THREADS: FINDING, BUMPING & PROMOTING ShakesVere has been operating in some form or another for five years now. This means that many many topics relating to Oxfordian studies and the Shakespeare Authorship Question have already been discussed here before. So, when folks have already chimed in on a subject, why reinvent the wheel and start the conversation anew with each and every post? My personal ideal here is a good mix of new threads and older threads. But these days its pretty much all new threads, even sometimes threads that re-tread material covered in similar threads from 2010 and 11 and 12 and so on. How can folks find this out for themselves? Its actually very easy to discover old threads on subjects youre interested in. If youre accessing SV on a web browser, look under the left eye of the Edward/Ashbourne banner at the top of this page. (See photo 1 attached.) If you want to find previous posts about, say, Laurence Nowell and Beowulf, click in the Search this group box & type in your search string, just like you would in Google. If youre accessing SV via the Facebook app for smartphone or tablet, Search this group may not be available. That I dont know. And I dont have my ipad handy at the moment to check this out. (Smartphone and/or tablet users? Is search available in SV in the FB app?) Then click on the word Comment beneath the post youre considering resurrecting. (See photo 2 attached) Type in a comment and, badaboom, this old thread is now bumped to the top of the ShakesVere timeline. Just as if it were a completely new post. Often there are long discussions on some of these threads, which can then rejoin the action and provide more and broader context for the comment youre making. Of course as with posting new items to SV, gratuitous bumping of old threads just for the sake of bumping them... or shameless self-promotion or whatever... that the moderators do not smile on. But for the sake of enriching the conversation here -- enabling veteran SV members to revisit the conversation on older threads as well as for new SV members to see these threads for the first time -- I hope folks who post on SV will consider judicious use of bumping and promoting from time to time too. Thank you as always, folks. Keep up the good chatter!
Posted on: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 15:35:10 +0000
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