How do moderators discuss change?

[BrendanS]

Why then, did someone once line up a huge number of Happy1's old threads overnight, and a great many people commented on it, if they didn't have that feature turned on. Many instances as well of people commenting on 2 or 3 year old threads being reactivated.

 

[ari]

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So. Have you PM'd Dan for his opinion?

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There was a disussion about it (in which a mod was involved) HERE

And then after a few days it fell off of page one and immediately died without resolution either way. Obviously I could restart another thread there but then none of the original posts about it will be there, unless I link back to thread 1 on the same subject in the same forum... (d'ya see the problem...??)

 

[BrendanS]

It didn't die because it fell off page 1. Everyone there appeared to be using dateslip anyway! It died because it had run its course

 

[duncan]

It died? Oh dear and I didn't realise! /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

This is of course a fantastic oppoortunity for a completely false poll - think about it!

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[BrendanS]

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[Phoenix of Hamble]

Hee hee... very clever!

 

[ari]

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It didn't die because it fell off page 1. Everyone there appeared to be using dateslip anyway! It died because it had run its course

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Well it was unresolved.

 

[Lakesailor]

No. I meant did you scroll to the bottom of this thread and click on Dan Foley in the moderator's list and PM him personally about it?

If you want something doing you've got to do it yourself.

 

[Deleted User YDKXO]

Yeah but if I have'nt replied to it, it will quickly slip down the page as other more popular threads stay at the top and I might miss it altogether. I prefer to see threads in chronological order and I don't want to see less popular threads drowned out by apparently more popular ones which are often only 'popular' because they turn into endless esoteric slanging matches between 2 or 3 people
Anyway I don't know why you're making such a fuss. You have the option to use the dateslip function.

 

[misterg]

Hear bloody hear!

{frequenter of several fora and newsgroups, & find "date-slip" pointless, unless you cannot bear to miss out on vacuous chat}

YMMV.

Andy

 

[cliff]

Agreed.

I do not use date slip for that very reason but I did set the number of posts displayed per page to 99 (the max) so I have about one weeks threads showing per page and can easily see any that have had new posts since last visit. Also <u>if</u> a thread is that "interesting" to me I mark it is a favourite so it is easy to find again (and I get an email "reminder" when someone adds to it).
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[BrendanS]

Voting now open

 

[ggt9]

No use now mate... you'd have to be a sad bugger to be reading back through all those pages to notice an old thread like this one... /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[BrendanS]

Oh well, a few seem to have managed /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BrendanS]

Well that's fairly conclusive then. 100% of forumites have their options set to thread by last post /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif