My thoughts as not only a member but as one of the site admins and moderators:
I feel that the success of this forum is, as it has been mentioned by others, is due to the singular focus on one thing: The Luger pistol...
I am a strong believer in doing one thing and doing it well. I like lots of differents pistols and visit our "sister" forums on the P38 and Walther pocket pistols from time to time... but I am turned off by the forums that are not singular in focus because they grow so large and are so diversified that the reason that I came to the forum in the first place gets lost in the shuffle.
I think prominent links to the existing walther forums and also the creation of newly desired forums like AXIS Pistols where there is enough demand is also a fine idea... but if we create individual discussion forums within this context and domain on anything other than LUGERS,
then this is no longer The Luger Forum
Another problem with the creation of new forums within this domain is resources... I know that John D. would have no problem supplying the necessary server space to host forums similar to this one, but server space is not the principle issue, it is manpower. All of the wonderful benefits that we enjoy here on the Lugerforum.com are the product of volunteer labor...including mine (which is a labor or love I might add...) and time is a finite commodity. This is not my day job, and the same is true for all the kind moderators that assist us in keeping this a great place to visit.
Where is the workforce that will program, install, configure, operate, moderate and administer these new forums?
If those of you with appropriate computer and internet skills will make yourselves known to us as available to fill these position vacancies in an area where you will have the same motivation that I feel we have here, I am sure than John D. can "set you up!"
In closing... and with as soft a voice as possible [img]smile.gif[/img] in case my rambling didn't get my point across...is that besides our existing "GENERAL DISCUSSION" forum, I am not in favor of diluting what we have created here with the diversity of other weapons discussions...
That is my
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