It does look as though you do. I certainly see "New Posts" in the menu bar, along with "Search" and it was not there prior to me upgrading the account.

 

Thanks Markus

 

If I pay the £25 to become a plus member, do I need to pay anything else? Do I need to pay the 5 ro 10 quid? to be full+ or orange...

bit confused...
Rob

 

Sigs can be made easy to control. On my own forum we only allow a maximum size of 400 (L) x 100 (H) pixels. If they're all the same size then its easy to follow threads.

Then the moderating team can easily watch out for the size difference as everyones should be the same.

As far as content, well that goes without saying. People should be adult enough to know what they'll get away with.

 

I've changed my mind. Am going to wait to see what changes are afoot for the plus members

 

OH well, so now alot of scooby owners looking for a solution to a problem are going to miss out. A lot of information is now being lost unless you pay.

I guess there will be alot less members now.

Its made the site unusable for me now when trying to find any past solutions / info on problems

Many users that prehaps use this site alot may well pay it, but i see this as a sad sad day.

Just my opinion.

Dave

 

that is the rub though...I think a one liner in text (bold etc) is useful and can be a reflection of your personality (extension to the location)or a statement. But sprinkle it with images or embedded stuff and it starts to get out of hand, regardless of the size. the same principle applies to avatars.

Dont get me wrong, I am a member of a few other forums and you should see my bloody avatars and signatures there .But that is because the forum allows it. Here i prefer the posts to do the talking and not the extra stuff under your name or under your post.

 

Why see it as a sad day Dave ?

The £5 is a one off payment, and is about the price of a few pints down your local or a pack of smokes

We now have ScoobyPedia that hopefully will start to fill up with more and more valuable information

I use the site quite a lot, and have gained a lot of information from SN, so i don't mind coughing up a few quid that I wont really miss (ok it may mean I have to forego my supersize breakfast lunch for a day)

If you really get that much information out of the site then surely it has to be worth a fiver

 

Putting it that way, I;ve changed my mind again

Can you tell we have the same birthday, Sonic

 

or you are both wimmin and change your mind as often as your knickers

 

Swiss do you have a meeting scheduled in Fight Club

Lesley it took me a long time to decide which one to go for

 

No This is an area for serious discussion and as such should be treated as such.Please refrain from posting unrelated tripe.

















(can you tell I am just filling untill webby comes along to answer some of the questions raised here )

 

Im still waiting for the Scoobynet Mugs answer

 

Thanks so much for all the support everyone

sirscooby

The ScoobyNet Plus membership is a totally seperate thing to upgrading your account from a free account to a full member account, so you can do one, or the other or both

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Claaarkio

Read the thread before making inaccurate statements.

This has been covered. You can use google to search scoobynet, or you can pay a very very tiny sum (£1 for each year you've been a member in your case) and use our search facility. Free or paid-for.. its up to you.

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Images in signatures
I think - certainly for now - we will continue as we are, and - as requested - will not allow images in signatures.

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Swiss

Search Function / ScoobyPedia.
As discussed before, this is a great idea, and will be implimented. We need to get just a little more articles in scoobypedia first to justify it, but then its full steam ahead and shouldn't be TOO much work to impliment.

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Sonic

We are actually (strangely enough) in the middle of investigating a seriously great set of scoobynet mugs!

Simon

 

Excellent will you be looking into a great set of scoobynet jugs too

Seriously though at the end of the day if Scoobynet is invaluable, cant live without some features like search etc and you come on here for help, advice (whether it be car related or women problems ) read the latest news, buy some 3nd hand clobber etc, then surely Scoobynet *has* to be worth a fiver

 

thanks Sonic

 

RE: Signatures.

My post, number 51 it think was, was cheating for showing a "signature", just in case anyone was concerned. I typed it withing my post and inserted the image.

I don't mind a little one-liner as a sig, but it narks me a bit when people have bloody huge ones with pics and specs etc.

Micky.

 

I really hate reading posts like Claaarkio's, he hasn't read the thread properly and then whinges about the £5 one-off fee.

A 'something for nothing' merchant, obviously Scoobynet runs on fresh air and manages itself.

 

I have paid £5 Essex Scooby Crew membership but now the search facilityy has gone .... hmmm, I have shown my support.

 

If the small fee stops the forum from filling up with people posting drivel then its a small price to pay, whether it will or not is another matter.

I can't believe there are people that moan about paying a one off tenner for the next 10 years of SN use?

 

Ssshhhh! Simon has to pay for his boat somehow

All I would like back from my, not very many years of plus membership, is just a not a lot to ask for; "M"! So I can modify my sticker on my bumper

 

You've shown your support for the ESC mate, I think, not SN.

 

so all of that money goes to ESC?

Still a load of tosh in my book.

If SN are struggling for funds then why not get some more ads, I could have sworn I saw a space without ads earlier.

 

Morning Everyone. Thanks so much, again for all this, its really great.

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Signatures
They are currently limited to 4 lines, and no images. I think this is going to be ok for now, but we'll adjust this as necessary

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dynamix
Thank you
As said before though, the ESC badge payments are to help pay for the set up and running of the clubs's own forum, and there will also be some additional benefits to club badge holders in the near future.

So this is a completely seperate thing.

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mickywrx
"M!"? PM me and tell me what you mean and we'll sort it out.

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dynamix

hmm, didn't see your last post until after I typed my first reply. I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm afraid you've just completely misunderstood the entire concept.

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Thanks again to everyone who is supporting us, this really makes a big difference, and we're going to work hard to make sure that everyone who supports in this way gets as much benefit as possible.

All the best

Simon

 

Thats funny i really hate people jumping on someone else when THEY dont know all the facts, I find the google way of searching much less fruitful, if i want to find all my old threads i can't, If i want to search for other member posts to see if they look like a genuine member before purchasing from them, i can't, i would ask you keep your viper tongue to your self.

I was expressing my opinion and was not having a go at anyone!

Good day.

 

OK

I've added a google search to the drop down menu now, so its even easier to use.

Claaarkia

I accept that using google isn't QUITE as good as using the scoobynet search for SOME types of search.

But surely, if you are using scoobynet for that kind of level of usefulness, that you find as vital as your strength of oposition to this would seem to indicate.. isn't it worth a fiver to you?

If not, then what you're losing is tiny.

 

 

I just had an image of the 'Young Ones' come to mind...

Neil the hippy pursuing Rick the Sociology student to recover a loan...
"Rick, Rick, I don't mean to sound like a heavy bread head man... but 5p's 5p!"

LOL

 

I honestly couldnt begin to list how much money Scoobynet, its information, its users and its links / contacts have saved me over the years!!

I truely would have been lost without it coming from a background where I new very little about Imprezas!

A fantastic resource, full of great people willing to help!

Im happy I can contributing to the development of Scoobynet!

Terence

 

I think I would have paid up BUT for the fact of a few things.

There was an issue a few weeks back regarding a GB that was removed (now is back), I put a post up asking where it had gone... my post asking such was removed and an explination was never given as to why my question post was removed (was also restored), if you have mods who are overzelous and dont appologise/explain then it will tend to get peoples backs up.

As you have said it is very little £ for such a good site, but dont forget the information is all from users posts and you are just maintaining a DB for users to further populate/search. It has obviously become so popular and become quite a large commercial concern (companies paying to advertise etc) unlike the other smaller boards, my worry is that there will be future charges etc etc