Index discussion thread

Money~Bunny_3

Well, after reading from the earliest post to page 577, I've already saved £2.50 - found a hint about mixing oil and water in a spraybottle to use like lo-cal cooking spray Just give it a good shake before you use it, worked pretty well when I fried the peppers and onions for a HM pasta sauce

This is fun and eyeopening indeedy, anyone else found great hints they would have missed?

Alisonpennypincher

This is fun and eyeopening indeedy, anyone else found great hints they would have missed?[/quote]

I have only read about 2 pages so far, and have gone over the links already in my index! I keep getting sidetracked and reading everything that catches my eye!

Is this why Squeaky keeps saying its a long job?:rolleyes:

Great fun though, and I am picking up laods i would have missed!

Ali

squeaky

great innit

And yes, this is why I said you are unlikely to do 2 links per minute in Real Life... 'cos you keep stopping to read.

squeaky

Right - it's time I went off and cooked my tea. I'm well late. Again. Sheesh!



Edit: there's more to write into the tutorial tomorrow - so please don't get too far ahead just in case you find that you want to change things.

It's a lot easier to re-organise your index when it just has a few things in than when it has hundreds. And as for thousands... well I'm not going to go there... yet.

CFC

Thanks Clu - Pink sorted me out

squeaky

Hi all

While you are building up your Indexed Collection, and especially after you have caught up and only have to index new posts ("running live" so to speak") you are likely to notice that new members are very enthusiastic, really pleased to have found Old Style, but haven't yet found their feet nor discovered the various indexes that we have in what is now a huge forum.

You are likely to see a series of new threads that may look something like this:-

How do I make Armadillo Casserole?

And a couple of hours later:-

My Armadillo Casserole is too salty - help please

And pehaps a few hours later still:-

I just wanted tell you... (it was delicious thank you all)

And then the next day:-

What do I do with leftover Armadillo Casserole?

Sooner or later your sense of humour quotient is going to be rather low and your first reaction is going to be "*^$*(&* !!!!! Now I'm going to have to index four ^%*67ing posts instead of one!"

I must ask you very firmly please,

• Do not name the poster concerned in this or any other thread.

• Do not make pointed remarks which would identify the poster.

• Do not link to the thread(s) concerned.

There are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which is the rule quoted in the orange bar at the top of every page "Please be nice to other money savers".

Also:-

• This will be upsetting for our new member

• It is quite likely to start a fairly frank exchange of views

• It could even escalate to the point where it causes real problems for Martin and the Forum Team

(If you can remember that far back to when you yourself were new and overwhelmed by the wealth of information available here, just think how much more daunting it must be for newer members now that the board has grown so much bigger. Not forgetting that while some members are just new to the Old Style board - some are new to posting on the web or in forums altogether. They'll learn, honest )


You will see this rather more often when you are running live than when you are catching up, as I said. This is because where we can we Board Guides merge the posts together and you must have often seen posts from us such as:-

Hi EnthusiasticNewPoster

We have added your new thread onto the end of your earlier post to help keep all these questions easy to find in one place.

So if you come across such a series of posts don't index them straight away but hang on to see if we Board Guides spot them and merge them (we can't always read every post and, despite appearances sometimes, we're not on-line twenty four hours a day seven days a week ).

If after a day or two they haven't been merged please just copy the links into a PM for any one of us with a request to merge them and we'll be happy to do so.




And finally:

Despite my choice of titles for my example threads I really like armadillos, honest

Especially cooked in the shell in Delia's red wine sauce



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hazzie123

My poor eyes,I`ve never read so much.lol.I haven`t even added anything yet,I`ve been too busy reading all the threads.

squeaky

CFC wrote:

Thanks Clu - Pink sorted me out

Is there anything I should have written into the tutorial that would have helped you to avoid your problem?

Squishy

Arg! Just can't seem to get the link to copy and paste properly and *become* a link as opposed to a line of text. I think best idea would be to give it a rest and try again tomorrow.

Remember when I asked if this needed to be done quickly? I really hope the answer is still no!

AND I keep getting sidetracked - Squeaky you were right when you said that you can find yourself reading a whole thread as opposed to just scanning it... :rotfl: Now all I have to do is decide whether to include all posts with a thank you in the middle of it - if I did that there'd be thousands! - or just complete threads which someone started with the sole purpose of writing a thank you post...

Somebody smack me if I start going round in circles please? You may be sorry I agreed to do this!

squeaky

Yeah, take a break. especially if you're making mistakes because they can be really difficult to track down.

I wasn't considering trying to link to individual thanked posts - you'll end up with millions of them!

Just threads that start with "Thank you Old Style" or ones with other title but essentially say in it the first post will be fine