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(Message started by: william wu on Jul 30^th, 2002, 5:29am)

Title: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by william wu on Jul 30^th, 2002, 5:29am

Before posting a topic, please check if a thread already exists for it. I know it is annoying to have to search for your topic. However, it's even more annoying to have a bunch of disjoint threads hanging around on the same topic. If too many disjoint threads are developed, I'll delete some of them, and they might be yours.

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by Neil Sedaka on Jul 31^st, 2002, 3:33am

Hey - I posted this topic two days ago!

If only people would:

Quote:

check if a thread already exists

;D

Seriously, could you nest the dupe threads under an umbrella parent, to cut down the number of top-level topics, and marshall the wisdom into some useful hierarchy?

I guess this should be under "Suggestions", but it kinda fits here too.

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by william wu on Jul 31^st, 2002, 11:12am

I've been trying to figure out how to merge threads in YaBB and have been unable to find such a function; I've e-mailed YaBB's creators for help. If anyone already knows how to, please send an e-mail to

wwu@ocf.berkeley.edu

Thanks!

Title: Re: PLEASE CHECK FOR EXISTING THREADS!!!
Post by anshil on Jul 31^st, 2002, 12:09pm

Well just leave the threads double and don't care too much. After all you aren't a control freak, are you?

How about using something more mature than web boards? From experience I find most of the time web boards tend to attract childisch users. How about mailling lists (with a web archive), or newsgroups, or maybe something else I don't think about currently.

Well BTW: the post no threads double thread, is there several times! Now so thats also a paradox :D