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| Howard_Casto:
The point of the message board is to post NEW messages only when it's a NEW topic. You should merely add to existing threads when the topic has already been brought up. That pretty much is the whole reason the board was switched to yabb and the existance of threads and not just long strings of disjointed posts. Is this only obvious to me? |
| SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 11, 2003, 11:14:08 pm ---The point of the message board is to post NEW messages only when it's a NEW topic. You should merely add to existing threads when the topic has already been brought up. That pretty much is the whole reason the board was switched to yabb and the existance of threads and not just long strings of disjointed posts. Is this only obvious to me? --- End quote --- New avatar, huh HC? Yeah, I'd have to agree. Especially if the message board has a search feature. This message board was upgraded to yabbse for the reason of having a more organized posting and searches. |
| rampy:
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on February 12, 2003, 07:43:40 pm --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 11, 2003, 11:14:08 pm ---The point of the message board is to post NEW messages only when it's a NEW topic. You should merely add to existing threads when the topic has already been brought up. That pretty much is the whole reason the board was switched to yabb and the existance of threads and not just long strings of disjointed posts. Is this only obvious to me? --- End quote --- New avatar, huh HC? Yeah, I'd have to agree. Especially if the message board has a search feature. This message board was upgraded to yabbse for the reason of having a more organized posting and searches. --- End quote --- Sometimes how something is designed or intended to work, isn't how it's put to use (or best use) by the end user. Granted, the S/N ratio would be better if newbs or everyone for that matter would scope out the faq or spent some time with the board's search functionality or even google =P A board (in very general terms) is a forum for communication. People generally like communications that are "personalized"... When a given person posts a "new" topic (even if it's been discussed before ad nauseum) its personal post which the poster may have some emotional attachment to. i.e. "ooooh someone replied to MY star wars yoke hack question..." it helps create a "connection" or sense of community between the poster and the pool of repliers (or vice versa... it's early and no tengo coffay) Plus sometimes the answer changes... and not everyone can surf the board *every* day from work and be up to minute on every change in the "scene". (although that doesn't explain why one couldn't use the search to find the most recent answer)... sometimes people who have joined after the last instance of XY or Z topic see the latest topic and add somethign new that no one thought of before and everyone benefits (sorta) from these process/idea refinements IMHO. *shrug* rampy |
| eightbit:
--- Quote --- --- Quote from: Howard_Casto on February 11, 2003, 11:14:08 pm ---The point of the message board is to post NEW messages only when it's a NEW topic. You should merely add to existing threads when the topic has already been brought up. That pretty much is the whole reason the board was switched to yabb and the existance of threads and not just long strings of disjointed posts. --- End quote --- Is this your view or the view of our hosts? I don't think posting to old threads is always advantagous. Some of these threads get so long that its difficult to find the answer or to even follow the discussion. The longer a thread goes the better the odds that its going to go off on a tangent. Also as Rampy pointed out the information gets dated. The origanally posted answer that was correct may not be correct anymore. I view the FAQ as a long term compiled resource where information is organized. The message boards are a living exchange of information. --- Quote from: Howard_Casto Is this only obvious to me? [/quote ---You are guilty of exactly what you are complaining about. Its true you don't start a lot of threads anymore but you do start new threads on existing topics. An example of this is threads about your frontend. You start new ones instead of replying to existing ones. If you had one thread on encoders the thread would get huge and be so full of information or misinformation that it would quickly get unusable. Even if the thread was limited to a single encoder Like the recent keywiz (ooohhh) thread. That thread is as full of misinformation or misunderstanding as it is with actual information. The personal attacks and off topic posts don't help. Ideally I think someone should take the relevant information from that thread and compile it into something that could be posted in the faq. The faq would then be updated as new infomation became available. --- End quote --- --- End quote --- |
| SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: eightbit on February 15, 2003, 11:28:00 pm ---You are guilty of exactly what you are complaining about. Its true you don't start a lot of threads anymore but you do start new threads on existing topics. An example of this is threads about your frontend. You start new ones instead of replying to existing ones. If you had one thread on encoders the thread would get huge and be so full of information or misinformation that it would quickly get unusable. Even if the thread was limited to a single encoder Like the recent keywiz (ooohhh) thread. That thread is as full of misinformation or misunderstanding as it is with actual information. The personal attacks and off topic posts don't help. Ideally I think someone should take the relevant information from that thread and compile it into something that could be posted in the faq. The faq would then be updated as new infomation became available. --- End quote --- But what HC started about his FE are announcements, not the same questions over and over. Yeah, it's about his frontend but it is a different topic. What you are trying to point out is like saying all of our posts about about cabiens and controls therefore should be under one big thread. The point being is the same questions do get asked over and over therefore causing redundancy. |
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