Critical Mass

[hairyone]

Is it just me ..

Since I found this forum and read it as a guest then joined proper the activity and varied membership seems to have increased significantly.

My main interest was learning enough to work my Cosmo 130 to repair my rusty crossmember on my Land Rover 90 with a bit of upside down welding on the rear tie down points. As you can imagine whenever a question on welding was asked on the LR forums I would point them to this forum. It seems to me now that someone else always does it before me.

Probably more of a question for Malcolm, but in the last year or so the forum really seems to have taken off (all credit to Malcolm), is this reflected by the forum stats?

 

[malcolm]

We only started out in May 2005. By 10th April 2006 (when you joined up) we had maybe 20 posts per day. Now it's averaging 120 or so and still growing at the same sort of rate.

There are a lot of members on the forum keen to help out others these days (and my thanks to everyone who helps another member out). The place has become a proper useful forum. Still a good atmosphere too which is great. Good bunch of members on here.

 

[hairyone]

Thanks Malcolm,

So the stats do show the forum growing nicely.

It reminds me of when I used to use the BBS CIX (Compulink Information Exchange). Someone started a thread on buying a leased line and then giving Dial-up TCP Internet access in the uk for "a tenner a month". Back then we all used dial-in BBS's and getting proper TCP internet access meant spending £1000s thru Pipex.

Anyway the "tenner a month club" eventually became Demon Internet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Internet

 

[peterd51]

Hi,

yes, the atmospere is a lot friendlier than many forums...

a bit of banter, lots of advice, lots of very knowledgeable guys around here.

I've been on other forums (non-welding) where you get slagged for asking questions, along the lines of "if you don't know that you're an idiot".

A great big "well done" to Malcolm!

Regards
Peter

 

[irondarren]

Im sure malcolm is well aware of this (not that alexa is to be totally trusted), but looking at my alexa tool bar the forum currently ranks 542,398, which by internet standard means is a pretty popular website, and has a pr 5 rank on google i believe. so is easily found by google. once you click on the link and read through the forum you soon learn its an interesting place and a good source of knowledge, and well worth the effort to register, well thats how i found it.

 

[ls427ss]

Yes I must agree...

A great bunch of guys on this site without the personal jabs that are so common on most forums these days. It would be nice if you could reach out and bitch slap the haters to show them the internet doesn't mean you can hide out and be an invisible toughguy, but a good site like this with the level of knowledge that gets shared selflessly on a daily basis is mush more desireable than being able to "reach out and touch someone...lol" I have tried what I have learned reading the posts on here, and it has increased my weld quality big time. Thank you to all who share and help us yanks when we get lost! Larry