"Commercial" posts, and a request

Re: anonymous posts and e-mail

Ken Grunke from SW WI


>I don't use my primary ISP email address on any public forum, it's just not worth the hassle. I used to, and got sometimes 200 spam messages a day. That's trickled down to about 20 per day now since I started using it for personal stuff only, almost all caught by my ISP's excellent spam filter (Postini).

I'd suggest gmail, with an even better spam trap and almost 3 gigs of storage space. Easy enough to get invites, I have a few.

Remove "ma" from end of email.

Sounds great to me

Ken Grunke from SW WI

Re: commercial?

Thom D


>I agree it's really positive, and I didn't mind the post.

I do think that if more of the posts were just back and forths from all the star power companies out there, this would be a pretty passive place. It's fun to get some notice about what is coming up, and it's cool if anything said here gets wrapped into the product. But if it went too far it would be the Hand Tool Commercial Development forum.

Re: No, I understood you...

Thom D


>I guess I did above before I got here. I didn't say it should be that way, but beyond a certain point it would probably be necesarry. I guess one way of weighing these things would be if the posts get devisive either by direct criticism, or by some measure of heat becoming attached to such threads. Does a certain question get more heated though not directly critical if it is commercial vs personal. Can one pick up a vibe of harshness when it's around corporate vs personal. I know if some guy makes a plane, I am probably not going to say anything if it's negative, but if I have something negative to say in an LN LV, etc... context, I'm weighing in. Thoughtfully and based on direct experience, I hope... So if your main concern is harmony...

Good idea

Phil Joines Krum, Tx.


>as long as they pay for it. It is, after all, advertising. If it's a separate board only those interested need to look.

Re: "Commercial" posts, and a request

Kevin French, Antrim, NH


>woodburnbob I do the same thing, I have no interest in the latest and greatest gadgets, gizmoes and What nots. I just pass them over I don't read about 40% of what is posted here. And that's alright, I have about 8 or9 forums I read and their not all WW'n so I read what I need and move on.

There is a lot of talk here about LN, LV, etc..., but they are handtools and there must be an interest in them IMHO leave it the way it is and make everyone us an email address.

I note that the critique forum did not last

Bill Houghton, foggy mornings in Sebastopol, CA


>I'm not sure how often I would visit a forum whose purpose was to serve as an informal focus group for retailers, when I didn't much visit the forum offering fellow Centralians feedback on design ideas - something apparently true of many others, since the forum was ultimately dropped.

About the e-mail requirement

Bill Houghton, foggy mornings in Sebastopol, CA


>Can an edit be installed that requires this be filled in? This wouldn't, I suppose, stop people from putting nonsense in there, but it seems like it would somewhat reduce the anonymity component.

Re: I note that the critique forum did not last

thomd coralseacat@yahoo.au


>Good point. The difference for me is I won't tell someone online what I really think about their design because it inevitably ends up with bad feelings at some level. I contribute to a lot of boat forums, and I will talk about structure, since it isn't a judgement thing, but scantlings etc... But one is paying suppliers, they work for us, and are, one hopes, getting paid for it, so some constructive suggestions may well help all around.

Re: About the e-mail requirement

Ellis Walentine


>Sorry, Bill, I missed your post the other day. Things are pretty busy around here these days.

The answer on the e-mail requirement is that there may be a hack I don't know of that would test each post for an address, but it is not a stock option of the script set that runs our boards. I can require people to use an e-mail address in their profile, but since we don't require registration, that wouldn't be useful.

I think that keeping an eye on anonymous posters is the best policy with the least rigamarole attached. If our visitors report offensive anonymous posts to one of the moderators early enough (e-mail the spam patrol), we can keep the exposure of such posts to a manageable level.

Cheers,

Ellis