The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #83916 Message #1551394
Posted By: The Shambles
28-Aug-05 - 05:04 AM
Thread Name: HI Max: What about Shambles requests?
Subject: RE: HI Max: What about Shambles requests?
Susan - a relative newcomer to our forum who has also been denied the vintage wine - says.
But Shambles, we've always done it this way!
Our forum has most certainly not always done it this way. For if our forum ever had done it this way - many posters would not have posted in the first place or continued to post for so long.....
You may have missed this - as it was inserted by fellow poster Joe Offer as an editing comment and did not refresh the thread. A privilge that is not open to us ordinary posters. And (as evidenced in other examples - if not to be fair - in this one) a privilige much abused by some of our anonymous volunteer fellow posters - who this privilige is open to - who still insist on placing their personal judgements of fellow posters in them - whilst using the word 'we'.
The main danger of inserting this particular informative editing comment into an existing post in this way - is that as it did not refresh this thread - our readers (whose considerations are now said by our anonymous volunteer posters to be most important) may not see it.
The "Origins" tag is added to threads that give the most complete information about a song, including origins information and documented sources. Ordinarily, the tag is added AFTER a thread has developed, depending on the quality of information in the thread. An "origins" thread is roughly equivalent to a DTStudy, except that Origins threads are not edited. If the "origins" thread is used for other purposes, it is changed.
The "Folklore" tag is intended for non-music information (history, linguistics, folklore, culture, etc.) that has a direct relation to music and songs. If the Folklore tag is used for music information, it is changed.
-Joe Offer-
Again there is nothing wrong with making any change to a thread's title or later adding any prefix - but as our forum's current thread creation screen clearly states that the use of any prefix is optional - perhaps it would be better to first obtain the originator's permission before any change or prefix - is imposed by our anonymous volunteer fellow posters?
There's really no need to repeat my brown comments, Roger - I put them in brown so people will see them, and I put them in the message they apply to so people can understand what allegation I'm answering without having to read through a dozen of your posts (or, worse yet, without my having to copy-paste your allegations).
-Joe Offer-