Yes, there is a problem here
I tend to lean towards Cotswold Caching purely as it has more active members.
This is the problem - with no one willing to post new topics on this forum, CC will remain the more active site. A forum won't work if you don't post - stats-wise, I have posted 210 topics, Site Admin (wonder who that is
) second at 100 and the first member after that is TJ at 40, then the first non-site team member is Stickbouncer at 12
- think that speaks volume. There cannot be posts without topics, and we need topics to entice the lurkers to post
I'd like to think I post as much topics on CC as CW, but of course I'm going to be biased towards CW as it was here first and was the first forum I joined.
The quietness of CW isn't helped as we are quite spread out and quite rural in places
CC has some members quite close to each other, so find they interact in the real world, so this adds to the chit chat on the forum. CC also covers other caching sites like TerraCaching.
Partially agree - but we aren't that far, and hold regular events which should really add chit chat - well, it does - in event months, our post-count doubles if not triples to that of the previous month. There's nothing saying that this site doesn't incorporate other caching sites, it's just not obvious, true
Perhaps ** he says whilst ducking ** it is time to merge and only run one forum. Or, just go with the flow and don't worry about it.
CC and CW have proven to work very well together, but the area overlap hasn't helped. I think CW is heading to the dustbin as a result
BUT they have coexisted extremely well and, in the first instance, there was a monthly increase in posts after it's launch, up until May 2013 where a monthly decline begins. I like both forums, so wouldn't like either of them to go.
It's a shame, as the buzz of the Butcher's Bash and Snowdon event propelled the forum into a frenzy of activity; we posted 761 times in the first 30 days of this forum! By posting new topics and replying to all you can (ah-hem, Where in the World
), the forum can flourish like never before.
I've tried my best, but it's your choice, as the forum members.