While looking at the way other forums are set up, I have noticed that most of the time you have one main “subject” then different parts of that subject. For expample, Trains magazine has several diffent sub-forums, such as General Discussion, Locomotives, Transit, Passenger, ect. OGR is one magazine yet it has different sections of its O Gauge forum, such as TMCC/DCS, Scenery, 3 Rail, 2 Rail, Tinplate, S Gauge, ect.
It’s my belief that if CTT did this it could attract more members, since members can direct their question to only people who actually know the answer to it.
I don’t think this will prevent “inacurrate” responses, but at least the viewers will have a special interest in the subject. Because the OGR Forum is so active, this was done to keep topics/questions from disappearing from page one in a day.
Good suggestion Grayson. This has been sent to the “powers to be” several times and they like this setup. Maybe the Bob Keller will drop in and add their reasons.
I do not intend to highjack your thread, but in the relm of suggestions, another forum I participate in has a feature where on the title block there is a checkmark if you have posted in that thread. It is handy when keeping track of threads you are activly following
I could really make use of a"SpelCheck" function, pretty bad when you have to use the “Preview & Edit” button multiple times, and still end up with errors. [D)]
I came in second. I couldn’t spell maintenance. I still think it should be spelled manetanedance. [(-D]
Back to the original posting by the gentleman from North Carolina - Yes, improvement would be beneficial, but as I have learned working in the corporate world, the computer jockeys are very conservative when it comes to making changes. For example, if you use MS Outlook at home, you will find that it will do great things, such as put neat signatures with graphics on your emails. But neat signatures with graphics eat up storage space on servers, so they cut out that feature on the corporate computers because servers are not cheap. (They keep all those emails for lawsuits, like the one I filed many years ago against an employer. Too bad, I did not write anything incriminating, as they claimed in their deposition and then failed to produce. [;)] )