Thread: New try-out: international subforums

As you may have noticed, we now have an 'international forums' area.
The idea is that if there is enough interest, we add forums based on geographic location. At this moment, there is only 'greece' since that was decided as a pilot project.

To be honest, we have no real guidelines yet about how and what they should be used for. This is an experiment / work in progress, and we'll just have to see how it turns out.

If you think that whatever country or region you live in deserves its own area, and there is enough conceivable member interest in said area (I am not going to add swaziland and timbuktu just yet), we'll add it to the mix. That said, if the traffic is too low, we might either merge geographical locations later on, or just delete it.

So if you want to add your country or region, drop me or Dave a pm and we'll discuss it internally. It goes without saying that IF you want that forum, we expect you to spend time in it to make it work.

Other than that, we'll evaluate and adjust this setup as we go along.

Very cool idea, I think that it could be fun.

Good and welcomed idea,

However i have a strong belief that Finland isn't among the first countries to get it's own forum . Might take some time yet.

I really like the fact that i can discuss things with members from far & wide. I'd feel a little claustraphobic in a UK, or even European forum. I don't think it's a bad idea, just not sure i can see it's potential.
If you introduced a US one would i be barred by default?!

Curious...is this for general discussion of stuff, or for specific shaving stuff, or...? I can see a point for soem things--language issues, or local politics or things that some might find invasive on the open boards...

I strongly oppose this... we are a global community; please let us refrain from injecting nationalism and political-social boundaries into our midst...

I think that this is an excellent idea not only so that non-English speakers can enjoy some of this great forum, but also not everyone uses Ebay.

In Sweden we use an Ebay owned company named Tradera which is essentially Ebay but in Swedish and focuses on Sweden and Scandinavia in particular. And discussing our finds where everyone can pop in and discuss sure works but I'd like to have a dedicated part of the forum to discuss it with people who actually can read and understand the text in the auctions and not only judge by the pictures.

And of course everyone should be able to sneak in to read and post in other "language-zones".

MrLastway: We in the Nordic countries already have a group for the Scandinavian languages. It is not used much...

Originally Posted by Otto

MrLastway: We in the Nordic countries already have a group for the Scandinavian languages. It is not used much...

Well since even I hadn't found that group and/or the threads in it shows my point that a group is a bit too excluded from the rest of the forum in a way that a sub-forum isn't.

Could the merciful moderators create a Finnish subforum?
I have starting to talk about it much earlier and I hope it serves well for those who wants to talk with our native language.
I could host it and help people to find more information.
I don't know how much people is going to use it but we'll see that and if it turns out to be unnecessary it can delete later.