@Zhills wrote:
The mods did this to Forrestwolf. She always posted in Kitchen and Recipes and when she wrote and "explanation" of why she had not posted recently, so her friends would see it, the Mods removed it because it was in the wrong forum.
Will never understand why that is so important to some people.
"We are Friends! If I need to ask about your cat, put it in Pet Lovers; if I want a recipe from you, put it in Recipes; if I want to know what kind of knife you use to cut squash, that goes in Kitchen! Oh, you weren't feeling well yesterday. If I ask how you are doing today, that goes in Wellness!
Hope you read all the available threads or you will never see my posts!
I feel the need to respond. There are many ways to connect or find each other. If we want to find a poster's threads, we can click on their name on any thread and go to their profile.
It's easy to locate a poster, also, using the community search bar, changing "Community" to "Users," and then find the person and their posts that way.
If we want to leave an alert/notification for a poster, we can use the "@+nickname" feature and they'll see it when they login next.
There's a reason forums are divided up into subject-matter categories, and as @KingstonsMom said we need to try for some kind of consistency. We also need to try and be considerate toward others -- constantly adding off-topic threads to an area not meant for those isn't respectful or considerate, particularly when previous threads were moved or removed for being in the wrong sub-forum.
(Related to this: please think of all the threads we see complaining about the lack of common courtesy in "today's world," yet some of those who complain the most loudly also think we don't have to have a thoughtful, courteous approach to posting here.)
If some posters are free to post any topics in any sub-forums regardless of the actual type of sub-forum it is, that means all posters can. That would make the place a mess, a jumble of topics all over the place. A chat board can't be managed that way. Frankly, the QVC Social Team exhibited patience and restraint compared to most moderated forums -- often, on other forums, a poster will be warned for a couple of off-topic threads and then banned permanently if they persist.
This has been discussed so many times... either we have categories and we observe the policies to which we agreed by doing our best to place threads in sub-forums most closely matching the subject matter, or there are no categories and we have just one long page of all threads on all topics.
I feel it's wrong to expect special privileges here, for any of us. Although I don't always understand decisions made by the moderators I also realize I don't know everything they're tasked to do. I do have experience helping to moderate a couple of large, international forums and I can tell you it looks very, very different from that "side of the screen." I wish everyone could have that experience -- I think it would help in so many respects, including how a forum is organized and managed.
I'm sorry, I didn't see the post by @forrestwolf that you reference. I did participate in a few here in "Among Friends" about how she was doing, and also I saw several in "Pet Lovers" when she was having problems posting images. I always saw her in various sub-forums, not just one. She's someone I like and admire, and I miss her.
I think some of the frustration about the forums not being "interesting" might come from not looking at a variety of sub-forums, isolating ourselves in one area. There are so many really interesting, thoughtful, bright, witty, and kind posters here❤️. By limiting ourselves to only certain categories of forums (or trying to force all of our threads into one area) we miss out on having the opportunity to meet and get to know many of them.🌻
Few things reveal your intellect and your generosity of spirit—the parallel powers of your heart and mind—better than how you give feedback.~Maria Popova
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