said by state:said by SHY:But these idle forums, including the one for ZiD do not show up in the rolodex of companies.
There's been a little "funkiness" with the rolodex recently, let me try something and we'll see if they show up.
AS comprehensive as the ISP Rolodex is, it has many more entries than we had hoped to include (some outdated or otherwise less imortant), yet it is missing some which we DO have on our 'Short-List'.
FUNKY is a well chosen descriptor.
(One of my fave MUSIC genres)
The whole situation has a bit of a Catch-22 feel to it, as some will say
"Well nobody POSTS in such and such an ad-hoc forum, so why should it be on a Short-List ?"Others will reply
"Nobody can FIND that particular forum, and if they easily COULD, they might well POST there."Both perspectives are correct, up to a point.
MY vision (and some others here, I'm sure) was to have a method of reaching perhaps a couple of dozen more forums without upsetting the status quo of the 'Officially Listed' forums menu page - a sort of 'INTERMEDIATE' status for some forums.
We had some ideas which centred around a tighter list of recently active ISPs who mostly do have ad-hoc forums here, and were hoping to propose to post a version of my 'Short-List' post into the CBB forum page, possibly as a new Stickied thread, or to not sticky it but instead make another link to it, similar to what you already created for the big list, maybe just to the right of your link....
This link could read something like :
Prefer 'Short-List' ? Click HERE !That would be simple, much more visible than what we had before yesterday, and would not upset any existing pages.
A decent middle ground, as I see it.
BTW, I just got thru testing every link on the Short-List - found and fixed a few clunkers too.