Cruising forum/s?
I was wondering if its a good idea to have some forums for members to organise cruises or get togethers?
At the moment the 'event forum' can only have cruises/events started by moderators and other car forums let the members organise their own.
If we have enough people we could even split it into states or areas?
Just a thought, anywhay maybee this will be part of the BIG changes comming
We are working on doing something very similar to that....soon.......
registered lunatic
maybe not
yeah it sounds like a good idea on the surface rat, but if anyone can get in to plan a cruise and stuff, some of our less sensible elements could organise something that goes overboard and being on the net for all to see that is was planned by JC could give us a bad name with the cops, so i personally think they should remain only an admin or mod only for starting threads cos if one of us plebs have a good idea we can just PM an admin or mod about if and if the idea is a goer the admin or mod can open the thread and if the person that made the suggestion wants they can be recognised for the contribution
Well as I'm always told:
Thats a matter of opinion, and your opinion doesn't matter!
Maybe once people post a certain number of posts (say 100 or 200) they should be able to apply to gain the privilege of organizing events. Not everyone would want to organize something like that and it means that administration still has control over what happens.
registered lunatic
Thats why i suggested that people could just PM a mod or admin for them to open one up for them if they are a trusted member
Well as I'm always told:
registered lunatic
Yeah im not trying to be a kill-joy for ya dephilile but yeah it could cause some major crap if in the wrong hands that seriously could cause major crap for JC and could even bring it down with legal action in a worst case scenario. but the mods and admins are good guys and girls and if they like your ideas they can then take responsibility themselves for it and give you credit for the idea.
I can make sense at times when required though i do go loopy at times too.
but good on ya for trying to take a proactive role in JC hey, hang around long enough being sensible (or not) and they may make you a mod sometime
Well as I'm always told:
Hey guyz, thought i'd pop in and give my 2 cents...
I am a cruise fanatic... I only have 71 posts here because the majority of my time is spent of SC [strickly for cruises] and CCNSW [official commodore club].
I am currently planning a cruise to canberra [from sydhey], we've got 36 cars so far between the 2 states, having a dyno run, going cruising and attending Oktoberfest...
Now if this goes well [and i'm sure it will], I will no doubt be planning another and more of these events, and it would be great to just some on JC and start a cruise thread.
From what i've seen on SC most people starting cruise threads aren't idiots, and most people if they think the cruise is a bit 'sus' then they won't attend.
I do disagree with the post count tho, all you need a someone with a lot of free time and a post count of 300, and he could be a total ratbag, plan a cruise which could distroy the club.
With my commodore cruise, I already had it planned and PM'd an admin, he had no questions about the cruise and moved it to the official cruise thread for me. Which was great, no hassles. And that could always be the bottom line... Write a cruise, plan it, and send the details to a mod.
But as I said earlier, from what i've seen most of us aren't idiots, and wouldn't go out to give anyone a bad name..
Another idea would be to prove yourself to SC, plan a cruise, submit it, get an attendnace going, and if a JC mod could attend [or even I very high feedback rating from members] they could be made an official cruise maker for the forum?
At the moment I do not see JC as a 'cruising forum'. I have no no replies about my cruise, there was a Charity Cruise thread listed, and it wasn't even getting good interest.. But on other forums both of these threads were flying. Why? because JC in my opinion is a technicial board for commodores.
To get more popular in the cruising arena on this forum, you need more cruises more often. Otherwise scrap the 'cruises' section all-together.
Well i'm not seeing a problem with idiots and planning cruisies, when i was on boostcruising there heaps of cruise's planned every single week, sometimes 2-3 different ones on the same sunday.
Been on plenty of their cruises, anybody and everybody plans cruises on their site and no-ones got any problems?
Hey BR377. I can see why JC is concerned, there's a growing club. As I said in an earlier post not many of us are 'idiots', but some are...
I spoke to 'rat' and he is looking at having a 'cruise maker' for each state. Anyone with an idea for a cruise goes though this person and helps with meet points and the like [or whatever they need help with]. If it's a pre-planned cruise the will just post it to the 'cruise maker', and they will post it for them... Still in dicussion, but will probably by the one they go with for the time being...
Hope I got that right rat ^^^
Kurt
Well that sounds like the best compromise, but say as for QLD you would need 2-3 cruisemakers because you've got the gold coast/brisbane area, then townsville, cairns ect.
You couldn't go along to everything lol.
registered lunatic
sounds a pretty sensible compromise to meOriginally Posted by kbarker
Well as I'm always told:
Yeah I can see what your saying there as well, i'll suggest it when I speak to him again. but I have with 'rat' about this, breifly. I think Sydney could be an area run by 1 person [for example], and I say this because if we have more than 1 for the same area, it could get nasty, but if we divide the state up, that is also another option... just leave it for the moment guyz, we'll be sure to let you know when something comes up.
Thanks for your support with this 'idea'
Kurt
no problemo
Thanks for the information, have to wait and see how it turns out.
Have a look at the list in the other thread , blokes & blokettes........
Morgasshk
Hello all.
In Brisbane commodore, we all have to have a club sticker and sign a disclaimer form about silly things, like speeding, pulling skids etc - the club is then covered if someone makes a knob of themselves and should pose little repurcussion to the club itself...
Only been on a couple of cruises so far, but all have gone off sweetly with little hassle and no issues.
David
Already made,( the disclaimers), mate........................................
registered lunatic
Fair enough rat, they are pretty useless in a court of law though (so if anything really heavy happens it means all of jack) but the disclaimers will hopefully make people think about their actions before they do stuff, and best of luck with all the cruises, cos its highly unlikely for me to ever attend one, cos 1. no commie, 2. too much on in the future, also rat sorry about appearing as a we blanket in this thread i just dont want things to just go pearshaped for all the guys and girls who work so hard to keep JC functioning so well, btw no images are appearing anywhere in the website at the moment, and it wouldn't allow me to get into JC 20 min ago cos of some server error your end, **dont worry back to normal now**
Well as I'm always told:
Make the stupid stop!
I agree with you totally here. JC is a national technical forum rather than a cruise forum. I have been a member here for sometime and belong to a club here in SA. I too have advertised cruises here for my club and the only ones that respond are the current club members. A couple of years back Jafo, myself and a couple of others attempted to organise cruises for SA JC members, but each one fell flat as most people who come here already cruise with clubs. We found that people say they are coming, but never show up on the day. The interest simply isnt there.
We have enough clubs here in SA to cover every weekend in the month, therefore any attempt to organise a SA cruise for JC will, as proven, fall flat. I understand a couple of guys from SA tried to pull together a cruise for SA JC'ers recently and had the same results. I know one of them (subdue) has since joined our club and cruises with us.
I suggest those of you here that want to cruise, go to SC and hit the cruise section and join one of the many clubs already established. Lets leave this as a technical forum - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
C.
Sorry, but you are wrong, our cruise was good, bout 12 ppl... all good.
But it's ok, becuase you drive a VT.
On this topic, I should mention that Subdue & I gave JC some very proactivate marketing one very drunk night on Hindley Street...
I swear I yelled (I did'nt think I was yelling at the time) to over 50 motorists about how they should join JC and it's the best website ever.
My K&N filters in the mail right...?
Make the stupid stop!
Dont take this the wrong way, but 12 people is hardly a good turnout. It's not worth the effort of printing up cruise sheets etc in my opinion, but that's just me.
C.
Thats ok, we handwrote them anyway.
Hey Sashyre
Just read your advice on hitting the 'SC' boards for cruising... I organised a cruise there a month or so ago and got less than 12 people. Unless it's an established club which pushes it's members, any cruises made on SC, JC, CPC and the like will not be the best.
I belong to the Commodore Club of NSW, and on every cruise they have 30+ members, which is really good, but I want to organises cruises to my own destinations, so I recently started going to SC and organising things on there, to go where I wanted to...
All the forums are now catering to 'cruising', and personally I think JC should try and do the same. I love the JC for the technically side coz it is the only forum [that I know of] which goes into such detail... Again on that note because of this we mightn't have a 'cruising audience'.
It would be hard to get a cruising fan-base to start, but with what the mods are progressing towards with cruising, if it doesn't work we can always scrap the idea. But who knows, if people know what JC will be having monthly cruises, it might really take off.
Kurt
moderator- for now anyway
12 people for a cruise isn't that bad. Really to me its not the quantity of people you are cruising with its the quality. I been on a few cruises organised on other forums and well they sucked. There was heaps of people but the majority were immature morons (pretty much sums up most of their user base :P).
I think that while it will be hard to get the cruising scene happening here its worth a try, whats the worst that can happen? So what if a few get organised and all of 2 people turn up, thats worst case scenario. Best case scenario cruises really take off and jc has an active cruising scene and people get to meet up with all these strangers they talk to on the net and it makes us a tighter community. So IMO we have got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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