Excellent Explaination...

[Yoda]

I hope our Registry members enjoy our Forum here at the Corvette Action Center, and I hope you all venture out a bit and see what is packed into the Action Center.

Rob (owner and father of the Action Center) has put together a very informal, yet very telling editorial, about questions he seems to encounter where ever he goes and esp. at Corvette Event, poor guy never escapes without someone asking him ..... something or make comparrisons...

Here is his latest writing rendition and a very good from the cuff response

Please take a few minutes and take a look, and take a look around the rest of the Action Center and see just what all is packed behind your CRT

 

[pbcanney]

a very good explaination indeed.

I have 4 websites I designed, run and maintain and am moderator at another (message borad similar to this, different genre) and as Rob eluded to, it can be a full time job and it can consume you if you let it.

Everyone has ideas about how things should be run and how things should work when they click this or click that.

I saw a lot of the posts over at the other site where people complained about the new ads, and (apparant) long time users calling it a day and proclaiming they were taking their marbles and going somewhere else. Seriously, I have been on-line in some way shape or means since 1981 when I was running a Radio Shack Computer Store and demonstrating their Videotext product. The late 90's eGroups boom was a step in the right direction with mass group mailings to subscribed users was the first time I got to experience the "I'm leaving and taking my marbles" syndrome. That was usually followed up with a bunch of "please stay, we need you here" replies...

Funny thing is, all the whiners who left because they were unhappy for one reason or another, eventually came back, and usually within days of their proclamation of leaving.

The message board I moderate, like this one, is a small annex to a much bigger project. (www.showrods.com) a site devoted to model cars. I constantly have to remind people that the message board isn't the website, but a place for model enthusiasts to gather and exchange ideas and what nots. And the owner, another moderator and I pay out of our pockets to keep the board ad-free. Some members donate, most do not.

I think if I was a supporting member, (as in donated some moolah) I would have the right to voice my opinion as to how this place is run. But as I'm tagging a free ride here, and at Father Larry's, and CF (I didn't know about DC but will hunt it out as I'm coming up empty with solutions to my problem elsewhere), I really have no right to tell anyone how to run the website and message board they designed.

I like it here.