Where to Post What?
In an ongoing effort to understand how this new Community is going to work, I would like to know why this post:
was moved from Ideas>Family Tree to Help>Family Tree. It is not any type of question that needs an answer or help. It is a straightforward idea and request for a new feature. What about this post triggered the move?
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Hi @Gordon Collett ,
Found it...and I believe it should have stayed in Ideas. These Categories are going to take awhile to figure out! I did try to get it back to Ideas, but that option was not available to me. I'm bookmarking so I can followup and see what I can find out/read up on!
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yeh - I just dont get why we have to go searching in at least three places
IDEAS
Q/A
GROUPS
all of which so often have a section dedicated to the very same topic.
What was once a true community - is now splintered into so many different and duplicative silos - none of which talk to each other . . . that its a bear to support - especially when you canNOT cross post to different groups on a single message.,
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Another problem is that in all this fracturing, it's impossible to find my own contributions. Unless I remember to bookmark a thread (which I have yet to actually manage), or someone mentions me, I only find continued discussions by chance.
Regarding finding my own contributions, it has got to be possible to list my comments along with the threads I've started.
Regarding the fracturing, at bare minimum, I believe that both QandA and Ideas need to be consolidated into two categories each: General and LDS. This would hopefully reduce the preponderance of "moved" posts and of duplicate questions. (Understandably, when the categorization is too focused, people post their question in every place that seems vaguely applicable.) Make it clear that anything to do with ordinances and other such LDS-specific topics goes in the LDS category, and everything else goes in General.
Going further, I'm not sure it makes any sense to try to separate questions from suggestions. People post their threads in both QandA and Ideas on a regular basis, because at the root of most suggestions is a problem that a person encountered, and at the root of most questions is an idea about how things could be done better.
I realize that FS has worked hard on providing different tools in the two sections, but I think they are seriously overcomplicating things. Forums have been around since the earliest days of the internet (remember Usenet?); it's totally unnecessary to keep re-inventing the wheel like this. To start a thread, all you should need is a title line and a text field, and for replies, all you should need is a text field. A couple of levels of threading are nice, but not required, and the frou-frou of upvotes/downvotes, selecting as best, and other reactions is just that: frou-frou. They're nice to have, sometimes, but they don't really add anything to the discussion.
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It's easy to see both topics you have started and comments you have made to other topics once you know where this function is hidden. Don't ask me why they hid it.
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Gordon, Thank You!
I share your perplexity at how they've hidden this function.
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Thought I'd add my comments at https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/88594/where-to-post-what#latest here, too:
Just to add to Gordon's comments, it took me a few minutes to realise that to get back to the thread containing the full comments one made (only the first part of the comments is shown in the Profile section) you need to click on the date (or time) link - e.g 10 July, or 11:40am (if you posted the same day).
Has anyone else explained the solution to this "problem", apart from Gordon? Perhaps even employees and moderators were unaware!
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