Hmm,again some good stuff coming up.right,from a personal point of view,I'm totally chuffed that stu s looking at my suggestion of a classified ad scheme,I mentioned this to a few mods at the time and it was totally rubbished,glad to see that I'm not the only one who thinks it could work and that the head honcho is considering it,well done stu.

As for newbies not getting questions answered,I personally will try and answer any question on any subject I have knowledge on to any newbie,oldie etc I can.they may not always be text book answers but if I don't know,I won't say.if I've answered a question regarding cat c/d cars once I've done it about 50times,yes some idiot will always disagree but surely that's what a forums for,debate?

As for putting subjects in gd I don't think that's a bad idea really,as it's (I'm guessing) where the majority of users look first(being top of the list of areas helps!!) and I will say that I rarely look in other rooms unless I'm searching for something in particular before I get lost and ask in gd anyway!!!

If you think thats detrimental to the site then I personally don't see an issue in changing gd's parameters to exclude cars,other makes etc so it really is only "general discussion".

I don't see an issue with that.

Going back to a point earlier regarding vehicle movements and how the thread was replied to quicker for a more established member.not so much the point of reply,more that I have a big car trailer and 4x4 that I would be willing to lend out for a nominal fee to cover tyres,wear etc to pf members.now,I can't offer this service as it's considered advertising,therefore trade rates apply.

Now,for the maybe once in a blue moon someone actually wants to use it I would have to pay £50 PCM for the privilege.so now,I need to charge a fee as well to get back the trailer hire which I was quite prepared to originally let out at mates rates.

If you get my point there's no sense of community anymore.

I'm also on retrorides forum and there's a completely different "vibe".no negativity is allowed,if you critisise someones car,non constructively,you get banned,or at least reprimanded.

For sale ads have to 100% follow set pattern to avoid idiotic comments.,I.e price,location in title and then contact details,tax,ticket,mileage,colour in the blurb otherwise it goes to purgatory until sorted.

You can advertise your business in your sig and there's even a section where if youve got an empty trailer,you can ask to bring peoples cars back for cut price rates.

They have an industrial unit where you can work on the cars at certain points of the year,spraydays,bbq's etc etc.

I'm not saying that's the only way to go but it's growing nicely as a website and there's few critics of it's running and even less of others cars over there.

Just some food for thought as fundamentally this is a great place to be and I love it.a few tweaks and the site will be a total winner,I'm sure of it.

Also,on the subject of Rs specialist as a moderator I found him ok in my case recently after my car advert got removed.perhaps a touch heavy handed but it did get sorted unlike when this happenned to me before and it went round the houses with the type of replies Peter Mandleson would have been proud of!!!