I’m sorry. I reported a couple of your posts as spam because I am a bit grumpy about the termination of various boards and the way this is being handled by TMF. And I agreed with another poster here who said, roughly, that the repeated posting of the same thing in multiple places felt insincere and demeaning to posters here at TMF.
So I reported 2 or 3 of your posts as spam because they met the technical definition of spam. And I was feeling feisty.
I had no idea they would actually be removed. I figured that whoever actually does the removal would look at the post and reject the Fool Alert.
I still feel that this has been handled poorly by TMF and that your posts were not helpful. But this wasn’t the right way to express my disagreement.
Trying to find a bright side, I suppose this is yet another demonstration of the problems with the existing board structure and how they are administered. Which is why changes are happening - hopefully changes for the good.
Just goes to show I have no special protections. I tried to explain what was happening and why, responding to questions where questions arose. I am sorry my efforts were not well received.
But I understand the consternation and discontent this decision brings. I have been a member of this community for over 20 years and regular read hundreds of boards each week, on both the premium and freemium sides.
More change is coming to the TMF Community. If you have access to MF Options, you can see what has been in test and what will be coming to the rest of the freemium and premium communities. It is not going to just be an updating of the current forums.
Fuskie
Who expects this streamlining of the TMF Community is not so much a consequence of the problems of the boards platform but an attempt to reduce the amount of work that will be involved when the migration takes place…
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an attempt to reduce the amount of work that will be involved when the migration takes place…
I question this … I suspect that the conversion will be entirely automated so it doesn’t matter how much is there. Indeed, if a forum is being converted to read-only, is it going to point to the new database or to the old database. The latter sounds fraught with peril, suggesting the posts are coming across anyway.
It would be helpful if someone would post an authoritative list and provide a feedback mechanism. I can see no justification for closing all computer boards except Stupid.
I can see no justification for closing all computer boards except Stupid.
I’ll play devil’s advocate on that for a moment.
This is a financial web site, not a computer help web site. It can be somewhat helpful to have a discussion board to help people keep their computers able to access the boards. So there will be one such board. Not one for every OS and device out there.
I suspect the goal is to consolidate onto a single board all help with the various computers we use on a daily basis.
I had no idea they would actually be removed. I figured that whoever actually does the removal would look at the post and reject the Fool Alert.
Confirms what we have known all along. Someone FA’s a post and it gets deleted every time. I would use the term “automatically deleted” but “mindlessly deleted” is better since a human is involved just along enough to hit the delete button and send the offender a generic statement about why.
Yet somehow the burden of moderating is the reason given for so many social boards going away.
Confirms what we have known all along. Someone FA’s a post and it gets deleted every time.
I have reported posts that were not deleted. So they do not get deleted every time. But I will certainly agree with the “mindless” part of your comment. Post deletion has been a mindless process.
I suspect that the conversion will be entirely automated so it doesn’t matter how much is there.
Having transitioned many systems from one platform to another I can say that it’s impossible to automate all the work except in very rare cases. TMF has over two decades of accretions – I bet it’s quite a mess.
Having transitioned a few myself, my experience is that there is either an automated map which can be applied or there is a loss of data. I see no reason while manual attention to individual boards would be required or feasible. And, as noted, if one is going to move the data for read-only boards, than simple activation is all that is required to make them available again.
Some systematic survey of the community with a feedback mechanism is likely to help a lot.