I think at least all of the Capital Cities should be covered. Absolutely. Plus any cities of the population over 500,000? Maybe 350,000?
Why not? I don't understand what reason there could possibly be for not wanting to cover all of the major cities.Why is Mississippi not on this board or TER at all??
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It's because the market is smaller in some regions of the country and so TER lumps those areas together. Could this change? From what I recall reading on a previous post it could when the situation warrants it.
If admin doesn't feel there is a real need for a particular location to have a forum, it won't get one. OTOH, you will notice some of the larger cities do have their own forum, which is due to the higher volume of providers and hobbyists in the area.
Mississippi is not the only state w/o it's own forum, there are many more. You can always ask admin directly, but they probably will not add it if they feel it won't generate enough traffic on it. A few years ago, they did add some state forums, I was a moderator at the time and given one of the new ones to moderate.
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I've always thought so and I want to add my voice to this post.
TER, please add some more major cities to the boards! I think there should be at least every capital city.
Until TER recognizes every capital city for our 50 states we will never have a true "go to" site get everyone uses everywhere. TER has a good thing going, why won't they expand and be great?
I feel the same way about RS2K. They could both expand and increase their incomes substantially. There is a great need for expansion. They would make a fortune, and improve the quality of my business
In fact , in 33 of the 50 states the Capital city is not the most populous.
Albany? Springfield? Sacramento? Carson City? Do you really think those are huge hobby cities and need a TER board?
I think at least all of the Capital Cities should be covered. Absolutely. Plus any cities of the population over 500,000? Maybe 350,000?
Why not?
I don't understand what reason there could possibly be for not wanting to cover all of the major cities.
TER already has enough dead boards. Do you really want to be posting on boards where you are simply talking to yourself? If you doubt me check out boards like the Kansas board where there have only been about a hundred threads in four years, half of them announcements by Admin, or even worse check out the Dakotas board with only two pages of posts in it's entire existence.
Sorry, but wasting bandwidth on dead boards is just that, a waste of bandwidth. They are called discussion boards for a reason, they are meant to have actually discussions, you can't have a discussion board with only three or four members posting.
It makes no sense to have a board in every state's capitol city, as has been stated, the majority of capitols are by far not the largest city in the state. When I became a moderator five years ago, admin added some new regional boards and I was given one to moderate in addition to the Newbie board. It took a while to get going, but it seems to be doing ok now, and Ohio is a fairly highly populated state.
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I'm not trying to promote discussion boards in every city. I didn't think about that, really. I would like to see reviews and advanced search options for all of the Capital Cities and other highly populated cities.
It's not that helpful when the whole state is being represented instead of a specific city, for advertising and probably not for searching, either.
TER is popular enough in some of the main cities that they cover that if they covered the other major cities, the top 70 or 80 cities in the country, it would catch on like wildfire. That's what I think.
I think it's the lack of covering all the major cities right now that prevents it from being successful in some of the cities it does cover. It's not the go to site that it could be and should be.
Maybe they're scared of getting too big. Maybe they'd be more of a target
and come to a completely different conclusion.
The problem with dead boards is that they are counterproductive, and they encourage people to simply leave the site instead of talking to themselves. When you try to be all things to all people you dilute yourself. From the point of attracting members it makes a LOT more sense to have 30-40 active boards rather than 200 dead ones.