Another board management question

[Carol/Bonadie]

I wonder what folks think about my moving posts around from one folder to another. I'm not sure whether people remember where their posts are and go there to look for responses, or whether they would find them wherever they are because of the "unread posts" way of reading new posts.

This came to mind as I looked in the "Introduce Yourself" folder, which is starting to contain a lot of "welcome to the board" responses and other chat. I was thinking to move those into "etcetera" or into the book-related folder, so that this folder remains mostly a place where you can go through and read introductions.

Thoughts? I don't think I want to make this a lifelong project, but some cases jump out at me and it would be nice to move it into the appropriate folder, but I didn't want to start doing that willy-nilly.

[Ann]

Carol: Moving posts sounds fine, Carol. I don't remember where most posts are anyway and the search feauture is good for finding those stray posts we "just know" are here somewhere. With that said, I am open to moving them wherever it makes the most sense. I do very much like that we have spontaneous replies to our posts and wouldn't want anyone to feel like the group police were interfering with our discussions!

Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I wonder what folks think about my moving posts around from one folder to another. I'm not sure whether people remember where their posts are and go there to look for responses, or whether they wo..."

[Sherry]

yeah, what ann said !

[Cheryl]

Yes, I agree, Carol.

I had noticed other things coming into that thread and was thinking something should be done.

[Teresa]

I like the idea, remember how we always had to change the topic when our talking strayed to other topics on AOL? And even then it sometimes stayed under the wrong thread? I like it streamlined with just the intros and if people want to read the off shoot conversations, then they can move to that thread?

[OMalleycat]

I agree, Carol. I thought it would be a good idea to keep that thread strictly to introductions and resisted posting in it for a while. But, let's face it, we're irrepressible, and as Ann said, I'd hate to think that any conversation was stifled because people wonder if they're in the right thread. Selected moving of posts seems like a good solution.

Jan O'Cat

[Carol/Bonadie]

JanOMalleycat wrote: "Selected moving of posts seems like a good solution.
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Yeah. Unfortunately it occured to me, as I was thinking about GR on work time, that I can only move full topics, I can't move responses while leaving the original post. So I'm not sure how much of this I can actually do in the folder I was intending. We'll see.

[Dan in AZ]

JanOMalleycat wrote: I'd hate to think that any conversation was stifled because people wonder if they're in the right thread.

God forbid anyone should stifle any of our super- intelligent, timely, relevant and possibly misthreaded conversations. Use to be when you were misthreaded it meant you missed the eye of the needle.

[OMalleycat]

Carol said: "Unfortunately it occured to me, as I was thinking about GR on work time, that I can only move full topics, I can't move responses while leaving the original post. "

Uh-oh. I'd forgotten that too.

Oh well, the other thing I was thinking as the introductions discussion meandered was that new people would get to know us exactly as we are.

Jan O'Cat

[Carol/Bonadie]

JanOMalleycat wrote: "Oh well, the other thing I was thinking as the introductions discussion meandered was that new people would get to know us exactly as we are.
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LOL. Don't we want to maintain the illusion of sanity until we've roped 'em into our other charms?

[Ann]

Ms. O'TellsTheTruthCat:
There is that for certain!

JanOMalleycat wrote: "Oh well, the other thing I was thinking as the introductions discussion meandered was that new people would get to know us exactly as we are. "