I intended to ping new drops but didn’t count on the exploding size of the thread. I intended to ping new drops. Now I am thinking about how to do that. FReepers helped me figure out the “plan” for my threads so far by making suggestions and sharing concerns. I have to look to them to help me figure this out too. I could ask people to make sure they post the number of the drop when posting new drops. I could use my brower’s “find on page” feature to locate the first instance of a drop on thread and pinging to that. But in this case we had multiple drops so that would be multiple pings for each and I would have had to be present for them in order to ping them in a timely manner. Once I got to my computer there were already 700 posts and I didn’t know where the new drops were located. I had to go out repeatedly through the day and I began to think this thread wouldn’t have pings to drops partly because it seems like everyone is already here and partly because I couldn’t do it in a timely manner (had to get through hundreds of drops first?) So I am open to suggestions. I would like to make this work. I don’t know how often we will have so many drops of such a nature that might inspire 1000 posts. Would people send their ideas to me vi private message even if you also post them in the forum? I have a steady flow of emails and I am still not caught up in the forum. I so appreciate all the posts - I just wasn’t prepared for a thread this size. :)
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Perhaps if we could ping you when there is a new drop to a thread and then you could ping the list to the new Q? That might be several pings to a thread but it would alert us all to a new Q drop.
Now that the trolldom seems to be over, I think more regular interested freepers are reading and posting.
What I’ve done and what I’ve seen others do sometimes is simply to announce you will be making a new thread. Make the new thread and be sure to create links from old to new and from new to old.
Then try to figure out a way to make the thread titles easy to search. It has been suggested Date of the thread and then Q number (or numbers)
Just a thought