Inkanta
Group: Admins
Posts: 1453
Joined: Feb. 2000 |
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Posted: Aug. 06 2006, 23:13 |
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Indeed, thanks guys for the tips. Wayfayer gave you really good advice about searching on your user name. You may also be able to track your posts by clicking on the "track this topic" button at the top and bottom of a topic. I think, anyway, that all members have access to this feature. I had to turn this off cos I was bombarded with too many notifications.
BTW, last night when I searched using your nickname from "beginning and new," "glasgow_tubular" netted 26 retrievals at the moment, i.e., topics found. Once your posts start to number in the hundreds or thousands, it will be much more complicated to retrieve everything this way, and you'll have to rely on the notifications, limit the search to "this week or month and newer," or those "wee stars" as you call them.  I find this challenging, too. I was going to tell Hiawatha, for example, that if he ever were in my area, he should do more than honk at my Amarok license plate if he saw me driving down Rt.61--that I'd gladly take him to dinner. But boggled if I can find the topic where we were discussing such things. 
Regarding how the Board is organized, it is six of one and half a dozen of the other, and certainly a product of what we're used to. I have spent time visiting other Boards to see how they are organized (even joined one) and am driven totally crazy by most of them. I don't find it any easier to track topics within limited fora. Some of them are way too blinky for my tastes and I find it challenging to find the message among all the icons. I haven't found any meaningful diiscussions to the degree that are here, on this Board--well..they're probably meaningful to whomever is engaging in them, but I feel like a complete alien.
Months ago the t.net admins discussed combining some of the fora and actually did that with "lyrics and language." I agree with you that some of the fora are redundant, for example the Q & A. It was a great idea, but in reality people ask questions in Gen Dis and all the other fora, too. That one may be the next to go. We've also discussed other changes. We hope people continue to make suggestions--they are always encouraged. It doesn't mean that we will implement every last one of them, but please know that the administrators are in communication with each other about the ideas presented to us.
Peace,
Inkanta
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"No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From: Moongarden's "Solaris."
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Its the envelopes that get me aswell. if its red or blue or red and open or red an closed or blue and open, or blue and closed, or red/blue with a wee star or red/blue with no star