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·For everyone who's clamoring about having the old post jump back to
the top, thinking that's the solution to all problems, let's put some logic
into this:
The old post to the top may be great for the fortunate few who happen
to get a question answered quickly; for everyone else who posts and
there's no one immediately available to answer their question, they
might as well be talking to themselves. Think about it: Let's say you post a question at 11:30. At lunchtime, a bunch of people (let's say20) get on and, starting chronologically from the last place they left off in the forum, answer 5 different questions each. That's 100 questions right there that are going to immediately jump to the top. Is it likely that those 20 people are now going to go back and see what "new" posts they missed by answering the previous posts? No. Therefore, the person who just asked the newest question is buried 5/10/15 pages back in no time, with no possible hope for an answer (really: who's going to go back 15 pages to answer questions?).
That is a quick way to lose new people and new questions real quick, not to mention there's absolutely no way to keep a chronological scenario to the forum. If someone goes back a week or two to figure out the stuff they missed and decides to post to "Hey, who wants to buy a GT500 KR?", then that junk is going to go straight back to the top, appearing like a 'new' post.
Old post to the top is great only for the single person who posted - that means they don't have to 'look' for their post. How dreadful that would be..imagine the nerve! Not only do you have to wait for someone to share their free advice, but then you might have to go back a page or two to find the answer instead of having it conveniently placed at the head of everything else.
Old post to the top is very selfishly individual oriented at the expense of the rest of the posters in the forum.
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the top, thinking that's the solution to all problems, let's put some logic
into this:
The old post to the top may be great for the fortunate few who happen
to get a question answered quickly; for everyone else who posts and
there's no one immediately available to answer their question, they
might as well be talking to themselves. Think about it: Let's say you post a question at 11:30. At lunchtime, a bunch of people (let's say20) get on and, starting chronologically from the last place they left off in the forum, answer 5 different questions each. That's 100 questions right there that are going to immediately jump to the top. Is it likely that those 20 people are now going to go back and see what "new" posts they missed by answering the previous posts? No. Therefore, the person who just asked the newest question is buried 5/10/15 pages back in no time, with no possible hope for an answer (really: who's going to go back 15 pages to answer questions?).
That is a quick way to lose new people and new questions real quick, not to mention there's absolutely no way to keep a chronological scenario to the forum. If someone goes back a week or two to figure out the stuff they missed and decides to post to "Hey, who wants to buy a GT500 KR?", then that junk is going to go straight back to the top, appearing like a 'new' post.
Old post to the top is great only for the single person who posted - that means they don't have to 'look' for their post. How dreadful that would be..imagine the nerve! Not only do you have to wait for someone to share their free advice, but then you might have to go back a page or two to find the answer instead of having it conveniently placed at the head of everything else.
Old post to the top is very selfishly individual oriented at the expense of the rest of the posters in the forum.
Visit my homepage for Repair info, with pictures!
http://home.dencity.com/mustangcub
