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Re: Welcome Alexa
Wow!
Lots of comments there Alexa, you never hold back on anything do you? Which is very encouraging from my point of view and ample justification for your position as a Moderator that’s for sure. Your views and input will be most welcome but perhaps its best if we deal with each of your many points one step at a time.
Delegation is often the best approach to many tasks involving improvements to the site so stand by with your voluntary skills sooner rather than later.
I would however like to take up just one of your comments:-
alexa wrote:4/. Members dropping off (Welcome Mat Forum)
Very very strange how many new members join the site, make instant postings and comments, give forth praise of its many facilities and then simply bugger off, never to return 😕
What causes this in so many instances? We desperately need more and more trade members to participate but yet they are the first to ‘drop off’ the site?? Could it be that they have difficulty navigating through the thousands of topics and postings, unable to figure out how to join in? or simply just too frightened to hit the ‘submit’ button?
When you go back to many of the 2003 and 2004 postings from trade members you will see what I mean, click on their ‘profile’ to see when they last posted….?
One of my local ‘competitors’ joined the site earlier this year. (Great bloke and we’ve been in friendly rivalry for 25 odd years occasionally passing work too and fro etc) He found this site like you and Penguin45 (by accident) and PM’d me to say what a brilliant site it was…….he’s never been back since????
Oh, and before anyone comments that it might be me causing this phenomenon? Ha! Ha! beat you too it :wave:
Finally, yes that bloody roo is far too big, I’d better shrink it down to size :martin:
Re: Welcome Alexa
Feedbacks a tough one Alexa, too much detail is bad for repairs. 😉
Apart from that we often use the legal side here in the EU, which is in fact correct, that we can’t give a blow-by-blow account of how to do a job, but then that’s hardly in our interest to gain repair work either. Business is business at the end of the day.
I’d be thinking that most of us have enough sense to judge what’s right and what’s not to strike the balance.
On some of the stuff in the post befoer that…
I promote UKW wherever and whenever I can, the problem being that unless a fridge mountain, washer mountain or something else newsworthy turns up the media take little notice of this industry. 🙁
On the search engines, we are on all of them, just depends how they rank the site but tapping anything into Google that’s industry related to a fault will produce UKW pretty high in the results. The paid for links rank higher for sales terms obviously.
Monthly PM’ing the members is not really the thing to do I don’t think. We could produce a monthly, or some other periodical, “e-magazine” that we can mail out and offer for download. Time is the problem.
Training is a nightmare due to copyrights and politics. 🙄
K.
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