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Post by Traveller on Mar 12, 2006 19:31:31 GMT -5
Yes, this has already come up.
What is "backstarting a thread"? It's the practice of starting a new discussion in an old thread, instead of clicking on the link labeled "new thread" to start a new discussion. Don't do this.
If you're going to bring up a whole new topic, I expect you to start a whole new discussion instead of burying your remarks deep inside somebody else's discussion. I'm an admin on this board, but I'm not the sysop. I don't have the access needed to move material from one thread to another or to retitle a thread. I have no way to uncover what you bury by doing this, except by reposting your material under my own name, and like I said elsewhere, that just looks sloppy.
It's also a pain in the neck for me, and seriously - how hard is it for somebody to click on that link? I don't know why this practice has become more common of late, but as the admin for this little place, I'm laying down the law on this one. This practice isn't just bad netiquette, it's inconsiderate. If I see somebody doing this in the future, I will most likely just delete his posts and be done with it.
I would like to see more people post to this forum and sorry if this scares people off, but we do have to have a few standards of behavior, and this one isn't all that far out, so let's just do this, OK, guys?
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