Won't this just segregate the forums? I'd understand prefixes on thread titles in the lot and meet forums, so that people can see where parts or meets are located but I'm not sure regions are the way to go...

Happy to be proved wrong, however!

It's always good to try & test new things

Oh I agree, but giving people their own regional forums is just going to keep discussion out of the main forums which will make this place look quieter than it already is

If it's used correctly for Meets etc it shouldn't detract from the main discussion forums

+1 I agree Rob

They will only be used for local meets etc so should be fine

Kenny, you taking care of the Essex region??

Nope being a mod on here is enough for me at the momemt but of course who ever the rep is i will always lend a hand if needed

You isnt Rob???

I shall be asking someone to head up the Essex area and East shortly.

Regions hit and miss I agree Nick but I firmly believe that with the Regional Heads on board we can build a much stronger and easier to view Meeting system and I would like these guys on board much more in the future

Liam ???

I thought Essex would've been in the SE Region

You want all the regions now dont you Sir Stig. Ill fight you for it lol

assumed it would be SE

thats a saw point for essex most will say south east but then they say we are in the east lol

Essex is east anglia

happily maintain that though if it stays

It ain't a problem either way, any SE meets we organise will have ESSEX members invited and vice versa anyway

Tbf, is the site big enough for any more regions than south and north?

What region are our Kiwi & Oz friends in, I guess technically they are SE too, very SE.....!!

SE as in south equator im guessing

Exactly, I'm taking them as mine

Not quite Rob Keep watching

ok

East of England rep

Yes bud

Have we got an East Midlands rep yet?

Well done Liam

Iv got East Mids think Liam will cover East Anglia etc

Well done Liam, bit of liaising with The SE Massive and we could have some decent Meets

The who?

I thought you were in West Mids?

Oi oi oi, none of that

Who???

watkja my good man haha sorry

Haha

Ye East and West. Any ideas of meets you want to do post up

Could do a seaside meet nearer to summer. I'm thinking donuts crazy golf and go watch the banger racing!

What a good night that sounds

Scott, you seem to have missed London off the Regions..... I'm assuming the SE region or perhaps the East....??

Its a difficult one as its right in the split. Where do you and Liam think it should go?

Where abouts are you thinking? Put a post up in to the Midlands section see if we can get any interest

North of the river, East, south of the river, SE??

Done. Thanks for the knowledge

Ok kool

I'm well up for that, only an hour away from me!

Where abouts bud?

Wrong post woops haha

yeah im happy for Rob to have south London, means he can organise meets for Brixton while I get the glamourous parts

I'm still not sold on the regions idea, the club isn't big enough to warrant it. A prefix to the thread title in the Meets section would be more than sufficient. (take a look at what ZSOC do on their For Sale sections).

Case in point - the Brands Hatch Summer Wednesdays post in the SE region. Plenty of replies to it saying "shame its miles away" or "if I was local". Aren't these the sorts of posts that are supposed to not happen in regional forums? It's exactly the same replies as it would be if it were in the general meets and events section, except you have to scroll miles further down the forum to get to it.

My personal view would be to get rid of the regions altogether and just put prefixes on the meet titles in the meet section - for example:


That way, you can see at a glance the events for a particular region (colour code the prefixes per region?).

If I live in London and want to see what events are in my area of travel I have to look in South East and East forums - in which events will be duplicated anyway, but then things like Trax or Ford Fair (big shows people travel to) would be in the East and West Midlands region, so I'd have to check there too to get the details of those shows.

Add this to the fact that people will be posting events in the meets/events forum itself you've got three places to look in to get an idea of whats going on that you might want to go to.

Take the guys who came to BHP yesterday. Quite a number came from 'oop north' (as evidenced by funny accents) but the show was a regional show. Why should we make members check 8 different regional forums for ideas about which events to do?

I appreciate wanting to move the site forward etc but regional segregation is absolutely not the correct way to go about it. Am I in the minority here?

The regions arnt suppose to be for the big shows, just sort of local meets on a weekend. Like the bluewater one not too long back. The big shows like Ford Fair and Trax will go into the main meets/event section.

I agree Nick, there are going to be a lot of duplicated threads and posts.....