Incidents

[Daizey 0]

Has there ever been any thought given to seperating out the incidents forum? I mean this in terms of skydiving related, BASE related, and aircraft related. The current layout has a user logging on and seeing that there were X number of incidents this weekend, but when they go into the forum they find that they all have to do with BASE or an aircraft haveing a problem or something related. I know that as skydivers we can learn from some of these incidents and apply it to our knowledge of skydiving, but I also think it would be better to seperate them out into seperate categories so we can read about each type of incident individually. Plus, for example, if a visitor comes to the site, they see that there have been 1032 threads about incidents. Without being a registered user one can just see that this is a skydiving site and the incidents forum lists that many incidents -what they don't know is that not all of these apply directly to the sport of skydiving-in fact a brand new registered user just coming into the forum may not realize this either. In addition, in the past there have been some threads that it was unsure until midway through the thread whether it was skydiving or base related. Seperate forums would help organize that as well.

My suggestion is to add another category for incidents. As of right now when one clicks on the forums tab, they are brought to a page of categories with each forum listed as a sub category (General, Community, Skydiving, Skydiving disciplines, Related Sports, etc.) Why not title one of these categories as Incidents and have 3 seperate forums - Skydiving Related, Base Related, and Aircraft Related?

Any thoughts?

*daizey*

[jumpergirl 0]

That's a great idea, Daizey. I hope to see it a reality.

[sunshine 2]

I think it's ridiculous to have the aircraft emergencies posted in incidents. I brought that up before but as usual my suggestion went ignored.

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[Tonto 1]

I think that would be a step in the right direction.

Since I started moderating the incidents forum 2 years ago I've tried to list all incidents as "What - Place - Date" but even that is hard when people post "Plane meets bird" or "Help me understand" or when the thread starts with a question as to whether an incident actually occured.

I would imagine that if they were to be categoriesed, that perhaps the current USPA fatality report categories could be used.

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