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Posted by basilides
Sep 14, 2012 at 02:56 PM
Foolness, please keep your post brief and to the point. We are not getting any younger, you know.
Posted by Foolness
Sep 15, 2012 at 02:21 AM
It is brief but that is the Big Lie in every post-length hatred mob as if you point out one factor, they will jump towards the factor that it isn’t length but rambling, if you point out their own faults then they will try to jump to the length discussion and if they cannot they will try to jump towards simplifying something without seemingly simplifying a section and go to the opposite extreme of cherry picking it.
I don’t say this to continue a new ongoing argument but merely to point out to you the obvious. A person who isn’t willing to be brief does not even try to make one of these:
>If this reply is too long, please use your browser find in page and type in “(mediummediummedium)” for medium length and >“(shortshortshort)” for a direct but sorely lacking in details reply. If you want to go to the extreme, (extremeextremeextreme) >leads to the one paragraph section but it’s not the last part of the post which is why you need this.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 15, 2012 at 05:57 AM
Chris Murtland wrote:
>Thanks everyone for the ideas! I will put together a prioritized list,
>based on ease of implementation and number of requests; i.e., the easier items that
>are also the most requested will be tackled first since that’s the low-hanging
>fruit.
Chris, if you haven’t yet closed the list, I have one more suggestion: #hashtags. These could be combined with the word cloud suggested, as well as with tagging posts by software. But tags could also be used for more generic terms like #methodology, #GTD etc.
I know that hashtags are a ‘cultural’ thing, and I am still getting used to them, but they can be really handy, integrated in posts without the need for separate fields.
I would assume that there are plugins for the framework you use for the forum to recognise #hashtags, but you know better.
Posted by Chris Murtland
Sep 15, 2012 at 03:15 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Chris, if you haven’t yet closed the list, I have one more
>suggestion: #hashtags. These could be combined with the word cloud suggested, as
>well as with tagging posts by software. But tags could also be used for more generic
>terms like #methodology, #GTD etc.
I think that is probably a good approach, and it is easier to implement in a lot of ways because I wouldn’t have to create any separate interface elements for tagging posts.
Posted by outliner
Nov 7, 2012 at 07:35 PM
please install a real forum engine, vb, or something…