Thanks for taking the time to do this. I think the main thing lacking from the concept of current forums is a clean, ordered summary of the knowledge gained from the individual posts written by the OP. It is often difficult to browse through a lot of posts and glean the useful stuff without being overwhelmed by the overall volume of content. I gave your PDF a brief look and will give it a deeper look as time permits. If I see anything that looks like it should be changed I'd be happy to respond. Back to my first point: I think there should be an unwritten forum etiquette that expects the original poster to summarize what the answer to the question was so people don't have to browse every word of every response looking for something useful IF THEY DON'T WANT TO. Of course we can learn things we don't expect will be relevant by reading every word, but I think there should at least be the option for a "quick answer". There could be the original question, then when the answer is arrived at (no matter how complex), the OP could edit the first post, draw a long line under the question, then add his summary of an answer under the line within the initial post. I understand not all questions can be so precisely summed up, so sometimes the best way to find the answer is to read everything; that is not what I am talking about in this case, as there are many times where a summary would be ideal. Just sayin' ;-)
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Re: Need Proofreaders
2008-10-27 by timandmonica
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