We've had a bunch of questions just pop up regarding where and how to post announcements on sales, special projects, shows, etc.
My immediate thought is to allow this stuff in the more heavily surfed Kitchen Knife section since this would seem like the way to get more traffic to see these things but then upon thinking more about it I'm not so sure that's the best way to go. The issue is that where do we draw the line? It may appear a simple problem today but imagine a larger forum with 3 times the vendors and/or knifemakers all posting everytime they feel they have something special to announce. We've seen the negative effects of this sort of thing before from just a handful of vendors at KF, it's not something that we welcome to happen here.
So with all that said, it appears that we either keep things the way they are with having your own subforum to which can be easily surfed and searched or we abandon the vendor/knifemaking sub-forums for a format where you post in the Kitchen Knife section instead.
We feel the way to move forward is to keep this current set up and limit vendor announcements to your own sub-forums but maybe you guys feel differently. We want to give you the best solutions that we can that support your businesses as much as possible, this is very important to us.
I'd like to hear what you have to say about this subject so please comment if you like.
Dave
My immediate thought is to allow this stuff in the more heavily surfed Kitchen Knife section since this would seem like the way to get more traffic to see these things but then upon thinking more about it I'm not so sure that's the best way to go. The issue is that where do we draw the line? It may appear a simple problem today but imagine a larger forum with 3 times the vendors and/or knifemakers all posting everytime they feel they have something special to announce. We've seen the negative effects of this sort of thing before from just a handful of vendors at KF, it's not something that we welcome to happen here.
So with all that said, it appears that we either keep things the way they are with having your own subforum to which can be easily surfed and searched or we abandon the vendor/knifemaking sub-forums for a format where you post in the Kitchen Knife section instead.
We feel the way to move forward is to keep this current set up and limit vendor announcements to your own sub-forums but maybe you guys feel differently. We want to give you the best solutions that we can that support your businesses as much as possible, this is very important to us.
I'd like to hear what you have to say about this subject so please comment if you like.
Dave