I went ahead and voted yes.
I can see this benefiting peoples real life adventures, which in return can benefit other interest and possible trades on our site. I often find people enjoy traveling, and talking about those times can really help keep the memories around.
I would prefer to enjoy something like this in a private section of our forums, in which would seems like an adequate and reasonable way to help maintain a quality level of these types of Sub-Forums.
I also find it reasonable that one would have to become a verified member, and yearly, to be able to access these kinds of private forums. There may also need to be some other requirements to help balance out the time and cost of all this, in which should be built in a manner that can continue to build onto the foundation of the site. I would not rule out the ideas like it costing forum gold to make Posts on these forums, much like topic upgrades, as backpacking and more is not the reason people come to our site.
In the end it costs to go backpacking, taking pictures, sharing things, and more. So I would be happy to enjoy this sub-forum among other similar interests while putting time and forum gold into it. To me the competition all the social networks, platforms, forums, and more have with each other can be irrelevant if our site decides to go with a private section of those models, maintain it with ease, integrity, and with returns for our site and its members.
Big Task, Great Benefits. Done right, we win.
what seems like a reasonable way to make a forum like this survive ? Can you tell us ways you would make forum gold in this forum, or how you would spend forum gold?
Sort of like gfx, would you want to provide services from your own experiences and skills, or even other things you have found along the way, here on our site? For example, I like to collect some dirt to places I have traveled, then I gift some of it to someone it reminds me of. I find the structure of the world, environment, and all very fascinating. Going out and collecting artifacts and can be fun too, along with finding a variety of species of trees and more. Rocks, fossils, real life and life size photos, epic sounds, videos, etc.
Starting sub-forums like this would also benefit those who do not get to backpacking and more. It really is a win win win situation, just got to get it right.
This post was edited by Sempervirens on May 9 2021 01:45pm