*puts on the flame gear* Can i give an opinion here?
.......... no ! - Squish - now as i was saying, the problem is choice, Rob has gone out of his way for us so many times, that now we have too much of it, & although high foot traffic visits, its spread over a vast virtual area & even threads like this can be missed. I almost missed it & im a regular! Plus it comes down to how you surf the pages
1st is forum search by topic - to which you already have a topic in mind!
2nd is new postings - often dictated by foot traffic & new can become a massive listing to which you skim down.
3rd is todays posts....also dictated by traffic .snap... gonski posts along with my BS ..... you see where im going ect ect
Cap threads to a max 3 month shelf life, pull out killer posts as periodical stickies ( maybe displayed in our vault under respective titles) & focus on funneling people into a more central corridor with fewer parameters so we can all interact more.
I mean lets look at it - There's realistically 2 kinds of people here -
Person A - will search first ask questions latter -
Person B - will ask first & maybe extra search latter.
Both ways im sweet with, what-ever floats you boat i guess - there's a wealth of knowledge for those that seek out the resource vault, & plenty of people to answer questions in the forums.
Using purpose structure is used everyday & most people dont even know it.
Casino's use lighting & physical structure to keep you engaged, marketing companies use colours ,patterns & associational icons to hold & manipulate your attention, Im splicing flash cards of x rated material into every 15th frame rate, so you see, we're all controlling something.........whether people know it or not, its the "think smarter not work harder" people among us that see patterns in the chaos & can use structure to guide in the general purposeful direction.
Now, who stole my beer - Just an out of the box suggestion from this bubble gum under my shoe shhhhhhhhh, be quiet i say!
here is what we are going to do.
i am going to post a new poll, and put a announcement up about it so all people reading threads here should see it (hopefully addressing the valid issues Veriann brought up)
Now how do we make the call?
If the poll attracts a minimum of 25 votes of people interested over the course of 7 days then we will start the contest back up. If after 7 days we do not have at least 25 people voting they would participate we will shelf the idea for a bit and revisit it to see if interest has grown.
why 25?
we average over 100 unique resisted members that visit Talkingreef everyday. so, if 25% of the people that visit each day are interested, that should be enough to keep the contest running for at least a few solid months. and should give enough options so the contest moderators are not picking the best of 2 or 3 entries each month.
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I voted yes, and I will indeed participate if we get the vote count, but I really liked the idea of a thread of the month. There will always be great threads to choose from, the TR staff just have to pick one. Maybe sticky it and link it from the announcement area at the top of the page.
Rob, sounds like a plan. Hopefully if enough focus is placed on this poll, and the poll is placed in a well populated area, we can get the head count to get it going and keep it running.
Kdone, I hear ya! I will support it too, but all I can offer is buff shots. All I have is bare rocks right now. LOL
Phurst, I also like the "Thread of the Month" idea too. There are some threads posted in here that I enjoy following.
hmm lets look at this, 100 unique visiters per day, 25 votes, 7 days, um yeah! I could pee from space & hit more vote cards than that I love you guys, but you all suck @ the same time! Hell i was even going to create a new tank monthly just to stir the pot! & Im sure Dkone would have joined in on the activity of nano of the month with me
Hmmmmmmm..... Well V, I think the faithful here that did participate in the "sucking" part can not be included in your statement as "we" did our part by voting. Besides, if I'm going to suck, my straw will have an umbrella on it! Thank you very much. Instead of looking at the negative here, let's use this time to evaluate things and get a game plan going that will incorporate lurkers into pro-active members, then perhaps we can have a "tank of the month" and other great ideas. I still want to see you up and the wheels turning in that head of yours and get that nano up and running for when we do succeed.
And another thing. I just thought of a great idea of an incentive to change lurkers into members. Won't mention it now as I'll have to pass it by Rob. I'll get back with you on that one.
you know im only playing around , takes alot more than to ruffle my feathers, although it was alittle disappointing to see, cause i was thinking we were ready "this" time! Oh well, your all going to be subjected to my luke warm humor till we bridge that gap!
I know you were playing around, as was I. But the disappointment for everyone is real unfortunately. We just have to regroup. I do want to see you at least be thinking of some ideas to surpass Dkone's picto. Creative minds and extreme humour is a terrible thing to waste. Hmmmm..... the work lukewarm doesn't seem to be in your dictionary V. I see "wide open", and molecules expanding and that doesn't come from lukewarm. We'll just wait and see if Rob thinks my idea is on the right track or not. If it doesn't fly, then maybe someone else can come up with a better suggestion.
Hello Budde! Thanks for your support. We need to rally all of TR's regulars to get some good things going. All things worth having take time and effort.
Naw!!!!! Never fight or argue, it's non productive. Just friends sparring with humour. Reefers school together like dolphins. I hear V's flipper laugh now.
- now as i was saying, the problem is choice, Rob has gone out of his way for us so many times, that now we have too much of it, & although high foot traffic visits, its spread over a vast virtual area & even threads like this can be missed. I almost missed it & im a regular! Plus it comes down to how you surf the pages
- Just an out of the box suggestion from this bubble gum under my shoe shhhhhhhhh, be quiet i say! 
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I love you guys, but you all suck @ the same time! 
Hell i was even going to create a new tank monthly just to stir the pot! & Im sure Dkone would have joined in on the activity of nano of the month with me
, takes alot more than to ruffle my feathers, although it was alittle disappointing to see, cause i was thinking we were ready "this" time! Oh well, your all going to be subjected to my luke warm humor till we bridge that gap! 
But the disappointment for everyone is real unfortunately. We just have to regroup. I do want to see you at least be thinking of some ideas to surpass Dkone's picto. Creative minds and extreme humour is a terrible thing to waste. Hmmmm..... the work lukewarm doesn't seem to be in your dictionary V. I see "wide open", and molecules expanding and that doesn't come from lukewarm. 
