Okay, I came here from Long Range Hunting Forum where a banner said...
Seems weird that a forum giving top billing to hunting and fishing only has one topic (Hunting & Fishing) dedicated to the top billed topics and it is a sub category under "Outdoor Activities." Hunting and fishing are in the title, but as many categories are given to it as their are given to "Off-Topic Chatter." You actually have more sales topics (3) than for Hunting & Fishing (1). By content, wouldn't this be more of a guns and marketing forum than a hunting, fishing, and shooting forum? Hunting and fishing really appear no more than an afterthought in execution, but are given top billing. This does not make sense.
I mention this not to be critical, but out of concern for potential forum issues. Now is the time to restructure before 1000s of posts are made and threads need to be migrated. You have to admit, the forum presents as schizophrenic, right? On the home page, you have both of these statements...
"TEXAS SHOOTING FORUM" is at the top left of the page and then a few inches down it says...
"Texas Hunting, Fishing & Shooting Forum"
Are we the Texas Shooting Forum or the Texas Hunting, Fishing, & Shooting Forum? If we are the latter, shouldn't we have more categories dedicated to hunting and fishing? Instead of Outdoor Activities with the 4 subcategories including hunting and fishing as 1 of the 4, Hunting should be a major category with lots of subcategories and fishing should be a major categories with lots of subcategories.
I am a fan either way. This can certainly work as another Texas shooting forum with most of the site dedicated to shooting with a small area for hunting and fishing or this can work as a hunting & fishing forum, but not until you expand the hunting and fishing topics considerably. If you are going the hunting and fishing route, then you need to include bow hunters. There are a lot more folks that fish with bows than hunt with a rod and reel. There are more guys that use bows for hunting & for fishing than use firearms for both hunting and fishing.
Seems weird that a forum giving top billing to hunting and fishing only has one topic (Hunting & Fishing) dedicated to the top billed topics and it is a sub category under "Outdoor Activities." Hunting and fishing are in the title, but as many categories are given to it as their are given to "Off-Topic Chatter." You actually have more sales topics (3) than for Hunting & Fishing (1). By content, wouldn't this be more of a guns and marketing forum than a hunting, fishing, and shooting forum? Hunting and fishing really appear no more than an afterthought in execution, but are given top billing. This does not make sense.
I mention this not to be critical, but out of concern for potential forum issues. Now is the time to restructure before 1000s of posts are made and threads need to be migrated. You have to admit, the forum presents as schizophrenic, right? On the home page, you have both of these statements...
"TEXAS SHOOTING FORUM" is at the top left of the page and then a few inches down it says...
"Texas Hunting, Fishing & Shooting Forum"
Are we the Texas Shooting Forum or the Texas Hunting, Fishing, & Shooting Forum? If we are the latter, shouldn't we have more categories dedicated to hunting and fishing? Instead of Outdoor Activities with the 4 subcategories including hunting and fishing as 1 of the 4, Hunting should be a major category with lots of subcategories and fishing should be a major categories with lots of subcategories.
I am a fan either way. This can certainly work as another Texas shooting forum with most of the site dedicated to shooting with a small area for hunting and fishing or this can work as a hunting & fishing forum, but not until you expand the hunting and fishing topics considerably. If you are going the hunting and fishing route, then you need to include bow hunters. There are a lot more folks that fish with bows than hunt with a rod and reel. There are more guys that use bows for hunting & for fishing than use firearms for both hunting and fishing.
