Lakemonster Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Rant part 1: Vendors. I personally like to hear about specials and deals and promotions. I think it is very valuable to be able to hear about such things on a forum. It is a convenient way for the interested market to get news of that sort. I personally think there should be a "vendors forum" here...... I understand that this boards hosting would then be setting up the competition with a venue... not really in the interests of our host ( I would imagine) What irks me is when a person comes in asking about several models of hookah they have seen on certain sites, seeking unbiased answers from the peer group of consumers and just the average hookah smokin Joe, but gets guided by a vendor to a "same, but different" product they are selling. Rant 2: Misdirection. Kinda like the above. but where members do the same thing. Someone comes in and has narrowed the choices down to 2 or 3. All of them are either Egyptian or Syrian 28-30" traditional models..... they are looking to see if anyone has any experience with that model or service from that vendor. Then it happens without frikkin fail. Someone says... GET A MYA QT Im not knockin Mya.... what I am sayin is that the inquirer was shoppin a whole other side of things. ... and thats what comes up. Kinda like shoppin for an SUV and someone keeps naggin you about a Honda Civic. Its been a long week.. and all this is just my arrogant ass opinion. I woulda put this in comments and suggestions.....but people use that to talk about hookahs, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalyst Paintball Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Heres my Rant:I WISH we would move to a better message board system!!!! I made a thread about it in a different sub forum but got no stinkin answer! This site could be 10X better with organization, an ACTIVE moderator, and seemless interface. For some reason, this forums keeps thinking I'm not logged in, or decides to take a break for 10 minutes. IF WE ONLY MOVED TO PHPBB! I would do the freakin migration for free! There is just SO MUCH information here, if it were all organized, some of the repeat threads we have now, would be no more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakemonster Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 Understood on UBB..... I run one on that and another on vBulletin... I personally prefer VB, but for a free BB setup..... UBB really goes above and beyond the call of duty. easy to use cp too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakemonster Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 Why did I type UBB? I got tags on the brain, I need sleep. yeah. phpBB. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalyst Paintball Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 I also prefer vB over phpBB but for the amount of traffic we get here, a phpBB would work great.It took me like 5 minutes just to write this damn post...If we get a mob going, maybe we can get this fourm migrated over... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 Lake: feeling better? You have valid points ..every one of them. All I can say is the qt is very popular, its relativly cheap, and a lot of people here have them.....other than that...they ARE only suggestions... As for the forum. There are several others around in various forms, soem of them even have a few members. There is just too mcuh info here. I understand its in SQL or atleast has something to do with sql. I'd asked a while back about buying the forum off the Admin and running it a little more activly. The reply was about programming or admining a SQL based forum...i can barely search for pictures, read my mail, and use the forum...so that ended that. I can foreward the e-mail with the details to anyone really interested. I've said ti before and I'll say it again. Its not pretty, it has its problems, but it's what we have, and you learn to use what you have... Relax, smoke a head, and go on.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lakemonster Posted July 1, 2006 Author Share Posted July 1, 2006 if it wouldnt be imprudent. I wouldnt mind having a look. many boards are conversion capable to phpBB or others. forward to admin@patriotnetwork.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catalyst Paintball Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 mushrat, you have a PM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonthert Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 Here's my rant:We can't go three months without someone sayin' something about how the software sucks. It does, nothing is going to get done about it anytime soon.Everyone wants something to change. Some people go out and make changes happen, some people get unhappy when nothing changes and some people just live with it. I do believe that continuing this way, with this software may eventually lead to the end of the dynasty. If I think about it, I will bring it up the next time I speak to JZ (Admin-man), maybe this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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