What do you think???

I’ve been meaning to ask you about that….

How about we start a “Best Posts” area or “5 STar” area…you know a place to put all the good stuff in one place…..

Food for thought…..

As Always thanks for the help

bbs

I have been thinking about it bbs. Actually was figuring out how to do it when I bumped into the “sort” functions at the top of the thread lists. If you want to just see five star posts, click on the text “rating” above the rating column and it will sort the posts by stars, giving you all the five star threads at the top of the list. After you have finished reading a thread, use your back button to return to the list.

Is that good enough or do we really need a “best posts” forum??

some of the best posts aren’t rated.

I’d say there are too many forums. Trash the links forum and put in a best posts or ask the moderators to look out for good posts, edit out the non-salient detail and push it into a flat file (like your PEforums links from the faq).

takes a long time to sort out the good threads from the type I reply to :(

That would be a yes??

I vote yes

feed them to the lions.

but again I think the links forum is not worth having. People post links inline and half the links don’t work, I was wading through it again today and getting thoroughly annoyed.

I completely agree with you. Not just some, but a lot, of the best posts aren’t rated. However, a ‘best of’ forum would take some serious work. It is one thing to suggest the idea, quite another to expect someone- or a small group of people- to put in the time and effort it would take to pull this off.

I am totally with you guys that it would be nice to have, as I have read almost every post here at least once and a lot of it is either ‘fluff’ or the same questions repeated over and over and over… and over and over and over again. But in order for it to happen, there has got to be space on the server, and more importantly, people to gather the information and determine what does and doesn’t belong in that forum. Just adding another perspective to this :)

I’ll go through the links forum and try to clean it up. The problem with links is that a lot of them expire or the site moves, deletes the page or yada,yada,yada.

And yes, it would be a lot of work. I don’t think flatfiling is the way to go either. Just copying the best posts to a seperate forum and closing them would be the easiest and the less costly server wise.

What would be really interesting would be if we could develop a knowledge base of sorts. Perhaps gather a team of moderators or longer term members, maybe assign two to each “category” (these people could be involved with multiple categories) who take charge of determining what posts are worthy in the area and also of more specific indexing within the area.

Just a thought…it would be a lot of work, but would really be fun to plan and execute, and also would make Thunder’s Place the freaking atomic bomb (it already is the bomb)

how about, as an option, allowing a bull rating on threads make them easier to sort, maybe just relabel worst.

2, its not like the moderators actually do anything at the moment anyway (kidding)

thunder, yeah your right flatfiling is annoying but a lot of good posts have a page worth of trivia, maybe you could delete responses by user or something ;)

Of course then we’ll get new threads yammering on about why another great thread isn’t in the best posts section.

Trimming individual posts from a thread is really pretty simple. And I think eventually the bitching about “why wasn’t this one included?” would stop.

The star ranking thingy could use some work, but what it needs more than work is input from guys that are reading the posts.

Uber, good idea, I was thinking along those lines also.

sounds like what uber is suggesting is an ‘advanced’ forum only open to moderators :)

Hey I’ve ranked one post but I’d be quite willing to tick a bs box on may others (preferably anonymously ‘cause I’m a coward).

IMHO the key to making this truly a ‘best of’ forum is going to be getting the longtimers to commit to helping. They have all done so much already, we will just have to hope they will be up for a major project like this.

It will be really important for most of the guys to have been around these forums for a while. They will be the ones that have the ability to gather the really good information off the forum- seperating the really good stuff from all the rest based upon a lot of experience. It would definitely be a great addition to Thunder’s :)

I have tons and tons of posts and threads that I have either printed out or saved that I feel are worthy….. I continually reread them for new tid bits, etc. I think it would help alot of people out.

I agree with the fluff comment. It’s like my 80%/20% rule…80 of information is a waste of time and there is really only 20% that is required for mastery in a given field. if you focus on the 20% that is important, you will be better, more advanced, or ahead of the game by 80%…..But, to get that precious 20% you have to wade through a lot of crap.

I have a bunch of the posts here, too- but I don’t have the years of experience. I have read through almost every single post on this forum, and have printed out many that I think are the best ones, but my opinion of what is best is not based on a great deal of PE experience. I have a huge amount of educational background in Anatomy and Physiology, but a lot of times experience will over-ride what the books say.

I would be happy to help if the core group can use extra hands to organize the stuff, but the point of my post was that the core group should have the most time in on the boards- assuming they are willing to do it. They have the experience, they have read all the information, they have answered all those questions over and over and over again. That is the ideal way to truly get the ‘best of the best’ :)

how about a proto-best posts forum, where you post a link and then people vote in a poll as to whether to include it in the best posts.

then it becomes selfsustaining (possibly) and its democracy at work assuming it does better than the newbie poll. And if its a hung vote, then thunder can be florida.