Re: [OT] Off Topic guideline request
- Posted by Vinoba Oct 13, 2011
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I'd like to ask the forum's contributors, as a courtesy, to follow Kat's standard of using [OT] as the first characters when starting a new thread or topic on this forum when the topic is unrelated to, or only marginally related to Euphoria.
(This is a personal request, not endorsed by the dev team, the forum web site team, or any other team. It's from myself and myself alone.)
I don't know how many forums you have used in the past and what your methodology is. In a previous discussion, you were not very familiar with classifying or grouping together.
I go to about 30 forums. The best ones have grouping and sub-grouping - usually two levels and then individual threads. That way people can post in their own areas of interest and old posts can be easily seen. This forum is just linear and date based. If the managers come up with the more sophisticated methods of posting, it would be good for everybody - perhaps this has been discussed before and rejected - I don't know.
As far as forum etiquette goes, I go along with what everybody else is doing. I have never been cautioned in the past about my methods of posting - that is now about 6-7 years of forum posting. Occasionally a mod would move my post from one category to another, that's about it.
There are literally over 100 free forum software and many forums are using this type of software which allows categorizing. My memory tells me to mention PHPBB, but there are others. If you want people to identify threads in a better manner, you should urge the managers here to change the foum software and even change the server. However, that is not my problem.
