Well, the company that runs B6G also runs Jeep forums so maybe that's to be expected. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In all seriousness though, I want to echo
@TorgSurv and say that we're here to be warm and welcoming to all who love Bronco. Many of our folks are active on several Bronco forums and we're certainly fine with that. It'd be pretty weird to expect our users to only contribute here. If you're deeply enthusiastic about something, you'll probably engage with it anywhere you can. We shouldn't expect to monopolize the time you spend engaging with the things that you love.
That being said, there are certain practices that other forums engage in that aren't in the spirit of building a broad and collaborative Bronco community. To wit, we generally leave links to other sites in our user's posts because we believe that if another site has done the work of creating content, then they should reap the benefits of their work. This morning, in response to a question that was asked in one of our Bronco Sport forums, someone posted a link to the Bronco Sport forum that is a sister site to B6G. Conventional wisdom would be to remove that post, answer the question using the information taken from the other site, and then point to our reproduction of that answer. We don't do that. The work that answered the user's question was done elsewhere, so they should receive some credit for that.
Not all sites operate like this. As an example, if I go to Google and search "Bronco Delivery Timeline" my first result is a reprinting of an article that I wrote on Bronco Nation but it's been copied to B6G. They have removed any links back to my article, and they have replaced my link to the Bronco Order Guide with a link to their own thread. Now, it isn't always the B6G user that does it. Generally, an administrator or moderator dresses the post and alters the links to ensure that no traffic leaves their site. Now you can say, "Well Dave, why don't we do the same thing. Seems like that's just the way that the internet works." I'd say that you aren't wrong and maybe we'll have to resort to that at some point but for now, we want to give that idea of building a broad and collaborative Bronco community a chance. Yes, it's super annoying to have an article that I spent a lot of time developing stolen, but we've got our eyes on a bigger prize.
A healthy online community has a group of content creators working together to make great stuff centered on the thing that they all love. This is why we've worked with
@mitchcreel from Wild Horses in videos and articles, why we've collaborated with
@Nashville Early Bronco on the Bronco How-To series, and why we'll be working with more in the future. Bronco's rising tide should lift all boats, even if Bronco can't quite tow them all. ;)
