Ian,Ian Grace wrote:So I check the forum through the day and often see distant friends logged on - and then the disappear again without posting anything. So perhaps I could encourage loggers-on to post a few words by asking for a quick update on this thread with any news snippets. I can't believe there is no restoration work going on, and that nobody is driving their Minor - at all?!
What you say there isn't anything new. As you may know I run the VW Karmann Coachbuilts forum and despite the fact it has over 500 registered members (a good number are "lurkers) the number of posts made by members goes in peaks and toughs.
One of the hardest jobs of the Admin staff is trying to keep things moving and getting forum members to participate.
One way I have found of getting members to post is detailing the Karmann Restorations I have done (7 so far) - so lots of photographs and lots of text to accompany the photo's. Also fixes and repairs to certain items go down well.
Forum members often ask 'how did you do that', 'what tool was used', 'is it better to...' etc.
Perhaps some threads along similar lines might help?
Lastly I should mention that Facebook has a lot to answer for. There are just too many groups (for the VW's at least) and people tend to spend more time on there than they do on the forum. Facebook consumes their free time.
Just like I read on here, we too have members that don't have a Facebook account, don't want one and have no interest in Facebook what-so-ever. I don't blame them either!
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Gren