| Invisible move [message #174737] |
Tue, 30 May 2006 07:21  |
Frank
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I moved a couple of topics from various forums to the Marketplace. The downside of this was that there remains a topic-title stating that the original posts (titled 'Developers wanted') was moved. This way cross-posters/spammers get what they want after all.
It would be handy if you could 'silently' move such posts.
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| Re: Invisible move [message #174747 is a reply to message #174737] |
Tue, 30 May 2006 07:48  |
Art Metzer
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I think Frank's suggestion is a good one, so long as the moderator controls the option of whether to silently move, or to move as-is.
Of course, the drawback from always doing a silent move is that a newbie might have misclassified his/her question, and then refer back to the board to monitor its progress. But if he/she refers back after one of these "silent moves" (i.e., no "forwarding address"), I can easily see the newbie getting discouraged/cyncial ("What happened to my question?").
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| Re: Invisible move [message #174748 is a reply to message #174747] |
Tue, 30 May 2006 07:52 |
Frank
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| Art Metzer wrote on Tue, 30 May 2006 14:48 |
I think Frank's suggestion is a good one, so long as the moderator controls the option of whether to silently move, or to move as-is.
Of course, the drawback from always doing a silent move is that a newbie might have misclassified his/her question, and then refer back to the board to monitor its progress. But if he/she refers back after one of these "silent moves" (i.e., no "forwarding address"), I can easily see the newbie getting discouraged/cyncial ("What happened to my question?").
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No, my idea was indeed to add it as an option. It would probably be used quite rarely.
Of course, if extreme spamming is involved, a deletion would remove it completely
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