Personally, I'm completely with you on the on the approach - and it's the one we use, we hardly delete anything. It's not 'offensive' things that are the problem, it's the downright illegal, which we do need to delete. Still, the thread view solution I'm working on won't have the problem.
June 26, 2023
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Yes, it could do with 'advanced search'. It's another case, in comparison with DPReview, where the underlying tree vs DB structure produces different results. For DPReview you can start off the search at any node and it stays within the branch. Can't do that within a DB structure.
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you get my vote, buts its not going to happen because a members personality is to close to home.
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I'm not sure what that means, but I think Cornergrafs ideas are excellent. So, he gets my vote too.
Alan
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I really don't understand why photographers are so in love with threaded view. It leads to some really annoying content for the flat view world. Is it really so hard just to breeze past what doesn't interest you?
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It depends on the nature of the forum / thread. Threads like the Wednesday C&C and This Week Through Your Eyes lend themselves to threaded view where replies are contained under individual posts. It is much easier to read replies to a single post without having to trawl through the whole flat view to find them all. Other single topic posts are ok in flat view. But even then the topic often expands and comments to different points mixed together gets a bit muddled, especially when the post replied to isn't quoted.
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Would it be that simple - we rather get 10 different answers and then 10 comments to each answer, why other answer is wrong plus about 10 non-related comments, which of course require answering and so on, ad nauseam. I can't see, how threaded or flat view could change that substantially. Well, threaded view will make moving sub-threads into dumpster much easier 🙃
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My favorite is when a guy asks should he buy lens A or lens B, he gets advice, then comes on and announces he purchased lens B. For the next three days people keep coming on pouring heartfelt advice on which lens to choose, completely oblivious to the fact that he has already made his purchase. Now I am not sure if that is 100% the fault of threaded, or it's people that are just too damn lazy to read other people's words in attempt to make sure their own words are heard, but it is mega annoying.
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TOO LAZY to learn to read properly! 😁
David
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I experienced that a fair bit on DPReview.
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That was one of the problems on DPReview. The moderator decided who was not nice, most of the time based on which side of the debate one was on.
Same goes for being a stuck record. Depends on the side of the discussion one is on.
Nothing wrong with a bit of hostility. I'd start with some other stuff on this site first.
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common sense is not so common 🤨
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Einstein.
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You read the part where the OP made their choice, after that whatever you read that isn't from the OP is gratuitous.
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Or perhaps of interest to future readers or others contemplating the same question.
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Hi,
I greatly prefer to stay out of certain rabbit holes. Like this one where I have to scroll thru a bunch of chatter regarding threaded v flat view.
If we had threaded view here, I could read a post or two into the bunny tunnel and then avoid that entire area when there are new posts listed.
Most of the time, I read only the responses to the original post. And I don't usually follow down any of the branches of the tree. Those being responses to the responder.
As it it, there is too much having to ID, post by post, if said responses are to the OP or to someone else somewhere along the way.
And, right now, I'm somewhere along some tree branch and not responding to the OP. Just vaguely responding to...somewhere.
If it were up to me, there would be only threaded view and no flat option at all. It was almost that way long ago on DP Review. But Phil elected to keep both. And I can live with that.
Stan
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Reading isn't the same as writing. I may want to contribute my two cents in spite of knowing that the OP has already made their choice.
