While we're giving constructive criticism to the OP, I'll pile on. Patrick, one of my RBW and iBob pet-peeves is one that you do frequently, but several other people do it as well. It goes like this
A. Poster posts a for sale post (terrific. one of the great uses for these boards) B. Poster sells his item (also terrific. great for the buyer and the seller) C. Poster announces that his item is sold (polite, proper), but does so in an ENTIRELY NEW THREAD! The right place to announce that your item is sold is at the end of the thread where you offered it for sale. By starting a new thread with your announcement of its sale, you unnecessarily clutter the board, and now when somebody searches for sale posts, s/he will think that your item is still available, because of the disembodied post you made, announcing that it is not. On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 3:43:28 PM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > A good point; my subject heading could have been clearer. Will try to make > a practice of making them complete. > > Patrick Moore, who just rode to and from the store faster than he should > have in windy ABQ, NM. > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Michael Hechmer <mhec...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I don't disagree with your request Patrick, but what I find more time >> consuming is looking at posts with titles that give no clear idea of what >> the topic is about. I would have preferred: A Modest Proposal for >> Formatting Replies. >> >> Michael - back from Oaxaca and into Mud Season. >> >> >> On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 8:55:02 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: >>> >>> For a while now thread responders have been diligently trimming their >>> replies so that the entire thread doesn't hang like a continually evermore >>> indented tail at the end of the latest reply. I've come across messages on, >>> for example, CR, where you have the equivalent of a book to scroll through >>> before you get to attached photos or a signature. However, we often tend to >>> cut off all of the earlier thread, leaving replies without context. >>> >>> As someone who often comes late to a thread and finds his retrograde >>> interest stymied by such enigmatic, unplaced comments, may I suggest that >>> while we continue to trim, we leave in enough of the former message to give >>> context to ours? >>> >>> Thanks, Patrick Moore, who doubtless does this too but who will try not >>> to do so in the future. >>> >>> -- >>> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. >>> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >>> Other professional writing services. >>> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >>> www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten >>> >>> ************************************* >>> *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a >>> circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and >>> individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu >>> >>> *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle >>> >>> *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle > > *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
