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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
If you will kindly check out the sticky entitled "Troubleshooting.....get the most from your post", written by Larry Bible, you'll find that it contains every point that would be of interest to a new member, including when to post a new thread and how to title it.
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The moderator can, and usually will, edit the title of a thread if it's unsuitable.
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... for the fact that Larry's THREAD escaped my multiple daily perusals of the E-mail "UPDATE" / summary of New/Revised THREADs/POSTs... this tends to prove my point which is that
many of us DO NOT READ EVERY THREAD beyond the title that is initially used. You are 100% correct, Larry Bible's POST/THREAD at:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?t=127342 but for the same reasons I gave in my POST/THREAD, I had never read his POST until you told me about it. I guess his THREAD title: "TROUBLESHOOTING, Get the Most from your Post! ", just did not grab my attention enough to entice me into reading it beyond the title itself.
Much, if not most, of what Larry wrote is absolutely great advice and many of his points are so logical that many of us have adopted them without ever reading his THREAD. But there are others [ especially “newbies” as well as the rest of us ] who could benefit greatly if they were led early on to read a THREAD that would encompass the essential elements of Larry's THREAD and maybe even some of my original ideas that are valid. I concentrated on the initial THREAD "Title:" and I think the magic in such composition might come from keeping it short and "ILLUSTRATEing" the points. Larry largely did just this as I did in my slant on these closely related subjects... but if such ideas are relegated to the dust heap of the archives, we [the FORUM] will continue to operate but in a manner short of what we have potential for if we could figure out how to encompass such ideas so that our “newbies” are
all-but-required to read such a THREAD before they are allowed to start POSTing... an instructional THREAD that is short and to the point as practicable and illustrates the points of both Larry's and my THREAD ideas.
I was hoping you might know how this might be accomplished "within the system" … at least for all of MercedesShop.Com’s more popular THREADS… and yes maybe even bring this idea of “required reading” to the producers of the software that for the most part automatically drives this FORUM each day !??
In the interest of IMPROVEment,
Sam