To the Powers-That-Be

GoneButNotForgotten · ‎03-29-2020

Have you ever considered listing the forums in alphabetical order?

Just àskin:...

ValuSkr · ‎03-15-2014

I'm sure there's a method to their madness.

Marp · ‎03-09-2010

@ValuSkr wrote:
I'm sure there's a method to their madness.

More likely a madness to their method.

The eyes through which you see others may be the same as how they see you.

GenXmuse · ‎05-15-2016

I've wondered that myself!

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

I wonder if they list the most popular things sold or the things they hope we will notice first?

Or maybe not.

"If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew. Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains? can you paint with all the colors of the wind?"

tototwo · ‎03-09-2010

Why? Most of us are used to the list just the way it is. If they alphabetize it now, I'd never be able to find anything.

* A woman is like a tea bag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. *
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Zhills · ‎11-15-2011

Some people, especially young ones, never noticed that the world normally runs on ABC - 123!

Surprising since computers sort that way!

GoneButNotForgotten · ‎03-29-2020

@tototwo wrote:
Why? Most of us are used to the list just the way it is. If they alphabetize it now, I'd never be able to find anything.

I suspect you're smarter than you think you are and you'd do fine. :-)

aroc3435 · ‎09-30-2010

@Zhills Computers only sort that way if programmed to do so.

The organization I worked for for thirty-five years before retiring needed to replace an antiquated database that had been in use for more than twenty years; it could no longer be "tweaked" at all.

The replacement program seemed good until I was the first one to notice that when a string of names came up after typing in an individual's name, such as Smith, John" the programmers had alphabetized the resulting list by FIRST name. Very unhelpful to me on a live call with a disgruntled caller trying to find her records quickly.

Nobody involved in the testing, including our managers across the units, in our massive department had spotted this.

The company that created the package had to fix it immediately. I'll never understand how not one of the programmers didn't know you alphabetize by the last, or surname, not the first.

Guess they had seldom, if ever, used a paper file, an index, or a library card catalogue to retrieve information.

aroc3435

Washington, DC