This has aided me to develop the forum and get an idea of what people want
Here are some of the feedback comments, please keep them coming.....
In all honesty: there's far too many sections. As soon as you hit the place it's all too overwhelming. I learned that with Illusions (and Illusions never even had as many sections as this place in the beginning - despite all the wide-ranging subject matters). Wether it's popular to say, or not: people don't spend much time in forums that have absolutely tons of different sections. This was one issue that kept cropping up again and again over at Illusions. And the members were right. They have to be. They're the ones that have to use the forum; they help make it what it is.
Tony's forum needs streamlined badly. Many of those sections could be doubled up.
As you and John know only too well, it's a learning process. It took me 5 months to strike the perfect balance with Illusions - and much of those improvements came from useful member input aswell.
I think this is an important forum. I hope any criticisms about layout/design are taken on board and applied. Good information is of no use whatsoever if it's buried away behind a multitude of doors, or is inaccessible due to crazy font sizes and colours. If people don't hang around to read or post, what good does it do?
Really good advice there from another forum Administrator. After reading these comments I had a look around at the site and had to agree, as a result I have streamlined the forum into less categories and into a more friendly format, making the information more easily accessible.
Lots of Info, though the sight looks a bit dull
When I first put the forum together 12 days ago I experimented with a few different skins, although I had initial problems with the size/format and adding The NOIDCHIP banner, so at the time I stuck with the standard and made it my priority to build the forum with content and information first. I've now had time to familiarise myself with the forum and change the appearance, both logo and skins, I hope you like it.
One thing I'd like to point out about the fight with ID cards and it's something I notice even this Veri Chip site is in danger of becoming and that is a copy and paste place of other people's articles. In order to fight this we need to learn to write our own articles and to a standard where other people can copy and paste them or link to them. Don't rely on any of these papers to tell you what is really going on, instead, do your own research, ask people on forums who work for these companies and extract your own information firsthand. Then you will have something hot that will work its way around the web.
This is what I’m trying to do on the NO2ID site. I'd rather write a page on a topic but spending some time and giving it some real thought. I'm starting to see some of my research spreading on other sites these days and even cropping up in newspapers occasionally. Remember, browsing journalists are looking for original intelligence on ID cards, they can't write their own articles just copying other papers so if you want mainstream papers to write something good then put out your own research.
I too would like to see people here writing their own articles from their own research etc. I'm a journalist myself and run a newspaper in my local town. In these early days of the forum my main concentration has been to add content.
One thing to bear in mind, which you may have experienced on no2id is that many of those looking into these topics require confirmation from recognised sources. In laying the foundations of this forum I have concentrated on articles that can be accordingly referenced and linked to recognised and reputed sources such as The BBC, other major newsgroups and Verichip themselves.
Also there are also a lot of important articles on the internet now, press releases etc. that may soon disappear, and for that reason I have copied the information here to preserve it.
I look forward to posting my own articles and investigations, and also reading others on here in the future.
Things have moved on quite fast in the past 12 days since the forum was created.
At the time of writing we now have 16 registered users and 282 articles.
Thanks to everyone for showing their support and giving their feedback, please keep the comments coming.
Tony
