My biggest takeaway from this is the jackie Chan frustrated emoji.
This doesn't even make sense, You guys want to make changes to bring the forum back to life a little, and you start with the "Like" button? the home page sucks, search sucks for a lot of people, the forum is inconsistent across different platforms, tech articles haven't been done in years even though this is a "tech" site, Giveaways aren't done anymore, There's little to no outreach to creators on the big platforms or effort to create accounts/channels to bring people in (FB, YouTube, Instagram, etc...)
There are so many ways that Admins/owners could have started making changes which would "add" first, before taking away something, Psych 101 guys.
Hell, people are bitching about how bad SBG's site sucks, but it's growing because of Matt's outreach on Social Media. Guess who's helping him? The guy that used to post tech here, Harley.
Honestly, I still think URC had the best mix: Video that referenced the site, the information archives (Ultimate Traxxas, Ultimate Tamiya), and a simple layout that didn't have dozens of subforums. Jang screwed that all up though by not allowing mods and trying to do it all himself, along with two other Youtube channels, then getting hacked and losing all the info.
Just tell them I killed the "like" button and ignore any further whining pointed your way. It'll be fun, I promise.
YOU ASSHOLE!!!!:lmao:
Pirate4x4 has over 320k actual members. The bots aren't counted, if they were the member number would be over twice that. And guess what, no like button. :lol:
You keep repeating that I'm trying to get people to shut up about it and no matter how many times that line of bs is repeated it simply isn't true. I was laughing at the level of butthurt surrounding such a trivial feature and that's it.
Werd, let it ride for a bit and see what's what. While I don't use the like button myself I'm not offended by it so if its brought back I simply don't care.
PBB also relies on the emojis for a lot of replies, which are really about as relevant as the likes. It also has the same issues that RCC is having, just on a larger scale. less relevance, more dumb. Lance bailed at the right time.
Editing and restoring the Durango IFS thread was the right thing to do.
However , the big challenge I see with what is happening here is this. Dude blows in from RCC past whining and complaining about what board has become. Like a politician building a platform, begins to talk up his personal RC exploits and how devoted he is to 'making RCC great again' (good grief). Begins to point out all of the issues that he is going to fix(but asks for patience). His first move is to grab the controls and take away a feature on the site he doesn't like, be damned what the current active body thinks of it. To him the 'stats' are more important than our personal experiences here. Again, we are told it is for the betterment of the site (classic) . Here is the biggest problem ; so far all we get is the loss of a feature. The improvements are all pie in the sky at this point.
A far wiser move would have been to create and add visible features to the site as well as bless us with the presence of these vendors (who I assume will be given an incentive and motivation to return. No one is stupid enough to think they will return without them. They are elsewhere for reasons well beyond what the power of the 'like' button carries).
By showing us the results of forward thinking that we can relate to, change is encouraging. Its gains confidence.
It is fine to preach patience, but it is a much more palatable speech if the head it comes from delivers such decorum. The quick removal of the 'like' button was not an act of patience. With patience, in time it could have been updated, modified or replaced with something completely different.
Agreed. Fixing the main page and search functions should have been first. Having a Mod come in and say (to paraphrase) "We're taking away a function that I don't like, and the owners will decide if it's permanent, but we're not telling you why" along with posting about "His" vision for the board, isn't the best way to make changes. It comes across as a power play for a new Mod. no matter how well it gets explained later, the first impression was bad.
All that discussion earlier on posting pics had me wondering to myself - "Why has no one mentioned buying a membership star?"
Cheaper than fotophuket... ;-)
And supports the site, too.
And That should be the big push for website, not taking features away that members could do without, but a vocal group enjoys.
