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Should The Fuzzy move threads to the "right" topics?
Poll ended at Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:51 pm
Yes, of course. 82%  82%  [ 9 ]
Never, moving them is confusing. 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Only if the thread is very inappropriate to the topic. 18%  18%  [ 2 ]
Total votes : 11
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 Post subject: Re: Should I Move Threads Around?
PostPosted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:18 am 
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wino wrote:
Every “Active Topic” under “Board Help” could easily fit under “General Information.” Similarly, “Board Help” is not really a “Community” item.


Well, the idea was that General Information was for the Administrator & Moderators to post helpful information about how the Board works. You'll notice that you can't post anything to that category. I do realize that the distinction between General Information and Board Help is rather nebulous (even to me), but if General Information because a forum for questions about the board, we'd have to make a whole bunch of things "sticky", which would then mean a lot of scrolling for anyone who wanted to actually look at the Help requests.

In other words, I agree that the split between Board Help and General Information isn't exactly ideal, but I can' t think of another way to organize it that isn't worse. And Board Help actually is a "Community" item; it's about members helping each other.

Does that make sense? Or can you see a better way to arrange it?

wino wrote:
Interestingly, if one clicks on “Community” 25 “Active Topics” appear but the four sub-forums (Board Help, Meetups, Miscellaneous, and Blogroll) do not appear. However, if one clicks on “Cooking Questions” only the 8 sub-forums appear (cooking questions, Recipes, Baking, cookware & Bakeware, etc.)


Ooops! That's how it was intended to be; I made a mistake configuring the "Community" category. Fixed now, thanks.

wino wrote:
You may also want to consider eliminating threads that are time dated (New Year’s Eve meals, for example). Even reference librarians weed their collection!!


No, people like to go back and re-read old threads. One of the biggest complaints about the broken CI board was the constraints it placed on reading old threads. And it's not like it takes up a lot of space. So deleting threads is out.

I was thinking about adding a "Holiday Meals" thread, though.

wino wrote:
At the moment I don’t have time to analyze all categories and their thread contents but I do know that spending time now re-organizing will pay big dividends down the road. If you would like me to drill down on these, or some of these, please let me know – there is always more Champagne somewhere!


Hmmm ... that sounds like you volunteering to be a moderator.

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 Post subject: Re: Should I Move Threads Around?
PostPosted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:42 pm 
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All,

So, I've done some re-arranging. I moved the topics mentioned, and renamed "Weeknight Meals" to "Weeknight Meals & Economizing".

I also created the topic "Holidays" and moved a bunch of topics from Miscellaneous into it.

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