Back in the early days of the internet the TDB was very vibrant and great place to hang out for stimulating discussions of vintage Corvette technology and history. I wasn't disappointed that the "other" NCRS DB was shut down as it ended up being mostly full of BMW (bitch, moan, and whine) posts.
I was initially not in favor of making the TDB members only as I thought it was a good marketing tool and would attract new members, but what's happened to the Corvette Forum makes me think it was a good idea, then and now. The CF was also very good up until a few years ago, but has since degraded into a pathetic ghost of its past with mostly the infirmed leading the blind threads. I finally got tired of answering the same questions and dispelling the same old myths and misinformation over and over and over... again, so I quit a couple of years ago. I left over 12,000 posts and a few dozen threads I started with in depth answers/explanations to a lot of common issues, but I doubt if they ever get read anymore.
Of late it seems the average number of TDB posts per day are no more than a handful. So is there a way to get more NCRS members to participate in the TDB? Had the Board discussed this issue?
I wonder if lot of members don't even know about the TDB. Since NCRS now embraces models back to the C5 (if not early C6?), not that I could help with those generations, but where are the discussions about these later generations?
Maybe NCRS could do some promotion like writing an article about the TDB in The Corvette Restorer, but that's only good for one cycle so how about a full page ad in every issue of The Driveline.
A number of knowledgeable guys have "aged out" of the hobby or passed away, but there are still lots of knowledgeable guys in the club and many more members who need their knowledge, so what do we do to keep the ball rolling?
Duke
I was initially not in favor of making the TDB members only as I thought it was a good marketing tool and would attract new members, but what's happened to the Corvette Forum makes me think it was a good idea, then and now. The CF was also very good up until a few years ago, but has since degraded into a pathetic ghost of its past with mostly the infirmed leading the blind threads. I finally got tired of answering the same questions and dispelling the same old myths and misinformation over and over and over... again, so I quit a couple of years ago. I left over 12,000 posts and a few dozen threads I started with in depth answers/explanations to a lot of common issues, but I doubt if they ever get read anymore.
Of late it seems the average number of TDB posts per day are no more than a handful. So is there a way to get more NCRS members to participate in the TDB? Had the Board discussed this issue?
I wonder if lot of members don't even know about the TDB. Since NCRS now embraces models back to the C5 (if not early C6?), not that I could help with those generations, but where are the discussions about these later generations?
Maybe NCRS could do some promotion like writing an article about the TDB in The Corvette Restorer, but that's only good for one cycle so how about a full page ad in every issue of The Driveline.
A number of knowledgeable guys have "aged out" of the hobby or passed away, but there are still lots of knowledgeable guys in the club and many more members who need their knowledge, so what do we do to keep the ball rolling?
Duke
) but have no problem with navigating the TDB. If I have a specific question, rather than start a new thread, I search that topic and almost always get all the info. I'm looking for. Maybe others do the same and that would account for a reduction in activity.
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