by Tracy on March 31, 2009
Or, another reason why I hate my message board
Last year when my forums were shiny and new, I anticipated with great glee my first April Fool’s Day as a site owner/administrator. Oh! How many days did I spend merrily thinking of all the mischief I could cause? How sweet was the anticipation? The possibilities! Oh, [...]
by Tracy on February 10, 2009
Or, WIHMMB #11 A lack of clear titles
As I’ve said a few times in a few places, my resolution for 2009 was to be more helpful and less of a pokey prodder. This was probably not a good goal for somebody whose site’s entire premise is based on hating something and pointing out all the [...]
by Tracy on October 20, 2008
I put away the reasons why I hate my message board for awhile because in truth it was difficult for me to find an acceptable way to complain about people who were more or less my customers on the front page of a website most of them visit every day. It seems kind of ungrateful, [...]
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Why I hate my message board reason number nine is not because my message board is all about me; no, it’s because other people want to make it all about them, all of the time. Sometimes, certainly it’s acceptable to make a thread all about oneself, for example if you graduated from college or [...]
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One of the charming things about discussion board threads is the way the conversation naturally goes off on tangents and how multiple discussions can spring from the original post, like the strands of silk in a spider’s web. There might be situations where it behooves the message board management to keep threads strictly on [...]
