11-04-2001 01:15									#1
	Building Great Library: "keywords" and a disorder in forums Avatar Enlargement: We've got the solution

One of ideas discussed in the Apolyton's "Great Library" consists in putting "keywords" into threads. Keywords would help to find threads related to a specific topic: For example if you would want to find all threads related to partisans, then you would go to the SEARCH button and you would search for a corresponding keyword: {partisan}

The problem is that the first step is to put "keywords" into threads: it usually means to post one new post (if there won't be an opportunity to edit an existing post) into individual old threads: old threads will jump to the top of forums once.

Would you accept this disorder?
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	11-04-2001 07:14									#2
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ST, there is already total chaos in the searching. While culling the archives for any combat modifiers, I came across many threads containing keywords while the topic was something completely different - someone diverged from the topic at hand and used my search keyword.

If we use what you propose, we might want to put it either in the thread title or actually start the post with "keywords-partisan" or some such agreed-upon style. Then we could search for "keywords-partisan" instead of "partisan", weeding out the relevant thread from the drivel.

See my new thread in the Strategy forum about a final combat results library entry. What I've found on that topic is that everybody and his uncle has a theory about how an aspect of the game works. Testers debate results, and finally something emerges from the cloud of dust. Even in this forum is a current thread about hit points and firepower, which has been resolved at least 3 times! All the more reason to finish the GL entry! Yet still the debate rages on. Most of the posts are speculation or somebody remembering the previous misinformation and propogating it furthur. Grrr...

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	11-04-2001 22:00									#4
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This post was moved to The Great Library: a hierarchical structure" thread.
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