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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:23 pm
by Kevin
tesmar wrote:
Kevin, this is just a side issue, but I disagree with your sig. Jeremiah was a man almost no one listened to, but that doesn't mean he should have done anything else besides what he was doing. It's not who's listening, it's whose message it is ;)

Bold added for emphasis. I don't have "almost" in my sig. ;)

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:05 pm
by tesmar
Kevin wrote:
tesmar wrote:
Kevin, this is just a side issue, but I disagree with your sig. Jeremiah was a man almost no one listened to, but that doesn't mean he should have done anything else besides what he was doing. It's not who's listening, it's whose message it is ;)

Bold added for emphasis. I don't have "almost" in my sig. ;)


Point taken. :lol:
You're right, if it is meant to be heard and is not, then it doesn't matter. Yet it may still be a very true message.

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 11:20 am
by Darkmage
tesmar wrote:
As far as the forum rules go, they are all common sense, but common sense I don't believe is all too common...
Bear in mind that common sense will tell you the world is flat. ;)

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:34 pm
by |FN|Steel
Flat? Have you never seen a mountain?! The world is definatley pointy!

Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:48 pm
by tesmar
Darkmage wrote:
tesmar wrote:
As far as the forum rules go, they are all common sense, but common sense I don't believe is all too common...
Bear in mind that common sense will tell you the world is flat. ;)


We probably have differing ideas as to what common sense is then :)

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 3:02 pm
by Dposcorp
I just saw that you updated the rules.
Looks good to me.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:26 pm
by Kevin
I figure this is a good a time as any to move this thread to the Announcements forum.

Kevin

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:10 am
by Nitrodist
From the announcements forum?

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:47 pm
by derFunkenstein
No, this is the announcements forum.

Not much of an announcement, though, at least in terms of the "no R&P signatures outside of R&P" - noone seemed to notice.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:24 pm
by derFunkenstein
i'm seeing more and more TR threads in google results, maybe that's it.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:31 pm
by Kevin
Nitrodist wrote:
From the announcements forum?

This thread was originally in the Back Porch.

PerfectCr wrote:
I notice a lot more thread resurrections since the new forum upgrade. I wonder why.

This is sort of the same as what happened before.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:35 am
by Nitrodist
derFunkenstein wrote:
No, this is the announcements forum.

Not much of an announcement, though, at least in terms of the "no R&P signatures outside of R&P" - noone seemed to notice.


Kevin wrote:
Nitrodist wrote:
From the announcements forum?

This thread was originally in the Back Porch.


I posted that when it was in the Back Porch and you made that post, Kevin.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:07 pm
by Kevin
Nitrodist wrote:
I posted that when it was in the Back Porch and you made that post, Kevin.

Actually, you didn't. I moved the thread before I made my post. You clicked on the shadow topic, which is distinguished from regular threads by this icon: Image

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:11 pm
by Usacomp2k3
Kevin wrote:
Nitrodist wrote:
I posted that when it was in the Back Porch and you made that post, Kevin.

Actually, you didn't. I moved the thread before I made my post. You clicked on the shadow topic, which is distinguished from regular threads by this icon: Image

Is it just the icon now, or do they still say "moved" or "shadow" or whatever they said in phpBB2?

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:14 pm
by Kevin
It's just the icon.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:15 pm
by Usacomp2k3
Kevin wrote:
It's just the icon.

Great.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:07 pm
by arunphilip
A question on etiquette.

In a discussion on a thread, I ask an opinion-based question, and receive a useful answer that I appreciate ("Why do you say X is good?"; "My experience has been..."). What is the appropriate way of acknowledging it?

  • The easiest & most obvious is to reply with a "Thank you". However, I'm a bit conscious that it just adds to the clutter, and doesn't add to the topic. This is especially so if my reply is going to be delayed, due to time zone differences, or just that I picked up the reply late.
  • The other option is not to reply, to keep the thread clean. However, this goes against my strong desire to thank someone who helped.
  • Other sites (including TR's comments on articles) have a mechanism of providing upvotes, or thank votes - either as an anonymous number, or a "The following members found this useful: list of handles" listing. This is a lighter-touch approach as it doesn't break the narrative flow of a thread.

So - what's the general/popular consensus on how to thank people?

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:14 pm
by Usacomp2k3
I'm a fan of Option A. Short, easily to read over if you want just the content. And if someone has a problem with that, they can get over it. :lol:

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:25 pm
by superjawes
Usacomp2k3 wrote:
I'm a fan of Option A. Short, easily to read over if you want just the content. And if someone has a problem with that, they can get over it. :lol:

This... :lol:

Okay, to elaborate a bit more, the TR forums are far less active (by volume and in my observation) than the article comments. Add onto that a more lighthearted nature of article comments, where jokes tend to be the most upvoted, and I think that system works. The forums, by contrast, usually have a lot more useful information, opinions, and elongated anecdotes. Even if your follow-up post is just "thank you", I don't see that as anything that would devalue or clutter the regular business of the forums. Actually, I think a bit of good etiquette probably improves life for everyone.

Also worth nothing that a simple "thank you" is a good way to manage feedback across countries/time zones, since the response is time stamped.

Re: Discussion of Forum Rules and Guidelines

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2018 12:27 pm
by arunphilip
Thank you both, it's reassuring to note that 'thank you' posts will not be viewed as clutter. And, with this information to hand, I have gone ahead and thanked the reply that prompted this question in the first place :)