David Brown's News from around the web (the thread)

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Zoo JOax

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Hi David,
You often post several threads a day linking to various news items from around the web. I thought it might be a good idea to consolidate your posts into a single thread as they often get very few replies and sometimes none at all!
Is this a good idea? Hope you don't mind the suggestion :)
 
I see your point, but ideally each thread is about a separate subject because this makes it easier to find information. Try re-finding an item on Chester Zoo, for example, which is buried on post #167 of a 24-page thread (just a made-up example of course). The news threads on wildlife and conservation are all unrelated. To my mind it doesn't really matter if people are replying to the thread, so long as it is being brought to the attention of anyone interested (i.e. the number of thread views)
 
Isn't that what a search function is for? I don't think the two are comparable as it would be much easier to find a specific item than 'random creature at Chester welcomes certain quantity of young into existence'
It's just a thought as I was browsing the forum and there were dozens of threads with nobody discussing the topic. The idea was this thread act as a rolling discussion of David's news links.
 
It's handy having new threads because you can hover and see the first bit and decide whether that is enough or open the thread to read in full. Don"t see why the number of threads matters.
 
Hi Zoo Joax and welcome to ZooChat. I don't mean to litter the site with too many threads. As Chlidonias mentioned I frequently post articles in the wildlife conservation forum on quite diverse subjects (as wildlife conservation is a crazily diverse subject).

I can certainly try and consolidate some of my postings that relate to similar topics. I tend to post a lot on elephant conservation and conservation stories from my natural habitat in California, so perhaps I will start rolling elephant conservation and California conservation threads. There are other subjects that I do think it makes more sense to stick with topical posts as the main purpose is to pass along articles that I think would be of interest to at least a subset of the community here; some of them generate discussion and some don't (and that's okay).
 
HI David,

Personally l appreciate your efforts in contributing to ZooChat.

I cannot see why you should change what you are doning in any way.
 
Zoo JOax said:
Hi David,
You often post several threads a day linking to various news items from around the web. I thought it might be a good idea to consolidate your posts into a single thread as they often get very few replies and sometimes none at all!
Is this a good idea? Hope you don't mind the suggestion :)
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Wait, are you suggesting that the ONE American who posts regularly, put all his posts in one thread? We'll have none of that! ;)
 
another thought I had was that a thread containing multiple diverse subjects would be almost impossible to use. For example, I recently posted a new development on a Conservation thread from 2010 about Burmese snub-nosed monkeys (http://www.zoochat.com/65/new-snub-nosed-monkey-discovered-burma-186279/). If it was in a multi-purpose thread then anyone interested in what else had been said in that thread on that subject would have to wade through all sorts of unrelated posts, and few people would actually bother.

Also I think relatively few people actually use the search function to find things.
 
Chlidonias said:
Also I think relatively few people actually use the search function to find things.
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Particularly things they don't know about until David puts an article on! :)

It does depend on how people use the forum. I always look at 'new posts' and open anything I'm interested in based on the title. David might post on my biggest interest but if it was buried in a general purpose thread I could easily miss it. In separate threads I will see the new thread and decide whether I want to read it.
 
I personally think what he is doing at the moment is fine. If everything was under one 'Conservation' post I wouldn't filter through it to read all the stories. If there was one about a specific species I was interested in then I would read it.
 
DavidBrown said:
Hi Zoo Joax and welcome to ZooChat. I don't mean to litter the site with too many threads. As Chlidonias mentioned I frequently post articles in the wildlife conservation forum on quite diverse subjects (as wildlife conservation is a crazily diverse subject).

I can certainly try and consolidate some of my postings that relate to similar topics. I tend to post a lot on elephant conservation and conservation stories from my natural habitat in California, so perhaps I will start rolling elephant conservation and California conservation threads. There are other subjects that I do think it makes more sense to stick with topical posts as the main purpose is to pass along articles that I think would be of interest to at least a subset of the community here; some of them generate discussion and some don't (and that's okay).
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Thanks for the welcome, I have been 'lurking' here a couple of years and thought if I join perhaps some if the people who mention some things they read here will also join!!
It makes sense to keep things as they are, it's just a shame that so many of your articles go undiscussed.
 
For the record - I do prefer one thread per topic rather than these very long threads with all news mashed together. It does make it easier to find things - it improves the searchability of the site, and improves the ability for non-members to locate relevant information on the site too.

I tolerate those long all-in-one threads, but I do not encourage them.

Oh, and also for the record, we don't allow people to post under multiple user names on this site.
 
you have to wonder about the people who have two or more user-names on a forum. They are generally either trolls out to cause trouble or they use their alternative personas to back up their posts. Either way its not on. I reckon anyone with multiple concurrent user-names should just be banned outright, whoever they may be.
 
Chlidonias said:
you have to wonder about the people who have two or more user-names on a forum. They are generally either trolls out to cause trouble or they use their alternative personas to back up their posts. Either way its not on. I reckon anyone with multiple concurrent user-names should just be banned outright, whoever they may be.
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How can you tell if a person has multiple user-names? By checking their IP addresses? Well, my housemates and I could be using the same computer. Or my kids. Or my spouse. Or it could be a shared computer at work or a cyber cafe.

Having said that, if a person is found to have more than one user-name (not sure how you would do it though), they should be banned. :)
 
nanoboy said:
How can you tell if a person has multiple user-names? By checking their IP addresses? Well, my housemates and I could be using the same computer. Or my kids. Or my spouse. Or it could be a shared computer at work or a cyber cafe.
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IP addresses is one way - but writing style usually gives it away too.
 
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