Lee,

How about a mini photo competition ?

On a rolling basis, Members submit images of the latest *new* item to be installed by their local dealer.

The system judged to be the best new purchase installed by a dealer (could be judged visually,unusual combination, vivid colour...etc,etc) wins.  A voting thread would suffice.

By excluding DIY installations and/or ebay purchases etc, a measure of the service available to customers by their friendly neighbourhood BeoDealer would be available to all.  🤒

The "what made you fall in love with B&O" thread put a lot of smiles on my face -- and I do find many reasons to be cheerful across the board.

This is a well known phenomenon - companies don't have a "Congratulate Us" department, they operate a Complaints Dept.

I am, for instance, perfectly aware that when I link to the "dealer experiences" thread on the official site, there are probably more than a hundred perfectly satisfied customers for every dissatisfied one who goes to the effort of writing a message about his or her experience. And I think it's the same here - there are more posts with problems that need to be solved, and gripes that one wishes to discuss, than there are flat-out "Kumbaya" messages. I'd worry if there was only one or the other. (As one guilty of writing a few Kumbaya messages I also notice that they tend to drop off the front page fast.)

One suggestion: now there are lots of really interesting posts/threads spread across the board, even in the other language forums. Maybe there should be a round-up of the best featured on the entry page, added by moderators or resulting from members giving posts and messages stars? Because there's a lot of gold in them thar threads ...

(And I'll let that serve as a reminder to myself that I should remember to give people stars when I come across something interesting!) 

Join Andy and myself this evening, it's quite a relevant subject tonight😕

Assuming it stays on track of course!

How about a verticle banner underneath the "Most Active Users"-box
on the right-hand side of the screen ?
(in a matching color scheme)