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16 August 2014, 16:20
It's not about turning it into a chat room, its about developing an active community of preppers who can connect with each other and from that you will in turn get more people posting informative useful posts, reviews, asking for help etc....
In my experience people rarely learn from reading articles, they learn and develop their skills and knowledge from an interactive involvement, both practically by doing; and intellectually by being challenged and discussing issues and that is where the forum can help.
If all they wanted to do was read articles, then all they need to do is buy half a dozen or so books from amazon and they will probably be able to get just as much from that as they can from forum articles. But that isn't going to provide them with the best means of developing their skills as it so one dimensional.
So going back to my original post, if you want to get more people posting and more people interacting on the forum, they need to feel part of the community and I feel that a general chat section could(??) help to develop that sense of community and make things more relaxed.
@TOF - I wasn't suggesting that a new article is needed, quite the opposite, all I was saying was why couldn't that text be copied word for word and posted on the forum, from which I'm sure a discussion could be generated.
In my experience people rarely learn from reading articles, they learn and develop their skills and knowledge from an interactive involvement, both practically by doing; and intellectually by being challenged and discussing issues and that is where the forum can help.
If all they wanted to do was read articles, then all they need to do is buy half a dozen or so books from amazon and they will probably be able to get just as much from that as they can from forum articles. But that isn't going to provide them with the best means of developing their skills as it so one dimensional.
So going back to my original post, if you want to get more people posting and more people interacting on the forum, they need to feel part of the community and I feel that a general chat section could(??) help to develop that sense of community and make things more relaxed.
@TOF - I wasn't suggesting that a new article is needed, quite the opposite, all I was saying was why couldn't that text be copied word for word and posted on the forum, from which I'm sure a discussion could be generated.