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Segregation?

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:37 pm
by Mark72
With new mini forums forming to cover every topic under the sun, Is it driving everyone apart because we are all going straight to only a few topics instead of browsing the creativity of the whole forum? With that asked here is the poll question..Discussion encouraged!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:40 pm
by caseydog
I tend to come on the board and chose "New Posts Since last Visit" and go from there, so the segregation is not effecting me.

CD

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:42 pm
by starleen2
caseydog wrote:I tend to come on the board and chose "New Posts Since last Visit" and go from there, so the segregation is not effecting me.

CD


Same with me - I use the "New Posts Since last Visit"

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:44 pm
by High Desert
starleen2 wrote:
caseydog wrote:I tend to come on the board and chose "New Posts Since last Visit" and go from there, so the segregation is not effecting me.

CD


Same with me - I use the "New Posts Since last Visit"

me three, alwys look through the current stuff first unless I have a specific thing I'm looking for

Visits

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:07 pm
by ssrjim
caseydog wrote:I tend to come on the board and chose "New Posts Since last Visit" and go from there, so the segregation is not effecting me.

CD


That is how I do it.

With the shear volume I only visit the ones with a really intersting topics. It is always over 2 pages when I visit once a day. I may only only click on 3 topics and maybe answer one if it has not been address yet.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:18 pm
by Oasis Maker
caseydog wrote:I tend to come on the board and chose "New Posts Since last Visit" and go from there, so the segregation is not effecting me.

CD


Yup. This is a complete non issue.

Scott G.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:25 pm
by planovet
caseydog wrote:I tend to come on the board and chose "New Posts Since last Visit" and go from there, so the segregation is not effecting me.


This is one time where the Cat agreeth with the Dog. (I agree with him more times than not but don't tell him that or he will get a big head LOL)

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 7:56 pm
by Miriam C.
:o Only 6 votes but they are all no for the same reason. :thinking: Wonder what the newbies are doing. :D

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:03 pm
by satch
starleen2 wrote:
caseydog wrote:I tend to come on the board and chose "New Posts Since last Visit" and go from there, so the segregation is not effecting me.

CD


Same with me - I use the "New Posts Since last Visit"

ditto

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:26 pm
by S. Heisley
8th ditto. :thumbsup:

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:32 pm
by Kens
nine dittos

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:38 pm
by Shadow Catcher
I'll go for ten. I do not concentrate on any particular area.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:45 pm
by Wolfgang92025
Make that eleven...............

I look at post since last visit and go from there..............

Wolfgang

PostPosted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:56 am
by TheresaD
count me in for twelve to ditto CD....come on and check posts since last visit etc..

PostPosted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:44 am
by len19070
I go right to " post since last visit" as well. And come on to this board 2-3 times a day just so the " post since last visit" doesn't get to far ahead of me.

I look at the posts I'm interested in and move on.

There are times that I look into some of the "Super Posts" and I see a lot of people, with a lot of posts, that I have never seen or heard of.

I see this board as being both an information and a chat board.

I'm more interested in the information side, and only post when I have something to say or contribute.

Some people will post just to tell you that they don't know anything about the topic or have nothing to say.

Actual Post wrote:I'm not familiar with the product you are asking about, so I can't help with that.


Another Actual Post wrote: I know what you mean, but unfortunately don't have an answer


Some folks can tell you in great detail how to do something that they have never done.

Some people answer questions that nobody has asked.

And then there's the Hijackers that send the post in a totally different direction.

I remember one where someone asked if there were any teardrops manufactured in a certain Month & Year, A very simple question.

The first 3 posts directly addressed the question.

And then....

There were 2 pages of comments about who was how old in that month and year, where they were, what branch of the service they were in, what toys they played with, when they graduated, girlfriends, how long until they graduated, where they lived, who lived near them then, where they moved after they graduated, where they worked, how long before they worked there, where there parents worked, what school they went to bla bla bla bla


And that's OK.

You'll always have Hijackers, But

I really think that the Super Posts have created a venue for that kind of Hijacked Chit-chat. And the chit-chat starts in the Super Post and stays there. I really don't see Hijacking happening as much anymore.

This is such a big group that it would be hard to guess what the Norm is.

Maybe there's a large number out there that only goes on the "Super Posts" and doesn't look at or take Polls?

Maybe this will become a "Super Post"?

Or maybe this will become the "Anti-Super Post"

Happy Trails

Len