chris98251
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Chawker":14czcr9k said:One other thing really grinds my gears about this place, sombody will break a big news story, then 20 minutes late somebody else will start a post like they where the one who discovered it. The mods lock out the first guys post and then get ride of it. Thats real fair and awful nice when it happens. I've seen it just the other day when Russ signed his new contract. These kind of actions really are hurting your fan base and turning people away. just a heads up. cheers
I think most of us try to go with the one first time stamped, but if were late arriving many times the second will get the traffic, then it's becomes a judgement call based on the conversations within the thread, one may have 3 posts say the first one, the second may have 25, yeah it can happen real fast. So the more posted one is on top of the tread where original gets pushed down.
Again this isn't typical but can happen, we as a group seem to have a lot of the day and night covered and most times we are on top of it, but hey sometimes it happens and it is never personal.
Also their are times when we have a thread that is existing and someone creates another that has a simular angle or story but they think that the original has three pages and their point of view won't get attention so start a new thread, again if locked it's not personal, but if 10,000 members took that approach we would have a real messy board.
What we do is not an exact science anymore then raising a kid or having a relationship, lots of how toos but little practical information other then a guideline for what we hope to accomplish. We do our best and try to look at the big picture and health of the Forums.
Where I know many get their warm and fuzzies by being the first to find or post a news item and it is a great aspect of .Net that we have our members scouring the internet looking for these, having the news here is the real benefit for the membership, it is all appreciated and welcome.