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Posted: Thu Jan 31st, 2008 02:18 pm |
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Please excuse my ignorance if my question is elementary. Internet forums are new to me.
How can a message posted early this morning already be moved to the archival section? I responded to Non-Catholics Attending Mass, which is now located in what seems to be an archival section.
Thanks for helping me understand how this works.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31st, 2008 02:58 pm |
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Free wrote: Please excuse my ignorance if my question is elementary. Internet forums are new to me.
How can a message posted early this morning already be moved to the archival section? I responded to Non-Catholics Attending Mass, which is now located in what seems to be an archival section.
Thanks for helping me understand how this works
There are no "archival sections". There are topic specific areas. For example, a message dealing with the mass belongs in the section called "The Mass". If a user posts in a different area, a moderator can move the entire thread to the proper area. This is done for organizational purposes so that a visitor or new user who has a question about the mass can refer to that section of the forum, and not be forced to search through some 25,000 posts to find the answer to a specific question.
Among the topic specific areas, some are more used than others and thus more "current" as far as the dates of the messages, but every area of the forum is a current area.
I hope this helps. For every registered user we get 10-20 guests who are here just to read the posts, and if we don't try to keep some semblance of order it become impossible to locate any useful information.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31st, 2008 03:08 pm |
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Posted: Thu Jan 31st, 2008 04:51 pm |
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Thanks for the tip, Kim, and the explanation, Rick.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31st, 2008 04:58 pm |
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One item of note. If a message is moved from one topic area to another, it does not show up at the main forum screen under "Last Post" since it technically was not posted in that area. It will show up if the "Recent" tab is chosen.
Also, if I move a post from one area to another, I will always leave a link in the original area to the new area, and I would hope the other moderators would do the same. We clean out the old redirected links every few weeks.
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