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there are too many multi-word terms to spell them out all the time. I am not going to take the time to type Short Barrelled Rifle instead of SBR, Any Other Weapon instead of AOW, etc.
Here is an acronym thread to help get you started, http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...hlight=acronym
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My suggestions: Splitting the market place into location like the cal-guns in your community section (keep getting sad seeing all the nice guns so far out of reach). Also maybe an 18+ area so we can post some videos or pictures or have discussion that are not family friendly (Not originaly my idea but thought it was a good one)
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Membership Cards for Contributors?
I don't know how possible this would be, but like how AAA has membership discounts with retailers, could there be a way to wheel and deal with firing ranges etc? |
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If you guys need someone to bash code, let me know. It's my job
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Don't want to sound unappreciative - but I wonder if the landing page could be modified so you don't have to scroll or click down to see/access the "Enter the Forums" button.
Maybe delete the big black header text? You've got the CalGuns logo and other welcoming language. Just an idea...
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Honestly I find the search engine for this site very.. well... crappy. when i run searches on titles only it gives me all kinds of results that have nothing to with what I was searching for. Just my two cents, don't want to so sound unappreciative, this place is great, the amount of hours I've spent reading here these past 2 weeks is mind boggling.
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Need for CG self-censorship and vetting process
There is a strong tendency for us law abiding firearm owners to engage in direct and detailed responses to the irrational lies and ridicule published by the progressive-statists regarding our 2nd Amendment rights. I strongly encourage CG Leadership to consider moderating and redacting posts in direct response to our enemies writings and bill texts, and suggest CG Leadership consider a vetting program for CG forum access.
- Never allow the enemy to set the agenda for discussion. It is a trap. The enemy will always create a highly complex logical fallacy equivalent to the statement/question: “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” If they can get the public discussion to conform to their logical fallacies, they have already won. Do not use the enemy’s definitions, their words, their assumptions of facts, nor directly argue against their outrageous statements, conclusions nor proposed actions. Argue our own well-crafted and vetted positions, utilizing our own words and definitions, and our own verifiable facts. Promote our own conclusions from the facts and put forward our own calls to public and political action which supports our goals. E.g.: There is only one type of gun: a “modern firearm”. There is only one type of firearm magazine: a “modern capacity magazine”. The second amendment clearing does not exclude modernization of firearm technology. A law should be made at both the state and federal levels that insures politicians are forced to recognize modern firearms and accessories as being protected by the 2nd Amendment. See, not a single response to the enemy’s crazy ideas; just a clear and easy to understand position for the average citizen to consume in a 5 second sound bite. - Do not provide the enemy with technical or tactical support by getting in the weeds discussing technical details or future work-around in a public forum. The enemy is the social and political equivalent to the Borg of Star Trek. “You will all be assimilated!” All expressed ideas, thoughts and knowledge will be used against us in future battles with the ever-evolving Borg. Do not provide the enemy with the knowledge and skills to evolve their tactics to become a greater threat. Modern internet technologies are a grave threat to tactical political operations. Work to compartmentalize your communications involving potential sources of intelligence to the enemy to insure it only goes to vetted individuals. - To further the ideas I mention here, I propose that we utilize a vetting process for general access to Calguns (probably refer to them as Membership Requirements). In order to join, or to maintain a membership, individuals must provide a combination of identification and references. NRA ID number, IDPA number, etc., plus at least two detailed references from a current vetted member, a gunshop owner, a range owner, an NRA Instructor/RSO, etc. Once a member, access to more confidential forums should be further vetted by regional CG Coordinators, based upon in-person relationships. Sure, I know this could cut down on both the advertising income and membership numbers, but it would be in the best interest of all gun owners, even the ones who might not want to bother to be vetted to participate in the forum (I couldn’t imagine anyone not willing to go through a fairly simple vetting to get access to the greatest gun owner resource in the World and reduce eavesdropping by the enemy!). A positive benift of this vetting process, especially a secondary vetting process, would be to increase the local participation in CG activities, perhaps even growing into monthly regional meetings. I offer to CG leadership to be the first to go through a vetting process, as well as to participate in a Beta control group in the creation of a good vetting process.
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In reverse order of importance.
New forum section: Home improvement, mechanical etc. Basically useful skilled non gun info. Ability to ignore certain forum sections, specifically OFF TOPIC!
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1) As others have said: "Mark forums as read." I can do this for each individual forum, I want to do to do it for the whole set of forums with one click.
2) Custom "new posts" search that excludes certain forums. |
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here is the URL for the new post search, http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...ew&exclude=159 if you wanted to exclude the "off-topic" section, which has the URL, http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/f...splay.php?f=73, you can see that 73 is the forum ID and that you would add that number to the exclusion section so it would look like http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...exclude=159,73 now, save that as a bookmark and your new post search won't show you any OT posts.
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Thanks! I'm stupid. I knew that a couple of years ago when I was more active on these forums, I forgot now that I have returned.
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I just tried this, hoping to use '91' to exclude all the marketplace forums, but that doesn't appear to work. I bet I need to include each marketplace subforum. There an "include" keyword I can use, but I think I've got about as many I want to exclude as include so I'm not sure that's net win. Off to go create the long list of excludes.... Last edited by krby; 08-22-2012 at 11:23 AM.. |
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There should be different forums for different areas (counties) for Private party sales. The private party market place is too cluttered too often we see items we want but too far away. There should be a forum for guns and items sold from san Diego, Orange county, la, Sbay area and etc
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Forgive me if people have asked for these things a hundred times:
1. In Member Services / Membership List, add a way to search for member names by typing the first few letters of a member's name, in a addition to the alphabetic listing there is now. 2. Add a way for C3's to strip out names from the local or state Roll Call threads, for a local PM list. Add a feature that will only return the names of people who have signed in, in the last 12 mo. 3. Add a way for C3's in a general area (Sacramento, Stockton, Fairfield for instance) to share membership lists for announcements.
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BonnieB -
#1 - If you click on the "Members List" in the header at the top of this page, on the next page, in the header of "Calguns.net: Members List" - far right - there is a "Search Members" drop-down box (under the page number listing) where you can enter one-two-three-etc. characters of a member's name. The search will give you all names with that combination, not neccessarily the first letters only. I can't answer your other questions, sorry. Last edited by Pinto; 10-14-2012 at 3:19 PM.. |
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And like others have said already, dividing the firearm sales into sub threads by would be nice just for organization, although it kind of repeats what I said above.
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Hello, I usually browse the market place. I was thinking it might be easier if the Private Firearm forum could be separated into sub-forums, such as handguns, shotguns and rifles/assault rifles.
It's somewhat difficult to browse for what you want when there are so many people selling many different items. =). |
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I think we need to make the Private Firearm Forum into three different regions of sort as no one is postin where they are in the title .. (North, central, and south) and .. Just like Craigslist I guess and
I agree with Ringer about the sub forums as well.
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North (handguns, shotguns and rifles) Mid-state (handguns, shotguns and rifles) South (handguns, shotguns and rifles) (Or, the symmetrical Handguns (North, Mid-state, South) etc.) I agree from the searcher's point of view, that would be nice. Who enforces that they get used appropriately? From an admin view, that's a nightmare.
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There are quite a few veteran posters who offer really good, seasoned advise about shooting, firearm configs, optics, reloading, etc. Sage advise saves people lots of money and hassle, and I think the "Sages of Calguns" should be identified and recognized. I think it would good for both the new users and longer term calgunners if the there was a recognition badge or ranking system for users, based upon ranking of their posts. E.g.: FMJBT posts an analysis on 178 bullet loadings in the reloading forum - 90 readers of that post click on a thumbs up icon on the post, which go toward ranking FMJBT high up as a valued poster in the Reloading Forum; perhaps resulting at some time down the road in some sort of badge by his name as an "expert adviser" or "guru" in that forum/subject.
This would allow readers to "cut the wheat from the chaff" pretty quickly on a thread.
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I agree and totallu understand. I would settle for three different regions (North, Central, South) for the Private Firearm Forum
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how about semi-forced catagories in for sale forum.
lots of diff ways to list a gun or item and computers can only search text.
Have sellers at least have the option of checking maker, caliber, type of gun, etc when they list, and have buyers be able to just look in that narrow category or set alerts, etc. Also have admin have ability to classify ads. |
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2 Suggestions
1) Have a "private Page" open to members only (maybe those who qualify with a certain number of posts), and not accessible to visitors, for those who love to argue about contentious/controversial subjects. It could be called Whine Country. Might keep things more civil for the majority and shine a better light...
2) How about a system whereby we can voice approval, or appreciation, of a particular post by registering (attaching) a thumbs-up or some other symbol to a member's post. Similar to the way they do it at - http://m14forum.com/forums.php It might eliminate a lot of clutter from unnecessary comments.
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You mean like Tapatalk?
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Our threads get cluttered up with obsolete stuff like things for sale that have been sold.
Is it possible to let the thread originator have the power to delete threads when they are done with them? Now, I just ask the moderators to take them down for me, but wouldn't it be less work if people could do it themselves.
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Plus, many of us prefer to be able to look at old threads to see what certain firearms were listed for. It can be used as a research tool.
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Would it be possible to put the buying and selling into a template format? As it is now, it is very time consuming to go thru each thread. Many folks do not list where they are located in the subject title. It would be most helpful to have sales displayed in a template type format (spreadsheet) type if it is possible in VB. Imagine being able to sort the spreadsheet for type of gun and location!
I believe this would be a positive most ways around as it gets higher throughput, and more people get to find what they want faster without all of the BS...you could even clean house easier with stuff auto deleting after 60 (or whatever is decided) days. It also seems there are too many subforums...some of which are not used much, if at all. Last edited by scrubb; 12-02-2012 at 6:32 PM.. |
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Is there a way that we could subscribe to a user when he/she posts? I.e. DenverDuck is a mass seller, and sells alot of great items at great prices. I would like the opportunity to follow or be notified of his posts and see if I am interested in his items? That would be extremely useful for both parties.
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Also, can we make an 'IBFP' Smile?
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Soo.. If i "hover" over a post/thread, it might show a city or location.. But doing a search of that "city or location" wont necessarily result in or display this or similar posts..
The marketplace is great.. it would be so much easier and efficient (for me at-least) if there was a "location/area" specific search or these two aspects of posting were consistent with "search results".. I hope that makes sense.. The other forums are one thing.. but searching the Marketplace can be so tedious.. Especially since (for obvious reasons) no one really wants to ship stuff.. my 2 cents.. But thanks for all you do CG! |
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I agree with your premiss all day.. But the Marketplace gets totally cluttered (especially doing a search) because OP's dont close, or mark as sold.. Then someone bumps a thread thats been dead for weeks or months.. It annoys the cr@p out of me on a consistent basis.. People sell their stuff and just leave the posts up.. I agree having the posts avalible is a good thing for "market value" but after a certain time im thinking market posts could be locked at least.. to prevent bumping stuff that's long gone. Last edited by shooter5; 01-05-2013 at 1:46 AM.. |
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How are we going to stay in communication with each other if the Government shuts off this website? Perhaps we need an emergency list of contacts for such happenings. Unlikely to happen, but even the best laid plans burn to the ground. Think of it as insurance.
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Can we please have vBulletin updated to prevent an exact duplicate post written by the same person?
I was reading through a thread and found three people who each posted twice... in a row. I've given up reading some threads because of so many duplicate posts. This free plugin for vBulletin should do the trick: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=218775 I checked and it IS compatible with calguns.net's vBulletin 3.8.7 |
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