Suggestion: Range Sticky

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Originally Posted by headcase

. . . . the implementation and maintenance would be problematic, IMHO.

Agreed, although I prefer to use "could" as it implies possibility whereas "would" assumes a level of certainty about the potential difficulty.

Originally Posted by headcase

The SGL ranges are already compiled at the PGC website and if you are looking for one, that is your best reference. The range forum is already full of threads about individual ranges and if a person is even slightly motivated, they can scroll through the pages looking for the one they need. The less motivated can always start a thread asking about a specific range, getting either the location of the correct thread or the answer to their question as a response.

I think we can all agree that most of the information is already "out there" in some form. I'm assuming that the intent of organizing ranges by county is to make things easier to find even though people could eventually find the information anyway (if they don't give up first).

Originally Posted by headcase

I tend the sticky thread because I thought it was a great idea to have . . . .

I think it's an excellent idea. I had been thinking about something like this for some time, but didn't feel comfortable suggesting it. However, now that the ice is broken . . . .

Originally Posted by headcase

Sort of putting my time where my mouth is, so to speak

Well, I will see your wager and raise you a relatively complete list of 252 PA shooting ranges, grouped by county (please see attachment).

Originally Posted by headcase

What you propose . . . . is more work than I can spare the time for......

The attached file should help. It is a very "plain jane" HTML file that can be opened in any browser. I used IE 7, but it looks fine in Mozilla FireFox 2.0 as well. If you're concerned that there may be something hinky with the file, have Dan or Doug or someone technical give it a clean bill of health.

It's attached in Zip format, because vBulletin limits the type of files that are permitted as attachments. I can open the Zip file with Windows Explorer (basically as a file manager) under XP, so it should be pretty straight forward. My apologies if this is belaboring the obvious or you already have "power user" tendencies.

Originally Posted by headcase

I will say this, if you want to take the time to compile the information and PM me chunks of 5 or so at a time, I will add the links to each ranges' listing which may cut down on the duplicate threading, how's that?

Before we go down this path, I would like to get Dan's blessing that this approach (cross-referencing individual ranges in a "sticky" to specific threads in the "range forum") is consistent with his long term vision of the PAFOA web site design. In the past he has commented about various design preferences, but I don't remember anything on this particular subject.

Assuming that Dan agrees, then I would like to get an assessment from the Mods as to how practical they think this might be in everyday life. It would be pointless to just start adding the cross-reference links to the "range sticky" if everybody winds up ignoring them.

Also, if you want to modify the HTML file I can explain how it was constructed. As you might imagine, some aspects of the file are much easier to change than others. In order to turn it around in 24 hours, I decided not to write any code. However, if you come up with an interesting enough change, I might just be tempted.