View Full Version : A "point" of etiquette
DrSmellThis
09-15-2004, 04:26 PM
Hey
folks, I have a humble request.
Could y'all please make every effort to post things in existing threads
related to a topic if possible, rather than starting a new thread for every question or comment?
The recent
trend of starting a new thread for everything has caused just about every single quality thread on the forum
to become hopelessly buried in ancient history. Many hours of work went into the more quality threads.
Posting
a thread for a question that has been asked a hundred times elsewhere (...except for brand new people who don't
know about searching, etc. I don't mean to discourage newbees from asking whatever they need to.), posting
pointless theads; or posting a thread on a topic where another recent thread addresses the same topic, leaves recent
forum pages devoid of quality threads. Instead you get a bunch of one or two post threads, some of which are
superfluous.
I gather that people typically do this to chase points, instead of just letting the points come
naturally (like today's NBA players :)). I feel that's unfair to the others on the forum, and can even make
products harder to sell, since many fine products have one or a few special threads devoted to them that are now
deeply buried, to be found only by the most diligent sleuths among us. I have earned a ton of points, more than I
could ever use, and have never had to do anything like this to get them.
Thanks for listening.
Pancho1188
09-16-2004, 06:06 AM
Very true. It is a large
temptation to start a new thread to reap all of the benefits of gaining points. Let me mention now that it won't
work because your post will get 2 replies and that'll be it unless you start engaging in pointless banter. We have
a pointless banter forum, called open discussion (notice I post there frequently... ;)). Please, for the good of
pheromone users, don't give the mods a hard time by posting irrelevant things in the pheromone forum because it
will get more hits. Apparently, that is becoming another point-hoarding tactic, but that is one in which the
moderators will deliver the proverbial smackdown on you.
That all being said, oh honorable DST, I would have to
point out that you started many of those quality threads, and by posting on them, you get all of those points that
you "never had to do anything like this to get them." Think about that. ;) ;)
Note: I post as much as you do,
but I usually reply to others and don't have any earth-shaking threads that create a lot of discussion...look at
the pathetic amount of points I have? :) Just kidding.
Seriously, though...you really only need points for one
major thing...the coveted 50% off coupon. Once you get that, what more do you need? Just do what the good
doctor ordered... :)
Hey folks, I have
a humble request.
Could y'all please make every effort to post things in existing threads related to a
topic if possible, rather than starting a new thread for every question or comment?
The recent trend of
starting a new thread for everything has caused just about every single quality thread on the forum to become
hopelessly buried in ancient history. Many hours of work went into the more quality threads.
Posting a
thread for a question that has been asked a hundred times elsewhere (...except for brand new people who don't know
about searching, etc. I don't mean to discourage newbees from asking whatever they need to.), posting pointless
theads; or posting a thread on a topic where another recent thread addresses the same topic, leaves recent forum
pages devoid of quality threads. Instead you get a bunch of one or two post threads, some of which are
superfluous.
I gather that people typically do this to chase points, instead of just letting the points come
naturally (like today's NBA players :)). I feel that's unfair to the others on the forum, and can even make
products harder to sell, since many fine products have one or a few special threads devoted to them that are now
deeply buried, to be found only by the most diligent sleuths among us. I have earned a ton of points, more than I
could ever use, and have never had to do anything like this to get them.
Thanks for
listening.
Yea, don't be like Jon Koncak! :rofl:
I'd say that everytime people talk about
getting points for starting threads or the discount coupon, it partially encourages it.
SweetBrenda
09-16-2004, 06:36 AM
Hey folks,
I have a humble request.
Could y'all please make every effort to post things in existing threads related to a
topic if possible, .Understood. :thumbsup:
DrSmellThis
09-16-2004, 01:00 PM
Thanks, Pancho :) ;)
I
appreciate your response as always, lady B!
And bjf, what can I say? If you're a team player like Jon -- or
Kobe -- you get your opportunities to score. We're all in this to win in the game of life. ;) If calling attention
to a problem increases it, then so be it! The undeniable problem wasn't going to go away by itself either. But if
you're gonna go ho for points, people will notice, and we'll be on you like ugly on a Baldwin brother.
DrSmellThis
09-16-2004, 03:36 PM
Oops, I forgot to mention the
most obvious advantage of posting in a thread that already matches your topic: It puts all the related information
in one place, making the "collected wisdom" on each thing easily available to all, and easy to put together in your
mind. For example, remember when Mobley collected a bunch of Chikara hit stories in one place, and how nice that
was? Well, he wouldn't have had to spend all that time (Thanks, Mobes!!) if people didn't, say, start a different
thread for each Chikara hit story. If each member familiarizes themselves with the forum a little bit, and gets to
know the longer threads with more views, we can continue to build great, informative threads and people will know
right where to go for cutting edge, current information (rather than having to use the cookbook or whatever).
Otherwise, it's too chaotic, nobody learns much, and you are reinventing the wheel every other day. (For example,
today there was a discussion among several forum members about whether regular Edge is scented or unscented. I saw
that as a biproduct of recent posting trends.)
Pancho1188
09-16-2004, 04:03 PM
I still say we should have a
product or hit or testimonial forum that is strictly regulated to limit the threads to one for every product on
Love-Scent to discuss them. Sure, people mix and match, and we could worry about that as the threads developed to
test the success...
...that would prevent all of these new threads posting experiences with a product since
there would be one nice, efficient thread in the product/hit/testimonial section...
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