Forum Organization

[rwmastel]

Attention All Fourm Users

Please use the various sections of the forums appropriately.  Over the past few months there has been an inordinate amount of postings in the General Discussion fourm related to Group events, items for sale, and items wanted to buy.  We have seperated out special forums for these needs so that people interested in these particular topics can go find the information much faster.  Please try to use the forum catagories appropriately as it will benefit everyone.

Thank you,

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both  tops
1994 E420

[rwmastel]

Format of postings

Here's a web site that makes some worth while suggestions on how to make your posts efficient and easy to read.

http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both  tops
1994 E420

[hands_aus]

Hey Rodd

The members  of this forum need to be reminded that it is about the Pagoda cars and not their own personalities.

This group has a great reputation internationally as one of friendliness and politeness between members.
Let us not lose that reputation.

Bob Smith (Brisbane,Australia)
RHD,1967 early 250 SL, auto

[cth350]

On thing that drives me crazy about this forum is the order of posts on a thread.  I see the oldest post first, followed by the most recent and then they go down in decending order.  If you're new to a thread, it's an insane way to read it.

Is this some sort of "feature" I accidently enabled?  If so, how do I stop it?  If this is normal for the board, why?

Thx -CTH

[rwmastel]

quote:Originally posted by cth350

On thing that drives me crazy about this forum is the order of posts on a thread.  I see the oldest post first, followed by the most recent and then they go down in decending order.  If you're new to a thread, it's an insane way to read it.

Is this some sort of "feature" I accidently enabled?  If so, how do I stop it?  If this is normal for the board, why?

Thx -CTH

CTH,

This is a setting that is set globally for the Forum.  We chose this method because we felt most people visit the forum often.  When visiting often, you don't want to be forced to scroll to the bottom of every thread, or to the second or third page of the thread, just to see the one new post since your last visit.

It was a choice that was made in the beginning and has been working well for almost 3 years now.  Does that explain it?

Thanks,

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both  tops
1994 E420

[cth350]

And there's no way to individually override it?

The funny thing, was it took me a good 30 seconds to find your reply  to my post.  

It's a screwy. But that's the breaks. Thanks for the info. -CTH

[rwmastel]

Chuck,

I don't think it's an individual setting, but I'll check.

- Do you use the left and right arrow topics at the top and bottom of the thread to move from topic to topic?
- Do you use the Active Topics link in the top right corner Forums menu to find new topic since your last login?

These help make navigation faster and help you find new posts quickly.

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both  tops
1994 E420

[cth350]

switching between active topics is easy. It's attempting to read a thread in cronological order that drives me nuts. Of all the benz forums I visit, I avoid this one as much as I dare because it's just hard to read.  I spend more time in the 170/220 forums than this one and I don't own one of those. -CTH

[tuultyme]

I for one like this format with the latest reply on top.  If you want to look at a thread with the most recent on the bottom click on the printer friendly version and read from that.  I do that when I want a printed copy of a tread for my hard file.

Bruce; 268Blaugrun(green) 1970 280SL; IL

[cth350]

except that the latest reply isn't on top, it's one post away.
If the posts were simply backwards, I could handle that. -CTH