I just saw the recent thread where some new guy from Colorado got the business for starting a new thread that was possibly redundant (not passin' judgement on anyone here
). One reason for the new thread was that looking through a 500-post thread is not an easy task.
So, I would like to suggest a way to improve the situation. How about if we try to intelligently use the "Title" line when we reply to a post in a thread? This will allow others to scan the posts for topics when there is a whole bunch of them.
By just hitting reply and not changing the title, its not possible for others to know what the reason is for your reply.
But, if the reply has some useful, standalone message, sort of a summary of what you said in the post, it should be helpful to others.
Examples of possible titles:
rather than "Re: ramp" use "I disagree, because ramp is made of jello"
rather than "Re: IR sensor" use "our test results from IR sensor"
rather than "Re: GLR Results" use "GLR congrats also to the TechnoChickens"
Just an idea, hopefully it will help us deal with the massive amount of great info here on the Chief Delphi forums.
Ken