Could we put all the buying, receiving and ordering posts in a separate category?

[Quark]

They are depressing and redundant.

 

[sickk21]

I don’t disagree but now I’m curious what entails “General Discussion” exactly.

 

[Steebu]

As I noted in the TPW 4/11 thread, it would be great if someone could create an FAQ as a starting point for everyone to read and the mods stickied it to the top of the forum. We’ve seen tons of posts from people with a post count of 1 asking, “WHERE IS MY TAHOE?!! DEALER WON’T TELL ME ANYTHING!111!?!?!”

You don’t know what you don’t know, and there’s nothing wrong with asking, but it does get old and a bit depressing after a while.

 

[R32driver]

we could go vwvortex style and flame the newbs with every response being USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION...that also gets old quickly too though

 

[Quark]

I don’t disagree but now I’m curious what entails “General Discussion” exactly.

It would be more aptly named "Sales" it is no more "General Discussion".

I would also ask that salesmen properly identity themselves.

 

[Steebu]

we could go vwvortex style and flame the newbs with every response being USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION...that also gets old quickly too though

I would’ve been a fan of this 20 years ago as a college kid, but behavior like that really doesn’t build a sense of community.

One way to nip it in the bud is when people register they automatically get the FAQ sent to them.

More to the original point, however, I think a Sales sub-forum might be interesting. People could put dealer reviews and experiences in there as well.

 

[firsttimetahoe]

I think it’s hard to sticky any sort of main post that has all the information in 1 place because it seems everyone has a different experience. What happens to ABC doesn’t apply to XYZ.

And then you’ll have people complain because their expectations are going to be wrong.

 

[SSGUNNER]

If you ask me, but only if you ask…

The best approach would be to categorize everything into sub-sections within the forum. I’ve been in quite a few car forums through my days and all have been a bit “Interesting”. The only one that was broken down like this is camaro5.com.

Break this down to eliminate all the pointless debates about RWD vs 4x4; gas vs diesel; 5.3 vs 6.2…should I keep going? Oh yeah, almost forgot, Lifter section vs diesel and wont turn over.

Just my .02.

 

[Doubeleive]

Doubtful, any changes like that would ever be made, just skip over such post's and carry-on
getting any new or old member to do anything specific is wishful thinking at best, the end result is typically frustration.

 

[WalleyeMikeIII]

I'd be in favor of a "Buying and Ordering" section.