Geographic Forum Section Rework...

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We've slowly added new geographic based forum sections over time upon request. Some of them are popular, some hardly used. I propose creating a significant rework of them to address unmet needs and to deal with some sections that are a little too quiet. If some new sections went unused, we could delete them in the future.

Many sections (ie: N. California and S. California would stay untouched.

Big Changes Proposed:

Australia & New Zealand [new]


Canada [new. In the future, it could be broken up into Canada Western (Manitoba & West) & Canada – Eastern (Ontario & East) if there was the demand and reason to]

Colorado -> Rocky Mountain (Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah & Wyoming) [Colorado already vaguely refers to CO 'and surrounding states.]


Europe [who knows if this would be used or not...maybe not, but I'm not opposed to testing it.]


Florida -> Southern States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia) [Florida section is too quiet]

Illinois [& Ohio sections) -> Great Lakes (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, & Wisconsin) [Illinois section isn't too bad--willing to share? Ohio...been dead]


Mid-South (Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia)

Mid Atlantic (Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, DC [We've had requests for this]


New England (Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts)

New York (Eastern PA & NJ) -> New Jersey, New York, and Eastern PA [current usage so-so...combine?]

Plains & Prairie (Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, N. Dakota, S. Dakota,)

Texas -> Southwest (Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas & Oklahoma)

Washington State -> Washington & Oregon (WA didn't have that much activity by itself)

Thoughts? Lemme know... and Happy New Year.
 
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Washington State -> Washington & Oregon (WA didn't have that much activity by itself)

Thoughts? Lemme know... and Happy New Year.

Well, here in Portland, it seems half of the community lives on the Washington side of the river anyway. It also seems like there are a lot of pickups that run up and down I5, and we all go to the same shows and expos. Sounds like folding Oregon and Washington into a common Pacific Northwest forum makes a lot of sense from any angle.

Good idea!
 
Thoughts?

Texas is BIG. REALLY big.

Some of the parts of the region you propose lumping Texas into are 30+ hours away by car. Hell, the western border of Texas is close to 20 hours away by car.

I honestly don't care about regional stuff in Arizona or Nevada; that's half a country away from me.

My recommendation would be to leave Texas as it is.
 
Thoughts?

Texas is BIG. REALLY big.

Some of the parts of the region you propose lumping Texas into are 30+ hours away by car. Hell, the western border of Texas is close to 20 hours away by car.

I honestly don't care about regional stuff in Arizona or Nevada; that's half a country away from me.

My recommendation would be to leave Texas as it is.

Second. Texas is a whole other country.
 
Thoughts?

Texas is BIG. REALLY big.

Some of the parts of the region you propose lumping Texas into are 30+ hours away by car. Hell, the western border of Texas is close to 20 hours away by car.

I honestly don't care about regional stuff in Arizona or Nevada; that's half a country away from me.

My recommendation would be to leave Texas as it is.

Third this, our section is busy and I also have no interest in 30+drive hours away. Leave our section alone please.
 
The thought was that there isn't that much activity in Oklahoma for example, and that combining it with Texas gave them some place to post while the anticipate volume of messages would likely be so little as to not even be a distraction. I can see the argument for not lumping Arizona in with Texas, but less so for Oklahoma (if one makes the assumption that there should be some section for everyone).

Thoughts?

How about a Texas & Oklahoma section, and a separate Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico section?

I'm not looking to break what works. I recognize the Texas section has more threads and posts than all other geo sections put together...
 
The thought was that there isn't that much activity in Oklahoma for example, and that combining it with Texas gave them some place to post while the anticipate volume of messages would likely be so little as to not even be a distraction. I can see the argument for not lumping Arizona in with Texas, but less so for Oklahoma (if one makes the assumption that there should be some section for everyone).

Thoughts?

How about a Texas & Oklahoma section, and a separate Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico section?

I'm not looking to break what works. I recognize the Texas section has more threads and posts than all other geo sections put together...

A Texas and Oklahoma section would work for me for just the reasons that you mentioned.
 
The thought was that there isn't that much activity in Oklahoma for example, and that combining it with Texas gave them some place to post while the anticipate volume of messages would likely be so little as to not even be a distraction. I can see the argument for not lumping Arizona in with Texas, but less so for Oklahoma (if one makes the assumption that there should be some section for everyone).

Thoughts?

How about a Texas & Oklahoma section, and a separate Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico section?

I'm not looking to break what works. I recognize the Texas section has more threads and posts than all other geo sections put together...



I would be ok with this just nothing more. Texas is hugeeeee!
 
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Florida -> Southern States (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia)
Mid-South (Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia)

Thoughts? Lemme know... and Happy New Year.

I would put Tennessee with Alabama. No real logic I guess... just that I live in North Alabama and I head to TN more than any other state for Arcade things. I figure Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery and Mobile are the major population centers and perhaps you could work the states from that perspective?

Honestly, I'm not sure if there is any good solutions. No matter what states is included some places are going to be too many miles to the other side or the state next to someone is not included. This is TOTALLY NOT a criticism, I just wouldn't want to have your job having to figure all this out.

Good luck! :)
 
The thought was that there isn't that much activity in Oklahoma for example, and that combining it with Texas gave them some place to post while the anticipate volume of messages would likely be so little as to not even be a distraction. I can see the argument for not lumping Arizona in with Texas, but less so for Oklahoma (if one makes the assumption that there should be some section for everyone).

Thoughts?

How about a Texas & Oklahoma section, and a separate Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico section?

I'm not looking to break what works. I recognize the Texas section has more threads and posts than all other geo sections put together...

That seems like a much better proposal. Most of the Texas members who post are in Houston, Austin, Dallas or somewhere in between. For all those folks, a road trip to Oaklahoma is doable for a round trip pickup in the same day or vise-versa.
 
I would put Texas in Mexico.... Oh wait, this isn't a political conversation. Sorry. :)

Seriously, I think a midwest group is cool but since Chicago is really greatest density of people and collections, I think western PA might be too far for almost all of us. Western PA seems to belong with western NY as other than Cleveland and Columbus, nothing in the midwest region is reasonably close to them.

Thanks for asking for our opinions and I think the region concept is cool. :)
 
Thoughts?



Texas is BIG. REALLY big.



Some of the parts of the region you propose lumping Texas into are 30+ hours away by car. Hell, the western border of Texas is close to 20 hours away by car.



I honestly don't care about regional stuff in Arizona or Nevada; that's half a country away from me.



My recommendation would be to leave Texas as it is.



This is 100% accurate. Agreed wholeheartedly about including North North Texas (aka Oklahoma). [emoji3]
 
I agree with in including the states west of Texas together. There is such a vast nothingness between the major Texas cities and New Mexico, that is is a different world. Oklahoma fits in well and if need be Louisiana would work too.
 
Thoughts?

Texas is BIG. REALLY big.

Some of the parts of the region you propose lumping Texas into are 30+ hours away by car. Hell, the western border of Texas is close to 20 hours away by car.

I honestly don't care about regional stuff in Arizona or Nevada; that's half a country away from me.

My recommendation would be to leave Texas as it is.

I fourth this...

I can see where the Dallas folks would be up for a road trip to Oklahoma, or the Dallas/Houston folks may consider a trip into Louisiana, but from the Austin area, both of those would be well outside of any drive I'd consider making.

Worst-case, add those two, but I'd leave off anything to the west regardless, unless we have a bunch of folks from El Paso speak up ;)
 
Would like to see Ohio mixed in with some other locations - There is a fairly active Ohio facebook group that seems to get a lot of traffic which may discourage from coming here...
 
Canadian here. Please split up the east and west coast. Canada is massive and shipping costs are huge here. BC to Saskatchewan is is a 15 hour drive. Across Canada is an easy 6 day drive.


BC and Alberta the costs are minimal and the drive time to most major centers isn't terrible.

As a general rule of thumb, the east and west may as well be two different countries.
 
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