Stuart, I am not sure if what you are asking is right for the forum or the VOC. I could pop down to my local and get 20 or more people to sign up to this forum but is this what we want?
As a member of the VOC I want to see more members joining the club but I don't want to see the forum turning into a place for non members to fill our screens and laptops with crap. Look at the postings and most of them are in the public access sites. OK, we should push more VOC members to put info on the forum but at the same time do we want people posting things on the forum when they don't own a Vincent? your mate next door might get the numbers up to 1000 but if he is not a Vincent owner then what is the point.
Pete Appleton started a thread about members and non members and I thought that it was going to last but it didn't. I am not about to say that we should ban non members from posting on the forum but at the moment we have more non members than members posting and by asking your mate to sign up to the forum just to make 1000 in my view is not what the forum is about.
With any luck this might just get people talking on this forum, if not then I might just go and get another tatoo done just to out do mick the vin, (yes I do have a tatoo) so should I be drummed out of the club?
As a side note it was a shame that so many people stayed away from the GCM. If I can do 150 miles to find out what is going on in OUR club then why the hell can't a few more members.
Hard hat is now on so take a shot if you dare
and if you want to take me on face to face (not just you stuart but anyone) then buy me a pint at the winter welsh this weekend, details in MPH.
Russell Kemp
Parts supplier and Assistant Social Secretary