Proposed Forum Changes...

Richard_Webster

Could the Board about House/Flat Buying and Selling and renting be split into a Short Term (AST etc) Rentals Board and a Buying/Selling Board?

Even better, could we have separate boards for Buying/Selling for the different legal jurisdictions: England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland?

rog2

Lansdowne wrote: »

Let me also echo strongly the proposal to lock all posts (with perhaps some exceptions) after say two months.

Sorry I can't agree with putting a 'time-lock' on threads. Some of the most popular, and informative, threads (on the DFW Board at least) are over six months old, and still as useful and well subscribed as when they were first started.
Perhaps they are what you mean by 'with perhaps some exceptions' but how can the 'exceptions' be defined, and by whom?

under-the-thumb

How about renaming the gambling board, to something like Introductory Betting Loopholes.
Get rid of the word gambling, as that is the complete opposite of what the board is all about. It is about taking advantage of betting loopholes to make many thousands of £s. On the board regular contributers always warn against gambling and any post that mentions gambling is locked/deleted.

Just seems weird to have a board called gambling when in reality it is not tolerated and any posts that mention gambling are quickly closed.

Savvy_Sue

rog2 wrote: »

Sorry I can't agree with putting a 'time-lock' on threads. Some of the most popular, and informative, threads (on the DFW Board at least) are over six months old, and still as useful and well subscribed as when they were first started.
Perhaps they are what you mean by 'with perhaps some exceptions' but how can the 'exceptions' be defined, and by whom?

I think the suggestion was that if nothing had been added to a thread for - say - two months, it would be locked. Not that 'live' threads would be locked just because they were more than two months old.

Two months might be too short a period, IMO. 6 months better, if this idea is taken up?

Bogof_Babe

Any chance of a Forum Jump menu at the top of the page, AS WELL AS the bottom (capitals to ensure that you don't just move it!).

dobbiesloan

scottishlass wrote: »

The only question I have for that though is what is classified as low??

*Jelly Tots*I don't see the need for 2 separate Freebies low-spend and Freebie no-spend board.

People dont realalize if you have to pay for a newspaper or pay for the postage then it is not a Freebie (no spend required) so offers that you have to pay postage on or buy a rubbish newspaper would go into the Low Spend board.
Quite simple realy,

Numpty_Monkey

I like the Idea about the Freebies board having a "minimum spend" board,
it should keep the forum police quiet for a while:rolleyes:

Burlesque_Babe

maybe 'free plus postage' or something like that. I've seen so many posts that 'bark' quite rudely at the OP that something is free when they 'dare' to say something is free when there is postage of a couple of quid.....

BlueIsTheColour

I have to disagree with a few posters, sorry, and say I think separating the diaries section in DFW is a good idea, there are so many now, and thats a good thing, but it can sometimes make it hard to actually find the threads that need or offer advice cos there are so many diaries in there, if the diaries were a sub-board like the IVA/BR one is, I think the great DFW community woud remain, but it would make the DFW board much more easy to use. I have really struggled lately to find threads that offer the advice I am after.

Just my opinion tho

System

Zelie wrote: »

Any chance of getting the boards listed in alphabetical order within their sections? It takes me ages to find boards sometimes even when I know which section they are in. Also, it's neater. OCD? Me? What makes you ask?

I save my favorite 3 boards in a bookmarks folder.