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Replying to: imidazol97 (Feb 24, 2009 5:17 am) To protect the site from being used by members to send large quantities of spam we do have a number of limits built-in but sending a single email (to their username  carspace.com ?) should have gone through. I have someone looking into the logs. We may discontinue the ability to send/receive from outside of CarSpace and make it more of a private messaging feature between members.
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Replying to: Sylvia (Feb 24, 2009 12:24 pm) I just went back and tried to send the email and it went through okay this time. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Feb 17, 2009 4:29 am) Not necessarily. For some, like me, it just means that we've given up on the Forum functionality. For me, it started when Edmunds decided to separate their forums into many, many sub-topics (which people who had been on the Forums a long time opposed, but newcomers who couldn't use Forum search functionality seemed to prefer). The effect is that one has to browse a lot of sub-topics to ferret out information - and I just don't have the inclination or time. Prior to this change I could just keep track of a few subtopics for a Forum (typically MPG, Maintenance, and the main model forum). I particularly dislike those forums where one has to click to view a "maintenance" sub-forum. Why not list the maintenance topics on the main forum, and bring all current topics to the top when viewing? The current "many sub-topic" format may look good to a manager (nice and organized), but in my opinion it is not optimized for the user who wants to keep up with information on a particular auto model. What I find ironic about the sub-division of the forums is that now I often see a topic where the host has moved a new topic to an existing topic, i.e., the exact reverse of sub-dividing. It is obvious because the topic has only one post. I get a (sad) chuckle when I see those posts in the various forums, although it means that I have to go into that now-defunct topic to make it "read". From what I can see, observing the Forums I used to frequent, there are a few of the old "power users" (people with a lot of information) left out there, but many of the posts I view seem to be newer members. That makes sense if Edmunds ignored user wishes in their design decisions; it is harder to use, so - wait for it - people don't use it. It would be interesting to see how many people come to Edmunds for information, how many provide information, and how long they have been members - separated by before and after the sub-dividing. My thesis is that you will find more people getting information than giving it, and that the knowledge depth is not as deep as before. The reason (I postulate) is that people with knowledge don't find the questions as easily in the new format - assuming they haven't given up entirely. ------------ Then to top it off, you redesigned the web pages, which still causes the text on many pages to "slide under" and be hidden by the right hand column stuff. Nobody posted a beta site and asked users for input, and the only answer we got to our comments was "this is now the site design", i.e., basically "live with it". Well, OK, but it seems to me that a site should please the users, not the design staff. In my opinion Edmunds has become a place focused more on the moderators than the users, especially compared to other online forums. Such activity doesn't lend itself to empowering long time users, and I don't feel the need to post very much any more. I check the forums occasionally, but in general I'm not an avid fan any more.
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Replying to: stevedebi (Mar 15, 2009 10:07 pm) I agree with your entire post. Unfortunately it's all been said before, and as much notice will be taken now as it was then. With everything so massively subdivided, the chances of someone searching Google and getting a link to Edmunds are much greater than with the earlier format. It's all about generating fresh page hits, and more hits equals more advertising dollars. I still come back to answer questions sporadically, but there's little satisfaction in it now. Previously, answers would generate discussion leading to more questions and more answers. Now, questions so often seem to come from new users with the attitude "Here's my question (which is often written in unpunctuated, uncapitalized phone text), now gimmie an answer!", then they're gone, with no indication if the answer helped or not. I'm not looking for thanks all the time, but if you don't even know if the work you put in is at all useful then it seems rather pointless. Before the changes the Edmunds forums were a kind of group discussion. Now, Edmunds seems to be perceived as an automotive answering machine that spits out a response to an question. In fact it just occurred to me why I find so little satisfaction here. It's because I don't learn anything here. On other forums I use, questions turn into discussions which develop further questions and further discussion and further research, which benefits all concerned. Ok, I now realize I've been driven to repeating the same points, so it's obviously time to go. 
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Feb 17, 2009 4:52 am) |
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Does Edmund's allow multiple screen names for one poster?
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Replying to: houdini1 (Mar 31, 2009 10:10 am) |
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Hosts any other suggestions for deleting that empty photo album??? I've tried everything I've been told by you guys and fellow members and none of it is working. 
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