Categorisation Of Forums, Hardware is hardware Options

[Presto]

Please give your opinion on an imminent complete re-categorisation for MacMusic forums.

Personally, I'm quite happy with a simple hardware forum separate from software issues, and I don't care if the hardware is Mac specific or not. I find it very difficult to observe the present rules where computer-specific hardware issues should be posted in OS9 or OSX (which one is not always clear). It's true there are many more posts on the French side, so I agree that more sub categories could help seeing a bit clearer.

I'm happy Damann should agree with me on the hardware issue (see Mini-me topic). I was starting to wonder if my brain was just too simple. This may be a problem of culture based logic.

I correct scientific articles for French researchers wishing to be published in English, and have my work cut out to get their logic simplified and clear for international readers. As my clients do get published when they use me, I presume my simplicity attitude is appropriate.

We are working on a new categorisation for forums, and I do hope the anglo-saxon approach will be heard. Do say what you'd like.

"Hear my cry" (Purcell)

[BusError]

Well, for me, it had always been rather clear from the name of the forums:
+ OS 9: sorta obsolete, I don't particularily want to read it.
+ OS X: ok I read that, thats what I use.
+ Hardware: cool, I've got that piece of external gear, I talk about it there

So, whats the f*ck the hardware forum is for if it's not for talking about hardware *especialy hardware that has no difference in functionality on os9 and osx*

It seems perfectly logic a setup, if I want to read storied about OMS, I go read OS9. If I want to read a story about Mini-Me or Erirol Blob-160 I go read Hardware.

So, when I posted the "Mini-Me" topic, it was, in my own view, perfectly in place where it was. And when it was moved to OS9, I was really wondering. In fact, I'm still wondering.

I think the moderators should also think past the tip of their nose and try to remember how lusers reacts : no intervention is better than a bad intervention.

So in that particular subject:
+ I (questionably, maybe) posted a topic, that was in any case not COMPLETELY off tipic in the hardware forum.

Several things could have happened then:

+ Moderator #1 messages me privately saying, "doh, you suck, you didn't read the doc!" and I promise I will never do it again. The End.

+ Moderator #1 reply in the thread "Tss Tss I move this topic to TI99-4A cause I feel like it" in wich case, everyone says "ok, he's the boss, he acts like one for sure". The End.

Instead, what happened is:
+ The thread was moved just like that, on wich I told myself "Another moderating accident, BusyMod clicks the 'move' buttons too fast"
+ Thus, thinking it is an error, I reply; since apparently i hadn't understood the non-os9 related subjects appearing there were MEANT to be there
+ Some other moderator, who obviously was thinking like me and not like the ModBoss, says "doh, wierd" and moves the topic back.
+ The ModBoss -who was hidding all that time behind a banner watching the scene- jumps, shows his fangs, and reapply the rule nobody knows about, because it's discussed in the Moderator Forums anyway.

So, if you look closely and COUNT the number of messages generated by this ONE action, it is FAR MORE than a slight off topic subject would have ever generated by itself. So instead of reducing the chaos, in fact, it blew it completely out of proportions.

I've been a moderator for years. I was a moderator on QBBS (in france) in 1988 already, and I'm also a Game Master on a rather well known MMORPG. The "no intervention is better than bad intervention" is a golden rule.