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Originally Posted by Brad K
Back in Usenet days I was in some situations where decisions weren't based just on a count of hands but also how well people presented their position. For example here, we have people saying Q threads get buried in historical and others saying they don't and its plenty easy to look at the historical forum and see the first page has Q threads dating back to Jan and they've all gotten answers.* So on that basis the facts support the position of those who say the threads don't get buried and their position should get the weight.
*The one Q thread without an A is a question about on line leagues which is not part of the expertise of the historical boardies.
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I think you're overplaying this point that threads are being "buried". I ctrl+f'd "bur" and the only person using that word is you. I re-read some posts and Charlie Hough said posts were getting shuffled down. So the count is 1.
Ktulu, however, made the interesting point that when one tries to search something in that forum that you get a bunch of simulation threads.
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Originally Posted by Brad K
The way most board users function a thread isn't buried until it goes to page two. And that plain doesn't happen in the Historical forum.
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Here I think you're over-estimating how most users use the boards as well. If you have an answer to a question, I think most people are either going to do a search (using google or doing a site-wide search here or going to a specific board first) or they're going to go straight to some board here (general or not) and just post. I don't think many people at all are going to a board and then skimming down the titles to see if they see a thread that may answer their question. I just don't see that. So it doesn't matter if they're "buried". EDIT for clarification: Buried down a page, no. Buried among search results, yes.
Me personally, I actually very rarely use the board structure. I usually just use the New Posts link above or Google search.
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I don't know. I see a lot of frustration and, frankly, I don't understand much of it. If the main complaint was "the forum titles/descriptions are confusing, please clarify them", okay, I totally get that. If the complaint was, "how the forums are divided aren't as effective to getting help as they should be", I'd understand that too. But what I seem to be hearing from some instead is, "I want to post where I want to post, regardless of the intent of the current board structure or what may be best." Or maybe even, "I'm a historical-only player, keep those filthy fictionals away from me". And that makes me just want to walk away, dust off my hands, and say, "okay, good luck with that".