Posted by spoc on April 13, 2004, at 22:37:10
In reply to Re: general concept stuff, posted by Dr. Bob on April 12, 2004, at 9:24:15
> if I were to see a post by itself that had been moved without the entire thread to explain its existence, I would have no idea where it came from
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> You could click on the link to the post that it's "in reply to"...========
I really should have been that specific in my Part II general tips, it matters and I think a lot of people have not noticed that this is the way to get to the very beginning. Happens with redirects as noted above but also people may *Babble/Google surf (call it Boogling or Gabbling?) into the middle or end of a thread they'd want to read all of.I don't know if it's easy to add to my existing tips but I thought maybe it could fit in here:
"Anyway! Using most of the boards here but mainly meds and alternative, I keep track of interesting suggestions from those relevant sounding threads I skim. Within those threads I usually also find a wealth of additional suggestions that you'd never know were there to look at the thread or post title, and keep track of them too. Sometimes those steps in themselves wind up sending me off on other links or thread offshoots from the main. >>>>>>>>> To see if I'm actually at the beginning of the thread once I open the *apparent* first post in it, I check the link in it that appears after "In reply to." People change post titles within a thread, but you want to keep following it until no title says "RE:" anymore." <<<<<<<<
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