Until that day, or instead of it, in the meantime you can concentrate on
using *meaningful subject lines.* Examples of bad subject lines:
Question
Sweden
tricks and stuff
9 footer
ultimate wheel help :-)
hey gilby
Bedford for sale
Shoes
Muni / Trials
4th Day
Those are really lame. There is a better way. This can save you from
reading stuff you don't want to read. Here are some examples of more
specific topics:
best trials pedal?
My Viscount airseat conversion!!
How did you get started?
California Mountain Unicycle Weekend, Sept. 17-19
Can't find whitewall 24 x 1 3/4 tire
Filming: Natural Trials, Hamilton Oct 17, still on
When you look at those, you pretty much know what's going to be talked
about in there.
If we were to add a forum, I think my first choice would be to separate
out how-to's from other conversation. That's the stuff people are more
likely to want to save, and to be able to look up when they need help.
Not just how to ride, but how to loctite your cranks, build an air seat,
etc.
Another separation could be made for just the topics of Trials and
Street. But don't get the idea it would be for "serious" riders only; it
would be for people who want to talk about Trials and Street. That's a
big chunk of the conversations here, so it might make a nice
sub-category.
For a third, I'd really like to see a kid's area. This would be great
for the kids, to keep some of the more irrelevant conversation away from
the useful stuff. But you can't get people to post in the right forums,
even with the ones we've got.
The reason why we've resisted breaking it down by category is the
existence of the single newsgroup, rec.sport.unicycling. If we divide
up, we lose the relevance of our gateway. I don't know what the user
ratio is (that would be interesting to find out), but a lot of people
still use the newsgroup, and they would be cut off if we broke the
forums down into categories.
Unless someone wants to work on the process of adding more newsgroups?
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my opinion is that unicycling fits the bill." -- Lloyd Johnson
"Read the rules!"
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