Recommend Thread Cleanup

[reef_fanatic]

Hi,

I would recommend cleaning up old threads that may not provide useful information. This will eliminate clutter and make the board much more informative. Particularly in the adverts. You see lots of stuff for sale that has since been sold. Kind of annoying.

If someone posts something that has already been discussed, it's a good idea to point them to the prior thread - rather than posting comments that do not pertain to the post in question.

I did notice that a number of the posts are way off-topic from original post information. For Mary asks a question like "can you identify this for me". Tom replies to the question with "yes its a ...", and adds additional information about their own tank that doesn't necessarily relate to the question "btw when I ...". Harry comes along and posts "hey Tom, I remember that... weren't you going to get a parrot fish? How did that work out?" Dick comes along and adds to Tom and Harry's remarks and leaves Mary out there waiting for information on her post.

It's good netiquette to stick to the original post material.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the site. I just find it hard to find useful information amongst the clutter. Clutter is for chat rooms :)

Maybe I'm too picky, comes from years in the IT field. But thought I would throw it out for what it is worth.

cHEERS,

Mr. Smithers

[ajx22]

Hi,

I would recommend cleaning up old threads that may not provide useful information. This will eliminate clutter and make the board much more informative. Particularly in the adverts. You see lots of stuff for sale that has since been sold. Kind of annoying.

If someone posts something that has already been discussed, it's a good idea to point them to the prior thread - rather than posting comments that do not pertain to the post in question.

I did notice that a number of the posts are way off-topic from original post information. For Mary asks a question like "can you identify this for me". Tom replies to the question with "yes its a ...", and adds additional information about their own tank that doesn't necessarily relate to the question "btw when I ...". Harry comes along and posts "hey Tom, I remember that... weren't you going to get a parrot fish? How did that work out?" Dick comes along and adds to Tom and Harry's remarks and leaves Mary out there waiting for information on her post.

It's good netiquette to stick to the original post material.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the site. I just find it hard to find useful information amongst the clutter. Clutter is for chat rooms :)

Maybe I'm too picky, comes from years in the IT field. But thought I would throw it out for what it is worth.

cHEERS,

Mr. Smithers


Unfortunately - we (AP.ca Admin) have little control over what people reply to posts/threads...

It has been asked a million times NOT to thread-crap - however - it doesn't stop - nor (seemingly) will it. If the Admin/Mods of the site were to filter (clean-up) the threads - then it becomes censorship - yet another problem...

Regarding your "Particularly in the adverts. You see lots of stuff for sale that has since been sold. Kind of annoying." statement -

All ads are listed for a member-chosen time frame. All members are asked to mark their items SOLD upon selling them. If the items are not sold by the end of the chosen time - the server automatically cleans them up. This same clean-up also happens every 24-hours to clean-up the items marked as SOLD.

Unfortunately - there is no possibility to moderate/approve every post/ad/remark - so this community (as well as all others) works on the Honour System.

If you'ld like to nominate yourself as the guy who has 12-hours a day - you're welcome to email/PM members to remind them to mark their ads sold, etc.

:D

[reef_fanatic]

Oh well, I guess it's the thought that counts. I didn't realize that the software was limiting you so much.

Thanks.