Why?

Are you sure?

I have been enjoying Vi Pham's snake threads. I just looked again at "Snakes: Growing and Shedding", and it is still there in the daily digest. The reply window also opened up fine, but I was only testing and did not actually submit a post.

This whole discussion started when I tried to respond to an odd thread on the Taj Mahal, only to find that no access was allowed. Then, within about ten minutes later, the thread on connected kw also disappeared. I did not see any untoward postings on either thread, nor any explanation as to why they wee not only closed, but removed altogether.

I think that CR4 could benefit from having just one really good generalist as a sole moderator.* For instance, although the term "connected kw" might be cryptic to some readers, it is a common concept in electrical work. Apart from the goofy textspeak, the OP was a perfectly legitimate topic.

*Unless it is a really heavy day for postings, one can read and consider everything within an 8-hour period. The only problem might be some "emergency" while the moderator isn't looking.

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Thanks Jaxy

Yes, the same thread at the bottom in section "New Blog Entry" is working fine.

This sort of thing creates confusion. Can't you remove this sort of problem? I hope it should be possible.

The reason that we feature blogs in the announcement is so that they can rise to the top and be noticed. Not everyone takes the time to scroll all the way to the bottom of the daily digest to see the new blogs and it is a nice way to recognize our bloggers for the hard work they put in and feature them at the top of the daily digest.

I don't think it is too confusing if you know and understand what is going on. We haven't had many problems with this system in the past.

This should be easy to implement. Simply redirect any reply to the announcement so that it goes to the original thread. It's just a different choice of hyperlink.

Right now, the "Announcement" method is the best thing we can do to feature blog entries. There is currently no means of moving comments between blogs or forums.

I think we should investigate wording the messages in the Announcements. Perhaps staring them with something along the lines of:

"Here is an excerpt from one of our latest blog entries. Click the link below to continue reading it and leave a comment."

would help avoid some of the confusion.

I appreciate the effort of SavvyExacta, Jaxy and the other moderators who make this free forum possible, and am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, and a modicum of respect for blogging, and putting out regular content in this global free market of ideas.

I appreciated the work of the prior moderators and folks who created this forum.

It is unfortunate that the discussions got beyond civil resulting in "institutional change." instead of criticizing, how about just contributing some great content?

I think that 575 posts is a worthy accomplishment of and by itself.

milo

Thanks, Milo. I think that's a great suggestion.

The comment was intended to be humorous. It was written in haste and regretably not proofread for effect prior to posting.

What i wrote does not come off as very humorous at all. I would like to appolagize for what I posted. Jaxy and SavvyExacta, please excuse and disregard my post, the tone and suggestions that come across in the post were not my intent and i regret not taking enough time to self-edit. thank you botth for your work on CR4. FTMRE

Whyyyyy?

MC