Originally Posted by sachinj12 (Post 2456063)

Can someone please tell me how to add captions in between images? As in, when I write a travelouge and upload pics, I want to add captions to the images.

Originally Posted by RadiantKarma (Post 2447146)

This a suggestion from the point of view of a guest. (It hasnt been long that I was a guest on this forum.) I tried searching without success on the thread, which is rather long, if this suggestion has been made earlier. However, my apologies still if it has been submitted earlier by some member.

A new guest on the forum typically arrives with the intention of getting guidance/advice regarding the new car he is planning to buy. On url www.team-bhp.com, he may turn to any of the following tabs "Advice", "Test Drives" and "Forum". Probably in that order. He doesn't find what he needs immediately under "Advice" tab. so he turns to "Test Drives", where he actually finds an excellent and very useful Summary Review. Great. But he is also looking for detailed reviews including ownership experiences. Will he find it, will he not? Well, I was lost initially quite a few times. As the "Forum" tab has loads of sections and is actually more suitable for a member than a new guest, whose primary interest is, let me repeat for emphasis, to get information in respect of planned purchase of new car.

In order to increase the ease of access of such information, I have the following suggestion:

1. Rename the tab "Test Drives" to "Car Reviews", which appears more appropriate.
2. Under this new tab, there can be three sub-tabs. Each of these sub-tabs will generate car-wise output, based on the selection by the user, in the same manner as in is presently under existing "Test Drives" tab. The sub-tabs are as follows:
   • "Summary Review": This will give the same summary review as one gets presently under the existing "Test Drives" tab.
   • "Official Test Drive Review": This will guide the user to the Official Test Drive & Review of the car selected. In case, no such review exists, appropriate message will be generated.
   • "Ownership Review": This can have further sub-tabs
     • "Initial Ownership Reviews"
     • "Long-term Ownership Reviews"

Each of the above tab would list the review threads of the car selected by the user.

I believe that this change would immensely enhance the appeal of the forum to a newcomer. He will find all he needs to find about a car from a single main tab. Of course, all the existing car reviews would need to be suitably tagged for identification for this purpose, which is a one-time exercise.

Originally Posted by Mark 5 (Post 2455115)

Few suggestions from my side:

1) A like button (just like the Facebook one) when we really like someone's post or pictures posted by someone in a forum or when we like someone's Garage photos ( I know that we already have the thanks button but still...).

Originally Posted by fine69 (Post 2455794)

I very strongly second this. The first sticker on my car was an LTD sticker and since the time it was stolen (yes stolen! taken off very neatly by some lowlife) I haven't put any other sticker. Why? I never wanted any other sticker, I'd ordered the complete set only for the 'Live to Drive' sticker since I didn't have the option of selecting an individual sticker.

Please please please enable such option so that one can select individual stickers. You may have the shipping cost standard (irrespective of quantity) so that people like me could tell the world that I indeed 'Live to Drive', yet again. :)

Originally Posted by vina (Post 2441527)

Everyone:

I have seen one major problem on TBHP - some of the most usefully threads are also often times some of the most useless. Thousands of posts strewn across hundreds of pages with several pages.

Many of the posts are utterly useless even on threads that are very very useful otherwise. Case in point: GTOs review of Beat Diesel here:

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/offici...ve-review.html

The "thanks" feature has been around for months and still on the first two pages almost all of the posts (there are perhaps a few exceptions if you are willing to stretch) are actually "congratulations GTO" "well done GTO" and such.

I mean if I am going through the thread it adds exactly nothing to my knowledge to go through any of these posts (BTW GTO has done a wonderful job, as he has done on quite a few other reviews - my point is not that the review was bad - my point is what happens next is no good).

Several more examples exist - any active BHPian can attest to what I'm saying.


Even when posts are not useless there are several threads where the following pattern can be easily observed:

1. some BHPian asks a question
2. some vague replies come
3. somebody sends a pointed response that enumerates lots of options along with recommendation on what will be most likely the best solution and what other sources of information exist
4. people continue to give suggestions - several of these are repeats.

Now 3 months later another guy has the same (or similar) question - finds the thread and the thread now has over a dozen pages with perhaps 3 or 4 posts (of the type in point no. 3 above) that cover the whole thing very well.


I believe we should have some mechanism of facilitating easy access to such comprehensive posts. Such a mechanism will:

1. Help people find what they are looking for very fast
2. Reduce the chances that same questions will be asked again and again in different threads and even different posts on the same thread
3. Reduce the load on TBHP servers - if people can find what they are looking for fast they will waste less of their time and less of TBHP bandwidth
4. Improve the quality of discourse (may be, though I'm not sure; clear guidelines haven't stopped people, including the author of this post, from cluttering TBHP.

My suggestion - Now that we have "thanks" feature - there can be some mechanism in search that can automatically take the "thanks" into account when enumerating posts - perhaps the algorithm that sorts the posts by relevance.

And/or apart from having a rating for threads, we can have a rating mechanism for posts (though "thanks" should serve the same purpose)




PS: If some Mod can write an article on how to search TBHP efficiently, that will also help both BHPians and non-BHPians who come looking for info on TBHP right now. In my experience at the moment Google search with "site"team-bhp.com" in the search terms gives better results right now than TBHP's own engine (e.g. try searching with keywords "tyre site:team-bhp.com" in google and "tyre" in the search box on top right) - I may be doing something wrong while searching but then most of us have quite a bit of experience with google, not so much with TBHP's engine.

Originally Posted by manishk83 (Post 2456596)

I browsed 3 pages of search returns and still couldn't locate the thread.

One way could be to have forum specific searches. So, for instance, I know that what I'm looking for would probably be in 'The Indian Car Scene', I'd search specifically in the forum only or if it's a tecnical issue related to 'Hyundai Verna', I'd serach for Hyundai Verna in the Technical section only. Just a thought..don't know if it's possible?

Originally Posted by Jayabusa (Post 2459068)

"How often has it happened that you intended to quote and ended up being grateful" - Jayabusa

LOL

It's a rather trivial issue, but needs to be addressed for quality purposes.

Thanks:)

Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom (Post 2434910)

Seven years of hanging around vB forums, and two or three of moderating one, and I never knew that!

Originally Posted by honeybee (Post 2439267)

@GTO, thanks for pointing it out. I tried it and that's exactly what I wanted.

Originally Posted by mayankk (Post 2435324)

can we have a pull&release to refresh for android too??

Originally Posted by libranof1987 (Post 2439589)

"You are representing the community by pasting this sticker on your vehicle. Please drive responsibly; hand out stickers only to those who know T-BHP and are responsibly drivers".

Originally Posted by vina (Post 2441527)

Everyone:

I have seen one major problem on TBHP - some of the most usefully threads are also often times some of the most useless. Thousands of posts strewn across hundreds of pages with several pages.

Originally Posted by Sheel (Post 2444029)

A video depicting and teaching how to blip while braking and going down the 'box. Please, I want this video. I have been desperately trying to get hang of this to make my driving smoother & blip everytime I am going down the 'box, but once you bring the braking part into equation, I fumble and either I brake more or accelerate more (clutch engaged). Its so easy to blip and go down the 'box on a Motorcycle...Sigh!

Originally Posted by xingamazon (Post 2445696)

with that in mind, I was looking into the XDA-Developers site, they have a fun+subject video on what to do and what not to do. Its a good informative one.

Originally Posted by RadiantKarma (Post 2447146)

Rename the tab "Test Drives" to "Car Reviews", which appears more appropriate.

Originally Posted by rtandon (Post 2453756)

Something simple, modeled in Excel or Access should do the trick I suppose.

Originally Posted by Mark 5 (Post 2455115)

A like button (just like the Facebook one) when we really like someone's post or pictures posted by someone in a forum

Originally Posted by Jayabusa (Post 2459068)

"How often has it happened that you intended to quote and ended up being grateful" - Jayabusa

Originally Posted by GTO

Perhaps, you can create a new thread and *attach* an excel sheet? Our attachment system permits this format.

Originally Posted by volkman10 (Post 2472266)

Is there a possibilty of changing/editing the title of a self created new thread during the edit time period?

Cheers!