(01-19-2018, 06:03 AM)use2b_imp Wrote: Too confusing for me , I'm out

(01-19-2018, 05:15 AM)rotor_imp Wrote:

(01-19-2018, 04:42 AM)EmptySea_imp Wrote: As long as this thread has wandered off the rails....I'd like to ask users NOT to change the subject line when replying to a post. It confuses me when I look at the "Recent Posts" preview on the right side of the page.

I'm probably the principal offender.

This is based on my understanding that any threaded discussion (e-mail list, forum...) is by design organized so that the thread is something that keeps the topic and all the responses together, and individual post subject lines must be the gist of what that particular response is all about, so that the reader can decide whether it is or isn't worth his time to read the full text, and, more importantly, so that one can easily find a response addressing some particular item in a long (sometimes very, very long...) list of responses in one thread (especially important in threads that wander into the blue yonder...)

IMHO, an ideal solution would be for the "recent list" to include both the topic and the recent post subject. Does the software used for this forum allow this? Any guidance from the moderators?

(01-19-2018, 03:17 AM)rotor_imp Wrote:

(01-19-2018, 02:40 AM)Banned_imp Wrote: Hey Rotor - this religion of yours, is there any type of initiation process (other than being burned at the stake with a cellphone nailed to my forehead which I'm not all that interested in) or can just anyone join?

Anybody can join, there is no requirement other than being able to ride. To attain the priesthood however, one must recreate The Scene, not with a wrist-watch, but with a cell phone. (Any old flip-phone will do, one does't need László Kovács behind the camera, and local rec-area will do OK for scenery):



(From 1:22 on...)

Then post the video, tagged "The Faith of Freedom" and that is it - you are the priest of The Faith of Freedom. (You can claim sales-tax exemption on all your future motorcycle purchases.)

(01-19-2018, 06:52 AM)Cormanus_imp Wrote:

(01-19-2018, 05:15 AM)rotor_imp Wrote:

(01-19-2018, 04:42 AM)EmptySea_imp Wrote: As long as this thread has wandered off the rails....I'd like to ask users NOT to change the subject line when replying to a post. It confuses me when I look at the "Recent Posts" preview on the right side of the page.

I'm probably the principal offender.

This is based on my understanding that any threaded discussion (e-mail list, forum...) is by design organized so that the thread is something that keeps the topic and all the responses together, and individual post subject lines must be the gist of what that particular response is all about, so that the reader can decide whether it is or isn't worth his time to read the full text, and, more importantly, so that one can easily find a response addressing some particular item in a long (sometimes very, very long...) list of responses in one thread (especially important in threads that wander into the blue yonder...)

IMHO, an ideal solution would be for the "recent list" to include both the topic and the recent post subject. Does the software used for this forum allow this? Any guidance from the moderators?

That’s a question only the boss can answer. Us moderators aren’t allowed anywhere near the software.

(01-19-2018, 05:15 AM)rotor_imp Wrote:

(01-19-2018, 04:42 AM)EmptySea_imp Wrote: As long as this thread has wandered off the rails....I'd like to ask users NOT to change the subject line when replying to a post. It confuses me when I look at the "Recent Posts" preview on the right side of the page.

I'm probably the principal offender.

This is based on my understanding that any threaded discussion (e-mail list, forum...) is by design organized so that the thread is something that keeps the topic and all the responses together, and individual post subject lines must be the gist of what that particular response is all about, so that the reader can decide whether it is or isn't worth his time to read the full text, and, more importantly, so that one can easily find a response addressing some particular item in a long (sometimes very, very long...) list of responses in one thread (especially important in threads that wander into the blue yonder...)

IMHO, an ideal solution would be for the "recent list" to include both the topic and the recent post subject. Does the software used for this forum allow this? Any guidance from the moderators?

(01-19-2018, 02:02 AM)Banned_imp Wrote: Wild Hogs is hilarious, I must have seen at least 6 times by now. William H. Macy cracks me up.

Now that you mention westerns I can't believe I forgot "The Outlaw Josey Wales", the best western ever made.

"Dying' ain't much of a living' boy".