A sticky thread for Cruise Reports - few initial ideas to discuss

Re: A sticky thread for Cruise Reports - further ideas and questions

Great idea.

Would it be worth having the cruise location in the title bar for each post? If posts are composed using the "Advanced" feature you can change the title bar (as I have done in this post) - or the threadmaster could do this later. As the posts build up it might be helpful if they don't all have the same title.

Thinking about people doing searches in the future, would it be worth ensuring that every post states the country (UK, Finland, etc.)? It may seem obvious that if a cruise is in the Medway then it is in the UK, but if someone searches the thread for UK cruises the Medway post might not be returned.

The only cruise report I have done was in the East Coast forum when we took our previous boat, a yacht, to Snape in Suffolk in 2015. My cruise "report" for 2016 took the form of a Youtube video and it has been so successful that I will probably stick to that format. As a motorboat owner and forum member may I put a post up that links to my video?

Finally, the cruise report thread isn't sticky yet. Is that still on the cards?
 
Re: A sticky thread for Cruise Reports - further ideas and questions

Yes, I think we should definitely include reports with videos. Also many threads, such as MapisM's Carloforte forum gathering started off as a single post but evolved into a cruise report with pics from many forum members. These should be included as well.

I've sent the url of the cruise report -thread to Stef and am awaiting for her to make it a sticky.
 
Re: A sticky thread for Cruise Reports - further ideas and questions

scubaman said:
Yes, I think we should definitely include reports with videos. Also many threads, such as MapisM's Carloforte forum gathering started off as a single post but evolved into a cruise report with pics from many forum members. These should be included as well.
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Yup, fully agreed.
In fact, I didn't post "summer 2015 in S Sardinia" in the sticky thread yet because (aside from the fact that actually Hurricane made the main/initial thread, not myself) it's a good example where an exception to the "one post, one link" rule could make sense.
I mean, during that summer, after Hurricane thread, there was yours in October which was also very interesting, though pretty much on the same subject. And I half remember a third one, which now escapes me...

The FDC (Forum Dive Cruise) threads are another example - even if made in different years, the subject and the locations are very similar.

Maybe in these cases it makes sense to include in just one post a few links to similar threads, rather than multiply the number of posts in the sticky index...?
Just a thought! :)
 
Re: A sticky thread for Cruise Reports - further ideas and questions

Can I ask that we ban any Scandinavian reports filmed during summer months as they look too enticing :)

A great idea ( the sticky, not my idea), and it should grow to form a strong body of work thoroughly deserving of the forum as a whole.

Henry :)
 
Re: A sticky thread for Cruise Reports - further ideas and questions

Sorry Henry, it seems that our autonomy with the thread is under threat of suffering the faith of the Finnish Kingdom.

Earlier on I was informed that there is a solution to allow multiple users edit a single post and that this would override the related time limit. Based on the most recent exchange of emails today, it seems that things are not as straight forward as that, but a solution is still under investigation. Such solution would be most welcome as at the moment I'm not able to edit my original post anymore (the time limit for editing is 24 hours from submitting a post, btw) :(. Would be nice to go with the earlier specs.

@M I see no harm in having related links in a single post, but if possible it would be great if the same 'format' could be followed as with single post links. This would make it easier to create the index as planned earlier.
 
Re: A sticky thread for Cruise Reports - further ideas and questions

MapisM said:
The FDC (Forum Dive Cruise) threads are another example - even if made in different years, the subject and the locations are very similar.

Maybe in these cases it makes sense to include in just one post a few links to similar threads, rather than multiply the number of posts in the sticky index...?
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oops, read your sugestion just a few minutes too late,
just made two seperate posts for the forum dive cruises

anyway, many thanks to Kivi for setting this up,
while re-reading my own posts, reminded me on some very nice memory's ao with good friends on here !
 
K and all,

seems that after a while it's going to be rather difficult picking one cruise report out of the 10-15pages of posts.
means that the second post of the thread needs to be used as an index.
Obvious criteria for organizing that are: country, area, time, description of events (maybe based on a set of keywords). Poster's name shouldn't be too important on that imho.
Any ideas yet how this could be done?

I mean could be:

UK cruise reports
inland
coastal
cross country (or however you could call that chanel crossing or over the the nearby isles small and large...)

Med reports
Western Med
Baldrics
SoF
Corsica-Sardegna

etc

I know it's a 5min thought, but it doesn't seem all that obvious although it does look like absolutely necessary!
Noticed that only got the delivery trip to report and lots of pics that I'm planning to setup a couple of threads with re this year's trips.

cheers

V.
 
I was idly browsing the vBulletin documentation last night and as far as I can tell, you could add a new moderator with only the ability to edit posts and nothing else. The trouble is that that user could then edit all posts within the forum (channel?), unless a single thread can be defined as a channel. Docs say that a channel can be any vBulletin content and a channel can then have a dedicated list of mods. Not sure how this works in practice though and I doubt they need my help in managing their forum :).

I'll get back to Stef and see if they found something.
 
Interesting problems
I run our marina berth holders forum using (highly modified by me) SMF forum software.
I can see the problems
A full and proper solution can only really be bespoke software.
Maybe a solution that "links" out of the YBW forums, to a page (or pages) that contain managed indexed links "back into" the YBW forums.
Just adding my 3 pennyworth.
 
If I got this right, the behaviour would be similar to, say
tags, which render content from another source between them. Would this then require the
HTML: 
 code option to be active (which it isn't, looking at the footer of this page)?
 
scubaman said:
If I got this right, the behaviour would be similar to, say
tags, which render content from another source between them. Would this then require the
HTML: 
 code option to be active (which it isn't, looking at the footer of this page)?[/QUOTE]

I don't know if this question was aimed at me but this is the principal that I was suggesting in my above post.

Perhaps your post #2 would just have a link to a page like this:-
[URL="http://www.scmchat.com/test/ybw-cruise-reports.html"]http://www.scmchat.com/test/ybw-cruise-reports.html[/URL]

Just a simple idea from a simple guy.

I'm sure there are people on these forums that can suggest something similar.
JTB??
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