Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know about a new feature that has launched for the site, in conjunction with our partners at carcomplaints.com . It’s called Ask Someone Who Owns One. It allows people using Car Complaints to get some more information from others beyond what they’re seeing there. Wha…

Some of these posts we are getting from “Ask someone who owns one” seem to be replying to something we haven’t seen.

I looked at the carcomplaints site - it appears as if they do enter the model, year, and mileage on that site, but it does not transfer to the cartalk site resulting in annoyance for users/posters on both sites.

I did my own little unscientific research just now. I read 10 of the Ask Someone posts. Of the 10, only 3 were written in a way that someone could respond reasonably. That number confirms what I thought from my previous readings. Some were poorly written - run on sentences, no grammar, written like …

@cdaquila Hello Carolyn, dumb thought here. When moving the new posts from the ( ask someone ) place if the ask someone and reference number is left that might reduce people getting so annoyed because they might realize where the vague post came from.

Believe me, I’m not being glib…but @VOLVO_V70 a number of people seemed annoyed when they knew precisely what they were. Whatever works to help integrate this into the site, I’m open to. But we do have to make it work.

@cdaquila Has the ’ Ask Someone ’ category been sent into cyberspace ?

No. THanks for asking, though. I was going to post and let you know. What we’ve done as we get the hang of this is make the posts tagged “Ask Someone…” visible only to moderators. We take a look at them and classify them appropriately in one of the other topic groups. Those that are completely impo…

Has carcomplaints.com stopped providing a link to Car Talk? I looked around and couldn’t find something called Ask Someone Who Owns One, or anything resembling a link to this site. There is a resources page that would be an ideal place to link to partners, but we don’t show up.

Hello. Thank you for the tip. We have since identified a small problem when we attempted to make the posts only visible to the moderators. We thus had to make them visible to all — so when you look at the pull down where you can view different sections, today and in the future those posts will now b…

@Senior-Web-Lackey Why are so many of the posts from carcomplaints web site poorly written and vague ? Seriously , if Car Talk forum needs support money I would rather put up with ads from real merchants that sell Automotive parts and equipment.

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