Isn't it about time the Manufacturer's Forum section gets some house keeping?

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MadAsAHatter

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A lot of the Manufacturers' Forums are pretty much dead. Carol-Ann and Egnater have been out of business for a bit now. Fractal has it's own forum, do they even know this one is still here? Cameron forum, come on really? The last post in that one was over a year ago.

This list of manufacturers is so long I completely forgot there was a Gear Review section after them. Isn't it about time that section get some house keeping?

Maybe post a notice in each one like... We are doing maintenance on sub-forums. The owner of this sub forum has 14 days to respond otherwise it will be closed due to inactivity.

And to not lose anything just nestle them into a read only "inactive forums" type thing. That way we could still get to all the old info if we need and could put them back on active status if the owner ever comes back around.
 
It's been brought up many times and the consensus is always:
It's worth keeping the dead ones 'cause support and info are often "impossible-to-find".

You have real-world examples of issues, fixes and related tips when often a manual or review article is all one can find. "Long-dead" sub-forums would still have been read for this reason.
 
thegame said:
DOGE it
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You mean DOFE... hence my new title. :LOL:

On the efficiency aspect, it's all-good 'cause they cost nothing to maintain and moderate (duh) and yet benefit those who read them... for free.

Win / win...
 
Monkey Man said:
It's been brought up many times and the consensus is always:
It's worth keeping the dead ones 'cause support and info are often "impossible-to-find".

You have real-world examples of issues, fixes and related tips when often a manual or review article is all one can find. "Long-dead" sub-forums would still have been read for this reason.
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Call it the “archive” and close it for posts. New posts for that stuff can go into main. Folks get to search archived info for reference and get faster help thru main, as needed.
 
Monkey Man said:
You mean DOFE... hence my new title. :LOL:

On the efficiency aspect, it's all-good 'cause they cost nothing to maintain and moderate (duh) and yet benefit those who read them... for free.

Win / win...
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I think the issue people have, myself included, is that dead ones look and hold the same precedence as alive ones which hides the active around the inactive.

I don’t disagree the posts need to exist, but the section does need cleaned up. I believe you should make an archive master section and within it, all of the dead sections like how off topic is organized. This sets and rewards good companies active in their own sections as top level visible while still preserving the desired goal of an archive for others.
 
marvcus said:
Call it the “archive” and close it for posts. New posts for that stuff can go into main. Folks get to search archived info for reference and get faster help thru main, as needed.
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glpg80 said:
I think the issue people have, myself included, is that dead ones look and hold the same precedence as alive ones which hides the active around the inactive.

I don’t disagree the posts need to exist, but the section does need cleaned up. I believe you should make an archive master section and within it, all of the dead sections like how off topic is organized. This sets and rewards good companies active in their own sections as top level visible while still preserving the desired goal of an archive for others.
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Yes, this was my suggestion. Give the manufacturers chance to respond and keep their sub forum going. Anyone who doesn't respond, archive the forum in a Archived section or something similar. This would clean up the manufacturers forum section while preserving the old info.

That's the issue for me... The inactive forums are just taking up space and detracting from the ones that still have regular activity. I like to check in on Jason's, Wayne's and Jeremy's sub-forum to see what they have in the works, but keep forgetting about them. They're buried in the long list of inactive ones and I miss seeing new posts.
 
Do manufactures pay a fee for their forum?
 
glpg80 said:
I think the issue people have, myself included, is that dead ones look and hold the same precedence as alive ones which hides the active around the inactive.

I don’t disagree the posts need to exist, but the section does need cleaned up. I believe you should make an archive master section and within it, all of the dead sections like how off topic is organized. This sets and rewards good companies active in their own sections as top level visible while still preserving the desired goal of an archive for others.
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You're making too-much sense Brother Matt. :LOL:

Will run this past admin mate.
 
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