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Submitted: Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 19:04
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So clever David. Articles on a topic, eg off road caravanning, pop up in the thread on that particular topic. Brilliant idea.
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Reply By: ExplorOz Team - David - Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 19:53

Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 19:53
Thanks,

Still working on it - currently the linking is manual by the moderators.

You will note that the referenced articles also have a section in the feedback area of the article that links back to the forum - there was a little bug in it but this has just been fixed (about 5 mins ago). So when you read an article you can read the related forum posts and even submit feedback - which will go to the forum with the Article Feedback heading (as per the couple below).

The linked posts will also show in the article however these are generated in the fourm and not the article - Hope this make sense. it is a mechanism of grouping forum thread to articles and visa versa.

We will be adding the article list selection box in the Post New Thread page (when this is rewritten) to allow you to also select a related article. it is all meant to be a kind of category system.

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Follow Up By: ExplorOz Team - David - Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 19:55

Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 19:55
Oh yeah and linked words as per your post which if you wrote off road caravans would have linked, you wrote caravanning which is a different article. All good fun and just wanting to make the whole thing link together.
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Reply By: Geoff (Newcastle, NSW) - Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 20:00

Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 20:00
Hi Mh,
I find David's efforts brilliant, the time and skill he puts into this site is so out of proportion to what I pay each year as a member. It really is scary!

In all honesty, how does he do it for the money?

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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 20:05

Wednesday, Jul 25, 2007 at 20:05
Nahhh!! the money's not important, he does it all for love :-)
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz Team - David - Thursday, Jul 26, 2007 at 13:38

Thursday, Jul 26, 2007 at 13:38
Geoff,

It is not just me we have Michelle, Damian, Michael, Kerry and a few other moderators that go into the team that keeps it all together. Good question about how we do it for the money, there is not much spare in the model but basically the Membership is a very important part of the business and 100% of membership money goes to pay the hosting bills alone, shop sales pays the rest and some of the wages and advertising pays for the rest however we have way to many house ads on the system at the moment and these make zero. We are working on this with some agencies in Sydney.

So thanks for your membership it really does help and please enjoy your time with us at ExplorOz.

John is also right we do it becuase we love the outback and travelling and our mission is to be the central repository of all information related to the caravan, camping and 4wd touring market.
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