jefecoon's comments

+1 for VMS.... so good, but so proprietary & doomed to extinction... so unfortunate.

Thought this very interesting and potentially useful.

I added a suggestion under 'person going through a divorce,' e.g: ''Acknowledge it's going to be a difficult process and transition period, but give them hope they may be happier after''

When I posted my suggestion immediately had 7--8 thumbs-ups & downs. The second it was added to your site...

Let me suggest you either fix your impossible-to-not-notice bug on up/down-voting, __or__ immediately remove your "just add a few numbers..." code which makes it look like your new site has more engagement than it actually does. Since if the point of your site is to let users optimize advice for difficult situations it strikes me as wrong you'd be randomly adding numbers into that equation for the sake of making it look more useful / validated / engaged than it really is. Your 'bug' or whatever else (really) rubs me the wrong way. Fix this bs and good luck.

Jeff @ MakeGood; I pitched yesterday at StartupRiot.

For what it's worth, 'makegoods' are old ad-industry jargon for extra ads which have to be run to literally 'make good' on what you've sold to an advertiser... plus a half-way decent play on words. Our target clients instantly get what we do, and want a t-shirt = mission accomplished.

The article has exceptional wordcraft, that's true. However, of all the potential angles or stories he could have written, he simply phoned in this bashing of the attendees for wearing khakis and using "TPS Report" industry jargon. If he'd actually bothered to talk to any of these companies he could have written so much more.

I'm going to dust off my khakis and get back to coding up our solution for our clients who love us now.

PS: i hadn't looked at the author's bio until I saw the comment of someone who did and called the author a "hipster twat." Thanks for that, our office was rolling.

+1 for yet another great D3 implementation

Hey Motobabble-

Disclaimer: I used to manage ad sales & operations at CarDomain.com, the largest social network in the automotive space.

I browsed your site but didn't create an account, create my own car page, or upload any pics.

Your site looks great: very nice photo browser, look/feel. Some hopefully constructive criticism:

a) having to login to read comments posted on a vehicle is a major barrier to users spending time on your site, and is going to limit the SEO value of your content => why not just show what people have to say, and provide more engaging content to the folks who happen to find your site via search? By showing this I think you'll increase both your SEO and likelihood of converting browsers => registered members.

b) what's the value of membership? what's your "club?" CarDomain, while it doesn't have the glossy look/feel of your site, has a very large membership (850k members/cars profiled last i checked), and vibrant sub-communities of conversation around trucks, donks/boxs/bubbles, tuners, etc etc -- what's your community, your niche? who are you catering to? where's your beachhead? You may want to consider catering to a specific community to help increase your traction, and expand outward once you're rolling...

c) are you going to police your content? browsed and noticed a couple fake-y looking profiles, e.g. http://motobabble.com/bearx/2012-a4 which is listed as an Audi (i <3 audis btw) & it's actually stock/OEM photos of a VW... if you're building a community they'll appreciate accuracy & authenticity. The blog staff @ CarDomain invests a lot of time doing this, and their community really appreciates it... nice to know if you ask someone about how their Bugatti Veyron handles that they actually know.

As @dif points out i) one reason CarDomain & others remain so strong is the amazing amount of content and membership they already have. How can you quickly build a community? Hmmm, if only you could... be the car-talk/car-photo-share app on Facebook... integrate with some existing auto sites to make photos "easier"... many, many angles to pursue.

ii) foster / cultivate specific communities: truck folks like trucks, Chevy/Ford truck folks like similar, and Scion folks will like to converse with Scion folks, etc etc... not that they won't talk to each other, but birds of a feather def'ly flock together. Perhaps this ties to the 'beachhead' point above.

And actually, reach out to CarDomain/Streetfire -- they're great folks. They'll be difficult to steal traffic from too because they're amazingly good at building fostering their own community, but I'd be surprised if they weren't pretty cool frien-e-mies to talk to.

Good luck- --JeffC