I work for a UK home improvement website and we have a forum that is a little quiet. OK, really quiet. So we are thinking about forwarding their DIY questions to this newsgroup.
This newsgroup is highly popular, but some people do not know how to access newsgroups. Also, beginners who have one question might not want to join a newsgroup and find it easier to make a one off post to a forum. Anyway, you know all this already.
Obviously like many sites we have spam, so to avoid creating loads of noise we will moderate every post that gets sent to this group.
However, for us to get answers to a post we will need to download your replies to our site. Basically the same as what Google does and DIYbanter.
I have seen the hate towards DIYbanter, and we would not want to receive the anger of you good people. The main reason for the anger seemed to be because DIYbanter did not ask permission and was a commercial website. Well, we too are a commercial website, but we will not place any advertising on pages that have your posts on, as it is not fair to gain money from your knowledge or advice.
We will also add a link to
I am interested to know what you all think.
Cheers,
Gary