I've created some new forum categories, we're not a UK-only forum anymore

[Dan]

As you're already aware, we're not hosted on a .uk domain name anymore. We are now ElectriciansForums.net (that's .net). I've created some forum categories to match where we are getting traffic from:-

• American Electrical Forum
• Canadian Electrical Forum
• Australian Electrical Forum

When we were hosted on a .co.uk, we wouldn't have shown up in Google.com much if at all. So only people searching from within the UK would have got the chance to visit our awesome electrical forum.

Now we're on a .net, we're showing up in all Google results globally, so we will be having a lot of visitors, and eventually members, from outside the UK.

We aren't a UK electrical forum anymore. Please don't put off members from other countries. They are more than welcome to register, post a thread, and wait for another person from the same country to find it and respond to it.

You don't need to reply to it telling them we are a UK forum. It comes across as very unwelcoming and isn't what we're about.

Eventually there will be categories for the countries we get most of our traffic from, and the members wont mix too much in the general forums.

Until then, there will be some threads posted by members who aren't in the country you are in. So just don't reply if you can't help them.

This is a nice chance for those who wish to gain a bit of knowledge of how other countries work, and open your eyes a bit perhaps.

The UK is a tiny island and whilst those who live in it want to cut it off the earth and let it float on its own somewhere, at the moment we're part of the world.

So please please don't put off other members just because they're not from the same country as you. It's fairly obvious when they're posting which country they reside. So just stay away from threads where your advice is limited - just like any other thread you'd stay away from when it includes information you know nothing about.

I hope you all understand that.

Be welcoming to everybody.

 

[Dan]

Its more of a like than an agree

The heart eyes is the like for the moment lol

 

[EalingBadger]

Yes matey.

Hence the ability to turn off flags here: https://www.electriciansforums.net/account/privacy

We risked some trouble between UK flags and Republic of Ireland flags for people who live near the border too. So those can turn their flag off also.

People who know how, can also your a VPN to show a UK flag when they are on holiday. Which is what I will do, so that I can keep the tag active and not turn it off.

So, you will be using a geolocation service to determine where somebody is posting from - yes?

Do I understand this correctly?

And if so, then surely it makes much more sense and makes for much less confusion if the flag that you display is based on the country that the poster declared when they registered with the forum, and not on where they happen to be at the time that they make a post?

 

[Dan]

So, you will be using a geolocation service to determine where somebody is posting from - yes?

Do I understand this correctly?

And if so, then surely it makes much more sense and makes for much less confusion if the flag that you display is based on the country that the poster declared when they registered with the forum, and not on where they happen to be at the time that they make a post?

Yup. Using Geo-data.

Nobody declares where they are from when they register, it doesn't ask them.

And people move around. We've been online since 2006. I've moved countries and back in that time.

We've gone waaaaay past this thread now matey. But thanks for your input anyway.