artinist Posted July 28, 2003 Report Share Posted July 28, 2003 it will be really helpful to try to find things if the cars and parts in the the for sale/watned section would be seperated to have their own heading. any chance this could happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryddler Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 That's not a bad idea. Any seconds or thirds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted_One Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 That's not a bad idea. Any seconds or thirds? sure, won't hurt anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikec Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 I'll secondthird (Boosted_One snuck in his reply while I was typing mine) the motion. Â Wasn't this suggestion brought up many months ago - it seems familiar. One other thing I'd like to see, especially if you're going through the trouble to create a new forum: add mandatory fields to the "Subject:" box to force the seller to list the location. Â I.e. something like: Subject: _________________________ Â Location: ____ Message icon: Â Â ____________ ...etc... Then, when the post is listed the Location would either be its own column (if that's easy to do in the code) or just appended to the "Subject" text. Â We keep asking people to put their location in the title block and the message text but still quite a few forget this little detail... can we make it mandatory in the "car for sale" forum? mike c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted July 29, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 good idea. i think i remember bringing this up with Gabe at a meet and he said he thought it was good idea too. maybe it just got forgotten so i wanted to throw a reminder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzKill Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 I like this idea as well. We'd definitely need to have a guideline for posting though. Just to require some essential information, as mikec described. My ideas for required info would be: Year/Make/Model [*]Color (Ext/Int) [*]Mileage (if rebuilt, milegage on rebuild) [*]Location of seller [*]Asking price (or if looking for highest offer, indicate as such) [*]Method of contact (email, phone, etc) [*]Pictures? (emailed/link/right in the post/etc) [*]Description (including any mods/damage/etc) This would end the constant replies of "where are you?" "what mods?" and the like... which to me shouldn't ever have to be asked in the first place. If a seller just stopped to think, "What info would I need to see before I'd consider buying a car?" before they posted, we'd all be better off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88TSI_Rob Posted July 29, 2003 Report Share Posted July 29, 2003 YES PLEASE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted July 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 5speed/auto thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryddler Posted July 30, 2003 Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 The only problem with making mandatory fields is that this system doesn't have any way to distinguish from one forum to the next for the addition of extra info like that. We would probably need to put a sticky note up with the guidelines and delete posts that don't fit the guidelines after a warning is sent to the author to "fix it or lose it" within some time frame. And no whining about deleted posts! The rules would be very clear. Follow them or else! Whiners will be deleted! Come to think of it, that should be applied site wide anyways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzKill Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 ryddler... That's more of what I had in mind, knowing how much tweaking of the code would be necessary to make additional fields. I agree with artinst... manual/auto tranny should also be a mandatory piece of info when listing. I totally forgot about it. We can treat it similar to how we manage the feedback forum, so it remains clean and to the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted_One Posted July 31, 2003 Report Share Posted July 31, 2003 And no whining about deleted posts! The rules would be very clear. Follow them or else! Whiners will be deleted! Come to think of it, that should be applied site wide anyways Yup yup yup! You all heard it, the Great OZ has spoken!! Now I wonder where the person who doesn't like what Ryddler just said is going to send the complaint to? Ryddlers wife?? Will Ryddler get a supena for Judge Judy?? LOL! ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted August 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2003 anything new about this yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryddler Posted August 20, 2003 Report Share Posted August 20, 2003 anything new about this yet? I'm working on code to purge the existing forum of any messages over two weeks before a new one is created. Currently every message has to be deleted by hand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted October 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2003 can we just get the the subject created for now and then add the mandetory fields later when its ready? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smog Posted November 11, 2003 Report Share Posted November 11, 2003 This sounds like a good plan to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted November 13, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2003 its been over 3 months. can comeone please create this subdirectory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbanks111 Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 I still think this is the best starqust site of all and greatfull for it too .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted December 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2003 anybody home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tenntsi Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 I am a newbie but this is one of the features that I noticed was missing. I think it would be great to seperate cars and parts . Thanks Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted February 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2004 PLEASE ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artinist Posted March 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 tsk tsk. do you take bribes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distorted.Clarity Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 they should do it as it can only help the board. i was just looking for who was selling cars yesterday and got sick of seeing other posts so i quit looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPaus_88TSi Posted April 5, 2004 Report Share Posted April 5, 2004 Anything new on this? It's a great idea, and it seems alot of the mods think the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questfortweety Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 all this would help clear out the clutter and bring the sight more up to date good ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couth'nize Posted July 22, 2004 Report Share Posted July 22, 2004 its been over 3 months. can comeone please create this subdirectory. Make that an extra 8!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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