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Just a thought...
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:33 am
by Hendrik
...which might help us keep organised...
Threads have a habit of going off on a tangent, as discussed at length recently. How about getting the mods to colour such threads a vividly different colour so that one can see at a glance which threads are worth joining, and which have now descended into general chat.
Sound plausible?
That way, people who love to waffle absolute rubbish can do so, and those (particularly registered but non-posting) members can contribute in a relevant way, and not have to trawl through 2987 topics to find one which is still on course.
Ideas, criticisms etc please.....
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:29 pm
by DavebytheSea
Nice idea, Hendrik, but could you copy it on to Julian's thread about all this?
viewtopic.php?t=1726&start=30
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:16 pm
by Richard Ruck
What happens if these threads get dragged back on-topic? Unlikely, I know.....
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:37 pm
by Great Plum
True...
How about a chat thread which is started every day and most of the chatter could stay in there?
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:53 pm
by DavebytheSea
Excellent idea. We could tootle away on piccolos to our heart's content.
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:05 pm
by blondie95
im not sure i like the thought of tootling on a piccalo?
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:07 pm
by DavebytheSea
divert, Blondie, divert
Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:11 pm
by blondie95
ok
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 10:37 am
by Great Plum
blondie95 wrote:im not sure i like the thought of tootling on a piccalo?
What's a piccalo?
Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 11:21 am
by Hendrik
Great Plum wrote:True...
How about a chat thread which is started every day and most of the chatter could stay in there?
this was tried and it failed. firstly, some poor mug would have to trawl the forum 24/7 moving rediculous posts to the rediculous thread. it doesn't descend into general chit chat because there are no threads designated for chit chat, it does so because certain keywords (different for each person) seem to spark "back in my day" comments and in-jokes. "beer", "sex", all the usual FHM topics really.
and if something comes back on topic, then the colour could change back. simple really.
any other criticisms?
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:13 pm
by Hendrik
well, assuming their aren't any other problems, can a mod put it into action?
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:03 pm
by Hannoir
I think this is a good idea. I'd know what to bother reading and contributing to then.
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:09 pm
by jtaylor
The text of the topic could be changed (within the post), but no way of colouring a topic in the list of topics.....so although a great idea, this isn't that easy......and it relies on Mods spending quite a bit of time changing topics.
I'm still in favour of the the CH Stuff section having to stay reasonably on-topic, whilst letting the non-CH stuff drift off-topic?
J
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:15 pm
by Hannoir
I'm in favour of anything off topic being deleted. Its fine if you've got lots of time to spend here, but if you don't then alot of the stuff is of little interest.
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:03 pm
by Great Plum
jtaylor wrote:The text of the topic could be changed (within the post), but no way of colouring a topic in the list of topics.....so although a great idea, this isn't that easy......and it relies on Mods spending quite a bit of time changing topics.
I'm still in favour of the the CH Stuff section having to stay reasonably on-topic, whilst letting the non-CH stuff drift off-topic?
J
That seems fine to me...