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Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS
Uhm, while I hate to do this, I am going to move this to the proper subforum.
As to your comments, We the moderators and administrators of this site have lives away from Camaro5. The moderators offer their time to help keep the site orderly and easier to navigate. With nigh on 100,000 members, think about this possibility...
I start a thread, post it and go look at something else in a sub-forum for a minute... I come right back to the first page and it's gone.... and by the time I get to the second page it's at the bottom. or headed to page three...
If every thread was left in this forum until it went dead, or even for a few days, threads would disappear off the first page within moments. The majority of improperly posted threads are from newer members but this is by no means universal.... There are people with thousands of posts, and yet they still post in the wrong forums. Some of them have numerous warnings and even some infractions for this same activity...
I move obvious threads when I have time. Occasionally I just want to come read without doing any official actions. Other times I'll come on here strictly to check and properly locate threads.
There isn't any set time frame of pattern for moving threads either. Something I may feel is appropriate other mods may want to relocate it...
It works well for the most part. Some threads just don't have a particular place and cross the realm of several forums. At that point its a personal choice or maybe a case of looking at a thread with a different perspective.
You mentioned you were a Moderator on a forum, and I have to ask if it had the number of members or volume of traffic this forum has.
I'm tired from lots of travel the last two days and offshore working but I hope something in my ramblings helped..
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SSE 4 2SS, thank you very much for your response. I hear you 100 percent and was just wondering about the logic of such moves. You've explained it in a manner that any of us can understand and I'm glad I brought this up so at the very least you can be heard/read by others on this process.
I was a mod early last decade for a few years for a place with only one main forum and maybe 3 or 4 (varied) sub-forums. The traffic was fairly high at one point and I remember some of the things I went through in the past. I know it can get crazy trying to keep things 'organized'... and that was with what I had to work with. You guys have to manage quite a few more I would say, so major kuddos for the job you're fulfilling here.
For the most part I think you guys are fair and understanding. ChrisBlair is right, I'm only trying to be constructive here and maybe the idea that Splitter brought up makes sense if possible. Adding the feature to select which forum to post in while posting one's post could help alleviate the situation. A plus of course would be having a general dump (or general discussion) that each post automatically falls in, along with it going in the right sub-forum. Just some thoughts.
Regardless, this place rocks if only because we all have so much in common lol. The rest is just icing on the cake. Lets all keep on keeping on...