A suggestion, please don’t bite head off

I think you make a fair point. The flipside is sometimes there are a large number of mod actions which need taken and PM'ing / eMailing everyone is pretty onerous e.g. at the mo there's a rash of folk posting in the wrong place and using HOOGE signatures and contacting everyone would take a wee while so we're working within the rules users accepted when signing up to the forum.

In respect to the huge sigs, Killian, can you limit the size of upload using the software coding?

We have on ours, 20 lines max in depth for written sigs, a max image upload that is a clickable thumbnail, so the actual photo/image is huge but what you see is of a more reasonable size and can thus be enlarged when clicked on.

Also, some well placed sticky reminders just letting everyone know that you would appreciate a little more user restraint on posting sigs etc...perhaps with a reference to the site's TOS.

So far we have been very successful and have found that when people know the boundaries, they do generally keep within them.

A couple of days ago, we had a newby who posted his business links for advertising in his posts and sig, one of my mods picked it up, noted it in the watch thread and sent the member a PM asking to have the adverts removed as it was in breach of TOS rules. The member failed to do so initially, and that same mod then edited the post and removed the sig and sent a further PM. The member did contact staff and apologised. Job done and no antagonism.

Having 2 sites to look after isn't easy but we have a great little system running and it does cut down your workload if the stall is set out in advance and the software is setup to help you.

Hope my little suggestions haven't trodden on any toes, as that isn't my intentions, I just thought it might help calm things down a little.

Another idea is maybe getting a gallery software setup, so all those huge 'dial-up' beware photos and all the others can be posted in one place, perhaps divided into marques. That would save space on the main site and give everyone somewhere to see all the pics if the cars in one place too.

Again just an idea trying to help

I don't think toes have been treaded upon Ally. I often don't notify a member about the fact that I move a thread because it will still show up in the thread list of the otiginal forum page, e.g.
Moved: Coolant rising without being topped up!
I have no idea who moved the thread or why, but looking at the thread title I can presume it is a technical thread and was moved from the Scottish Region forum to a tech forum.
I assume other threads are moved for similar reasons.

As for the gallery - I had been developing one but following a discussion on the forum about how thieves can target a car I was under the impression that this was no longer required.

Nigel wrote: spokey wrote: Really, who cares? If someone gets the hump because a mod moves a post, they really need to go and visit thelifeshop.com. Couldn't put it better myself

Couldn't agree more

If a post gets moved, it's for a reason. also if a post gets removed it's for a reason.

In relation to a gallery.

If people do as they are already doing, which is blanking registrations etc, then there is no security issue.

The gallery could be divided by region, for regional shows/meet-ups and by marque. Using software such as PhotoPost where the upload size is unlimited but the photos always show as a standard size and are resized automatically means that each photo can be seen regardless of pixel or dimension at the same uniform sized print that if clicked on will enlarge to original.

It would save the bandwidth on the main site in those threads with lots of sometimes enormous photos, which in turn would speed the site up and probably cost less too.

Both of my sites are PhotoPost galleries and they are very user friendly and even more importantly, admin friendly too, I admin on both of mine and moderate on the main sites.

I also have mine set up so that guests cannot access or see the photos, they have to join the main site first.

Edited by Goldryder