Originally Posted by crosscats

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!