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Night In Wight Satin
Join Date: May 2000
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Over the years, I have often seen members start new topics with a question to the general membership of the Downs. Questions are not bad in themselves, of course. We encourage people to ask lots of them. But the topics I am talking about, usually in Mirth, have the potential to be humorous but are often hobbled from their inception by the way they are presented.
When starting a topic, you should first be careful not to begin a dreaded 'list topic'* They are detrimental to the forum and your overall mental health. Next, starting a topic with a question, you should always answer it yourself and give a detailed reason for your answer, encouraging others to do the same. Simply asking a question and waiting for others to discuss it is a little lazy and will probably result in a ‘list’. Bad Quote:
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Thanks * List Topic: A statement/question inciting a perpetual string of self-clones.
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
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Ok, that's a good and necessary post to make Barrow-wight, but you know what you have to do now don't you? Start that Rock'n'Roll thread, it sounds great!
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Night In Wight Satin
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Rock on!
OK. I can do that. *thank goodness for cut and paste*
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
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You mean that was originally just an example? An example???
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World's Tallest Hobbit
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Where the view is long
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In view of this sudden rush of topics calling for higher quality posts (i.e. A Call by Imladris, Redundancy on the Rise by LePetiteChoux, Estelyn's Rant, and this thread), I found it the perfect time to add my two cents
![]() ![]() Indeed, BW "Idea + Example = Better Topic", but I say "Idea + Example + Confidence = Even Better Topic.
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Tears of the Phoenix
Join Date: Jun 2003
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However, I totally agree with what you said about confidence.
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Lindolirian, good point! I can remember a thread on the "two cents" issue; I think it was called "The Phantom Finance" and was started by Rimbaud, but I can't locate it at the moment.
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Princess of Skwerlz
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Why thank you for finding the link, Imladris! See, your search was successful this time - for whatever reason, mine wasn't...
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Tears of the Phoenix
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You're welcome -- I just went under Rimbaud's name and clicked "Find all threads started by Rimbaud" -- fortunately (should that be unfortunately?) he has started few topics so it was relatively easy to find...I didn't use the search because I couldn't remember if it was under Mirth or the Downs...
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