01-19-2018, 09:50 AM
(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.
For good reason on my part at least lol