Deletion of Threads

[Mike]

Everything else aside, if we stopped working on the forum it would become virtually unusable in a matter of weeks, if not days.

[davec2]

Hello Mike,

Alan's little fit of pique is completely unnecessary ! quote [ Finally thank you for your thanks and gratitude for all the time and trouble that the moderators donate for which you all do not pay a single penny. ] unquote.

There have been numerous occasions where all three of you have been thanked, yourself for the site and both Alan and Bill for all their work in helping to run/control it, so Alan, I do not think you needed to make that statement !

If members wanted to trawl through the posts, I am sure they will come up with enough examples proving you have being doing a good job ( unless they have been deleted ) but deleting a post which is also blatantly obvious a result of hard work, is I think unwarranted and that it the crux of Peter's complaint.

A point to this argument I do not understand is how the counting system actually works, if a member writes three posts about the same subject and a moderator decides to lump them together, the member has still written three posts so the count should never go down ?? another of Peter's queries.

With respect.

Dave.

[Phil2M]

Any idea where my recent thread about Scotland and the war memorials has gone to?

There was a poster in the thread I wanted to contact. If its been merged I cant find the thread its been attached to.

Cheers,

Phil

[Alan O]

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ighlight=spean

If you search Spean it comes up here.

[Phil2M]

Hi Alan,

Its the wrong thread, mate!

Phil

[Alan O]

Originally Posted by davec2

Hello Mike,

A point to this argument I do not understand is how the counting system actually works, if a member writes three posts about the same subject and a moderator decides to lump them together, the member has still written three posts so the count should never go down ?? another of Peter's queries.

With respect.

Dave.

Dave,

If you merge 3 threads for example, in order for them to:

a. Read fluently.
b. Fit on as few as pages as necessary.
c. Be relevent then the single posts with a 'smiley face' and nothing else, an off tangent joke or comment or time expired links are removed.

This reduces the post count but keeps the thread readable and of use. In addition the unnecesary quotes, duplicate photos etc can be trimmed as part of the archiving.

I hope that this answers your question.

Alan

[davec2]

Hello Alan,

To a degree, yes, I am assuming that when you delete a post, the posts count drops automatically ??

Dave.

[Alan O]

Yes it is an automatic re-count. I have not tried splitting a thread to see if it increases the count mind you.

There have been a number of threads that diverge into 2 topics which should ideally be separated to make sense as 4 people have 2 conversations over each other. I have yet to attempt to untangle one of these and it is often easier to duplicate the whiole thing and then remove the duplicated posts alternately until the 2 new threads make sense.

[Phil2M]

I seem to be having the same problem as Peter now. Whats happened to my thread? It doesn't show up in my statistics at all.

I feel that I have just been deliberately ignored????

Phil

[Keith Blakeman]

Originally Posted by Peter J

Oh dear!

Bit of an own goal there, Alan (please see post #8 within this thread)

Mike, as previously requested, would you be kind enough to delete my membership forthwith, please?

Many thanks,

Peter.

It's a shame it's come to this, a bit of clarity would have prevented a valuable member departing. I'm not going to ask you to change your mind Peter, I've been there myself. The forum is now missing a valuable member who contributed with impeccable sources of postcards and photographic information as well as documentary evidence which us London collectors will sorely miss.

Let's not forget the war memorials input also, after today's news of desecration of two in London how many others will fall victim.

Badge collecting isn't all about copies, re-strikes and repros.

[fougasse1940]

http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ad.php?t=32278
Seems Alan's post DaveC2 is replying to in post #2 is gone?

Same here:
http://www.britishbadgeforum.com/for...ad.php?t=32318
Where's Bill's post as referred to in sapperson's post #2?

Rgds, Thomas.

[Bill A]

Hello Thomas, I can speak to your second point. The thanks was in response to an edit of the initial post to add a live link.

[fougasse1940]

Thanks Bill, I should have read the fine print.

Rgds, Thomas.

[Charlie585]

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[Michael Dorosh]

As a (hopefully helpful) hint - if the forum search feature doesn't at first find what you want, go to google, and enter your search terms, along with

site:britishbadgeforum.com

This will search only this domain, and I've found on other sites and forums is a most effective search tool.

For example

This link will take you to a search for "site:britishbadgeforum.com Scotland war memorials" - it returns 129 entries.

The forum search feature just tells me that "war" is too short a search term, continues to look for "Scotland" and "memorials" and gives only this thread as a result!