OP Should Edit Initial Post When a Solution is Determined
Reply #3 – 2007-12-23 12:28:09
... The main issue that I see is that you cannot dictate how members should post. A user cannot be certain that a thread will follow these rules, and may therefore still need to trawl threads. ... NB: As you say, the REACT 2 thread is a nightmare, but not really applicable here. Maybe one day if I'm really bored I could try to split it to dev talk/bug reports/support/etc. Don't hold your breath though. While given to verbally abusing my computer and going to juvenile flame-boards, just to get-it-outta-me, you think I'd hold my breath to get my way? ::laughs!:: Oh wait ::holds breath:: No I don't expect anything big, just potentially people might take this into account and do a nice deed. I tend to disagree here on the principle. A HA member is not a librarian. And an internet message board is not a library. You cannot expect this from HA's members. A message board is a message board, but what you want is a wiki. If someone feels like building a well structured knowledge base with no nonsense and only scientifically proven information, an open internet forum is not the right choice. I think an HA member can be analogous to a Librarian, just one that doesn't organize the shelves. As it is, when a new OP is a question, ever other HA member is book, each post is a snippet from the text, and each thread is like a new work or new volume. Now the librarian is just writing a brief summary of the whole thing---spoiling the ending for us. Also, I feel a free speaking forum is the perfect means of acquiring knowledge, kind of Socratic. I think the OP could look like a wiki article but then, if need be, one can look at the progression of ideas if the OP fails to address one's specific concerns, and that can in turn create further ideas. I don't expect anything big, this is just a courtesy I will definitely adopt myself.