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Re: I'm going on a forum consolidation tear

Post by June »

matthew1 wrote: 06 Aug 2018, 10:15 The genesis of this is this.

My understanding of behavior is most users want to post about their car in that car's forum. Most.

I can fight against this tendency by pushing and prodding and moving posts, but at the end of the day people find things here by searching, not browsing, so putting threads into categories doesn't make sense. It doesn't appear to help SEO to have a matrix of categories either.

Tagging helps achieve the best of both worlds, but again that's just behavior I can't influence, besides just making tagging available, which it is.
This makes good sense to me. The way I browse is the recent post, or your post section when I want to see what's going on.

When I want a answer, the search segregation of models was annoying as all P2 cars are not in the same place. Now it seems searches pull up things easier than before. For example when I found MVS I tried several sites and liked MVS but could not get a answer searching S80 forum nor did anyone answer my question. I had years of annoying Oncall substitution messages that my dealer said could not be stopped without doing Volvo's half measure fix.

Any 2004 era car all were dropped by Volvo and AT&T and later after Volvo of North America instructed my dealer to reprogram the computer without removing only half of the equipment, I found the answer in the P2 non S80 XC90 section much later after the reprogramming on a S60 thread. June
My Volvo cars owned
1989 740 GLT ordered
1994 850 4door standard shift ordered
1996 960 ordered
1998 S90 ordered totalled after 3 weeks
1998 V70 GT dealer stock car
2002 S80 T6 ordered totalled
2004 S80 T6 dealer stock car and current car owned

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