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The show season and getting ourselves known
Bernd:
Bogs,
I have to agree with what you said about memebers passing through. A good example is HMEM. I've noticed the core people are there petty much everyday. Same here.
Do we advertise? Good question.
What do you have in mind?
I'll add Madmodder to my website as soon as we get a nice logo.
Bernd
ja2on:
nanna's been advertising all day
I think he needs a bigger sign though :lol:
John Stevenson:
--- Quote from: Serveta150 on March 16, 2009, 06:20:15 PM ---Sergeant Kiljoy here, of the North Yorkshire Light Drag-ons
Anyway, the "Gears" logo is too similar to that of the Vespa (Scooter) Owners Club.
Salutations, Paul
--- End quote ---
Gears ?? GEARS ?? GEARS??
They only 'ad rubber bands..........
JS.
Serveta150:
Hi John,
I agree with your note re the rise & decline of (other) Forums and the "core contributors" ending-up talking between themselves. This manifestates into potential contributors being put-off from submitting anything and the effect just snowballs. That is why I have always held back from joining a Forum until I was introduced to this one and realized that it had more than a bit about it. As you say, some Forums have 1000's of members such that the subjects and posts become so many and varied, it just implodes.
One thing I like about Madmodder is that it is not specifically Miniature Model Engineering (as has been pointed-out) and it is open to anyone who is willing to have a go at engineering/crafting something and this must be considered when determining a Logo, prior to any advertising.
So before someone says, "Off Topic".
This Logo. As a Newbie I would leave the final decision to the Founder members, but doubtless they are open to suggestions.
I would like the Logo to be sensible and mature with a classic appearance (No, I am not talking about an iron-on transfer of Madame Whiplash!) Something that no-one else has done before (easy to say) and that sets itself up above the rest (even easier to say - I should have worked in PR)
One thing, a (young) colleague at work caught sight of "Madmodder" on my screen today and immediately assumed it was something to do with my interest in Lambretta Scooters and a connection to the "Mods & Rockers" era of the 1960's. Once again - enough said - but certainly here in England I hope we don't have to take this into consideration.
Anyway, food for thought.
Best regards, Paul
(Look forward to meeting you at Harrogate - you can't believe the amount of Grovelling I've had to do to get permission to go on the Saturday)
bogstandard:
Paul,
Unfortunately I won't be at Harrogate to meet anyone this year, and I was so looking forwards to it. :(
Another point I would also like to raise is that I don't have anything to do with decisions on MM. I have bad memories of being on the admin team of another site, and refused the invite on this one. I am a new-tral-bie
I just raise an issue, then keep it in everyones minds eye :poke:, trying to get it to its final conclusion, where everyone decides on the issue raised. So this isn't my post, it is for all members of the forum to have a say about how we should show ourselves to the world.
So really we need a decision by Eric as to how the forum should go forwards, either a non specific brainstorming forum, where anything goes, or an engineering biased one. Then maybe we can get a few of our super graphic artists on the job.
As I said previously, the one Steve has come up with, maybe with slightly different wording across the middle, relevent to how the forum should be seen, really hits the nail for me. But of course, only two of us agree with it at this time.
A few more offerings would certainly make it a lot more interesting.
John
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