New website and FORUM.... post and win prizes!

Hi Guys,

I've started a new website KartingAsia.com and just launched it about 1 minute ago! This is the first place I've announced it and will now send out my kartingmalaysia.com newsletter and announce it on katingmalaysia.com. So as you can imagine the forums are now just full of posts by me waiting for people to reply Smiling

The website will have karting news and I hope that we'll get a really active karting discussion forum going as well! The forum has some country-specific forums including Malaysia of course and a General Karting forum, tech talk and driving techniques, a classifieds section, and a fair bit more.

To celebrate the launch of the website we have PRIZES TO GIVE AWAY!
Right now the only prize that has been announced is supplied by Swiss Hutless Asia Pacific which is a day of driving a Rotax-powered Swiss Hutless chassis with instruction (from me).

Trust me though there will be more prizes announced really soon... some that particularly my-karters will find cool.

The prizes are drawn randomly among all posters that have amassed at least 5 posts on the forum, and the more you post the more your chances of winning increase - for every 10 posts you get one additional entry in the prize draws!

So sign up and start posting. A good place to start is to introduce yourself in the introductions thread in the General Karting Talk category.

Head on over to Karting Asia or directly to the Karting Forums

Also let me know if you have any improvement suggestions!
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Submitted by mikko on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 8:09pm.

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Comments

mikko:

Can you guys let me know if you're having trouble registering in the forums? From one computer I can't register using IE... firefox works, and on another pc IE works.

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7 Jul 2007 - 9:45pm

timmsm:

No problems to report so far! I've registered OK (using IE) and posted using both IE and Firefox on 2 different notebooks.

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7 Jul 2007 - 11:48pm

mikko:

Thanks for all the debugging work Smiling

Fazz - could you sign up and post a thread in the Malaysia Karting Talk section and explain what My-Kart is all about?

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9 Jul 2007 - 3:45pm

TheFazz:

mikko wrote:

Thanks for all the debugging work

Fazz - could you sign up and post a thread in the Malaysia Karting Talk section and explain what My-Kart is all about?

i just registered on the forum. will do a post on my-kart later. thanks for this mikko.

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10 Jul 2007 - 8:41am

mikko:

Thanks to everyone that has signed up on the forums!

There are now more prizes to be won! City Karting has generously provided 25 80cc rental kart sessions to be given out. They're given in sets of 5, so 5 winners in Total.

I'm sure if some my karters win they can try to negotiate 2 100cc sessions instead of 80cc for example! Or for kart owners you could probably get 2 free track rental fees. Smiling No confirmation on that though it depends on City Karting Smiling ,

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13 Jul 2007 - 12:05am

TheFazz:

mikko - tried posting the following story about my-kart... but couldn't post the URL - could you help?

Thanks to Mikko for setting this forum up.

A few years back my good buddy Azlan and I founded a karting group. We love racing as a spectator as well as a participant... unfortunately neither of us were blessed with loads of cash.

Fortunately for us there were people out there who would rent karts for skint people like us. So we organised a few sessions with a group of friends. for fun - we called ourselves malaysia karting amateurs racing team - or my-kart for short.

Soon the word of mouth spread and we meet many more friends of friends who would join us - either occassionally, or regularly (buayas who want to collect championship points... lol).

Talking about championships - well yeah - you do collect championship points over a year long racing season. that is the fun part of it. it is not just about going fast on one lap on one race all by yourself. It is about racing (note: not driving ) consistently throughout the season, with a bunch of cool guys and girls!

For those of you who are serious, you get started in karting. But if you feel that money is a constraint and want to learn the ropes before committing - join my-kart.org - we are the Foundations of Motorsports. We aim to popularise grassroots motorsports: this is for all of you spectators and partcipants.

Anyway, enough talk - head over to our website at my-kart.org for more information... and how to join our group. Also you can google for amateur karting in malaysia.

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13 Jul 2007 - 8:37am

mikko:

Hi Fazz
I noticed that you posted "dot org" and made it into a url before I saw your post here.

- I think there is a system in place that prevents posting urls in your first post and maybe first day as a registered member - to prevent spam. I'll get rid of it now though because there's been no probs with spam sign-ups even.

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13 Jul 2007 - 1:23pm

TheFazz:

mikko wrote:

Hi Fazz
I noticed that you posted "dot org" and made it into a url before I saw your post here.

- I think there is a system in place that prevents posting urls in your first post and maybe first day as a registered member - to prevent spam. I'll get rid of it now though because there's been no probs with spam sign-ups even.

thanks. be careful with removing the spam controller. i have had experience with PHPBB and it tends to be vulnerable to spammers.... hence, i migrated to drupal for sites such as this.

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13 Jul 2007 - 4:22pm

mikko:

I've added a few other mods to reduce spam as well - no bot signups yet but that could all change once the pages are indexed properly in search engines. Will be interesting to see how well phpbb3 handles spam.

I did remove the mod that prevented users from posting urls because it didn't seem to want to work as "0 days and 1 post" being the requirement to post urls - I think 0 days was still 1 day.

I have no authorization required for registration at the moment which is a definite no-no if you want to avoid spam but I want it to be very quick to start posting now that the forum is new, and can add authorization requirements later. Smiling

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13 Jul 2007 - 8:26pm