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#21 Postby dhweather » Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:44 pm

Brent wrote:I agree... I go away for 5 minutes and there's a whole page of new stuff to wade through. It's getting out of hand...


Yes it is! I had two pages of new threads this morning from being away for eight hours last night.
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#22 Postby Brent » Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:57 pm

I've got an idea... have one discussion thread for everything about the system. Create ONE thread each time for a new advisory and have a thread for recon.

I'm a genius. :lol:
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#23 Postby cycloneye » Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:23 pm

Brent wrote:I've got an idea... have one discussion thread for everything about the system. Create ONE thread each time for a new advisory and have a thread for recon.

I'm a genius. :lol:


That is what I do.A thread for recon reports,on 97L all the information about it there,Dora the same etc.
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#24 Postby Brent » Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:34 pm

cycloneye wrote:
Brent wrote:I've got an idea... have one discussion thread for everything about the system. Create ONE thread each time for a new advisory and have a thread for recon.

I'm a genius. :lol:


That is what I do.A thread for recon reports,on 97L all the information about it there,Dora the same etc.


I just wish more people would follow it... usually those threads are very close to the top of the page, and they would be if there weren't 10 topics about the same thing.
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#25 Postby Greg » Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:05 pm

I noticed a post no longer bumps the topic to the top (unless your account is blessed somehow), so perhaps thats the reason for so many new posts. New posts seem to make it to the top.
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#26 Postby southerngale » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:53 am

Greg wrote:I noticed a post no longer bumps the topic to the top (unless your account is blessed somehow), so perhaps thats the reason for so many new posts. New posts seem to make it to the top.


When anyone replies, it bumps it up. :)
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#27 Postby P.K. » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:42 am

Wow, a whole page of new posts in the last 6 hours. Do none of you sleep over there?? :lol:
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#28 Postby senorpepr » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:44 am

P.K. wrote:Wow, a whole page of new posts in the last 6 hours. Do none of you sleep over there?? :lol:


:lol: Nope. Our government outlawed sleeping a few months ago. :lol:
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#29 Postby Lindaloo » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:13 pm

Please do not create new posts about the board when it goes down. I assure you that the Admins know what is going on and will relay messages in this thread when warranted. Thanks.
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#30 Postby Brent » Tue Jul 05, 2005 1:35 pm

P.K. wrote:Wow, a whole page of new posts in the last 6 hours. Do none of you sleep over there?? :lol:


:roflmao:

Wait til we have a major hurricane bearing down on the coast somewhere. :eek:
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#31 Postby ColdFront77 » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:50 pm

This was a problem last year. It became so overwhelming to even go through a few threads to participate.
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#32 Postby southerngale » Tue Jul 05, 2005 3:50 pm

wx247 wrote:It's because when Frick and Frack talk, people listen! :wink:


hehe

Well, I'll try it again then. Please look for a thread to reply in before starting a new one. It makes it easier for EVERYONE to navigate.
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#33 Postby dhweather » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:02 pm

You should have started a new thread to make that plea!!! :lol:
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#34 Postby jax » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:29 pm

single storm threads are too dense and title changes to many times...
there is a lot of info in them that simply gets lost in the pages...

I think it's a little extream to have so many important topics lost
in a NINE PAGE THREAD... I can appreciate less clutter... but this is
a little too much JMHO
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#35 Postby P.K. » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:13 pm

Brent wrote:
P.K. wrote:Wow, a whole page of new posts in the last 6 hours. Do none of you sleep over there?? :lol:


:roflmao:

Wait til we have a major hurricane bearing down on the coast somewhere. :eek:


Exactly, it wasn't exactly easy to follow last year either. The thing was I posted that message at 10:40am yesterday morning so that would have been 5:40am there and yet there were still lots of new topics from the previous few hours.
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#36 Postby Swimdude » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:22 pm

Just think about poor me! I'm on vacation and only have internet access about once per day! :eek:
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#37 Postby hurricanefreak1988 » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:43 pm

I think we should just make one big thread whenever a storm forms. There were 3 1/2 unread pages of threads when I checked in earlier. And the last time I checked in before that was just last night, so it wasn't that long. So in my opinion, it's kind of annoying. I say, an official Dennis thread, and official threads for future storms. Just my two cents.
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#38 Postby HurryKane » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:48 pm

hurricanefreak1988 wrote:I think we should just make one big thread whenever a storm forms. There were 3 1/2 unread pages of threads when I checked in earlier. And the last time I checked in before that was just last night, so it wasn't that long. So in my opinion, it's kind of annoying. I say, an official Dennis thread, and official threads for future storms. Just my two cents.


I'll have to use my two cents to disagree a bit: one thread to discuss everything about a storm could get very confusing very quickly, particularly when people don't quote the post they're responding to.

I don't mind different, but singular, threads to discuss models, advisories, storm movements, recon, and landfall forecasts for a particular storm. What's set up now (stickied Dennis advisory thread and recon thread, and a healthy model trends and a landfall forecast thread) is a good setup.
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#39 Postby soonertwister » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:18 pm

People start new threads, at least to some extent, because of the "me" syndrome.

Look at me, I'm important!

In my view it's up to the mods to prune the redundant new threads and graft them into existing ones, then lock the original thread with the explanation that nothing new was being said, go here.

Or just lock the unnecessary thread.

That discourages those who breathlessly proclaim a left turn/right turn, explosive deeping/falling appart, it's going to hit Tampa/Galveston, etc.

Other than that, I just post here. Don't start a lot of threads, but occasionally comment. But rampant new threads is a problem that seriously diminishes the usefulness of this message board.
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#40 Postby jax » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:54 pm

IMHO if it's impairative to have single threads... y'all
allow theads in the thread... ie: Dennis
1.Dennis Recon
a. 8am
b. 6pm
2.Dennis Track
3. Dennis intensity
4. Polls
a. What catagory will it be?
b. Who will it hit
5. NHC Advisorys
etc...

This will allow us to better access the data.
Like I said earlier... good info is getting lost
in the 19 pages in the thread...

JMHO
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