A 'Threads Hall of Fame'

[MarkvN]

Although I haven't made many contributions myself, I have been a regular (maybe you could even call it faithfull) visitor to c.net over the past year, and I am very much impressed by the amount of information that can be found here. However, something happened to me the other day that showed a drawback of the sheer size of this forum: quite by accident, I stumbled upon an interesting thread that, I guess, I should have read a long time ago. It is titled the 'Bad Habit List For Beginner'.

 

This made me realise (not for the first time) that some of the best information has become burried deeply away. How many other excellent threads have I overlooked all this time? To partly resolve this, I thought it would be nice if the longtime regulars (and all Lesser Gods) of this forum would delve into their memories and list the best, the deepest, the most informative, the most revealing, the not to be missed threads that they think every newcomer (and everybody else) should be aware of. A sort of 'Threads Hall of Fame' so to speak – I know the title is a little presumptuous, but if it draws some attention, that's what its meant for, isn't it? I would be really interested to see what everybody comes up with!

 

So, my own contribution to this 'Threads Hall of Fame' are the afore mentioned

'Bad Habit List For Beginner': http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...amp;mode=linear

and

'why the standards are low in concertinas, and what virtuosi might emphasize if they existed en masse':

http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...amp;mode=linear

 

Thanks a lot,

Mark

[david fabre]

Hi,

 

A few ideas :

 

1/ important threads can be identified as "sticky" to remain on the top of the list. this feature is not used a lot here

compared to other forums (for instance on the chiff and fipple whistle forum there are about 20 sticky threads)

 

2/ Another problem is that in many threads the important information are burried within lots of side discussion that make

the topic hard to follow a long time after. Maybe these important threads could be "cleaned" somehow

by retaining only the important infos, or maybe one should start new "synthesis threads" where it will be explicitly

stated that one should not digress from the topic.

 

3/ I'm just reallising that what I propose in point 2 would be much more easy to do in the form of a wiki....

So how about a concertina wiki ?

 

 

David

 

 

 

Although I haven't made many contributions myself, I have been a regular (maybe you could even call it faithfull) visitor to c.net over the past year, and I am very much impressed by the amount of information that can be found here. However, something happened to me the other day that showed a drawback of the sheer size of this forum: quite by accident, I stumbled upon an interesting thread that, I guess, I should have read a long time ago. It is titled the 'Bad Habit List For Beginner'.

 

This made me realise (not for the first time) that some of the best information has become burried deeply away. How many other excellent threads have I overlooked all this time? To partly resolve this, I thought it would be nice if the longtime regulars (and all Lesser Gods) of this forum would delve into their memories and list the best, the deepest, the most informative, the most revealing, the not to be missed threads that they think every newcomer (and everybody else) should be aware of. A sort of 'Threads Hall of Fame' so to speak – I know the title is a little presumptuous, but if it draws some attention, that's what its meant for, isn't it? I would be really interested to see what everybody comes up with!

 

So, my own contribution to this 'Threads Hall of Fame' are the afore mentioned

'Bad Habit List For Beginner': http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...amp;mode=linear

and

'why the standards are low in concertinas, and what virtuosi might emphasize if they existed en masse':

http://www.concertina.net/forums/index.php...amp;mode=linear

 

Thanks a lot,

Mark

[Ken_Coles]

David,

 

I won't comment on the administrative work load (never mind judgment calls, not as obvious to us as to you perhaps) some of these ideas might create except to say we keep hoping for improvements to the Invision search facility. The choatic nature of intereaction on the Web makes controlling thread drift, etc., a pipe dream in my view, so long as we are nearly unmoderated here. My experience with the static articles on C.net, some of which are still useful, is that you can lead a reader to water but you can't make him drink (or read). So much depends on the curiosity of folks seeking things out, like in a library.

 

As for a concertina wiki, I hope Chris Timson is in a calm frame of mind and physiology when he sees your suggestion...I'll let him explain.

 

Nonetheless, thanks for all the interest.

Ken

[JimLucas]

A sort of 'Threads Hall of Fame' so to speak....

We could also start a separate list of the threads containing the most heated arguments... a 'Threads Hall of Flame', so to speak.

[Chris Timson]

3/ I'm just reallising that what I propose in point 2 would be much more easy to do in the form of a wiki....

So how about a concertina wiki ?

There was one once ... it was called Wikitina and I set it up and administered it. It got an initial flury of interest and a few people (most notably Rich Morse) made some significant edits. But traffic fairly rapidly dropped off and people seemed to go straight to the forum or the FAQ as before. Eventually, when an upgrade to PHP broke the site and no-one noticed, I decided to pull the plug. No-one noticed that, either.

 

I believe that to work a wiki must have either a very dedicated group of contributors (work and project wikis are a good example) or a suffiently broad subjet area to encompass a large number of possible contributors (the canonical example, of corse is Wikipedia). Nowadays I am the section editor in charge of the concertina section at Folkopedia. If you want to contribute to a wiki may I strongly encourage you to have a look here.

 

Cheers,

 

Chris

Edited July 30, 2009 by Chris Timson

[david fabre]

I just realised that I was complaining about threads being hard to follow because

of the profusion of side discussion and digressions... and just started a digression to

the topic of the thread!

I apologize to the topic starter. Indeed I have found the two indicated threads very

interesting and useful. I encourage others to indicate other theads of this kind.

 

 

As for other questions raised by my post I propose to continue the discussion in the

"forum questions, suggestions, help" subforum.

[michael sam wild]

I find the search facility yields good old stuff and you can then pursue it , if you can put in the right search words

Edited July 31, 2009 by michael sam wild