Why not just have one thread per set of screenshots.almark wrote:It may be easier to either A rename it,B make it like trainz,a monthly thread,stickied?
With the others below,WIP and Atmosphere?
Cheers,
Mark
Radical suggestion I know, but supposing I was to post a set of screenshots showing a scenario I was working on with an HST working out of Paddington. At the end of the post, I ask for some information with regards to which platforms different services operate from and what times so I can set up prototypical AI to go with it.
If I put the post in its own thread, titled 'HST Out Of Paddington' (I lack imagination I know), the following will most likely happen:
In response, User123, on viewing the sceenshots, sees some item of rolling stock used that they don't recognise from UKTS and asks where I got it from and UserABC and UserXYZ between them provide the information I need to know about services at Paddington. I can find it this thread at a later date to fiddle with the AI even if it's since slipped down to Page 3 in the forum because the title's recognisable, as can User123 and for that matter anyone else for whom the information about the services or where the rolling stock came from is of any use.
Conversely, if I posted it in a thread called 'Post Your Screenshots Here', the following is a lot more likely to happen:
In response to my screenshots and question, UserABC post his half of the information on services at Paddington, then User123 asks where the rolling stock came from. Next, JoeBloggs posts some shots he took from the S&D, gaining himself some appreciative posts. UserXYZ then looks at the thread and, despite having things to add to UserABC's post with regards to services at Paddington, decides not to post them as the topic has now moved on to JoeBlogg's screenshots. Additionally, by the time I look over the thread again, User123's question has now been buried by three different sets of pictures and their respective comments, so it goes unnoticed. Even if UserXYZ had decided to post his information and I decided to respond to User123's question, the replies would be spread over maybe a couple of pages which makes the thread disjointed and the individual posts hard to track down for reference at a later date.
I can see very little use to these broad-titled, large threads. They're the internet equivalent of buying filing cabinet, taking out all the divides and just throwing everything in it, unsorted. They limit the feedback the initial posters get to the time between their post and posting the next topic of discussion (often a matter of hours) and they're so busy, little nuggets of information can slip through the cracks.
