Re: [OT] Off Topic guideline request
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Oct 13, 2011
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In a previous discussion, you were not very familiar with classifying or grouping together.
I do not recall this discussion. Link?
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.
Agreed. This is the best way forward. Most forums have a special "off-topic anything goes" subforum, which would be the best solution here.
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.
I can't argue with that. The courtesy that I requested was a continuation of a style that was inherited from our older mailing list, and may be unique to this location.
Furthermore, it's something that not everyone agrees is necessary or even wanted on the current forum's incarnation.
Occasionally a mod would move my post from one category to another, that's about it.
I believe that this is the only thing that I am asking for, at least in spirit.
There are literally over 100 free forum software and many forums are using this type of software which allows categorizing.
Including this one.
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.
That was not my goal. In any case, this forum already has a system of categorization and I could tag any posts to any category or categories that I though were appropriate. (As could you.)
Neither do I believe that there is a problem. I was making a personal request for a favor from others - but I do not wish this to be a point of contention. If you had considered this to be "your problem" then I think we could have come to a common resolution that a technological fix would be best here. But you clearly don't care, so we can't. You are free to continue posting here, using whatever subject lines you like, in the manner that you are doing so now. If there was a real problem, a mod would have taken care of it already.
