Forum Etiquette

I go OT again: bb_matt, since i should not misspell throat with a ght again, i thought i should inform you that the correct spelling is doubt.. Those stoopid non ght words!
 
Druksy's lost! Was thinking this was the TK????? Anyways, since it's alive and kicking again, and referring to:
antowan said:
LG, I agree with you for the most part. All of your points are valid, but the normal development of a thread is something that needs to be explained. A thread has a lifecycle of three stages.

Stage 1: Birth and establishment of the topic
Stage 2: Exchanges on the topic and possible solutions
Stage 3: Death of the thread where all possible angles of the topic have been explored and only banter related to the edges of the topic or totally off-topic banter continue.

IMO the only content that need to be pruned from a thread are those posts that either aim to derail the topic with incitement as well as posts that are preventing stage 2 from happening. Any person searching the forum for information need to understand that most of the juicy bits of information are at the beginning of the thread. No use in reading from the end of the thread backward because you are virtually guaranteed that after about 50 or so posts the thread is moving toward or is at stage 3. This is not true for all threads but is just an example.
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This leads to a very interesting question: which stage is the TK thread in at this point in time???? Alternately, antowan, can you dream up more stages? We definitely need quite a lot more for our belovered thread! :D
 
Forum Structure and Hijacking (change of thread)

I Agree in Pricipal with Moderating level, content and open feel of this forum
MyADSL would not have gained it's reputation as a great (Telkom ) consumers forum with respect from even the Goverment otherwise !

Only point of contension , as Lonegunman pointed out , the lost of information due to dying or hijacked topics in threads

That is exactly my point in the request for more structure in some forum sections regard to technical issues SEE Thread

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=308293#post308293
 
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ettubrute said:
Druksy's lost! Was thinking this was the TK?????
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Not lost but maybe amnesia. Why did I post here? Why is this thread? How is this thread? But perhaps more importantly. When is this thread?
 
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