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Looking at the boards, things are very quiet 

Any ideas why? any problems I should know about?

Certainly is. Plenty of viewers but not much dialogue going on. Most forums I have access to seem to have too much going on, I don't know why this one is so quiet.

I hope this slow start doesn't bode too badly for it's long-term prospects.

Lots of members do send comments back from the CABs which would be more relevant to this board, and I do encourage them to come on here and post their comments, but they still seem reluctant!

Some postings have over 2000 viewings but maybe people are just cautious of replying.

Still too quiet....

It is a little irritating that comments from the Daily Mail school of transport planning / policy get posted to start a thread, someone posts a reply, and the thread author then just disappears and won't answer what they started.

There appears to be plenty of people reading threads, but no-one contributing their view point.

Dominic Davidson wrote:

Still too quiet....

It is a little irritating that comments from the Daily Mail school of transport planning / policy get posted to start a thread, someone posts a reply, and the thread author then just disappears and won't answer what they started.

There appears to be plenty of people reading threads, but no-one contributing their view point.

Dominic,

 I agree with some of your points, but am unsure what I can do to help - people that dont return to finish a dicsussion can be quite frustrating, but im not going to start throwing stones and I sometimes live in that 'glass house'

I am getting feedback that the login process is tedious, and have thought that opening the forums up for public posting might help things a little, but it also opens it up for spam etc etc,

 What do you think?

Zak wrote:

I am getting feedback that the login process is tedious, and have thought that opening the forums up for public posting might help things a little, but it also opens it up for spam etc etc,

What do you think?

 I'm not sure that the forum should be opened up for public posting - as you say that risks spam.  I guess for logging in there might be a couple of possibilities - a "remember me" option that people can tick so that they will be automatically logged in when they next visit the page.  Another option might be to allow members to log in with a username rather than having to remember their membership number.  Perhaps the forum also needs plugging a bit more, perhaps in Focus (though I wouldn't claim to reading it that thoroughly myself....!).

Dominic Davidson wrote:

Zak wrote:

I am getting feedback that the login process is tedious, and have thought that opening the forums up for public posting might help things a little, but it also opens it up for spam etc etc,

What do you think?

 I'm not sure that the forum should be opened up for public posting - as you say that risks spam.  I guess for logging in there might be a couple of possibilities - a "remember me" option that people can tick so that they will be automatically logged in when they next visit the page.  Another option might be to allow members to log in with a username rather than having to remember their membership number.  Perhaps the forum also needs plugging a bit more, perhaps in Focus (though I wouldn't claim to reading it that thoroughly myself....!).

 

The 'remember me' option is a very good idea, and Im not 100% sure why its was not in the original spec! I'll pass over your comments to the development team,

 Member login, now there's a controversial point! As it stands, we have membership number login because its easier for us to control (i.e every member has one, and its unique) - but we have been 'toying' with the idea of an email address login (and single sign on) for all the CILT sites, do you think this would be of benefit? and more importantly does anyone else have any comments on issues like this?

Come on people - let us know what you think!