Re: [Audyssey] Forums or Email - Moderator Important Message for the List

[Thomas Ward]

Hi Dark,

Have to agree with you there. PunBB seems to be the easiest forum I've
used. I've been on some forums such as the Microsoft XNA forum where
there is a bunch of useless links that take you all over creation
trying to find things.. Audiogames.net is so much easier than some of
the huge corporate forums I've seen such as Microsoft's forums which
are so bloated you need a GPS to find your way around it. :D

Cheers!


On 3/20/13, dark  wrote:
> Hi Tom.
>
> I agree on the topic structure being good in forums, though in fairness
> deleting messages in a thread I'm not interested in on a mailing list isn't
>
> too much trouble either.
>
> Just as an informational point however, when looking on the index, the
> general "new" link at the top will indeed give you all new topics on the
> forum, however next to each forum room there is a link labled "new posts"
> that will give you just the new posts in that room.
>
> this is as I said why i am a fan of the Punbb system, since it doesn't have
>
> a load of random pointless links to navigate all over the place the way some
>
> forums I've seen do, much less when reading posts, and the links it does
> have are actually usefull ones.
>
> Beware the Grue!
>
> Dark.

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Re: [Audyssey] Forums or Email - Moderator Important Message for the List

[Thomas Ward]

Hi Charles,

Yes, if someone posted wherever they felt like on a forum posts would
get quite lost. Fortunately, most forum users tend to be more orderly
than list members when it comes to subject lines and topic content,
and a big part of that could be because all posts are arranged by
topic rather than responded to  in a first come first received manner
as is the case on list.

The other advantage of forums I see is because all the posts of a
particular thread are there you can see every post from the first one
to the current one so you don't get a lot of extraneous crap. A
moderator can move  topics to a different room, or can delete certain
posts if they stray too far off the topic at hand. Forums are by there
very nature more orderly and organized than lists.

Cheers!

On 3/20/13, Charles Rivard  wrote:
> I prefer Email lists like this one because I don't have to search topics and
>
> threads to find what I'm looking.  This is why I stress the importance of
> subject lines.  I get hundreds every day, so I read or delete based on that
>
> subject line.  Example:  I changed the subject line here because it more
> correctly tells what I'm talking about.  I'm not discussing the important
> message from a moderator.  I'm discussing the pros and cons of forums and
> Email lists, giving my preference.
>
> Would you run into the same problem with a forum?  If someone posts to
> wherever they feel like rather than where they should, wouldn't messages get
>
> to where they shouldn't?
>
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