Who's Who? What's What?

So I’ve noticed that it is getting hard to tell who is a OFFICIAL member on here and who is not. Looking at the ‘Members Rides’ section and everyone under the moon is posting their cars…(I’ll have mine up soon, Zazam how did those ones turn out of our cars?). I really don’t have a problem with this but when we have a NECC photo shoot and ppl are in the pics, front and center and arn’t members, then what is the point? Some think that because they have a user name and password they are a member.
Ohh, one more thing, I know you guys are busy, (Admin.), But why is our site still under construction? All we have to do is post some pics and links in those sections and there you go! Maybe I don’t know it all though.
I don’t mean to be a bitch, but just wanted some thoughts.

Thanks,

Mike

You St.Albert people are such elitists! :lol:

Yeah I thought that the photoshoot should have been a “members only” type thing but I forgot to mention it beforehand. I think we need to come up with some sort of policy to deal with the non paying club visitors. I know Aaron doesnt want to turn people away from the meets, but really, whats 20 bux? If you have a car, insurance, and can pay for gas there should be an extra 20 bux in your budget somewhere.

Yeah I know the site admin all has their own busy lives but it would be nice sometime for the site to be finished.

I have been trying to think of ideas to make membership more desirable but I got nothing.

How many paid members are there now?

There are 29!! That’s awesome. I noticed that there is now a thing about the membership on the home page. Thumbs up!
I don’t think we have to make more deals to get more ppl. The members here are here b/c they love nissans…The deals are just a perk! I was just saying that we are giving everyone more tha just a time trial. If we took away some of the benefits of being a member, im sure they wont say fck you and run away. Justmy 2 cents…and that’s what members can do here…WWOOOW

Yeah that members list is awesome. I know of one guy that needs to be added thought, Don (180Drifter) with and S13 240SX Hatch. I just recruited my neighbour too, so he will be out to register with another S13 at SCC.

If we got our non-profit license we could hold events such as auto crosses and the members would have a discount, and non member would just pay the regular fee like everyone else.
Just an idea.

On the member’s list, you can change my member name from mx73someday to Aerocabin and my ride from unknown to 67 Datsun 411 SSS (even if it doesn’t run)

Are you a disgruntled Northsider?? hehe So close to STA, but still so far!! lol

Yeah, where’s that web designer guy when you need him eh? lol

I try my best to update the side as best as possible, and will do so tomorrow between homework and school.

As far as the photoshoot goes, well, to tell the truth, I just wanted to see a huge ass turnout for the purpose of having the pictures to “show off”. There are a lot of people that have Nissan’s that are currently not members, lurk on the site, and think that they don’t want to be a member because there are either not enough of us, or it’s not worth it (everyone has their own reasons). So I just wanted to make the photo shoot large, to basically advertise and what not. If you know what I mean.

The first year will be shaky I know, but I’ll do my best to get everything in order within the next few months.

On the To Do List is:

1. Update site, and make it not “under construstion” etc.
2. Together we will figure out what the policies are for non-members in attending events
3. Not for profit organization stuff.

It’s one thing to say on the internet that we won’t let non-members come to the events, but another thing to walk up to them, and tell them they can’t be there unless they pay their membership fee. I feel like an ass doing that.

I just wanted the membership base to be large enough so that we were able to say “hey, you’re not a member, you’ve gotz to go”, and still have enough people at the meeting’s or events. You know?

But after 1 full summer, we have filled the “quota”, and can now enforce things a little bit better, because we are in a sense, a force to recon with. lol.

As far as listing the official members, well, under everyones name, there is a title that they have. Also, on the homepage, there is a member’s list. Also, on the front of the forum page, at the top there is a section called “User groups”; this lists the people considered “members”.

I appreciate people bringing these kinds of things to my attention. I know it’s hard to say things like this in person, so feel free to say stuff like that on here. It’s what it’s for, this is what I’m here for.

And by admin, you may as well say “Aaron”. lol. At the moment, no one is really helping me, or doing anything.

I hope this answers some questions, although not all. Fire them in this direction.

Aaron

Aaron I was going to mention something that may confuse new users. When you first get onto the NECC site it says memberlist, is there anyway that can be changed to only display the actual paying members and not all the members of this site?? I know that the actual members are listed within the Usergroups section.

In the user group section, you are correct, it says the list of paid members. The home page, under “members list”, is also a list of the paying members, and sponsor names. lol. There are about 123 registered users on the forum, and 30 paid members.

I hope that answers the question? Unless I read it wrong.

Or do you mean to change it, so that the paying members are the only ones who can see the list on the mainpage?? If so, no, I can’t do that. My internet webpage design skills are extremely limited. lol. Thats why I left it, so that the members names were their online names, and not their real names.

You’re right in that aspect. But what I was actually meaning was where it says memberlist for the 123 registered users for the site, shouldn’t that be named something like “site members” or “registered site members” then instead of Usergroups for the paying members, name it “Memberlist”. This way too people might want to be on that list and not just on the registered site members. I dunno!! lol

Ahhh, I see what you mean. Like changing “memberlist” to “users”, and “Usergroups” to “Members”??? Something like that?

Yeah, that once again is beyond my doings? That is in the phpBB (forum) programing, and I can’t alter that, as I’m not a programers etc. lol.

I know a guy that teaches about this program, and can probably change this whole site for us. I’ll contact him.

Exacty!! thats what i meant!!

I do some webdesign as well!! But i’m not too familiar with these particular sites, some are very limited to the layout, they mostly only allow you to change the colors and stuff!!

What Jay brought up was exactually what I was talking about when I said, non members think they are members…(Like Jay who thought that he was a official member b/c he was regisered online…I told him the reason was b/c he wasn’t good enough to be a member… ) I understand what you are saying Aaron and appreciate the feed back. I know you are a busy guy getting new paint jobs and body kits… :lol: I just thought id start a topic for members to express their likes and dislikes so we can become a better club. :idea:

Thanks again,

Mike

I think the first step to becoming a better club would be to ditch our current events organizer (Aka Silvia_S13) and get a new one …JK :lol: :lol:

Hahha.

Well, maybe it may be a good idea to have a forum for website improvments, and member questions and what not?

I’ll do some work on the site right now actually. Feed back needed and welcome.

Ahhhhh, horse shit. The server is still having problems, so I can’t even change the website at all. I’ll have to wait til it’s up to its full capacity.

So what I was thinking, was that instead of having that “under construction blurb”, I would have a write up on how the club came to be, how we are, explainations on how it works, and links to different areas of the page, like upcoming events, and other links?

Or the other idea would be just to stretch the pics and events updates to take up the whole page?

I like the first idea.

Your first idea sounds great.

Did we lose some posts today with the server problems?
I seem to remember responding to THIS comment this morning and no longer see my reply here… what happened??