody still interested should go in
and update their profiles, perhaps post a picture of
their car(s) whether they be Fieros or not so we can get
an idea of who is still interested.    

I understand that there have been a few who have upset
others and have been banned. I'm not a fan of permanent
bans as anybody who is interest, do have something to
contribute to discussions. Sometimes we just need to be
a bit more careful with what we say or how we say it.
We don't always have to agree, but we can all do our
very best to be respectful and civil.

I suspect we probably have about 100 or so interested
people on this forum. I could be wrong, but should a
few of us get together to review our forum policies (if
there are any) and perhaps take a look at making our
discussion more participatory ?

I did look into the issue of getting the email notifications working again a while ago and wasn't able to figure it out right away. It's been on my mind to try to get it working for a while now, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I think part of the problem might be the significantly out of date forum software (the version we're on is from 2004) not playing nicely with the server.

As for the 451 registered members... I'm sure lots of them are bots and a bunch more of them are people posting just in buy/sell.

One thing I'd like to see is an introductions section where people can introduce themselves and their cars. I know that's sort of what the member rides section is for, but it's not really explicit.

Colby what is your email address, yes I lost it again.

I think I have made some headway in the email thing.  I added in the correct smtp info for info@westcoastfieros.com and now instead of just a generic error, it says it needs login/pass info added to the code.  However its in the coding of the software that it needs to be done which I am not even sure how to access.   Try going to "mass email" members and try sending a test message.   

Well done Colby I love the front page nice wide screen with action

Edited by Car-2-Lo

Well done, Colby.

This forum is allowed to use any of my photos in the Fiero
Collection album on Flickr.

-- there. Explicite copyright granted.

Thanks Colby, glad to hear the emails are working again.
Site looks awesome, cool that there's a mobile view too now.

Yeah that had been bothering me for a while too. The database structure is a little different with the new version and I hate working with Access databases so I put it off. It's done now.

Need a smaller picture for my signature.  I'm using this thread to import to the site and then adding it to my signature.