whya are all the jap cars lumped together?
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tuttle said:
I quite like the solidarity.
Mind you we aint real big on numbers here really,from a practial point,I'm not sure there are enough contributing/active PH Jap members to warrant pages for each manuf-I do like the idea tho.
I think you kind of hit the nail on the head...
the site see's no need for it, because there are low post counts here...BUT, the reason for that, is the very fact they are lumped as one. just my feelings, and i dont want to pick holes in the site, but it does feel that every car is catered for here, but if its jap, Ahhh well, stick them in one side, they wont mind ...seems to be the answer here.
I am happy for everyone to be together.
We have plenty of websites catering to individual brands.
Having us all together here means you get to find out about other cars. Sometimes you can even help out people who you would not have known about if the section was divided.
I like the jap community to be mixed.
We have plenty of websites catering to individual brands.
Having us all together here means you get to find out about other cars. Sometimes you can even help out people who you would not have known about if the section was divided.
I like the jap community to be mixed.
Nicol@ said:
I am happy for everyone to be together.
We have plenty of websites catering to individual brands.
Having us all together here means you get to find out about other cars. Sometimes you can even help out people who you would not have known about if the section was divided.
I like the jap community to be mixed.
Spot on.
Gazboy said:
I don't see the point in having seperated forums - hell there is only five-six regular contributers in the mixed forum! There are only 30 Jap owners who regularly contribute to the Gassing Station in total.
I think the reason for that is the forum is too general. A lot of the threads are completely irrelevant unless you own a certain car. If there were some marque-specific forums, along with a main forum, there would be more contributors overall IMHO.
Gazboy said:
I don't see the point in having seperated forums - hell there is only five-six regular contributers in the mixed forum! There are only 30 Jap owners who regularly contribute to the Gassing Station in total.
I agree with Gaz - I'd also like to add that I think the community aspect is good - especially as all the other PHers seem to hate us!
Seriously though, its much better this way than having Gaz talking to himself in a Supra forum, Tuttle twiddling his thumbs in the skyline arena....
Previous posters have identified the reasons for the way it's evolved.
A successful forum depends on reaching a critical mass of readers. Some of the other forums mentioned don't actually have that critical mass and tick over without ever really sparking into life. I created them because people requested them.
With the Jap cars, I've always assumed that the dedicated forums elsewhere on the web serve owners really well and that PH couldn't bring anything to the party by dedicating forums to them (similar to MG, Caterham - the PH forums tick over but aren't popular).
The Jap forum here has gained a life of its own in the last year or so and I suspect that may be because it's not attempting to be a lesser replica to dedicated forums elsewhere.
We can change it if required, but I can't see a Scooby / Evo forum working here for example.
A successful forum depends on reaching a critical mass of readers. Some of the other forums mentioned don't actually have that critical mass and tick over without ever really sparking into life. I created them because people requested them.
With the Jap cars, I've always assumed that the dedicated forums elsewhere on the web serve owners really well and that PH couldn't bring anything to the party by dedicating forums to them (similar to MG, Caterham - the PH forums tick over but aren't popular).
The Jap forum here has gained a life of its own in the last year or so and I suspect that may be because it's not attempting to be a lesser replica to dedicated forums elsewhere.
We can change it if required, but I can't see a Scooby / Evo forum working here for example.
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