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+--- Thread: Adding more subforums - UPDATE - NOT CHANGING (/showthread.php?tid=152077)
Re: Adding more subforums - edgarbc1 - 05-03-2013
3d wrote:
Just rename the forum to: Tips, Deals, Etc.
:agree:
i like my tips and deals mixed in with posts about old food and whether or not to eat it......
Re: Adding more subforums - Mike Johnson - 05-03-2013
hal wrote: You're clicking the wrong link:
click on "Show msgs from this user"
I don't have that option. It's not an option in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or on iOS.
and if I hover over the "user ignored - click to show hide" the link shows up as
javascript:%20togglemsg('ig1551999');which doesn't do anything. As I recall, it's supposed to toggle the message on/off while leaving the user ignored.
I either have to log out, or hit "quote" to read the message. I have no way to unignore the dude, and it's been bugging me for years.
Re: Adding more subforums - DRR - 05-03-2013
The relative disorganization is one of the main appeals of the forum to me.
Someone post a car question? Maybe I can answer. I have a question about what kind of screws to use in a cabinet install? Most likely, a MRF poster has experience and can help. And I have a good assurance that with a single main forum, my subject line will at least get out in front of a number of people.
However, you start splitting the forums, and you exponentially decrease the traffic to each one. I'm happy to browse a big forum with a number of off-topic posts. I'm not going to browse a tips and deals forum, and then go back out to the forum list, and then select off topic/cars, and then go back again to browse off topic/carpentry.
Re: Adding more subforums - DRR - 05-03-2013
As an example, mrbigstuff's post about Pepsi guys at Costco:
So, I see four guys in the food court with two new Pepsi machines right at closing time.
this place keeps me apprised of all I need to know in life.
Re: Adding more subforums - Zoidberg - 05-03-2013
decay wrote:
can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
can we rename it to THE KITCHEN?
I second that emotion.
DRR wrote:
The relative disorganization is one of the main appeals of the forum to me.
Someone post a car question? Maybe I can answer. I have a question about what kind of screws to use in a cabinet install? Most likely, a MRF poster has experience and can help. And I have a good assurance that with a single main forum, my subject line will at least get out in front of a number of people.
However, you start splitting the forums, and you exponentially decrease the traffic to each one. I'm happy to browse a big forum with a number of off-topic posts. I'm not going to browse a tips and deals forum, and then go back out to the forum list, and then select off topic/cars, and then go back again to browse off topic/carpentry.
What DRR says above.
Re: Adding more subforums - Mike Johnson - 05-03-2013
Actually, I figured it out, thanks to you! I noticed your graphic had the post headers as
Subject Line
Posted by User
Date
whereas mine is:
User
Subject Line
Date
It turns out to be a problem with the "multiple messages per page, threaded" display option in the control center. I switched it to Default, unignored the poor bastard, and switched it back to my beloved multiple messages threaded view. In that view, you can't ignore a user, or unignore them.
Thank you, hal!!!!!!
Re: Adding more subforums - OWC Jamie - 05-03-2013
Re: Adding more subforums - Speedy - 05-03-2013
Glad you figured it out before we move to lots of sub-forums where your plea may have gone unnoticed.
Mike Johnson wrote:
Actually, I figured it out, thanks to you! I noticed your graphic had the post headers as
Subject Line
Posted by User
Date
whereas mine is:
User
Subject Line
Date
It turns out to be a problem with the "multiple messages per page, threaded" display option in the control center. I switched it to Default, unignored the poor bastard, and switched it back to my beloved multiple messages threaded view. In that view, you can't ignore a user, or unignore them.
Thank you, hal!!!!!!
Re: Adding more subforums - OWC Larry - 05-03-2013
#1 - it's not monetary... That being said, we're supporting the 'main forum' as a sponsor, but the politcal side drains resources from our support that could go to the main forum.
PeterB wrote:
I'm starting to get the sense that the rationale for this might be monetary...? OWC Larry, can you confirm/deny?
#2 - I like the Tips n' deals and etc as it is. Really no desire to split that all up and - as clearly seen in feedback, the couple that were suggesting it are far in the minority.
But you never can tell till ya ask - which is what they did.
Re: Adding more subforums - mrlynn - 05-03-2013
DRR wrote:
The relative disorganization is one of the main appeals of the forum to me.
Someone post a car question? Maybe I can answer. I have a question about what kind of screws to use in a cabinet install? Most likely, a MRF poster has experience and can help. And I have a good assurance that with a single main forum, my subject line will at least get out in front of a number of people.
However, you start splitting the forums, and you exponentially decrease the traffic to each one. I'm happy to browse a big forum with a number of off-topic posts. I'm not going to browse a tips and deals forum, and then go back out to the forum list, and then select off topic/cars, and then go back again to browse off topic/carpentry.
:agree::agree::agree:
Exactly right.
/Mr Lynn