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How to direct someone to their own thread ...

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:00 am
by GoodClue
Hello Sharkey ...
My 46 Chevy topic seems to have been hijacked by Peter Frost ...
I just replied to his last post, asking that he start a new thread for his topics.
Is there a way to start one for him and shift his pics, etc to it?

I'd appreciate the help and guidance ...
GoodClue ...

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:18 pm
by Rudy
Doug. That's funny. Hijacked may be the word. I have been meaning to say something about the oversized pics that some people post. How many times do I have to do that though? By the way, you have the coolest looking bus on the site. (Just my opinion)

Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:52 pm
by Sharkey
Crap, here we go again.

Hopefully, Peter has edited his posts in your topic thread so that he can repost them in a new topic so we can all enjoy them again.

Last time a user got disgruntled and deleted his posts, I was left with a lot of cleanup to do so that the affected topics didn't read like a novel with pages torn out. That user left with a bad feeling and won't be back, which I'm none too happy about, as I felt hs had a lot to contribute. Peter, if you're reading this, please stick around, start a new topic and repost your photos and stories.

People, topic drift is a fact of life on any forum unless the moderators and administrations are absolute Nazis about off-topic or thread hijack. I don't want this place to become like that. Many of my topic threads have become "polluted" by off topic posts, it's just part of the territory. This isn't a user-exclusive blog where users can publish "articles". Maybe that's a feature I could add in the future, a place where users could create topics or pages dedicated to their bus/vehicle/idea/etc, and the other users would be restricted to simple comments. I don't know, I'll look into it.

Doug, since Peter has edited out his text and photos, I can only delete the now non-sensical posts out of your thread. There really isn't any method to move individual posts to new topics, so that wouldn't have worked anyway.