How can we make the website a better place?
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I think having to register your details and post isnt going to put anyone off that wasnt serious anyway, i dont mind the odd person not being able to scrounge parts members have been waiting for, although i wouldnt know where to begin, basically i support the lockdown as long as its not over the top.
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Yes you are correct, i think we need to be carefull about what we restrict, and not restrict much at all.
We might need to add new content also for members only. Maybe a downloads section for the manuals etc….
We would also need to advertise what has been restricted to entice people to want to see it.
But my main concern is how to get new members involved with club side of things.
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Restricting certain info should gain more registrations. However if we go this route we need to ensure an effecient sign up procedure. We're always getting stories of people waiting for weeks to get approved. Has that been resolved yet?
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Yes its been resolved Chris NW does 99% of the registrations now. He works in It so is online most of the time.
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Right I just looked up the Ip addresses of all 8 guests who were online and ALL of them were BOTS from search engines who were just indexing our website. Which is a good thing!!
But it probably means that there are not many actual people on here as GUESTS, they are probably all just indexing bots.
So I would assume that we don't have a problem at all with people not signing up.
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so these bots accessing are they set off when someone is searching
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No
What a BOT does is update our website listing for searchengines like GOOGLE, MSN, YAHOO etc
Read this for a better description: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=182072
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well i have just learnt something today about the interweb :oops:
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@80966dd680=ukmx3admin:
Yes its been resolved Chris NW does 99% of the registrations now. He works in It so is online most of the time.
Can you not just get rid of that feature altogether? :? It's frustrating. It happens when you change your e-mail addy too.
I can understand not wanting spammers and such signing up but in fairness if a moderator sees a new member called CheapViagraAndC0ckRingsForSale then they can just permab& the account rather than everyone else have to suffer the ordeal of waiting for their account to be approved.
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If we did have a members only section what would you like in there :?: :?: :?:
SECRET parts SPOTTED
Who are you - meet the members - a decent profile of who you are as a person not just an avatar of your car :wink:
members chat - what you are going to do and where you are getting it from etc
YOUR IDEAS HERE :D :D
MORE EMOTICONS TO EXPRESS OURSELVES PLEASE :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :| :| :|
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DJ the last picture i saw of you, you were humping a robotic looking dinosaur things head pmsl
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lmfao, i wont use that pic again I promise :mrgreen:
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@e7bfd59b70=daniel:
DJ the last picture i saw of you, you were humping a robotic looking dinosaur things head pmsl
lol
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We eall can't get rid of the authentication process.
We get 1000+ spam registrations a month!!! its just too time consuming.
We are ontop of the authentication time now anyway.
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well as a new member i will contribute what i can.
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Great, what would you as a new member like to see on the website?
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@85e5dae572=ukmx3admin:
Great, what would you as a new member like to see on the website?
and dont say boobies, it aint gonna happen
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members wives?? :lol:
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how about paid and non paid members, when you pay you get a set of car stickers, a single news letter and some spotted cards to put on other cars with the website address
That way we can get a database of members who are serious, the money goes to the site and merchandise and when we have a big meet on EG japfest etc we can post out a flyer to say where we are all meeting etc and list the popular meets across the UK
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you have to realise that the mx3 is a niche car not many people have them or no what they are….. thats why our forum is not so busy, i understand that people just register to sell stuff so i think there should be a 5 post minimum? paid is a good idea it will help the forum on fees, the sxoc do this.
just my 2 cents..
