Suggestions Please!

[JohnL48]

We have a blank slate here, please post suggestions for the new forum. What sub-forums do y'all want, color scheme, etc etc?

I saw on another site a "live from the stand" category. It got a lot of use from members posting updates and photos right from the stand (while the bucks were sneaking by their stand because they were in the phone lol) Just a thought.

 

[cutman]

I like that idea. Will definitely implement that. I also created a "land tours" sub forum under the native habitat forum.

 

[E_308]

I was going to suggest a Land Tour section but I see you are way ahead of me. I'll try to move mine over from the sinking ship.

How about a Guns/loads/Bows section (equipment, reloading, bow setup and tuning, gunsmithing)

 

[wbpdeer]

I formally request a Deer Dog Tracking Sub-Section. I am married to a great lady - since 1973. She allows most things I want but is 100% against a deer tracking dog.
This means I have to get my pleasures following the three or four dog threads on the old forum. CNC, Brush, Outdoorstom and Doctorbrady are the deer recovery people I have followed.
In my hunting career I have went to bed with a deer left at dark to be recovered by humans the next morning. I take recovering an animal 100%. The dog trackers share things wounded animals do that help me in my tracking. I had rather hunt with a bow but still gun hunt some.
I have had this conversation with DogDoc already. Will the two admins get with him and decide if you think my request is worthy.

 

[cutman]

Just added a deer tracking dog forum and a herbicide sub-forum under the food plot section.

If anyone has time, try to save some of the good threads from QDMA...especially if you were the original thread starter over there. I will try to save as much as I can when I get back to my computer Sunday.

 

[OkieKubota]

Multi quote option?

 

[wbpdeer]

Thanks Cutman for the Deer Tracking Forum. I think that will have a positive influence on us hunters that track without a great dog. But I love reading what they do with their animals.
I will move some of my threads over to here. In the beginning I just didn't want to load up. Our traffic and membership is very encouraging to me. Thanks a million friend.

 

[alnipper49]

Multi quote option?

If you hit reply it will open up a quote. Then go to another message that you want to reply to and hit reply again (without hitting "post reply") yet.

I think there are other ways to do it, but that's how I do it atleast

 

[Crimson n' Camo]

My suggestion would be to be careful and not chop the forum up into too many subforums right now. For an infant forum I think you would be better off in the beginning to not have so many so that ALL eyes see each persons questions, comments, etc......then grow from there.

 

[buckdeer1]

How do you change you signature?It put my name instead of my handle

 

[alnipper49]

My suggestion would be to be careful and not chop the forum up into too many subforums right now. For an infant forum I think you would be better off in the beginning to not have so many so that ALL eyes see each persons questions, comments, etc......then grow from there.

I do the same thing on other forums. We generally start out with as few forums as possible, and always have a 'catch all' like General. If the subtopics of a single forum have over 25% of all new threads dominated with a distinct au topic then it's worth maybe subforuming it.

The forum I know Cutman from has MAYBE 20 subforums, but over ten million posts and 75,000 members (maybe 10,000 are active though)

One of the plans here is to build our a really good search engine on the backend so that folks can easily find anything they're looking for.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Crimson n' Camo]

How do you get new members onto a new forum like this? I mean, once the flurry is over because of new people coming over from the QDMA forum.....then how will any growth occur to keep it from going stagnant? On the QDMA forum most new folks were brought there through Google searches but I don't think we're going to have that luxury right now.

 

[alnipper49]

Correct - usually there is a few week/month lull while Google 'vets' new sites

Google is very good at their job, if folks create great content then people will come.

The #1 thing fold can do is word of mouth / reach out to friends.

The #2 thing is throw a link up on your own blogs / Facebook page / twitter

Honestly, the Google 'sandbox effect' is pretty quick.

I also have a network of high performing sites that can link into here.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Tap]

How do you get new members onto a new forum like this? I mean, once the flurry is over because of new people coming over from the QDMA forum.....then how will any growth occur to keep it from going stagnant? On the QDMA forum most new folks were brought there through Google searches but I don't think we're going to have that luxury right now.

It'll take some time and effort to grow this Forum. Over the years, I shared the link to QDMA Forum as often as I could. I wanted to spread the knowledge. We need to do the same with this site. Plant the seed and let it grow. In this day and age of the internet and social networking, that should be easy...IF we provide a quality product. And I know the quality of the membership here, a successful site should be a piece of cake. Let's not screw the pooch like they did at QDMA.

 

[Crimson n' Camo]

Ok....I wasn't thinking about linking this forum from other places. That would be a good way for folks to find their way here.

Is there anything we can do with the aesthetics of the forum to give it a more "deer hunting"...or outdoor feel. I know that might sound minor but I look at it from a marketing kind of mindset when it comes to attracting others.

 

[cutman]

Yeah, I will mess with the color scheme when I get back on Sunday (unless Tim wants to work on it on the meantime).

 

[Crimson n' Camo]

Yeah, I will mess with the color scheme when I get back on Sunday (unless Tim wants to work on it on the meantime).

Awesome! I have no idea what's possible on a setup like this. Without getting too overly gaudy with it though...I think the more we can make it feel outdoorsy and less like a "stock" forum, the better. Just pitching ideas......

 

[Tap]

Ok....I wasn't thinking about linking this forum from other places. That would be a good way for folks to find their way here.

Is there anything we can do with the aesthetics of the forum to give it a more "deer hunting"...or outdoor feel. I know that might sound minor but I look at it from a marketing kind of mindset when it comes to attracting others.

I thoroughly agree.
We need to make the site as user friendly as possible.
Photos within posts are very attractive. I have not yet tried to post any pics here so I'm not sure how it works here.
One frustration I had on QDMA was the kb limit on posting photos. For some of us that are less techno-savvy, it was a pain resizing pics.
I liked when photos were included in the post instead of a link to go to the pic. It was actually easy to show pics in the post over there, but I don't think a lot of people realized how to do it. Can we make that option more obvious?

 

[Tap]

I guess it's easier to post pics here. Keep up the good work!
BTW, Is there a kb limit here?

 

[Alpha Doe]

Just a quick question...there is a food plot area, a fruit tree area and a native habitat management section. But the native habitat section seems to be more of an individual journal area...where should we post things like a switchgrass thread, TSI etc? The same place as the journals? Or should there be a journal area?