Now that Red is the acknowledged Future King...

[Wayne Morellini]

I have suggested that to our admin gods on more than a few occasions in the past. Most the time threads get resurrected, it's accidental. Usually brought on by a quick reply after a search and bam, there it is. Often times, it's not such a bad thing in terms of a post or two that are relevant to the latest addition to the thread... Unfortunately, so many of these threads that come back to life contain old or outdated info. Too many occasions where we actually see a 3 year old thread pop up with old specs or info on something and the next thing you know, people are quoting it elsewhere on the forum or it's causing confusion because they don't look at the dates.

...If I had my way, any thread on these forums that goes for 90 days without posting activity will automatically lock itself. That's a rough amount of time off the top of my head, but probably not too far off the mark. It's usually better if someone starts a thread and then links to the old thread, or better yet, specific posts, for the necessary references.

That, closing threads, was going to be my other suggestion, but the people you want to talk to in the original thread will not know about the new tgread., see the followup email with Evin. 3 or 6 months (Jim tends to stretch these things out too long before giving an official release post). Actually I would love to go back to the original ff35 or pocket scarlet posts and ask "where are these" (sorry watching "whose line is it anyway", and it is activating my funny bone) . I came up with a simple methord, creating linked threads, so everybody in the original thread gets notified that a linked thread is created, and the furst post, so they can come over if they want, with auto links to each other in each thread, and previous post and thread title with the link. Makes it a simple single click process and lets the people you want to talk to find you.

Graeme, Jeff and Bruce:
Bruce, just pointing out you predicted the future, retrospectively . But the direct relevance was about improvements to the technical art discussed, however, the rest of the posts since then are mostly off the subject, shame, shame. So maybe Graeme or Jeff would like to discuss my post topic?

 

[Steve Gibby]

An ancient sage once said:

"It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt"

Great advice...

 

[Ketch Rossi]

An ancient sage once said:

"It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt"

Great advice...

He he, I love this one Steve... Problem is... I have a big mouth...

 

[Steve Gibby]

He he, not a problem at all though Ketch - because you have a big mind and big goals to match it

 

[Wayne Morellini]

An ancient sage once said:

"It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt"

Great advice...

It's ussually the people that quote that. For a fool often does not know the wisdom he hears.

 

[Steve Gibby]

It's ussually the people that quote that. For a fool often does not know the wisdom he hears.

No need to take the wisdom quote personally - and if you're going to spell "usually", wisdom dictates it is spelled with only one "s" ;-))

Actually my original wisdom quote was directed at all of us. I don't know anyone, including myself, who hasn't spoken out occasionally on something here on Red User without putting their foot in their mouth. It has happened to everyone...

Again, my post was offered as humor directed at all of us - thus the smiley face in the original post. It wasn't directed at you or anyone else personally. Forum rules prohibit personal attacks - so lets both just move on.

 

[Wayne Morellini]

Thanks Steve. The usually was a innocent typo or auto spell check failure, it must think that it is spelled that way somewhere in the world.

I ussually check my mouth up to several times before I post rewriting, but you can take horses to water but not make him drink (understand what's happening) the saying goes.

Sorry about the comeback, but it was not such a good fit here, and I have had people like that before around here, and don't particularly want to put up with them again, their pointed points of view ussually extend from misunderstandings, biase, vested interest, self interest (more generally) pride etc, maliciously, or even dumb ignorance. It might be a better fit over at the other thread I'm getting my but kicked in. I don't care if people make innocent mistakes, I don't think we should be, but if they keep it for other reasons I am not so impressed.

But the biggest thing that people miss, is moral intelligence, the moral imperitive/need to learn right, versus being dumb for the sake of being dumb. Thus, they will nit listen for whatever reason, and you can't have a sound discussion with them. I know that the word moral has all sorts of connotations in today's society, but in this respect it is just the sound practical logical functioning of society and reality (truth and logic) (emotions are part of reality and morality but more covered in other aspects). Is too much, too much, or are we too little, that is what we need to ask ourselves? We need to consider this when we think too much is being said, and consider what to do, his much to appropriately read or pass on to subjects addressed to them, before deciding it is too much.

 

[Wayne Morellini]

Hmm, sorry, I missed at least one aspect in this, as to wherever something is too much, is it appropriate and to determine that we have to listen and understand (enough). Many people who are inappropriate think things are inappropriate because they are not saying it and are themselves innapropriate.