Tech, I read you posts at avast forum. Were you really serious? ???
I answered your first post ASAP and other members read it as well do you still think that bugreporting should have a different procedure?
You never suggested a better procedure nor the goals an alternate procedure should archieve and the priorities that should be considered.
But if I had to guess your suggested procedure for bugreports from your posts I get:
[ol]- It is not relevant to read NOTICEs explaining why posts are moved and pointing out how to submit feedbacks
- It is not relevant to write a meaningful title including at least a reference to the beta version used
- It is not relevant to write all information needed to form an idea about the bug you are experiencing
- It is not relevant to look at other posts to guess the relevant informations needed when posting a bugreport nor reading such requirements elsewhere in the board
- It’s appropriate to wait less than 24hours and open a new topic because no one was able to solve the bug reported for a betatesting product
- It is not relevant to copy&paste all the relevant information one was asked for in the other thread[/ol]
This is a quote from the download page listing all the information needed to post a bugreport
Since you are not a newbie I’m sure you can easily understand the problems not addressed by such type of posts:
- Writing a meaningful title reduce confusion and it proves useful when other members are searching for a solution
- Writing all information needed to describe an issue reduce the length of a topic and make all informations easy to follow
- Looking at other member posts or at moderator posts that lists how to submit a request in a specific childboard give an idea on how properly interact with other members focusing on the concept that a board is a community and there should be an effort in order to make sure that other people can take advantage of the content we are providing
- Contatcting a moderator in order to address a specific issue and to suggest a better procedure does improve the forum for the community’s sake and enforce the idea that a forum is meant for the benefit of all members, that the rules and procedures followed albeit not perfect are made in order to address a wider range of priorities and needs
So what are the motives behind all these merging:
- This childboard is meant for betatesting so all topics refer to a beta that has a limited timespan. It is important to recognize which bug affect a certain beta.
- All bugs are presumed to disappear in future versions so most topics will not be relevant anymore in few weeks
- There will be other beta as well, it is imperative to keep an effort to make the board to not grow excessively long
- It is easy for developers to watch for few threads than many. All members that have posted in a thread can easily find if that thread is updated. Still an index of all relevant bugreports or workarounds is provided by willingly volunteers in order to make the testing phase more tester friendly.
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the moderator frontend of SMF has many issues. The placeholder topic is only provided for moved posts and it is not really a good solution because increase the clutter and force more workload on moderators. Since there is no automatization frontend and all those placeholders should be deleted manually after a certain amount of time.
Members receive an email when a topic is moderated but here is no SMF option to send a PM as welll.
The Notice explains how to use the forum frontend to find our posts after merging/moving.
Still it is possible to write a PM to prevent newbies have a hard time finding their posts but this is somewhat related to how many posts are misplaced and how much spare time has a moderator ATM. Moderator are members as well we devote our spare time to the community we believe in but we cannot make for everithing non we can take the places or the tasks other fellow member can easily take on their own.