(07-30-2009, 12:31 PM)ayadew Wrote: 3D: Regarding your thoughts of easier navigation, yes that is a point. But what is a "thread" for you, if so?
I see them as a container for associations with sometimes a common theme, sometimes not, and often a 'thread' running through the whole conversation which you can track.
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Fair questions my fine friend. It would seem to me that a thread is whatever we choose to make it. When I create threads I feel that I take on a certain amount of honor/duty to maintain it, if you will, for the benefit of all who browse by. That said, I readily recognize that this attitude is not shared by all thread creators, and indeed even for those that do, sometimes threads take on a life of their own and march in their own direction. I am reminded of the quote (OT:3 points for the source): "I must see where the crowd is headed, for I am their leader."
Given the growth in number of threads and members though, I would suggest that some amount of truth in advertising is helpful for all to recognize the topics that interest them. I generally use this as a guide when deciding if a thought is part of an existing thread or deserving of it own.
To be clear though, it is not my goal to produce and enforce a set of protocols for the creation and maintenance of threads. Rather, I would simply like for us to discover some techniques/tools that forum members may choose to use to better maintain the threads that they create and on which they post.
Further I agree that there is a need and a place for those that prefer to let things "grow wild", as it were, and prefer the jungle threads that may/do result. To each his own, and to you, yours as well.
3D Sunset