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Thanks for the comments guys, always interesting to read.
I agree that we’ve swayed too far in the other direction when it comes to generic threads. I don’t understand why people would want to put something that would have a clear interest to the majority on here inside a 200+ page thread. Surely people want their posts to be read? However, they do have their place. I’ve been converting over the earliest threads and of course the granddaddy of them all is the Yorks & Lincs thread. I don’t believe little changes like maybe a slightly redesigned slide during a report or a new camera angle would warrant a new thread. A brand new studio or new titles of course would, so it’s a balance that we all need to look at. There’s a couple of new features coming soon which will hopefully help steer people towards creating new threads, and make it easier to organise and find the stuff we’re all interested in reading.
It’s not all bad though - ELM 2011’s Vera thread is a clear example. Could have been put in the ITV thread but was rightly created as a new one.
As to other bits…there won’t be an ignore feature. It would potentially cause annoyance with members who’ve blocked others repeating the same questions or losing track of the flow of a topic, as well as being a nightmare with quoted posts. I don’t think it should be software to do that job – members should be able to filter posts themselves by skipping over ones that don’t interest them.
With respect Rob, whilst I understand your concerns over generic threads, if that’s all you’re finding out here then you must be clicking into the rota threads and nowhere else – there’s many newsreader-free threads on the site.
Categorising threads is an interesting one – “tagging” is coming soon which may help that, allowing new threads to be tagged with keywords that can easily be searched/filtered.
I agree that we’ve swayed too far in the other direction when it comes to generic threads. I don’t understand why people would want to put something that would have a clear interest to the majority on here inside a 200+ page thread. Surely people want their posts to be read? However, they do have their place. I’ve been converting over the earliest threads and of course the granddaddy of them all is the Yorks & Lincs thread. I don’t believe little changes like maybe a slightly redesigned slide during a report or a new camera angle would warrant a new thread. A brand new studio or new titles of course would, so it’s a balance that we all need to look at. There’s a couple of new features coming soon which will hopefully help steer people towards creating new threads, and make it easier to organise and find the stuff we’re all interested in reading.
It’s not all bad though - ELM 2011’s Vera thread is a clear example. Could have been put in the ITV thread but was rightly created as a new one.
As to other bits…there won’t be an ignore feature. It would potentially cause annoyance with members who’ve blocked others repeating the same questions or losing track of the flow of a topic, as well as being a nightmare with quoted posts. I don’t think it should be software to do that job – members should be able to filter posts themselves by skipping over ones that don’t interest them.
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I find that nowadays I learn very little from my visits here, other than how many shifts Tim Willcox has done today
With respect Rob, whilst I understand your concerns over generic threads, if that’s all you’re finding out here then you must be clicking into the rota threads and nowhere else – there’s many newsreader-free threads on the site.
Categorising threads is an interesting one – “tagging” is coming soon which may help that, allowing new threads to be tagged with keywords that can easily be searched/filtered.
