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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman Only trouble is some threads start off as wildlife and 'evolve' into chat as they get different posts. Just a thought. Julie |
Good point Julie, but it’s the original intent of the thread that’s the important thing - whether there’s a bit of banter or not.
The confusion comes when someone opens a thread expecting it to be wildlife related, and instead is faced with completely un-wildlife related topic. I can imagine this being especially off-putting for a newcomer to the site who is expecting wildlife related content. At least if they are in their respected compartments the option to view one or the other is a lot more straight forward.
This way at least the intent of the forum is more apparent especially to visitors.
If in the end this style is not adopted, I would say at least somehow label each recent thread with its particular forum category – for example: wildlife, photo, environment or treehouse…
I agree with cherrybee about using the 'new post' button, but if you are a newcomer it could often take a while for you to adopt this, and I personally only use it if I've been offline for a while.