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Hemavich

#410723 Tue, 28 Aug 07 08:47 PM

while browsing the threads of this cute forum, i ovserved that there are some topics repeated.

Some have several participations but of a repeated idea.

The admins may delete em or create a sub-forum of repeated topics.

Thanks in advance.

Hemavich

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Clive

#410749 Tue, 28 Aug 07 09:49 PM

Hi,

This is a good suggestion, but please also consider that we are all unpaid volunteers and our free time is limited. Smile [:)]

Best wishes, Clive

Clive

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Hemavich

#410841 Wed, 29 Aug 07 01:11 AM

I consider that Clive and every moderator can do it anytime he want.

thank u for Ur comment.

Hemavich

Kooyeen

#411364 Wed, 29 Aug 07 10:54 PM

I think I had a better suggestion, but... not everyone is willing to change a lot of things and spend a lot of time improving this forum, also because much depends on system admininstrators and the real owners of the forum (Frank? I don't know...)
Anyway, I too noticed that there's a lot of information wasted in this forum, either because there's repeated info, or because some info is difficult to find so it's like it's lost, or because it's confusing (good info and bad info mixed together).
The idea would be rearranging the info in a neat and clear way, either in an online grammar (with hypertext) or a wiki, or wherever you could add neatly arranged info and examples regularly, that could be used as a reference for both learners and teachers.

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Francesca

#411404 Thu, 30 Aug 07 01:19 AM

Hi! The repeated topics usually occur because many members do not use the 'search-button' before posting, I think that each one of us could keep the forums neat and clear if we searched first what we want to know Smile [:)]

Francesca

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Hemavich

#411411 Thu, 30 Aug 07 01:45 AM

Francesca wrote:

Hi! The repeated topics usually occur because many members do not use the 'search-button' before posting, I think that each one of us could keep the forums neat and clear if we searched first what we want to know

Thank u all for caring but this solution heals the coming posts not to be repeated. what about the repeated ones. Are there any other techniques or strategies to make the forum clear and neat??

Hemavich

Grammar Geek

#411434 Thu, 30 Aug 07 03:24 AM

Again, we do this for "fun" as volunteers. It would take many, many hours to clean up old repeated posts, and that's not what I find interesting to do in my spare time.

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khoff

#428139 Sun, 07 Oct 07 07:51 AM

Repeated topics don't bother me at all. On the other hand, abbreviations like this:

thank u for Ur comment.

drive me crazy! Still, although I am a moderator, I don't go around deleting them all, nor do I ask other moderators to spend their time doing so. (I might complain about them, though, or choose not to answer them.)