Hi guys, Just thought I'd chime in with my .02c. More and more of the emails I receive do not have a greeting, or even a signature. There seems to be a culture shift In the way 'newschoolers'? send email. Almost as if email is heading towards the same format as sms. I agree that it is impolite and almost rude (apparently spell check has also gone out of style), but in my opinion it has become a social problem, bigger than some code on the forum can fix.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I don't think severing ties with the forum, or inserting the posters name with code is going to make this problem go away. I think this is a problem that is here to stay, and will probably get worse. I usually flat out ignore emails without a signature, or reply telling them to tell me who they are before I send a useful response. Again just the thoughts of an over caffeinated programmer, Rick On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Art Tevs <arti_t...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Hi Jean-Sebastian, > > > Skylark wrote: >> >> My suggestions: >> >> 1. When the user clicks "reply" on an existing post, when the template >> is generated, I guess the forum software could insert the name of the >> user whose post is being replied to automatically, and at the end the >> name of the user replying? That would give: >> >> --- >> Hi <name of previous poster>, >> >> ... >> >> Thank you! >> <my name> >> --- >> >> I don't think that would be too hard. >> > > > Ok, I am working now on this possibility. However, I am not sure if we need > to add the <name of previous poster>, because somebody will definitily loose > the track, when replying to the post. For example in the thread XMen posted > something. The last answer will be from Chewbacca. Then the Luke want to > answer to XMen's post, however the template will looks like: > > Hi Chewbacca, > ... > Cheers, > Luke > > So the XMen will be not happy about that because the post seems to go to him, > but Chewbacca was who was greet by Luke. So, I think just hte neutral "Hi, " > is already enough. I bet, that some of the users wouldn't be able even to > fill out the template well, this is my experience. > > > >> >> 2. Perhaps you could remove the "post reply" button at the bottom of the >> thread page, so that users are forced to reply *to* a previous post, >> quoting the previous post (which is something that's sorely missing from >> forum posts as well - most of them have no context at all!). >> > > Ok, I agree, this would be a nice feature. However, this will take some time > to implement. Because I would like to remove the double quoted messages out > of the reply message. So that we have only one level of depth in the quoted > messages. This is still enough, I think. Otherwise the thread get polluted by > quotes, which isn't really helping a lot. > > > As to the use of names. I have first to implement something, that users can > be suspended well. The current roblem is, if I suspend a user and he post > something. Then the message for the mailing list is also generated and is > just waiting to be sent. So if user have a name "Coca Cola" and has written > something. Even if he change then the name when we inform him, the email will > still contain the "Coca Cola" as authors name. This require also some time to > be work well, hence be patient. > > Cheers, > art > > ------------------ > Read this topic online here: > http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=11486#11486 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
