I'm sure you've all heard me say this in the past, but the 'vert forum is the single greatest forum in the world! We have a fantastic group of members, participants and 'vert owners! We have a great culture and fantastic atmosphere.

This forum exists for the benefit of the members!

NICOclub has recently begun implementing some improvements to the forum structures. We've been able to divide the single car specific forums into sub-forums. We used to have a single Altima forum. We now have an altima forum with multiple subforums.. http://forums.altimas.org/
G35/G37 have been restructured as well. http://forums.g35club.org/

What do you guys think about splitting up the 'vert forum into subforums?
Here's my idea of how it might look:
1.) General
2.) Maintenance/Modification
3.) Owners Gallery and Projects.

Please give some feedback on the idea!!!

It might make things better organized and more on topic.
It might increase traffic to the forums by making them more attractive.
On the other hand, we're not the busiest forum... would it make things too sparse? Too quiet with three forums?

How would you suggest organizing the forums? Any other ideas?

Do you like things just the way they are? Would you prefer we didn't changed things at all?

This forum belongs to the members... What do you guys want done with YOUR forum?

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1.) General 240sx convertible and misc. - the catch-all forum for anything regarding the verts that don't fall into the other categories as well as werid stuff like what to pack your kid for lunch tomorrow.
2.) Introductions - for all the newbies to introduce themselves
3.) Maintenance and upgrades - get mechanical help, discuss possible upgrades etc.
4.) Member projects - this is a no-brainer here
5.) Vert-spec classifieds - instead of putting everything in a single thread.

Keep the stickies on every forum.

Just my thoughts.

The technical aspect is covered in 240 tech. convertible only problems are asked here. Since 1 in 10 problems posted might be vert specific, I don't see the need to make a seperate vert tech forum.

This forum also serves as a primarily Gen Chat style of format, so splitting Intro threads and Build threads seems as if it would diversify the content too much.

The only thing I think we should split up is make a seperate classifieds section. We've had the classifieds thread stickied forever, but it rarely gets used. I primarily see individual requests get posted as a seperate topic.

Seth, what prompted this topic?

Quote, originally posted by audtatious »

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Matt and I have been talking about it for months. He's got things working nicely now for the first couple of experiments.

I am on the fence about the topic for the 'vert forum. So I thought I'd run it all past the group here to see what they think.

I agree with you that 5 forums is too many. It would look like a ghost town.

I think 3 might be the right number.

We'll see.. I want to get a feel from many of the members, then talk it over with admins and see if we want to proceed with it, or just leave things alone as they are.

I think subdividing a forum is a good way to keep things better organized. I personally don't care if a forum hasn't been posted to in months as long as it's there and easy to search through and access.

I do not think subdividing the forum would affect the amount of posts that we see on a regular basis. I just think it will be easier to navigate within our corner of Nico.

I don't care either way. I'm happy with it the way it is and I'd be happy with it if it changed. As long as it's still here, I'm happy.

At the very LEAST, add a classified forum and a project log forum.

For me, simple is better:
1. General
2. Galley/Member's Projects/Tech
3. Vert WTB/FS (maybe, not really that much traffic for Vert specific things)

The "Title" to the post is the most important thing to me.

Subdivision is like demoninations in religion - it only goes to separate the flock. But that's just my $.02.

SHIFT_Midlife

I usually look for a business reason to improve a product or service and just don't see one here.

Again, just my $.02.

I'm with biggie on this one. Looks perfect.

I think the issue here is that you think 240sx convertible is something independant of other 240 stuff, which it isn't, hahaha.

basically any general 240 stuff is covered by one of the other forums (Silvia/240, 240 tech, online mechanic, even this subforum).

Owner/Gallery/bla bla should be a general 240 thing, not vert thing. It's basically just "build threads", which the vert subforum has been handling fine as is.

Even if we all of a sudden double, or triple, the number of 240 vert guys, this subforum would still be slow moving compared to other subforums on this site.

There is very little in terms of 240 vert specific stuff, which fits just dandy in this section - perhaps a couple tech articles in the 240 vert tech category would be okay, but splitting up an already slow moving subforum seems pointless.

If anything, I still feel Nico has WAY too many subforums (like I did a couple years ago when this current structure was being discussed).

Quote, originally posted by DeXteR »

Subforums are a great idea! 1.) General 240sx convertible and misc. - the catch-all forum for anything regarding the verts that don't fall into the other categories as well as werid stuff like what to pack your kid for lunch tomorrow. 2.) Introductions - for all the newbies to introduce themselves 3.) Maintenance and upgrades - get mechanical help, discuss possible upgrades etc. 4.) Member projects - this is a no-brainer here 5.) Vert-spec classifieds - instead of putting everything in a single thread. Keep the stickies on every forum. Just my thoughts.

This looks pretty good, but I don't think we should have an Intro Forum. We really don't get too many newbies in, and I think that type of thing would be fine in General.

Honestly though, I agree more with QV. This forum is pretty slow anyways. I think adding a Vert Specific WTB/WTS forum is all we should do since the Vert Part Thread is just cluttered and hard to manage.

Plus, think of all of the work you'd make for jrsink - he'd have to start 3x as many threads.

Not that my opinion counts anymore.

What are you doing still hanging around here? hee hee hee.

Oh, I still own 1% of a vert (for the time being). Also, the occasional Canadian weather reports from Dexter and Seth make me appreciate D.C. a little more.

I'm still not sure which way I fall on this topic.

I'm 50% for leaving things just the way they currently are. We don't get enough traffic to "need" to divide the forums. We do run the risk of dividing things too far.

I'm 50% for separating the the forum into 3 sections. I like Biggie's division. At first I didn't like the idea of a "classifieds" subforum. But based on the numerous responses, I think if we do split things, that would be a good choice for one of them. Obviously we'd have gen chat. Finally, I think a "member's rides / builds" forum would be really cool.
So if we do split it up, I think it would be good to have:
1.) General
2.) Member's Rides
3.) Classifieds.

Let's mull it over a bit more. If we do decide to do it, it will be a while before admins find the time to get to us. There are bigger, busier forums on NICO which need the help before us.

Also.. keep your eyes open for a new look to the 'vert registry soon. I'm hoping to have that live by the end of the month.

Thanks everyone!

how to?
what should I do next?
where do you find this part?
what's the weather like in Canada?
why did Ish opt for an NX over the 'vert?
Meets?
rollcages..
hardtops
performance mods
boot covers
how-to's
etc..

The member's rides would be for introductions which feature many pictures of the cars and dedicated project threads. It seems like there are a lot of these, but there aren't as many as you think because these are the ones that continue to get bumped because we post in them frequently.

I'm sort of thinking of it this way...
We'll have one main forum - gen chat.
We'll have two smaller subforums - member's rides and classifieds.