129260:
Tom.K:
I feel that
my thread was hijacked (actually twice and maybe three times now).
Please exhibit a little forum etiquette.
I started this thread a month ago. Although it was a minor issue, it appeared that several posters in other threads had expressed an interest in getting
FAQ #43 that I referenced updated.
Immediately
129260 posted "
i agree with spybot fan …" which in my opinion, did nothing more than increase the reply count from zero (0) to one (1), significantly reducing the chances that someone from "Team Spybot" would recognize that there was an outstanding issue and answer the query.
Now a mouth later, when someone else seemed to have hijacked the thread with a seemingly unrelated problem, finally someone from "Team Spybot" (
spybotsandra) responded to the thread.
Unfortunately, only the hijacker's concern were addressed by
spybotsandra and my original concern still goes unaddressed.
In an attempt to revive my original concern, I addressed a post directly to (
spybotsandra), hopping that because she (as the last poster in the thread) may now be following the thread, I asked her to address my original query.
Instead of that happening
Tom.K posts a totally unrelated query about missing FAQ numbers that has absolutely nothing to do with the possibility of updating (
FAQ #43) that several users queried about.
Then
129260 posts a reference a new (thread
suggestion about spybot's upgrade procedure) in this thread that seems to have absolutely nothing to do with the updating of
FAQ #43 that I started this thread for.
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So where does that all leave me with my original query???
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Tom.K:
You recently started a thread (
Safer Networking Forums - Creating "Rules" and "Polls" forum):
I have a suggestion. Can you create a forum named "Rules" which contains all threads which contain all rules of this forum, …
Perhaps you and
129260 would like to collaborate and start a thread on "Forum Etiquette" in the
Tavern forum.
Rather than "rules" maybe we could all share our thoughts on developing a set of guidelines for responding to threads in the
Safer Networking Forums so that nobody is abusing other posters, in particular the thread's originator.
For example we could create guidelines that suggested that users posting the forum not:
- Hijack.
- Double post (sometimes called "Shotgun Posting").
- Bump threads.
- Etc.
