Direct Exchange Thread for DVC Owners on Disboards

[BWV Dreamin]

Due to the costs involved with having more boards, there would need to be considerable activity to justify a special 'swap' board.

While contributions to the DISboards is always appreciated, remember that all the webmasters and moderators of the Rent/Trade and DVC boards are volunteers and do not receive any compensation in any way, so this would be a heavier work load on people who volunteer their time already.

If anyone wants to create a poll and post it to see what kind of interest there would be, by all means feel free to do so. The DVC-Mousecellaneous board would probably be the best selection as that is the most active of all the DVC-boards here on the DIS.

Also we have some pretty sophisticated software programs (written by myself) that is used to process the Rent/Trade board, which automates a number of features including automatic PM's, checking thread bumps, and so on. If a 'swap' board was created new programs would be required.

Checking the history of all R/T board submissions so far for 2008, the number of posts in any of the three 'TRADE' categories is quite small compared to the other categories.

We could entertain some possibilities if there is enough interest. Perhaps renaming the Rent/Trade board to Rent/Trade/Swap board. It would also be easier to just create a new 'swap' category rather than a whole new 'swap' board. If someone wants to create a poll we'd be glad to look at the results.

Caskbill

FYI, the moderators on the Rent/Trade board are myself, WebmasterDoc, and LisaS

ChuckS and CarolMN moderate the regular DVC-boards, along with myself, JimC, and CarolAnnC. They do not have anything to do with the R/T board.

Hi Caskbill, thanks for responding to this thread. I would be glad to post a poll. What information would you need from the poll? If you could give some info either post or PM me, I would be glad to start the poll. I would like the poll to accurately reflect the details necessary to change the "swap" forum, at least to create a separate catagory, not necessarily to create a whole other "board". I have some ideas, but want to make sure the wording is right.

 

[BWV Dreamin]

Hi Caskbill, thanks for responding to this thread. I would be glad to post a poll. What information would you need from the poll? If you could give some info either post or PM me, I would be glad to start the poll. I would like the poll to accurately reflect the details necessary to change the "swap" forum, at least to create a separate catagory, not necessarily to create a whole other "board". I have some ideas, but want to make sure the wording is right.

WELCOMEHOME......would you be willing to add some info for the poll?