कोशी का प्रवेश द्वार — मानसी जं० - Prabhat Sharan

A few small enhancements will be made to the site in the coming days, regarding Member profiles.
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1. Hereafter, we shall require REAL permanent names of members. Members will have the option of reporting those whose name is fake or not real. An SW will be issued, whereupon the member will have to respond and provide their name. We do NOT check any further - NO aadhaar card, etc. We trust members to report and check each other. We just don't want duplicate IDs with fake permanent names.
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2. Detailed Member profiles:
a. Top 5 Trains you have travelled in, how often, etc.
b. Top 5 Stations you know very well.
These aspects will be used to direct user queries to the attn of the concerned member.
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3. Profile pics: Any valid train/personal pics is acceptable.
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4. Other optional details: Education, Work, interests (ONLY if you want to provide them).
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5. Check-in feature: If you use the Spotting feature and take snaps of the station on 5 different days, then you will be made "IRI Station Master". Thereafter, you will be an authority on all details about that station, including amenities, etc.
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Feedback welcome.
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@all:
Regarding the new SCoR zone, our VSKP and other SCoR members are excited and interested to change the train/station zones. We may let them go ahead with it. This piece of info is NOT critical for trains and TTs which would affect regular passengers - so it's FINE.
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We may let them change the zones, as they see fit. We don't need...
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to introduce any bureaucracy here.
Thanks.

Some further changes will be introduced tomorrow inside the new Topics section.
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1. All Topics will have Channels.
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2. The name/type of Channel will depend on the Topic. For example, the *air-travel topic...
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will have Channels for the various flight numbers like AI402, UK301, etc. Similarly for Bus Travel, Govt. Jobs, etc.
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3. Channels will have Blogs posted to them, as well as additional info like type of bus/aircraft, ratings, seating, etc.
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Members will be able to create Channels inside the respective Topics. The objective is to build a database on things that our members are interested, as well as have focused discussions on that particular channel.
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For example, if one of our members is flying on Air India Flt 402, he/she will go directly to *air-travel#AI402, check seating info, post pictures, discuss the trip, etc. Similary, detailed info on Bus schedules, etc. can be posted inside the relevant Bus channel.
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So, almost any subject our members are interested in can be had by going into *Topic#Channel.
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Thanks.