There were never separate pinball sections for:
-SS General Discussion
-SS Repair
-EM General Discussion
-EM Repair
-For Sale
-Wanted
-SS General Discussion
-SS Repair
-EM General Discussion
-EM Repair
-For Sale
-Wanted
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The new grouping of the categories and additions seem illogical and excessive. They should be kept separated, like they were originally, and along the following line...
Arcades
-General Discussion
-Repair
-For Sale
-Wanted
Pins
-SS General Discussion
-SS Repair
-EM General Discussion
-EM Repair
-For Sale
-Wanted
Misc
-Chat about anything
- jokes
-whatever other non-arcade related topics here
Biggest question at the moment: Pinball
There are a lot of tech questions in the general pinball discussion area. There are also a lot of pinball tech questions that appear in the general Tech section, which I've currently labeled as "Tech: Video Games and Pinball - Repair And Help".
It seems to me all the pinball tech questions should go in one place,
either:
1) mixed in with the general pinball discussion section (like tech for music is within music)
2) in a mixed videogame/pinball tech section
3) in its own tech section.
(whether pinball 'cabinet' questions below in a 'cabinet' section if it is kept is another question entirely).
I have my only thoughts about choices 1-3 above, but I don't want to taint the conversation.. Please post here or pm me.
It would be nice to have the subforums Michael listed, but I don't think that there is enough pinball traffic to warrant them. Looking at the past few days, there has only been 7 - 10 threads updated in the pin forum each day.
Paul
It would be nice to have the subforums Michael listed, but I don't think that there is enough pinball traffic to warrant them. Looking at the past few days, there has only been 7 - 10 threads updated in the pin forum each day. If those threads were separated into subforums, there would be very little activity in each one. I would suggest leaving it as just one pin forum unless traffic is increased enough to justify more. Maybe just start each non general thread with: TECH:, Repair:, Restore:, etc. to make it easy to tell the main theme of the thread.
I rarely see pin stuff in the for sale and wanted sections, but I think it is better to keep them there so more members can look at them. There are probably quite a few members that don't always look in the pin forum, but may want to buy one, or have parts for one.
Paul
And to Greg....one big problem I see with these "sub-catagories" (besides the fact, I don't like them....have I mentioned I have change) All the new people to the hobby. A lot of the new people don't know a monitor problem from a power supply problem from a motherboard problem (not too mention...this can be tricky in vector games....even for old hands)....all they know is they have a repair problem. This WAS easy enough to know where to post! Now, not so much.
Edward
... As far as the changes in general, please keep in mind that my intentions are good...
As far as someone not knowing whether their problem is a monitor problem or not and thus posts one place or the other, it's not a big deal, and i hope everyone else shows the poster respect.
As far as the changes in general, please keep in mind that my intentions are good...