I goofed... I started up a topic, looking for a game. It was originally 'Dearmer vs ???', now 'Dearmer vs Magrat (Single,U)', node 605, but I think that when I posted it, I forgot to put it in 'Forum Thud'!
Now I'm looking for someone more clever than I (with Druidical or Administrivial powers) to move it into the forum it belongs in. But it also strikes me: is it wise to even *allow* such a thing to happen? Posting a forum topic that's not even in a forum? Or is it just an artifact of the new site format?
Hmmm....
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Dearmer,
Looks like it's in Forum Thud to me
Maybe someone moved it already??
Windle
Windle shook his head sadly. Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind. !!!!!
Re: A Topic that's not in a forum!?
I goofed... I started up a topic, looking for a game. It was originally 'Dearmer vs ???', now 'Dearmer vs Magrat (Single,U)', node 605, but I think that when I posted it, I forgot to put it in 'Forum Thud'!
Now I'm looking for someone more clever than I (with Druidical or Administrivial powers) to move it into the forum it belongs in.
Done (earlier, as Ponder noticed, but I'm just able to post about it)
But it also strikes me: is it wise to even *allow* such a thing to happen? Posting a forum topic that's not even in a forum? Or is it just an artifact of the new site format?
Yeah, the whole forum structure thing is to help people find content manually so it's good to place things in a relevant forum. With the rise of the blogosphere and good search tools, though, this will become less important as people will be able to search for what they want to read but the structure still gives them something to start from.
This system isn't as strictly hierarchical as the last one as it approaches content from the standpoint of blogware and content management for lots of different kinds of content, rather than inheriting a pre-Web Bulletin Board System (BBS) view.
Lee Alley
"I could tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel"
Re: A Topic that's not in a forum!?
I agree with Dearmer. Perhaps I am just too twentieth-century (and I freely admit it), but for me, it doesn't do to have topics floating around out there in limbo (by which I do not mean the part of the Netherlands where OB lives).
If I can only find a free-floating topic, after it falls off the recent topics list, by searching, why or how would I ever look for it? I might miss something I would enjoy reading, because I wouldn't even know it was there to search for, or what to search on.
As a part-time job, I teach people how to use their computers, believe it or not. The average person over fifty (and that would include me) is quite annoyed by a structure that has no complete index or table of contents which you may browse, and feel like you have gotten an overview of the whole thing. This is what makes online "help", which belongs in quotes, worse than useless to people just getting started.
Sorry...was getting on one of my professional rants, there. My point is, allowing someone to put a topic in no forum will only cause it to be lost. I predict it will lead only to people feeling bad because they can't find their topics. I petition the site gods to disallow this possibility.