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What can the Admins do to help, any requests for changes, updates, etc.
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"cough" :)
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weeksy wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:31 pm I made it more purple.

Dodgy Knees first clothing/mug was shipped today.

He's the first but I'm hoping not the last.

Don't forget all, this forum costs money, use it, or lose it.

Did you chuck in a few T bags. 🥳👍
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G.P wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:41 pm"cough" :)
I meant first for the higher subscription. I was going to host your awesome pic if jersey but wasn't my place to put pics up without permission.
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Dodgy knees wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:46 pm
weeksy wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:31 pm I made it more purple.

Dodgy Knees first clothing/mug was shipped today.

He's the first but I'm hoping not the last.

Don't forget all, this forum costs money, use it, or lose it.

Did you chuck in a few T bags. 🥳👍
The clothing/Merch comes directly from the supplier/manufacturer sorry :)
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Been quiet on subscriptions.

For the people who post regularly and are not subscribers, can you maybe pm me as to why and what we could do to entice you? Is the forum not providing something in particular?
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weeksy wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:03 pm Been quiet on subscriptions.

For the people who post regularly and are not subscribers, can you maybe pm me as to why and what we could do to entice you? Is the forum not providing something in particular?
maybe not then :D
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weeksy wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:29 pm
weeksy wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:03 pm Been quiet on subscriptions.

For the people who post regularly and are not subscribers, can you maybe pm me as to why and what we could do to entice you? Is the forum not providing something in particular?
maybe not then :D
I'm from Yorikshire and I paid :mrgreen:
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As of today, non subscribers won't be able to modify their signatures or their avatar. I'm not sure yet if it will remove them if they're set, but new users certainly won't be able to set an avatar or signature unless they subscribe.

May be a touch harsh, but I see them as 'benefits' rather than essentials
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weeksy wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:29 pm
weeksy wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:03 pm Been quiet on subscriptions.

For the people who post regularly and are not subscribers, can you maybe pm me as to why and what we could do to entice you? Is the forum not providing something in particular?
maybe not then :D
It's easy to miss stuff in this section. A sticky heading all the forums would get more opinions!
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Skub wrote: Tue Nov 17, 2020 7:44 pm
weeksy wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:29 pm
weeksy wrote: Sun Oct 25, 2020 1:03 pm Been quiet on subscriptions.

For the people who post regularly and are not subscribers, can you maybe pm me as to why and what we could do to entice you? Is the forum not providing something in particular?
maybe not then :D
It's easy to miss stuff in this section. A sticky heading all the forums would get more opinions!
Nah, not going to beg.

I've had PMs tonight offering financial help and refused as they're already subscribed. The forum is doing ok financially and in a context of content it's exceeded my expectations massively.

I'm a very proud parent.
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Not sure i'll go as drastic as the 3 months trial. But i've changed the initial donations post to a Sticky/Announcement now so it's at the top all the time.

Thanks for such a detailed input though it's very much appreciated.

Don't worry about the forum, it's doing fine. It's more a personal pride thing as much as anything that i think people should want to donate/subscribe etc.

That said, i don't subscribe to ALL forums i use, but i do subscribe to the majority. The FZ-09/XSR forum for example i don't... but i do feel it's lacking in information and content, so not bothered. I paid lifetime membership for 2 KTM forums though and of course subscribe to the cycling one i use lots.

I do feel forums can pay for themselves in terms of knowledge, information and even just for passing time. I'm not 100% sure WE are there yet, but we're doing well i think.
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Harry wrote: Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:22 am a few have mentioned that they didn't know how to and as soon as it was pointed out they did it straightaway.
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Yup, I was one of them.

[X] poor obs, whatever. It was a classic of I didn't know what I didn't know.
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Harry wrote: Mon Nov 23, 2020 11:27 pm

Can you make the sticky for donations a particular colour?

There are lots of ideas for goodwill funds, or a trackday fund where we chip in and pay for someone to do a trackday if they want to do one but they're a bit skint, etc. That will make the forum seem like more of a community.

I suppose it depends what you want the forum to be, just a forum, a community, or more of a bike club.
1. I cannot i'm afraid
2. Sounds great, i'd LOVE to get people interested. The last 'newbies' we had really enjoyed it and are both now coming to Portimao.
(i don't know if the trackday section seems a bit cliquey, it seems hard to get people interested who've not done them before)
3. Your guess is as good as mine... I just wanted to start a forum initially. But what i want from the future, i dunno.
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Harry wrote: Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:47 pmhe'd have stories of parents who would treat him like a baby sitter, treat him like a free service with no thanks whatsoever and he got very little respect from anyone for what he was doing.
If its free, you will get people who abuse it.

When we (a volunteer club) trained at the dealership, the agreement was that they lent us bikes (BMs) for our customers, we trained their customers for free.

One Wednesday I had a call to book a session. I asked whether he had paid a deposit? If he had, the training was free. "Oh, really? In that case, I'll go in a put down a deposit, if I don't enjoy the day the deposit is refundable. "

By that Saturday the booking form included the condition that if the deposit was returned then the course fee was payable.
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We've had multiple new subscribers in the past week, which means people are either feeling guilty and paying up... Or they're enjoying the site and feel it's worth it..

Ill take either/both :)
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Thanks to all recent subscribers. It's all very much appreciated
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Right then you horrible lot, get your wallets out as you're not out drinking tonight.
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weeksy wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:09 am Right then you horrible lot, get your wallets out as you're not out drinking tonight.
Thanks for bumping this thread, subbing was something that I meant to do a few weeks back but I've got a concentration span of a gnat and promptly forgot, sorry. :oops:

An especially shitty thing to do as thanks to a member here I saved about £200 on a set of 3 brembo brake disks
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weeksy wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:09 am Right then you horrible lot, get your wallets out as you're not out drinking tonight.
I am ;)
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Yorick wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:56 am
weeksy wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:09 am Right then you horrible lot, get your wallets out as you're not out drinking tonight.
I am ;)
In that case, you can pay double :)