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Murphy Siding gardendance Murphy Siding Well, no. What I'm suggesting is that someone consider others before filling the first page with links and videos that no one seems to be looking out. Did you mean looking "at" instead of "out"? In my copy and paste example on page 2 I saw several of his posts had more than 100 views, so I think in addition to your threshold of too many posts being too low your threshold of how many people count as someone seems to be too high.tomatoes, potato... Since you asked, I looked. There are 4 threads with over 100 views. That is mostly because those got replies asking the OP to please consolidate his threads or something similar. If you discount the threads with higher views because of the replies, and you discount about one reply to make a link hot on every other thread, the math looks something like this: For September, 2014 so far: 14 total threadsaverage views 49average replies: 1
gardendance Murphy Siding Well, no. What I'm suggesting is that someone consider others before filling the first page with links and videos that no one seems to be looking out. Did you mean looking "at" instead of "out"? In my copy and paste example on page 2 I saw several of his posts had more than 100 views, so I think in addition to your threshold of too many posts being too low your threshold of how many people count as someone seems to be too high.
Murphy Siding Well, no. What I'm suggesting is that someone consider others before filling the first page with links and videos that no one seems to be looking out.
Did you mean looking "at" instead of "out"? In my copy and paste example on page 2 I saw several of his posts had more than 100 views, so I think in addition to your threshold of too many posts being too low your threshold of how many people count as someone seems to be too high.
For September, 2014 so far:
14 total threadsaverage views 49average replies: 1
you now list 14 threads, apparently from a different sample since you say "September 2014 so far" and I looked at 2 pages at the time I researched, so it looks like we're comparing tomatoes and potatoes. And you're not clear if you already discounted the "discount threads with higher views because of replies" in your "14 threads Sept so far", but just in case lets say at the time there were 17 threads. You posted Sep 8, I get less than 3 threads per day. I don't know how many threads you expect in an average day, but I again think your threshold of how many threads an individual's allowed to post is too low.
chad s thomasMookieGentlemen: I offer this for your thoughts: What if the Chatterbox was not consolidated? What if all my silly postings were done one at a time, along with anyone else that wanted to comment in that way? Wouldn't that tend to irritate everyone to have to scroll through all that "chatter" for 3 pages just to get to something they wanted to read? Isn't it better to consolidate like the Sunset Route and CB? Well said Mookie.Smile, Wink & GrinThat's the whole point of this thread.Some folks really need to learn some neticut. One lesson is DONT TRY TO RUIN THE FOROM for everyone else. It's not that complicated.
MookieGentlemen: I offer this for your thoughts: What if the Chatterbox was not consolidated? What if all my silly postings were done one at a time, along with anyone else that wanted to comment in that way? Wouldn't that tend to irritate everyone to have to scroll through all that "chatter" for 3 pages just to get to something they wanted to read? Isn't it better to consolidate like the Sunset Route and CB?
DeggestySomehow, all posts to the General Forum come to my email, and I can easily delete any that immediately irritate me or do not interest me. I could tell the site not to send them--but it does let me know when someone has posted a new thread or to an old thread.
I leave you with this hopefully amusing story, slightly related. An experienced political party representative was taking an apprentice through the graveyard, showing him how to collect prospective voter names. The new worker was having some difficulty reading one of the faded grave markers. The more experienced fellow told him "You do your best to get that name. He has just as much right to vote in this election as anybody else buried in this cemetery."In similar vein, cajonsummit has just as much right to post as many threads to this forum as any of the rest of us.
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I reread the "Minnesota Increases Train Inspections" thread just in case it had drastically changed to support Mr. Siding's "mostly because those got replies asking the OP to please consolidate his threads". NONE of the replies asked to consolidate, or anything similar. It now has over 900 views and 22 replies.
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Murphy Siding Do I call you Mr. Dance, or the long form Mr. Gardendance?
gardendance Murphy Siding Do I call you Mr. Dance, or the long form Mr. Gardendance? Many just abbreviate it GD. For a long time I thought my name was Jesus since people would say "Jesus is that you again."
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For those of you that haven't been around here for the last decade, there is more to it then just 'cluttering the forum'.
Look up SPBed from around 2006-7' to learn more.
chad s thomas For those of you that haven't been around here for the last decade, there is more to it then just 'cluttering the forum'. Look up SPBed from around 2006-7' to learn more.
How can you do that with the forum software?
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Funny how this and a few other NON-RAILROAD RELATED threads keep popping to the top of the list, shoving more ON-TOPIC threads off the 1st page!
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Sorry I don't know how.
I started a thread recently that I thought would garner more interest. It is definitely interesting that the threads that have the most posts are the complaint threads. FWIW, I'd like the video threads placed in one thread, although they don't really bother me.
chad s thomas Sorry I don't know how.
Yes but....
Norm48327 chad s thomas For those of you that haven't been around here for the last decade, there is more to it then just 'cluttering the forum'. Look up SPBed from around 2006-7' to learn more. How can you do that with the forum software?
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/default.aspx
on the right hand side you will see a "Search Community" box. That will search all the TRAINS Magazine fora(?) (forums?), I believe.
James
Thanks.
As I mentioned before, perhaps other people's setup may be different, but the "search community" box is on virtually every trains.com screen I've seen, including the one on which I read this message. Just in case I went to http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/default.aspx and entered 'SPBed' and got 1161 results. They seem to be in date posted order, I clicked "load more" and looked, my find box says 2007 has 88 reesults, 2006 has 225 results. chad s thomas doesn't say for what it is we're supposed to be looking, I've looked at a few of the results, tried to make it on per month, and don't see what the problem is
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/113414/1303287.aspx#1303287Pix From Central CaliforniaPosted by spbed on Mon, Dec 24 2007 10:18 AMstarts with an invitation to look at his railpix photos, has 2 replies, ChuckCobleigh and Modelcar, complimenting the photos and spbed's 'thank you' replies
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/110759/1276003.aspx#1276003Re: New Video From Daggett CAPosted by spbed on Mon, Nov 26, 2007 11:53 AMas above, starts with an invitation to look at a video, complimentary reply, daniel3197, and spbed's thank you
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/102777/1238009.aspx#1238009Re: Cajon Pass Triple-Tracking Updates (Plus Barstow-Daggett)Posted by kenneo on Thu, Oct 11, 2007 4:10 AMthe thread itself Posted by K. P. Harrier on Sat, Aug 18 2007 7:29 PM, this link's result is a subsequent page where somebody else quoted spbed's comment "They store MOW equipment there. There is a similar one at Caliente at the western end of the T. loop"
http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/6399/1214894.aspx#1214894whats your favorite trainwatching spotPosted by Anonymous on Mon, Aug 4 2003 8:29 PMspbed answered what was his favorite spot, somebody replied to him and he replied back
Again other people's setup may be different, but if I click from the search community box, my back button doesn't take me back to the prior results, so I have to remember to press right and select open in new tab or new window, and at this point I forgot and couldn't get back to the list. Perhaps if I had the inclination and a lot of time I might find the evil that spbed, whom I assume Chad feels is cajonsummit's former handle, and I assume Chad thinks he changed handles improperly, but I have far more important things on which to waste my time. Chad, you say there is more to it than just cluttering up the forum, but the method you're suggesting we use to find out that "more" is far more cumbersome than the slight obstacle of once in a while needing to click to get to page 2 to find a post I'VE ALREADY READ AND PROBABLY DON'T NEED TO READ AGAIN.
Please supply links to the actual examples of spbed's or cajonsummit's evildoings.
NorthWestI started a thread recently that I thought would garner more interest. It is definitely interesting that the threads that have the most posts are the complaint threads. FWIW, I'd like the video threads placed in one thread, although they don't really bother me.
The "Lounge" thread was started mostly as a place to share photos and the like, whereas the "Diner" thread was started simply as a place to socialize.
Perhaps a thread entitled "Mr DeMille, My Close Up" (or some such idea - I'm sure that successive follow-on threads would have similarly clever names) would serve the purpose of allowing forum members to share both videos and stills.
It would undoubtedly be heavily used by those with lots of pictures and videos to share. Some might consider that as "monopolizing," but some are more prolific that others when it comes to both images and video.
The convention for the thread might dictate that a post include not only the link to the image or video, but a brief description thereof (ie, Lackwanna F units on Horseshoe Curve) so anyone not interested in that particular subject could simply skip that posting and move on to the next.
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gardendance As I mentioned before, perhaps other people's setup may be different, but the "search community" box is on virtually every trains.com screen I've seen, including the one on which I read this message. Just in case I went to http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/default.aspx and entered 'SPBed' and got 1161 results. They seem to be in date posted order, I clicked "load more" and looked, my find box says 2007 has 88 reesults, 2006 has 225 results. chad s thomas doesn't say for what it is we're supposed to be looking, I've looked at a few of the results, tried to make it on per month, and don't see what the problem is http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/113414/1303287.aspx#1303287Pix From Central CaliforniaPosted by spbed on Mon, Dec 24 2007 10:18 AMstarts with an invitation to look at his railpix photos, has 2 replies, ChuckCobleigh and Modelcar, complimenting the photos and spbed's 'thank you' replies http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/110759/1276003.aspx#1276003Re: New Video From Daggett CAPosted by spbed on Mon, Nov 26, 2007 11:53 AMas above, starts with an invitation to look at a video, complimentary reply, daniel3197, and spbed's thank you http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/102777/1238009.aspx#1238009Re: Cajon Pass Triple-Tracking Updates (Plus Barstow-Daggett)Posted by kenneo on Thu, Oct 11, 2007 4:10 AMthe thread itself Posted by K. P. Harrier on Sat, Aug 18 2007 7:29 PM, this link's result is a subsequent page where somebody else quoted spbed's comment "They store MOW equipment there. There is a similar one at Caliente at the western end of the T. loop" http://cs.trains.com/trn/f/111/p/6399/1214894.aspx#1214894whats your favorite trainwatching spotPosted by Anonymous on Mon, Aug 4 2003 8:29 PMspbed answered what was his favorite spot, somebody replied to him and he replied back Again other people's setup may be different, but if I click from the search community box, my back button doesn't take me back to the prior results, so I have to remember to press right and select open in new tab or new window, and at this point I forgot and couldn't get back to the list. Perhaps if I had the inclination and a lot of time I might find the evil that spbed, whom I assume Chad feels is cajonsummit's former handle, and I assume Chad thinks he changed handles improperly, but I have far more important things on which to waste my time. Chad, you say there is more to it than just cluttering up the forum, but the method you're suggesting we use to find out that "more" is far more cumbersome than the slight obstacle of once in a while needing to click to get to page 2 to find a post I'VE ALREADY READ AND PROBABLY DON'T NEED TO READ AGAIN. Please supply links to the actual examples of spbed's or cajonsummit's evildoings.
Pretty long post for someone with no time to waste.
Well, never mind, I made it all up.
Good luck. bye bye
Murray Mr. Branch, it appears that you are seething with hostility towards your fellow posters? Why is that?
Mr. Branch, it appears that you are seething with hostility towards your fellow posters?
Why is that?
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chad s thomas Pretty long post for someone with no time to waste. Well, never mind, I made it all up. Good luck. bye bye
Yes it was a pretty long post, so what of it? Bear in mind that I was frustrated at having taken your bait and tried to find out what it was about which you were complaining, and had thus wasted time doing what you had asked. I wanted that time not to have been wasted in vain, documented it and asked for you to supply an easier way to determine what it was that cajonsummit had done that destroyed your life, which you had documented in a private message, going so far as to say "he almost cost me MY JOB once".
You were the one who created this thread, initially complaining
chad s thomas ... of news links with 0 replys and low view counts that clutter up the forum....aren't they annoying?
... of news links with 0 replys and low view counts that clutter up the forum....aren't they annoying?
Never were so many words expended by so many to say absolutely nothing!
And tell me how this one is somehow better than the boring video posts?
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I don't know how this thread's any better than the video posts, but I'll defend to his death cajonsummit's right to post them. I can't tell if they're boring, since although I have opened a few of the threads just to see what all the fuss is about I haven't clicked through to watch any of the videos. I remember on some of the threads cajonsummit got compliments from a couple of people.
If however boring videos bother you may I suggest need help photographing Delair Bridge from the river http://youtu.be/f7lG4AFJBCo http://youtu.be/17hXo_sdTBM http://youtu.be/UeNlXEGmT38 http://youtu.be/shhFHqTU7rU http://youtu.be/4bCOKgmOjwU You'll be begging for the sweet release of some of cajonsummit's videos after looking at these.
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