Delay in First Posts

Posted on 23/04/2021 19:36 by Bakers2

It does seem a great shame as there's so much knowledge folk are willing to share.

I expect it's the COVID effect 🤐🤐. 

If posts regularly appear incorrectly in the story section, and they do 🤔 it would suggest that the site isn't intuitive and needs to be made more user friendly 🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐

Posted on 23/04/2021 20:27 by DavidKlyne

If people bother to read the instructions the distinction on where to post  is perfectly clear but I suspect people post in the first place they see. Some years ago I think they changed the order so that people didn't see the Story Section as the first place they saw. The fact that they post in the Story Section might suggest they are not looking for a reply, despite their "story" being a question? Unfortunately members can post both reviews and stories without any form of prior moderation unlike posting in the Forum Section. On that subject if I see that a new post has not been authorised (moderators can't do this, only admin) I usually flag it up to Rowena but, of course, how quickly she can react to it depends on her current workload. Ideally all first posts, be they reviews, stories of discussion would be approved before appearing but that is not the way the forum is set up. Likewise I would like to see posters of new stories and  discussions automatically be informed when they get replies but that is probably a big ask?

David

Posted on 23/04/2021 20:36 by nelliethehooker

Likewise I would like to see posters of new stories and discussions automatically be informed when they get replies

David, it would also help if, when posts are moved from one section to another there should be a notification that that has happened so that the OP knows where their post has gone.

Posted on 23/04/2021 22:03 by DavidKlyne

Sorry Nellie I don't think I agree with that because you end up having messages left all over the place which interferes with the flow of the various sections. In an ideal world notifications should be automatic as they are on UK Campsites. Obviously if we had a PM system as TW suggests it would be easy to keep people informed. Until we have have proper forum based software (will it ever happen?) we will have to muddle along as best we can. Another AGM question coming up!!!

David

Posted on 23/04/2021 22:03 by DavidKlyne

Sorry Nellie I don't think I agree with that because you end up having messages left all over the place which interferes with the flow of the various sections. In an ideal world notifications should be automatic as they are on UK Campsites. Obviously if we had a PM system as TW suggests it would be easy to keep people informed. Until we have have proper forum based software (will it ever happen?) we will have to muddle along as best we can. Another AGM question coming up!!!

David