Forum Organization, my thoughts and yours welcomed

When you make a post it goes to the top of the board and then is bumped down as other people make NEW topic posts. However, I think that as people reply to your original post, your post should be brought up to the top of the first page so that people can find out if you or someone else replied to it. The reason for this suggestions is that it brings the more interesting or more valuable posts to the top so that people can keep reflecting on certain posts that they had interest in. I think this would benefit the site, and the users greatly.

I like the idea of the Forums showing which topics are the hot topics, meaning that a certain topic has been replied to the most, and or the most interesting to other forum users. But again this would be solved by changing the organiztion to my above suggestion of popular topics staying at the top of the board.

Let me know what you folks think, and how we could tell the Board moderators to possibly make this change for us. Thanks for your input.

Forum organization, my thoughts and yours welcome
Forum organization, my thoughts and yours welcome
Forum organization, my thoughts and yours welcome Forum organization, my thoughts and yours welcome
Forum organization, my thoughts and yours welcome
Forum organization, my thoughts and yours welcome
Forum organization, my thoughts and yours welcome
It's a waste of space, it adds nothing to the thread.

the subject line could be used as a reply
line, one liner.

I'm new to this board but have been a frequent discussion board user for many years. It is amazing the amount of knowledge that is out there available from others sharing the same obsessive compulsive disorders that you have! ;-)

Most discussion forums have it where you reply to the original post and it keeps the posts in order of the time they were made.

On this board the post where I replied to the very first question asked ends up at the very bottom of the thread and it does make things confusing in trying to figure out who is answering what question.

FWIW, Nathan

A second thing about this forum even worse is all the wasted space on a page taken up by repeated subject lines that are repeated over and over again with no new information added other than the reply poster"s name. Many forums show the original posters subject line at the top and any reply post under it is a reply line visible on the page without expanding. If a posters rply is a one liner it is shown without expanding. If the reply goes beyond the first line the rest is shown when expanded. You can see what I mean. I have altered the subject line on this post.

The winds of change don"t blow very hard on this forum. Overall it"s a great forum but a few little changes could make it better.

YT can try your suggestion, but I guarentee they will be shut down within a year.

There is a good natured middle aged man not far from me, quite good on doing imitations. He, geneb and I all have met. He does a great number poking fun at gene and I in an argument, kind of a monalogue except he plays out both parts. Gene if your listining in, you know who I mean, you would enjoy it. My family and his thought it hilarious.

Did I warn you to stay away from those Polish pastries? Too much sugar!

Let me add my voice to those who would like it left alone.

Dave

My thoughts on the forum are to leave it like it is. Granted there are popular threads that can get pushed off the first page, and take some time to find. But, on other discussion forums I have seen where a reply bumps a topic to the top, if someone asks a question and does not get a response, that question can possibly be pushed onto page three in a matter of minutes by a few questions that get lots of responses. Then, the originator (or someone else) has to bump it to get it back to page one. Currently, a new post will stay on the first page for several hours, if not all day. The threads stay in the order which they were posted with a date/time stamp, so if you know what date a post originated, it is not hard to find.

The other thing that I like here is that you can reply to a response and the reply is seen immediately below the response it is to rather than at the end of the thread. To me it takes longer to read the box with the original response showing in each and every reply to it. Personally, I find the other type of forum more confusing to read and use than this one. Just my opinion…

I like the forum the way it is too. What's the tractor status. If you haven't done so, install a new set of plugs. How's the weather in VA? Hal

One quick trip over to the RedPower site will show you how that plan works. Yawn.

Just my opinion,

Allan

This type of thing was proposed and, in fact, tried last year. Some liked it, but the overwhelming majority did not.

Look to the left and click on "Alternate Forums"

Let well enough alone.

I made another post about my 44 model H and its starting and running issues. Check it out guys. Thanks. And no, I am not new to this site.

Nobody is jumping on you. :>)

As for your H. It only takes three things to make a gasoline engine run: compression, ignition and fuel.

Find out which one of those three things your H is lacking, repair it and it will start every time you touch the starter switch.

Additionally, if I were fighting one that would not start and it was drivin' me up a wall, the first thing I'd do is give it a compression test to see if it will ever run or not.

Allan

you are right. this type of posting went off everyones else's board back in 98 but no use in trying to get anybody still using a belt drive 386 running windows 5.1 with a 14.4 dial up to get anything newer.

they couldn't buy their puter parts at auctions then! :-) :-) :-)

Actually, there are gives and takes to almost everything in life. It sounds to me like most of the people that frequent here feel this format has more they like than dislike. It might be quaint and old fashioned, but then again…it works!

i thought the "belt drive" 386 was a dead giveaway. :-)

no one makes me come here and no one can stop me from leaving. opinions were asked for and i gave mine.

as i said, most folks here like the old stuff and that is why they visit. why i vist too! :-)

I have a high school senior that is into computers pretty heavy (not the gaming but the real functioning) so as part of his school work he messes around with a lot of network/hardware stuff. Actually, most of the time I’m running on wireless internet services, utilizing a D-link wireless network router and NIC card for my year and a half old laptop. That way I can peruse the board from my living room, office, or even from the shop about 90 ft away from the house. Yeh, he spoils me, I’m gonna miss that guy next year when he goes off to college. :>)