And where would you like to put this?
https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...air-power.html
https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...on-valves.html
https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...installed.html
https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...ry-starts.html
https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...power-ctt.html

 

I have already admitted that I do it do cause there is a "fine line" that vendors play to keep it in the general section. Everyone is guilty. I would like to have my own VividRacing section next to your own Sharkwerks section in a vendor classifieds for ALL vehicles like on www.rx8club.com. Sometimes I post in the general and it is moved when it should not be. Your the moderator not me...

End of the day, your playing the game too. General section should be kept for discussions, but new products, vendor PR, etc should be seperated. I am sure as I have been told sponsors are "easy to come by" but those of us like yourself add ALOT of value with support to users.

And mine are NOT double posts. You should not have to double post. If a wheel vendor wants to show off a new wheel that fits Porsche, Lambo, and Audi, he/she should not have to post it in EVERY section. It looks messy and is repeat content. You have your faithful followers and with your own Sharkwerks section you would have great discussions and questions to people commenting. Me too. It will keep the crap out of the middle where first time user Joe does not get overwhelmed with vendors. How could you be a Ferrari or a Audi vendor on the site, where do you post classifieds?????? Think about it.

 

I believe that in part the vendor section was forced/manifested by some companies continually posting for sale adverts over and over without contributing anything else. Hence, there was never anything wrong with showing off some new part and/or explaining to the community the pros/cons etc... providing they weren't being hard-sold etc... That always used to work and seems to now even.

The 996TT/997TT is _not_ a double post. The transmission ECU is the same as is the transmission itself on the Tip 996TT and 997TT. Hence it's useful to those guys too.

 

For those not familiar or not clicking the link. Here is the Vendor Section I am proposing.

 

I say we just try it for a month or two. There will be no need to bump threads and the customer can still click the various names and see what everyone has to offer.

I noticed that one vendor posted up 14 separate threads with the EXACT same content simply "making people aware of their existence." I would much rather see their own section with just 1 thread. There is no need to pollute the forums with the same thread in different sections. If someone wants something, they will look for it.

There was an old vendor that posted up picture of Porsches with their wheels in the Audi, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc sections. Forum members found this annoying and the company continued to do it anyways.

With this new section in place, this will leave the general sections for threads such as product reviews and customer car photos posted by vendors as well as the normal day-to-day threads made by members.

I'm not sure where new product announcements fall. There is a fine line between announcing a new product to the community while explaining the function and benefits and then selling the new part. It would be fine if the vendor simply posted up the item as an informative thread without making the sales pitch. If a customer wants it, they will contact you.

 

I like the idea of having individual sponsor sections. A place to showcase new products would be great, and would clean the site up a lot.

 

Thank you for stepping up Lane. I bet it sucks to have to post a carbon piece that fits the same car in 4 different sections.

 

This idea would only work if new sponsor threads would be omitted from showing up when a user logs into 6speed and clicks the "new posts" button. (Like most people do when they come in here) Otherwise, nothing changes. The sponsors that abuse, bump threads and overpost will still be right there.
If they have their own section, people that are interested in looking at that sponsors stuff can click in their section and look at it.

 

I have never used the "New Posts" section more then twice on any forum I am on. I usually go to what I want to read. So I dont know if it is most users. But I agree with you on people bumping them and they would show up in New Posts. This is a parameter that can be changed in the VBulletin Admin to not have the proposed Vendor forum show up. I COMPLETELY agree with you in the last sentence. If you do a good job at marketing, have good posts, etc, people will want to come to your section and read your stuff. If you want to come here for a "community" atmosphere and not have sponsor stuff in your face, then you ignore the classified section. That is how it is on most other boards.

 

Can we get some feedback from IB?

 

2 more examples of why we need Vendor Classifieds.

A post about a classified? https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...ml#post2499713

Another wheel company just posting anything not even picture related to the 997TT - https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...-industry.html