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Petition to merge Off-Topic and The Lighter Side of Trucks

Zane

By Zane
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Should we merge Off-Topic and The Lighter Side of Trucks  

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Zane Senior Enthusiast

Zane

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When The Lighter Side of Trucks was first started many years ago, it was intended to be a joke telling and funny topic forum. Over the years, it's morphed into a semi-off-topic type forum that has expanded well beyond its initial intention. Today it mirrors the type of discussion that we had originally intended for Off-Topic.

 

So, here's our idea.

 

We want to merge Off-Topic and "The Lighter Side of Trucks" into a new forum. We're not sure what it would be called, yet....

 

We'd like your input first! Any ideas, comments, and suggestions are welcome in this thread. We want to get the communities opinion before doing something this big (and irreversible).

 

What does everyone think?

Prokopchuk_9 Senior Enthusiast

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Why not? And hey while I have your attention, anyway we could get a t-shirt or sweater or something we could buy? Lots of other forums have some swag items for sale? What are the chances?

Zane Senior Enthusiast

Zane

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Why not? And hey while I have your attention, anyway we could get a t-shirt or sweater or something we could buy? Lots of other forums have some swag items for sale? What are the chances?

 

 

This is something we are very actively looking in to. Thanks for letting me know of your interest.

cracked_up Enthusiast

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I like Ryans but here is another "The off topic and lighter side of trucks"

 

I like the idea of swag, might be able to put the profits towards keeping the forum running?

Bad Bowtie2 Enthusiast

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I vote for the merger. :thumbs:

 

Also, what about selling window decals, advertising the site? This way we have money coming in & advertising going out.

Josh Senior Enthusiast

Josh

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I vote for the merger. :thumbs:

 

Also, what about selling window decals, advertising the site? This way we have money coming in & advertising going out.

 

 

Decals are currently available through reflectiveconcepts.com

 

We will be adding them and the shirts to a 'gm-trucks.com store', which I will have more information on soon. I also plan to change the decals to a different font.

dirtfan21 Senior Enthusiast

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Excited to see the new decal. I've had one for about 3 years now and a lot of people have asked about the site. Hopefully it has brought more people here.

doverarjim Senior Enthusiast

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Thanks Josh for changing the font, now my hat is out dated (again)!! It sounds like we are going to have some changes to the fourm but is the skin staying the same? (now that I somewhat know what I am doing) :jester:

yukon25008.1 Senior Enthusiast

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How about a topic or category like " The days details" Or something like that were we can just vent or metion things we came across,things we did,etc.. In our day..

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