Local MP: country sub forums (1 Viewer)

[player-x]

Hi i have a quistion, would it be posible to make a sub forum for every country

So that people from Holland can talk about local setings and problems

your country > europe >
> germany
> holland
> norway
> ect. ect.

> z-america >
> brazil
> peru
> ect. ect.

> asia > ect. ect.

ore people could set in there user CP what country's they want to see
ore it could be linked to what location u set

I think it could be verry help full if people could do this to help out whit local problems

here is a example what i mean http://www.clublexus.com/forums/
thre you can klick on the model you have and then klck on the generation you have
I dont no how flexible vBulletin is in somting like this but it would be nice

 

[moullas]

I'm just an observer here.. but i think this would lead to more unresolved problems

Because what a user thinks that is a local problem could actually be a more generic one, and someone else could fix it that is more expert at that area

I think we have a lot of forums as is.. and MP is not locale-specific (apart from Weather and some language xml files) to justify this forum classification (IMO as always )

 

[player-x]

Na i was more thinking in the line off

Cable and DVB settings
local wheather settings

people that have problems whit english

things that are realy local

 

[NLS]

I am Greek yet I disagree with regional subforums.

Maybe a generic "foreigners here" could be created but ONLY for people with real problem reading/writing english.

 

[Spragleknas]

I agree with NLS.

 

[surfermc]

I have to agree with moullas. I think it is better to get a mix of people views and ideas. There are ideas and pointers from from around the globe that can be applied to any region.

 

[player-x]

yeah but not local DVB-C/T and weather setings and
and think quistions about those dont belong in the normal forum page's

 

[NLS]

Maybe so, yet, the problem there is not separate subforum, but to find other people from your (or any) country.

I am sure the ops would forgive a topic like "Norwegian users: what weather settings you use?" (they have allowed it before anyway).

I think a simple subforum: "Non-english speakers and locale related problems here" is enough. It can help keep things a bit cleaner, it will help NOT to encourage a major split in MP community (I even disagree with the existanse of German and French independent fora I heard, since what those people discover can be useful here and the opposite).

Such a subforum would help people that really don't understand English (very few tech-oriented people today) make their questions, with local languages allowed (per thread of course).

But nothing more. Go and see ffdshow forum... it has a subforum for 10-15 countries/languages. Most of them are empty and those that are not, have 2-3 messages. It only helps cluttering the forum tree (in fact this branch is probably the longest and the least active - together).

 

[infinite.loop]

settings for localisations i.e MyWeather, EPG,c ect. should be placed and maintained in the wiki, not in a forum.


Genreally speaking it would be possible to create such a multilingual forum structure, i have been thinking about it myselve quite a few times.
but my thoughs/theories always got to a point where it became obvious that it wont work out perfectly.

 

[player-x]

Long time sins i posted in this tread but still wane make the argument that it not a bad idea

settings for localisations i.e MyWeather, EPG,c ect. should be placed and maintained in the wiki, not in a forum.

I agree whit you on that BUT on the other hand the forum is mouths more accessible then the wiki

And in a land sub forum you can also have towns/village were people can place the frequency for that place
but yeah up's and down's on the idea still "I" think more up's