Oxymoron .....

sporran · Post by **sporran** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:24 pm

Hello,

it is my habit to click on "View posts since last visit" when I visit this site. Today I have waded through about 100 posts from CatrionaL with "No reply needed" added, although there was a late variation that had "Date passed". What's going on? Were these supposed to be administrative notes and not for the public?

It is like the English Lake District. There are several tarns (tarn=small mountain lake) that have been named "Innominate Tarn", which amused Alf Wainwright.

Regards,

John

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:32 pm

Hi John

Nae worries.....just a simple housekeeping maneuver so those of us who try to trawl the unanswered post box don't have to keep stumbling over all those posts that really don't need a reply!! (as you can see there were quite a few

) This seemed to be the simplest approach and Catriona was ready willing and extremely skilled to handle the job

Perhaps one day we'll find a better way

Best wishes
Jean

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:49 pm

John,

Sorry to have subjected you to a wade through all these old posts.

The purpose of the maneouvre was to remove them from the list of Unanswered Posts They all had to be plodded through every time we went looking for unanswered posts needing to be dealt with. The AG gave me the go ahead to deal with them in this fashion until another solution could be found.

The mistake I made was in not warning you all and I apologise for that.

I'll be continuing to work on the Unanswered posts for a wee while to come, so perhaps you can simply ignore all posts signed CatrionaL

Best wishes
Catriona

momat · Post by **momat** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 3:02 am

I am having a similar problem as all the
TIPS TO HELP YOU SEARCH FQA's are opening when I clicked in today.

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:14 am

Cant work out that logic seeing as your posts came up as posts and therefore while they didn't require answering they came up as requiring reading

Am I missing something?
Mallog

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:05 am

mallog wrote:Cant work out that logic seeing as your posts came up as posts and therefore while they didn't require answering they came up as requiring reading Am I missing something?
Mallog

Mallog

But next time someone clicks on "View unanswered posts" these posts won't appear on the list since there's no longer just the single, by definition unanswered post.

Various AG members and Mods regularly check the unanswered posts, - part of the ongoing organisational background activity which isn't always obvious, - so that it's valuable to be able to remove those posts which don't require an answer, and we can't see how else to do it...................

David

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:24 pm

DavidWW wrote: Mallog

But next time someone clicks on "View unanswered posts" these posts won't appear on the list since there's no longer just the single, by definition unanswered post.

David

Didn't realise that was what "view unanswered posts" was, sorry. I thought it was similar to new posts since last visit which is why I didn't get it.
It never fails that I learn something new every day

Mallog

JimM · Post by **JimM** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:48 pm

CatrionaL wrote: so perhaps you can simply ignore all posts signed CatrionaL

Best wishes
Catriona

k Ah ... but then how will we know if you post something interesting?

Jim

CatrionaL · Post by **CatrionaL** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:58 pm

Jim

As the "subject" of the post, I will note "This is one of Catriona's more interesting posts"!!!!

Best wishes

Catriona

JayPee · Post by **JayPee** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:55 pm

CatrionaL wrote:Sorry to have subjected you to a wade through all these old posts.
The purpose of the maneouvre was to remove them from the list of Unanswered Posts They all had to be plodded through every time we went looking for unanswered posts needing to be dealt with. The AG gave me the go ahead to deal with them in this fashion until another solution could be found...

Yes, plodding through all of those unanswered posts can be time consuming.

One solution could be to create a new pseudo-user with a name like "NoReplyNeeded", which could be used by the AG occasionally to add a reply to those posts. On the forum's index page, and on the "View Posts Since Last Visit" listing, that "user" could be a signal to others that this background activity was occurring, and that we could ignore those "posts".
- JayPee