Hey Nige,

One of the points I wanted to make in my post above but it slipped my mind.

The admin/mod of a SIG could be given an e-mail account (like Nigep47(at)kitmaker.com) or even just a generic G-Mail account. That would allow the admin/mod to open a photobucket account that could be used specifically for photos in the SIG and only that. If a user posted some great reference photos they could be copied to that PB account, thereby ending all concern of the photos ever being deleted/moved etc.

Just an idea.

I believe that to use Photo Bucket in that way for this type of site, uless it is an account you pay for would infringe its rules of use.

Al made a lot of good points in his post and I think maybe one way to deal with some of them would be as follows.

Lets say there was a SIG about the Sherman tank. Couldn't there be a few threads in it, one for the M4, one for the M4A1 etc. IE: a thread for each variant. Only the moderator/administrator would have the ability to post in those threads. This would be beneficial two ways. The next person to come along searching for info would not have to scroll through questions, 'debates', repetition, multiple answers etc.

Another thread ( General Use ) could be for users to post their input. If a users input was relevant it could be moved into the correct thread by the mod/admin of that SIG, if it was already posted it could remain in the general use thread. This way there wouldn't be any double posts/repetitive posts to scroll through. This would keep the information easier to find and in a much more user friendly form.

When I look through the P-47 SIG I can see where some of the things I mentioned above might already be causing a 'problem' ( for lack of a better term). If I am searching for specific information, I really don't want to have to scroll through users model pictures and other 'irrelevant' posts (again for lack of a better term ) Perhaps there could be a separate thread for model pictures as well, thereby maintaining the pure, clean information value of the original topic thread.

Perhaps I am missing the point altogether here but I thought I might put that out there for the heck of it.

Excellent ideas, CDK, this would make it more of a 'library' and easier to find exactly what you're looking for. The model pictures could go into the Features/OD, making them a permanent reference area as well.

Also, while other members models may be nice to look at and a welcome addition (within it's own thread) to a SIG, I also don't want to have to scroll through those pictures and all the praise/critiques that may follow just to find out what the main differences were between an M4 and an M4A1.