Originally Posted by
Steve - UK
Thanks Chris. We are just reaching the point where more info can come out now; its taken a little longer to get things properly sorted and I know some info is going out today, and more over next couple of weeks to everyone on the mailing list. We want to have cost of fees to a minimum but I think if we can do it for less than the price of 4 gallons of petrol we should be ok. Some comments in here are nothing but negative but in a forum everyone can voice a personal opinion. I'm more than pleased to deal with any questions but unfortunately the hecklers have nothing constructive or useful to contribute. Please keep the questions coming if anything comes to mind.
I know you are interested in a club forum like the PT's have, and I know some work is being done to look at this. I don't know yet if this will happen in the short term, but will come back on this. Some of our group have looked in at this forum as a guest and given us negative feedback about it saying it was like "snipers alley" I'm not sure that's true, but certainly the use of this forum has declined over the last couple of years. It would be useful to know why, when you consider membership of UKC Group continued to grow.
Cheers S
I welcome the 'upgrading' of UKCrossfires and wish Steve & co all the best with it - and will very happily pay my sub. - even if I can only attend one or two events a year - mainly because of geography and pressure of other commitments.
But a separate forum? - really? - what's wrong with this one?
We have our own section if we choose to use it but can also benefit from access to the wider Crossfire community - and can take part if we wish. I have mostly found it very useful - and entertaining.
Unpleasantness can happen on any forum - who's to say the discontents and grumblers won't stick in their negative oar on a new UK-only forum?
Arrogance, intolerance and bullying only succeed given an audience - so if it happens, just ignore them - they'll soon get bored and go away - plus hopefully get stamped on by the moderators...
Perhaps this forum would get more attention from UK owners if UKCrossfires did more to promote it as a viable platform for discussion, rather than dwell on past negative experiences - which is the impression I get when I've suggested this previously!
I'm also on UKCruisers forum and, great though it is, to some extent I miss the contact with the US that one gets here.
But - there are bigger differences between UK and US PTs than with Crossfires, so they perhaps have less in common - plus UKCruisers is a bigger club than UKCrossfires so can support its own forum more easily.
Let's try making better use of what we already have before possibly over-complicating things - and maybe making lots more unnecessary work for someone!