claymore
Well-known member
Is it me or have I failed to subscribed to some inner sanctum. Two issues:
1) Forum topics are oft repeated and perhaps an archive folder may assist members and cut back on some of the repetition.
2) How do you all know when to take a topic seriously and post measured often scientifically based responses and when to be mildly flippant. I seem to get it wrong most of the time - a while ago a topic involved establishing position using a bucket of water, a sextant and the sun? My response mirrored that of John McEnroe's - I just couldn't believe that someone had such a poor idea of where they lived that they had to get a bucket of water and a sextant out. I was alone in that one as a stream of sines, cosines and tangents swiftly followed and the intellectual pooh-poohing of my response was all too evident. Is there a hidden code that says this message must be responded to seriously - do you all meet on the first tuesday of the month, resplendent in dicky bows and carrying those cute little suitcases to discuss the way in which scuttleutters should respond?
It is evident when reading postings in flat mode that members hardly ever bother to read what anyone else has said so far in a developing thread. From a threaded discussion we often get a series of individual responses which take little account of what has gone before. It is obvious that there is such a depth of knowledge out there but the opportunity to unite, debate and develop responses is often lost. It is a rare thing to find reference to other postings when looking through threads.
1) Forum topics are oft repeated and perhaps an archive folder may assist members and cut back on some of the repetition.
2) How do you all know when to take a topic seriously and post measured often scientifically based responses and when to be mildly flippant. I seem to get it wrong most of the time - a while ago a topic involved establishing position using a bucket of water, a sextant and the sun? My response mirrored that of John McEnroe's - I just couldn't believe that someone had such a poor idea of where they lived that they had to get a bucket of water and a sextant out. I was alone in that one as a stream of sines, cosines and tangents swiftly followed and the intellectual pooh-poohing of my response was all too evident. Is there a hidden code that says this message must be responded to seriously - do you all meet on the first tuesday of the month, resplendent in dicky bows and carrying those cute little suitcases to discuss the way in which scuttleutters should respond?
It is evident when reading postings in flat mode that members hardly ever bother to read what anyone else has said so far in a developing thread. From a threaded discussion we often get a series of individual responses which take little account of what has gone before. It is obvious that there is such a depth of knowledge out there but the opportunity to unite, debate and develop responses is often lost. It is a rare thing to find reference to other postings when looking through threads.
