New forum?

Post by **billseymour** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:01 pm

It seems to me that considering the number of correspondents to HHAD on a daily basis, you already have far too many forums (or is it fora?)

I suggest you need only two -- one for residents of Thailand, and one for non-residents. I presume you can find software sufficiently intelligent to sort them out, at least on an 80-20 basis.

Post by **Lev** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:17 pm

Well not really, you have to categorize the sections to keep content relevant otherwise readers will have to wade through a whole load of posts to find what they're looking for.

Post by **billseymour** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:04 pm

Perhaps, but I have the opposite problem.

As a local (well, nearly) resident I am interested in everything that goes on around me, so I have to click through numerous forums to view the issues that the correspondents are questioning.

I am particularly interested in the views and questions of the locals, and whether I can be of assistance (having lived here for two years now) -- but such views and questions are quite hard to find among your numerous forums.

I am not very interested in the views of the non-resident "electronic louts" that seem to have invaded certain areas of your web-site.

Post by **lomuamart** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:35 pm

billseymour wrote:Perhaps, but I have the opposite problem.

As a local (well, nearly) resident I am interested in everything that goes on around me, so I have to click through numerous forums to view the issues that the correspondents are questioning.

I am particularly interested in the views and questions of the locals, and whether I can be of assistance (having lived here for two years now) -- but such views and questions are quite hard to find among your numerous forums.

I am not very interested in the views of the non-resident "electronic louts" that seem to have invaded certain areas of your web-site.

Wow,
Two years here already? You must be really "up on it".

What do you mean by electronic louts?
Good luck.

Post by **lomuamart** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:38 pm

A PS,
With the grand total of 8 posts so far, I assume you've been giving good advice to all and sundry.

Post by **buksida** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:01 pm

billseymour wrote:but such views and questions are quite hard to find among your numerous forums.

The search function really is a marvellous little tool.

Post by **Wanderlust** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:12 am

Personally I find the 'View posts since last visit' to be a wonderful feature, as long as you log in fairly regularly you can quite quickly sort the wheat from the chaff. One useful feature I have come across on other forums is to be able to view only the unread posts in a thread - as in when you click on the thread title it only shows you the posts you haven't read, rather than all the ones preceding it (on that page) as well. I can imagine that for an infrequent reader/poster it could be quite tiresome on here to browse, but as has been said if you are looking for a specific subject use the search.

Post by **Guess** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:17 am

Wanderlust wrote:...forums.
I can imagine that for an infrequent reader/poster it could be quite tiresome on here to browse, but as has been said if you are looking for a specific subject use the search.

There are many things that are tiresome and boring but this site is not one of them.

A good job is done on the whole (no pun intended) by reasonable moderators. Obviously there is going to be a variety of views. That is the whole nature of forums.

My advice is check out the different forums on HHAD and try and respond accordingly. I know it is irresistable sometimes to respond to a one liner. I am probably more guilty than anybody.

BTW according to my very old Chamber's the plural of forum is fora, as was pointed out by a very observant poster. Forums does not have an entry.

For an infrequent user MS Excel can be tiresome. For an expert it is a tool. These are just bits of software created by men. Unfortunately for many of you it was people like me.

As Buksi said try the search function and every other function.

Post by **PeteC** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:34 am

If you read daily or just a few times a week, the "view posts since last visit" tab is more than adequate to keep up with all subjects. Pete

Post by **billseymour** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:33 pm

Thank you to Wanderlust and Pete for bringing the "view posts since last visit" tab to my attention. I think this will indeed address my issue.

I had not spotted this tab previously because I don't usually log on just to read posts.