Aqua-Soft ForumsHello Aqua-Softians!
I would like to get some feedback on this from you, the community.
I have realized that a lot of you are against this whole tagging the topics issue. However, you have to understand the reasons behind it
1.- It is still on the how to post guidelines on the top of each page, not following them will only give the appearance that we do not follow what we preach to users that have actuallly READ them as well as the guidelines.
2.- There were half of the threads tagged and half weren't when i started as a mod, consistency is one of the foundations of rule enforcement. the obvious choice was, all tagged (again, it is in the how to post guidelines)
3.- It is, as Stevie said, a lot easier for newsposters to spot releases and skim what shouldnt be ont eh news; But then again, they are not doing much newsposting anyway, only for the major releases.
If the tags need to be stopped, i will (its not like i would die without them as some of you think), but this has to be part of the rules, and obviously a better organizing method for naming of threads needs to be used. I will not stop tagging threads cause some people dislike it, or cause some people dont care. In all fairness, pleasing all 16000 members wont happen.
I would say this again, but Stevie said it to perfection
Contra - you can argue as much as you like against tagging threads, but it's a choice between that, completely renaming the threads, or having a forum full of gibberish titles. Of these, tagging is the fastest for us to do, and has the most impact for the time spent. Otherwise, we'd need to spend a good couple of minutes extra trying to re-word the title in such a way that people can find it again, but also so that it's more transparent what it's about. Not an easy task, I'm sure you'll agree.
Now, for the purpose of the thread...
Taking all that into consideration, something surely must be done to maintain a proper order in the naming of the titles. Trust me you would go crazy sooner or later if not. What do you propose as a titling aid in keepin ghte informative nature of titles?
I personally preffered the "tags" that appeared instead of the little icons next to the thread (where the pinned and closed icons are) .
If we come to an agreement, there will be no more discussions about it, lets come up with something that fits all.
That said, do not start flaming or bringing other issues into this discussion, i will delete the posts and close this thread in a splitsecond. Lets try to have a nice discussion about this as it affects us all.
Thank you all for reading.
// Seph
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