Posted by Snowie on April 10, 2004, at 14:46:48
In reply to Re: Move Threads Rather than Posts » Snowie, posted by shar on April 10, 2004, at 0:35:34
Hi Shar,
Long time no chat with!
I don't have a problem with a thread being in one place or another, and I certainly don't have a problem with whatever forum Dr. Bob believes a thread should be located, but I do think he should move an entire thread, not just one post from a thread, so that the continuity of the thread isn't lost in the new forum. I'm not online for days at a time so when I get online and a thread I was participating in has been moved, but in actuality only one post from the thread has been moved, I can't respond to someone else's post from the original thread since officially it's now in another forum but technically it hasn't really moved. If the topic of the thread as a whole means that it is better suited to another forum, it makes better sense to move the entire thread (with an indicator that the thread is now in, say, Grief or Social) than to move only one post from the thread, which is basically signing a death warrant to the entire conversation, whether or not it was ready to die a natural death.
I hope that makes sense. As to your suggestion that a thread might belong on two forums, I understand what you're saying and it does make sense, but I don't see how it could work. Aside from the space problem, it could get confusing going from one forum to another and seeing an identical thread from another forum with similar and different posts on the subject in each forum. However, I prefer that idea to the way it is now.
Snowie
> That is a good point. Maybe a thread started about Effexor ends up talking about "Faith."
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> I wonder, maybe, if it should be in both places...which is, no doubt, a computing nightmare. For example, what if a thread that contains good information about Effexor withdrawal ends in a turn about 'just have faith.'
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> Should it go on Babble or Faith?
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> I'm not critical of your point-of-view, just wondering. Maybe the post belongs on both boards, but then there's a problem about how much room it will all take up.
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> >but if you can't move an entire thread or at least catch it early on, you might as well let the thread run its course in the forum in which it was first posted, whether or not it belonged there in the first place>
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> The above makes sense to me, 'tho others--maybe those who only visit 'Faith'--would miss out, while those who visit 'Babble' might benefit.
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> Shar
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> > I have a question or suggestion about moving threads to different forums. If you feel a thread belongs in a different forum, rather than move only one post from the entire thread to a different forum, why not move the entire thread? In other words, if I were to see a post by itself that had been moved without the entire thread to explain its existence, I would have no idea where it came from, nor the posts that came before it, and consequently the thread would likely end right there. However, if you move the entire thread (which I requested be done at the beginning of one of my posts, although I wasn't sure if it might take a med turn), you have the whole conversation, not just one post from the entire thread, and the conversation can be continued if so desired. I definitely see a need to keep subject matters together, but if you can't move an entire thread or at least catch it early on, you might as well let the thread run its course in the forum in which it was first posted, whether or not it belonged there in the first place.
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