Why no answers from the MCA when ? posted under

Why no answers from the MCA when ? posted under - "ASK MCA"?

I am just curious as to why the MCA does not answer questions asked by the membership when posted under the "ASK MCA" section of the website.

As president and our web site admin for our local club, I fully understand that positions are held by volunteers; everyone is busy; etc. But why have a section called "ASK MCA" if the MCA does not plan to answer said questions? While we are lucky to have very knowledgable frequent posters, forums are an excellent source for reaching out to a club's membership base. I appreciate the MCA giving us a venue for asking questions and getting to know our fellow hobbyist, but there is a huge gap left by the lack of participation from our Officers and Board of Directors. Besides a lack of response to the membership's reaction to the 50th Anniversary (maybe offering to share the MCA's thought process?), do our questions, concerns and suggestions on other issues not matter? Below are just a few examples that I've run across lately.

April 11, 2012 - no answer.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...rd-Application

Thread contains a Spam Post:
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...-Car-Insurance

April 20, 2012 - website question; no answer.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...al-Club-Forums

April 20, 2012 - MCA is the final answer to concours restoration, no answer.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...or-my-Pace-Car

April 19, 2012 - another concours question not answered.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...-on-compressor

April 5, 2012 - time sensitive, no response.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...Event-Calendar

March 12, 2012 - MrFarmdog was kind enough to offer the specific information for this meeting and I see an additional post with future information, but where can the information be found on the website (read - not forum) for the remaining (or next) scheduled meetings?
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.php/2505-MCA-meeting

February 18, 2012 - Specific question asked about the MCA stickers, only responses are from the membership. Not one from MCA. No, "thank you for your suggestion, we will discuss at our next meeting".
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...e-in-our-Decal

February 12, 2012 - The members want a clean pdf file(not a colored scan from our magazine ad), front and center on the website, NOT in the members area... - I personally encountered this irritation earilier this year while on the phone with someone wanting to join the MCA. I finally scanned a copy out of the Mustang Times then cropped all the colored photos out and enlarged it then drove it over to the potential member that DID infact join. I perform these tasks enough for our local club, now it's left for the MCA members to take on that task for the MCA too?
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...hip-form/page2

February 11, 2012 - 1 response from a member that did not address the OPs concerns.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...mber-Discounts

February 26, 2012 - Valid question and an answer I'm sure other potential judges would like to know.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...-Test-question

February 5, 2012 - only 1 member answered with his personal experience. Why not an MCA response?
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...-Mustang-Times

January 22, 2012 - I for one would like to know the answer to this question as well. 0 responses.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...ybe-maybe-quot

January 7, 2012 - a potential solution was posted; 10 days later, the OP stated they were still having the issue. No response.
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...-club-calendar

Really, I'm not trying to be difficult. But I read forums for the information and knowledge to be gained. I routinely leave the MCA forums with questions I didn't even know I had and no answers to go with them. Which eventually, will make me lose interest in even typing... www.Mustang.org

I try to answer any questions I am quilified to answer.
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The MCA forums are relatively new. I'm guessing that there are members that don't check it for whatever reason. Some folks don't feel comfortable with online forums or might not be 100% sure on something, so they don't answer.

If you have judging questions, there is a list of MCA head judges and gold card judges in the "Judging" section of the website (not the forums.) Their phone numbers, e-mail and mailing addresses are usually listed. If you can't get help there, you can try and make contact with a local MCA regional group near where you live.

Other than that, there are many other resources on the web, google what you're looking for and see where it ends up.

abmusick you are absolutely right. In reading your post I just realized that I was not subscribed to the ASK MCA forum so this is my fault. I usually try to answer questions as I can. One thing we need is additional forum moderators to help drive engagement and ensure questions like this get answered. I will take that action and also try to answer the questions noted.

Thanks!

I may not be interpreting the numbers correctly but on the front/home page of the forum at the bottom it states: 28,414 MCA Members with 1383 Active. I'm assuming this means the total MCA membership and those who have "signed on/registered" for the forum. If my thinking is correct, than less than 5% of the membership has signed up for the forum. ( I realize some parts of the forum you can read without registering but not all).

If I'm correct on this -as has been stated, using other methods like the telephone to get questions answered would probably be a good idea.

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Originally Posted by Ranger

I may not be interpreting the numbers correctly but on the front/home page of the forum at the bottom it states: 28,414 MCA Members with 1383 Active. I'm assuming this means the total MCA membership and those who have "signed on/registered" for the forum. If my thinking is correct, than less than 5% of the membership has signed up for the forum. ( I realize some parts of the forum you can read without registering but not all).

If I'm correct on this -as has been stated, using other methods like the telephone to get questions answered would probably be a good idea.

Actually the the 28K are registered users on the website and the ACTIVE are people that have been on the website in the past 30 days. You can not tell how many of those people are active/paid MCA members from those stats.

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Originally Posted by MrFarmdog

Actually the the 28K are registered users on the website and the ACTIVE are people that have been on the website in the past 30 days. You can not tell how many of those people are active/paid MCA members from those stats.

Thanks for the clarification!

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Originally Posted by Ranger

Thanks for the clarification!

No problem! It is great now that I am getting the notifications for this forum!

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Originally Posted by abmusick

February 12, 2012 - The members want a clean pdf file(not a colored scan from our magazine ad), front and center on the website, NOT in the members area... - I personally encountered this irritation earilier this year while on the phone with someone wanting to join the MCA. I finally scanned a copy out of the Mustang Times then cropped all the colored photos out and enlarged it then drove it over to the potential member that DID infact join. I perform these tasks enough for our local club, now it's left for the MCA members to take on that task for the MCA too?
http://www.mustang.org/showthread.ph...hip-form/page2

Still waiting on that simple, easy to read, easy to fill out printable form. I'd be glad to make it and post it if I knew who would need to approve the final document. And if I knew MCA would accept it.