Posted by Dr. Bob on January 31, 2002, at 0:41:31
In reply to giving it a try » Dr. Bob, posted by sid on January 29, 2002, at 13:13:29
> not everybody goes to the dairy aisle of the veggy aisle without encouragement.
Right, but didn't I say encouragement was fine?
> So for good nutrition, we should have a bit of everything in each aisle. There goes your analogy! To improve people's welfare, current aisles are no good; they're made for grocers to make money, period.
Aisles make the process more efficient, no matter what the goal is. Health food stores have aisles, too...
> I'm stubborn, huh?
Yup! :-)
> Might as well not reply at all because the people who read the first statement will likely not bother to go look at the redirects.
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> sidI agree, that's a risk. But:
1. That's one reason I post links to redirected threads, to make it easier for people to make the "jumps".
2. People who take a less thorough approach to looking for information will tend to end up less thoroughly informed. It helps if the information they come upon is balanced, but it would help if they bothered to make the jumps, too.
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> I thought Dr Bob's 'educational objectives' were re him using the experience of providing such a setting for his research purposes. Not to educate *us*!
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> FiYou mean when I say this is a message board for "mutual support and education"? I do in fact mean that people here educate each other as well as support each other.
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> how about a green icon saying 'Redirect' that stays & don't disappear on redirected posts? And on the new page it was redirected to, there'd be the green icon but now saying 'Redirected'. Then the person who'd like to continue the discussion can find it easily.
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> IsoMWell, there aren't special icons, but I do put "redirect", and used to put "redirected", in my subject lines... (I stopped saying "redirected" because I was afraid people might think those threads were only intended for those who had been posting on them before.)
And isn't it easier just to click on a link in the "redirect" post than to go to the other board and look for an icon?
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> Well, Dr.Bob, after jane d's implicit suggestion that I was not being constructive, I started a new thread on rounded approaches to heal or deal with depression on PSB. I'll see how that goes and perhpas make constructive suggestions depending on results. I have the impression that PSB is more social than anything else and that serious discussions cannot be held there. I may be wrong. So I decided to give it a try.
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> sidI was wrong, you're not so stubborn after all! :-)
So far so good with that thread?
I do think others might also feel more "serious" discussions might not fit in at PSB. That's why I proposed splitting it up:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20011216/msgs/2502.html
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> it did take a bit for me to figure out these forums too & I'm *not* computer uneducated either. For me, a lot of it has to do with the previous post still printed in the answer box & figuring out what is the new answer & what was there before.
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> IsoMHmm, I think of it as something everyone's familiar with from email, but I think I'm wrong. Maybe I should add something to the FAQ about the > signs, previous posts, etc. Would anyone here like to volunteer to draft an explanation? Or knows of one online that I could just link to?
Bob
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