I am getting concerned about all the NON-travel advice and tips that are now being posted in the general forum. I would have thought that many of the subjects have nothing to do with travel and should therefore be in 'I Digress'.
I enjoy the forum but also get frustrated especially when there are so many posts that have Youtube links that have nothing to do with General (travel tips and advice!).
Actually - I wish sometimes that there was something to show that the post is just a link to Youtube so I wont bother opening it - chews up my prepaid allowance watching them.
Of course - I should have posted this in the right place......and will
Cloak said
01:12 PM Nov 4, 2014
Welcome back spida.. And good advice.
Blue said
01:21 PM Nov 4, 2014
OMG all aboard the outrage bus everyone... !!!
the worlds gone mad..
dogs and cats living together..
human sacrifice...
mass hysteria!!
this is a catastrophe of Biblical Proportions!!
people putting posts where they shouldn't..
that's it,...
im leaving the forum... !!
spida said
01:54 PM Nov 4, 2014
LOL Blue - OMG - please dont leave us - we would miss your outrage at outrageous suggestions LOL
hako said
03:08 PM Nov 4, 2014
It's all in the interpretation of the forum headings. It is a forum and if it was 100% perfect I personally would not be in any way interested. Human nature. I find threads that digress can be more interesting that those that follow the straight and narrow.
Spida - with due respect and showing my ignorance I must say that I don't know if the thrust of this thread is fair dinkum or is it dig at the rules or similar.
Regards
Blue said
03:36 PM Nov 4, 2014
Crack myself up sometimes spida :p
spida said
03:48 PM Nov 4, 2014
hako wrote:
It's all in the interpretation of the forum headings. It is a forum and if it was 100% perfect I personally would not be in any way interested. Human nature. I find threads that digress can be more interesting that those that follow the straight and narrow. Spida - with due respect and showing my ignorance I must say that I don't know if the thrust of this thread is fair dinkum or is it dig at the rules or similar. Regards
It is dinkum. I use general for travel info but find myself scrolling down through so much 'other stuff' that probably should be in I digress. Hence it is meant as a gentle reminder that maybe a little more thought should be put into where you should put your posts.
Hylda&Jon said
04:34 PM Nov 4, 2014
Is to digress from the 'General Forum' agenda to discuss what is suitable for the 'I digress Forum' and what is suitable for the 'General Forum' in itself a normal digression or a general digression. If we figure that out then maybe it will lend itself to an answer to the threads initial question. Or... is that too much of a digression?
Have fun
Jon
-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Tuesday 4th of November 2014 04:34:59 PM
Happywanderer said
05:16 PM Nov 4, 2014
It is one problem that will never be solved. There have been many, many times when a gentle hint has been thrown around but people being people, humans being humans they do what they like.
Another one is all the jokes in I Digress instead of Just Joking, it will never change.
pauline said
05:23 PM Nov 4, 2014
I see Blue is still here......................fancy that
Blue said
06:40 PM Nov 4, 2014
pauline wrote:
I see Blue is still here......................fancy that
so sorry if i disappointed you..
Blue said
06:42 PM Nov 4, 2014
btw.. in my defence, if its a Friday or Saturday night, and it's late.. im probably not in any condition to know where I post what..
Sheba said
08:54 PM Nov 4, 2014
spida wrote:
Hence it is meant as a gentle reminder that maybe a little more thought should be put into where you should put your posts.
I have already replied to this in the "I Digress" thread. Don't really want to repeat it again. You know where it is if you're interested.
Cheers,
Sheba.
Delta18 said
10:05 PM Nov 4, 2014
Blue wrote:
btw.. in my defence, if its a Friday or Saturday night, and it's late.. im probably not in any condition to know where I post what..
Actually it is Tuesday Blue, but perhaps I should mention that in a different forum. .
This forum is becoming too finicky for me too I reckon.
Baz421 said
10:49 PM Nov 4, 2014
Well Spida has a point.
If you are sitting home with ADSL2 and 200gb per month to burn up - no problems.
But one point Spida was making if post are put in the right place we can avoid excess data usage for those of us that have wireless for "on the road".
This was canvassed ages ago and Spida is right.
Also Greens was started for those that are not interested in Greens.
My 2 cents worth.
BLUE: if you are pi55ed on FRi/sat or otherwise unable to think clearly,,,, just don't post,,, simple eh.
dorian said
08:21 AM Nov 5, 2014
I have configured my regular browser not to display images by default. I also make use of OffByOne when I know that a page will be infested with bandwidth-sapping rubbish. OffByOne doesn't support Javascript, so this means that ads, popups, banners, flash intros will be disabled. You can also configure your browser's ad-block feature to cut down on unwanted "content".
Another favourite of mine is Google's text-only cache. This is particularly useful when all you want is the text based information, not the monetising adware that is embedded with it.
I Digress was also started to clear the general forum of the Chit Chat , He would would be great if we had a post in which we could just find out thing about what we need to know about on the road , We found this site after reading Cindy great book about Grey Nomading with you haven't read you can buy from this forum site a must read
Grandad5 said
10:39 AM Nov 5, 2014
brickies wrote:
We found this site after reading Cindy great book about Grey Nomading with you haven't read you can buy from this forum site a must read
Hey wow!
I'd never made the connection that the two Cindy's were one in the same.
But, I digress.
Jim
Hylda&Jon said
10:40 AM Nov 5, 2014
Maybe relabeling could be the way to go to stress the correct content of the individual forums. Maybe the 'General' forum could be relabeled 'Caravaning Chitchat' and 'I Digress' could be called 'Random chitchat'. Cindy could even make a pole to have us choose names.
I am getting concerned about all the NON-travel advice and tips that are now being posted in the general forum. I would have thought that many of the subjects have nothing to do with travel and should therefore be in 'I Digress'.
I enjoy the forum but also get frustrated especially when there are so many posts that have Youtube links that have nothing to do with General (travel tips and advice!).
Actually - I wish sometimes that there was something to show that the post is just a link to Youtube so I wont bother opening it - chews up my prepaid allowance watching them.
Of course - I should have posted this in the right place......and will
the worlds gone mad..
dogs and cats living together..
human sacrifice...
mass hysteria!!
this is a catastrophe of Biblical Proportions!!
people putting posts where they shouldn't..
that's it,...
im leaving the forum... !!
Spida - with due respect and showing my ignorance I must say that I don't know if the thrust of this thread is fair dinkum or is it dig at the rules or similar.
Regards
It is dinkum. I use general for travel info but find myself scrolling down through so much 'other stuff' that probably should be in I digress. Hence it is meant as a gentle reminder that maybe a little more thought should be put into where you should put your posts.
Is to digress from the 'General Forum' agenda to discuss what is suitable for the 'I digress Forum' and what is suitable for the 'General Forum' in itself a normal digression or a general digression. If we figure that out then maybe it will lend itself to an answer to the threads initial question. Or... is that too much of a digression?
Have fun
Jon
-- Edited by Hylda&Jon on Tuesday 4th of November 2014 04:34:59 PM
Another one is all the jokes in I Digress instead of Just Joking, it will never change.
so sorry if i disappointed you..
btw.. in my defence, if its a Friday or Saturday night, and it's late.. im probably not in any condition to know where I post what..
Actually it is Tuesday Blue, but perhaps I should mention that in a different forum.
.
This forum is becoming too finicky for me too I reckon.
Well Spida has a point.
If you are sitting home with ADSL2 and 200gb per month to burn up - no problems.
But one point Spida was making if post are put in the right place we can avoid excess data usage for those of us that have wireless for "on the road".
This was canvassed ages ago and Spida is right.
Also Greens was started for those that are not interested in Greens.
My 2 cents worth.
BLUE: if you are pi55ed on FRi/sat or otherwise unable to think clearly,,,, just don't post,,, simple eh.
I have configured my regular browser not to display images by default. I also make use of OffByOne when I know that a page will be infested with bandwidth-sapping rubbish. OffByOne doesn't support Javascript, so this means that ads, popups, banners, flash intros will be disabled. You can also configure your browser's ad-block feature to cut down on unwanted "content".
Another favourite of mine is Google's text-only cache. This is particularly useful when all you want is the text based information, not the monetising adware that is embedded with it.
For example, compare this ...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?strip=1&q=cache:http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/new-study-links-l-carnitine-in-red-meat-to-heart-disease-201304176083
... with this ...
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/new-study-links-l-carnitine-in-red-meat-to-heart-disease-201304176083
Hey wow!
I'd never made the connection that the two Cindy's were one in the same.
But, I digress.
Jim
Maybe relabeling could be the way to go to stress the correct content of the individual forums. Maybe the 'General' forum could be relabeled 'Caravaning Chitchat' and 'I Digress' could be called 'Random chitchat'. Cindy could even make a pole to have us choose names.