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[sharky60]

IMHO? what IS that acronym?

 

[markfm]

In My Humble Opinion, sometimes IMO In My Opinion or IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion

 

[simbrooks]

IMHO? what IS that acronym?

In My Honest/Humble (depending on that person's meaning) Opinion, sometimes people also put not so humble opinion

Another useful thread on acronyms

 

[diverbob]

I dont like it either. I was keeping an eye on a few of the responses in one of the threads, and now I have to look through a boat load of threads to find what I could have easily found before. Just one more reason why I am not here as much as I once was.

 

[ggunn]

I dont like it either. I was keeping an eye on a few of the responses in one of the threads, and now I have to look through a boat load of threads to find what I could have easily found before. Just one more reason why I am not here as much as I once was.

It's overmoderation, in my view, but the mods already know how I feel about it.

 

[cdiver2]

I dont like it either. I was keeping an eye on a few of the responses in one of the threads, and now I have to look through a boat load of threads to find what I could have easily found before. Just one more reason why I am not here as much as I once was.

I was following one author now I have to go through other authors that I dont like

 

[simbrooks]

It's overmoderation, in my view, but the mods already know how I feel about it.

As part of our discussion via PM's i put in this set of statements to you and i just followed through what i said i would:

It has been a recent thought to try to centre the discussions so items that people have one reference point on a hurricane rather than useful info being scattered across the board. I can understand your thoughts that a local focus is helpful - as you might have guessed we had a bunch of threads last year in the FCD forum about the slew of hurricanes that hit us. Some still pop up regarding local effects - such as the SG rerighting, viz etc, but the general discussion are in the stormwatch area for all to see without having to search too far. We have a lot of forums, when each one has its own thread on a certain subject some might not get all the info - this is the aim of the SW forum. Coz is most likely going to be directly affected and due to the concerns raised as i said before 1 thread should suffice. I merged two this morning and have done so in the past, maybe not quite 200 (a slight exaggeration on my part, but certainly more than 1.
snipalthough not a formal TOS policy, generally the threads in each forum are to be roughly on the forum scope of discussion - otherwise they get moved around, as you said Caribbean to Coz as an example. Again due to the imminent threat to Coz we are going with a single thread to cover the info - again two or more threads in the same forum might well allow some details to slip through the cracks and people may not see it.

Like i said before saying 200 threads might be a little OTT, but there are certain quite a few that we scoop into single threads and move off to another area if needed as they are outside the scope of that forum. We handle a LOT of threads every day, almost all those that are active, reading, editing, moving, merging, splitting etc. Its not the server load, its the information dissemination (sp?) those who would like the latest info who happen to be in the Caribbean forum might not look on the Coz forum and so on.

There was other stuff not directly related to making a single thread and moving threads around, but this is the bulk of it that was relevant IMHO. I understand i cant please all the people all the time, but if i were a general user i might well have asked a mod to merge these threads as it would have saved me clicking around a dozen threads to try to find out the latest bits of info - you may like expending effort in that kind of search, i would prefer otherwise and imagined that others might also appreciate that action, hence my actions in what i believe is good faith.

As an example of the benefits that i had hoped for, Photocoz has already posted back replies to 2 threads that i merged in there which she may or may not have seen had they been unmerged (of course i am assuming she might not have seen them) and others can also put answers into the framework of the thread as they wish.

 

[pants!]

It seems to make sense to me to have one location for all the information, as opposed to having literally a dozen threads to look through and post information and updates to.

 

[diverbob]

there are more emily threads popping up...if you post in them, make sure you can find it again, because when it gets put in with the rest of the threads, you might not be able to find it on page 47(Or whatever the count is up to now)