Moving Threads Glitch
Apr 23, 2004 | 10:46 pm
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Moving Threads Glitch
Apparently, when the mods try to move a thread to another forum, they only succeed in having it duplicated there.
JFE wanted to move a thread about Krispy Kreme from Omni to Dining Buzz. The thread now appears in both forums and if you post in one it appears in the other as well.
(Having replied in the Dining Buzz Forum, I discovered my reply appearing in Omni. Obviously, I immediately edited it out on the Omni Forum and it automatically got edited out on Dining Buzz as well.)
If this glitch doesn't get fixed it will never make sense for a mod to move a thread.
JFE wanted to move a thread about Krispy Kreme from Omni to Dining Buzz. The thread now appears in both forums and if you post in one it appears in the other as well.
(Having replied in the Dining Buzz Forum, I discovered my reply appearing in Omni. Obviously, I immediately edited it out on the Omni Forum and it automatically got edited out on Dining Buzz as well.)
If this glitch doesn't get fixed it will never make sense for a mod to move a thread.
Apr 23, 2004 | 10:53 pm
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Actually, this is normal, the link to the thread is still in Omni, but it's redirected to the correct forum. Click on the Omni link, and you'll see you arrive in SPAM.
Apr 23, 2004 | 10:57 pm
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Dovster, the thread has indeed been moved correctly. The vBulletin software leaves a "redirect" post in the original forum so that users who look for the topic will be able to find it, click on it, and be automatically redirected to the thread but contained in the new forum.
If you look on Page 4 of the OMNI index, you'll see the Krispy Kreme thread, but it's marked "Moved: " (with a different icon too). If you click on it, you end up reading the thread, but in its new location. Look at the top of the page, it shows it's correctly labelled as being in DiningBuzz.
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If you look on Page 4 of the OMNI index, you'll see the Krispy Kreme thread, but it's marked "Moved: " (with a different icon too). If you click on it, you end up reading the thread, but in its new location. Look at the top of the page, it shows it's correctly labelled as being in DiningBuzz.
FewMiles..
Apr 23, 2004 | 10:59 pm
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Scott, if somebody is going to post in the new forum but it still shows up in the old one, what is the point in moving it?
You haven't succeeded in taking a misplaced thread and getting it out of your forum -- all you have done is create a clone so it is now fully functional in both of them.
You haven't succeeded in taking a misplaced thread and getting it out of your forum -- all you have done is create a clone so it is now fully functional in both of them.
Apr 23, 2004 | 11:00 pm
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It's not a clone. It's a redirect or "soft link". Yes, it appears in both forums, but the redirect doesn't go back up to the top of the list when someone replies to the topic.
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Apr 23, 2004 | 11:04 pm
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Originally Posted by FewMiles
If you look on Page 4 of the OMNI index, you'll see the Krispy Kreme thread, but it's marked "Moved: " (with a different icon too). If you click on it, you end up reading the thread, but in its new location. Look at the top of the page, it shows it's correctly labelled as being in DiningBuzz.
FewMiles..
Let's assume I want to post about United Airlines and do so in the Delta Forum. The DL mods don't want it there and move it to the UA. The thread will remain visible in DL and every new post -- whether made by somebody from the DL Board or the UA Board -- will be visible on both of them.
Apr 23, 2004 | 11:05 pm
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Originally Posted by Dovster
Scott, if somebody is going to post in the new forum but it still shows up in the old one, what is the point in moving it?
You haven't succeeded in taking a misplaced thread and getting it out of your forum -- all you have done is create a clone so it is now fully functional in both of them.
You haven't succeeded in taking a misplaced thread and getting it out of your forum -- all you have done is create a clone so it is now fully functional in both of them.
Apr 23, 2004 | 11:28 pm
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Originally Posted by Dovster
I follow that, but if I were to go to that thread on Omni or on Dining Buzz and post, my new post would wind up in both forums. The label on top is only theoretical.
Let's assume I want to post about United Airlines and do so in the Delta Forum. The DL mods don't want it there and move it to the UA. The thread will remain visible in DL and every new post -- whether made by somebody from the DL Board or the UA Board -- will be visible on both of them.
Let's assume I want to post about United Airlines and do so in the Delta Forum. The DL mods don't want it there and move it to the UA. The thread will remain visible in DL and every new post -- whether made by somebody from the DL Board or the UA Board -- will be visible on both of them.
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Apr 24, 2004 | 1:28 am
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Originally Posted by FewMiles
You are sounding overly concerned that your post "appears" in OMNI when it doesn't really. Just because there's a link from OMNI to a re-positioned thread on which you have posted doesn't somehow mean that you've broken your self-exile from OMNI. And as I said, the redirect pointer will not be refreshed with new replies to thread to which it points. That is, it will not come back to the top of the forum listing. It eventually just scrolls off the bottom and disappears.
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