I think its a good thing as I like reading when people acually do something small.. as we all do everyday but not worthy of opening up a new thread. I vote to keep it.
That's why I liked it at first, but it's gotten out of hand IMHO.
Good recommendation. I think the thread is worth keeping as a quick look for what's going on. And I am as guilty as anyone at using this thread vice starting my own...honestly it's because I'm not doing anything other than usual small repairs and upkeep. It's my daily driver so a "build" as I see it isn't going to happen anytime soon so I don't really know what to call another thread... On that note though what about keeping the thread and modifying the rules a bit; requiring at least one pic (to wet the appetite) and then a link to the actual thread on the forum.
I like the thread. If I did something that I don't feel is worthy of a seperate thread it's nice to still be in the conversation. If I see something I like (Eric's cage, the 29 Palms photo, the flat fenders, among a bunch of others) I can ask them for info or if they could post a seperate thread. This is where I'll post that I had it brought home via rollback or just took the carb off. You guys probably don't want to click a new thread for that. Just my two cents, but this is my Scrambler water cooler.
Yes, but that's EXACTLY why I don't like it, EVERYTHING is worthy of a thread, that's EXACTLY why we have specific forums!! Dumping everything "too small" in one thread basically ensures no one will ever be able to search for it.
The cutting out/carb rebuild issue is a PERFECT example, there's no way that shouldn't be in the Engine forum, it's buried in this one catch all thread that's not even in the technical forum. I'm not "scolding", just pointing out what you think is insignificant is actually going to be JUST the thing someone in the future will need to see.
With the way the search works, if someone searched for threads that mentioned "carb cutting out" or some other phrase that would match your post, they'll get this monster thread and have no idea where in the hundreds of posts to look, they'd have to search by post, not by thread.
I plead guilty Eric. I am one of the folks that have been scolded. And I keep putting iff a build thread. And maybe that is partly because this thread is here for me to quickly dump the pics and narrative. Which is much easier than me going back in time and finding a ton of pics.
If you do shut it down I will be forced to start a thread of past stuff I have done. So I guess I am siding with you.
Dain
Bingo!
Eric,
Probably a good idea for the reasons you mentioned.
when posting the photo of my little boy's first Jeep ride, I was cautious starting a new thread as some forums outside this one can be picky about nontechnical content threads like that burying good technical/topical posts like you mentioned.
The ScRamblings forum (the one that this monster thread is in) is all about this kind of thing, no technical threads are even allowed in there really because we have the other forums that it should slot into for easier location for others.
What about letting people post in this thread what they did with one pic and they then start a sepaerate thread describing how and what they used.
Karl
That's what I wanted out of this thread, but it's too popular and people are clearly not doing that on the whole. I/we can't keep up trying to remind everyone every time.
I thought this thread was a really good idea at first but now I see it starting to hurt the forum. There are a lot of post on this thread that would serve everyone better if they were threads of their own.
Bing-to the-o.
I think the monthly idea is the best compromise to try.
