Yes I know I may sound like a 'broken record', but for a forum that has numerous trips running on a regular basis, the lack of decent trip reports in the 'Your Trip Report & Experience' is lacking and to be perfectly honest, very dissapointing..... Yes, some use the trip report section in the original trip at times, but as I said in another thread, these are generally 'few and far' between and it is a 'pita' scrolling back through trips just to see if anyone has posted a report. So the questions I ask are;
1. Do members LIKE reading, seeing pictures/videos etc and commenting on trips that have been completed.?
2. Do members think it is soley up to the Trip Leader to initiate the trip report?
3. Do members find the system too hard to post pictures/videos in the 'Your Trip Report and Experiences' section?.
In regard to Q3, I know Allan (BigPig) has mentioned that he has found it difficult to add pics etc and I am sure he is not the 'Lone Ranger' in this regard. I am sure there are many here who would like to see a detailed report with pics etc as I am sure there are many here who have not been fortunate enough to see the many availabe 4wd areas in this state, or interstate for that matter, who as a result would either consider joining a trip or maybe even put their hand up to running a trip if they had some sort of information whether it be pics/video or just a written report rather than just; "thanks for a great trip, really enjoyed it" etc etc.
Yes everyone is different, but 2 reasons I get on this site is to see; 1. Upcoming trips and 2. Read Trip reports and see pics/vidoes of trips that have been completed so I can make a decision as to if this is a area I would like to go 4wding in.
Not sure if many are aware, but this forum got mentioned in Roothy's 'Low Range' publication recently and as a result, I am sure many will have had a look at the site and probably had a look at 'Trip Reports' and probably would have been a little dissapointed as heaps of trips but very few reports.
Anyway, interested to see if other members have similar views and probably more importantly, do they find it all too hard to post pics/videos etc, or as the thread title says; 'just not really interested in trip reports'?