Big-board Admins - do you think this section should be private?

Would big-board admins prefer this section to be private and only be seen by big-board admins and vborg and vbcom staff?

By big boards I mean those listed on big-boards.com (or those that qualify to).

I won't start a poll because non-big-board owners will vote ().

Personally I think big-board admins would be willing to share more if they new this section was private.

Please post your thoughts along with your url if you are not a well known Big-Board admin.

[Razasharp]

Well sorry but I can completely understand why BBA's would prefer NOT to disclose any problem they were having on an open forum that any old tom ++++ or harry could view.

[Fusion2]

Originally Posted by Razasharp

With all due respect that wasn't the question - the question was would big-board owners prefer this section to be private or not.

NO :alien:

[Razasharp]

And your big-board is....?

[kmike]

IMHO it's pretty self-evident that this forum is a failure in its current, public form.

[Lee]

Originally Posted by kmike

IMHO it's pretty self-evident that this forum is a failure in its current, public form.

I agree with that statement. It isn't really serving a purpose is it?

[TheHeartSmasher]

Just make sure that people like me who paid for vb gets to see everything to do with vb.

[COBRAws]

Originally Posted by Lee

I agree with that statement. It isn't really serving a purpose is it?

True true. Another wrong decision (im my opinion) by the staff to encourage more vBulletin related admin/coding forums to grow and split the community instead of giving vB owners what they want in HERE.

[Kihon Kata]

What's up with the admins at big-boards.com? I submitted my site right when we hit 500k and still no add(not with 750k posts). WTF. I have contacted them also a few times to no avail.

Anyone know? (sorry to hijack)

[phpdevrus]

Originally Posted by Kihon Kata

What's up with the admins at big-boards.com? I submitted my site right when we hit 500k and still no add(not with 750k posts). WTF. I have contacted them also a few times to no avail.

Anyone know? (sorry to hijack)

Ya i think the guy that runs it is currently away.

he is taking a leave of absence and also planning to update big-boards.

hopefully soon.

;-)

[orban]

Originally Posted by kmike

IMHO it's pretty self-evident that this forum is a failure in its current, public form.

Well, depends what you want from it.

I personally haven't found anything remotely useful in this forum for my forum, but I shared two things (the template cache and the sphinx implementation). I will try to keep sharing things I write for my board, but it's a bit disappointing to get nothing back in exchange (tho I'm always glad to give support if I can).

I don't think you'll ever find detailed information of how to do "tune" your server in here or a complete guide from "create forum" to "100k visitors/day" in here. You just can't put those things in a "guide". I probably read hundreds of sites about server optimization, subscribe to a few blogs, check a few forums, read about other ppls issues...learning by doing. You can't come here with your newly created forum with basically no clue about anything at all and expect to find a guide how to make your forum work in 2 days.

If you run a forum (semi-)professionally you're basically a sysadmin...and some people do that for a job. You can't learn a job by reading a handful of guides.