Post management.

[dkmweeks]

Likely, this is a phpBB question, but I'll ask it of our hosts, since they are the ones to manage this. If you want help in finding out further, ask me, I look into it.

Being really new around here I'm learning things, and importantly, noticing things that I will at some point, no longer notice.

Here's one I feel compeled to mention.

Some of these posts get really long; they get really long because they're really good, but the longer they get the discourse tends to deepen and broaden, natural to the gains of information they naturally gather.

So. Is there any work regarding the refinement and re-generation of such worthy posts? Am I even making sense?

[Deathwing00]

I am not sure if this will answer your question:

Threads with lots of posts are usually split, so that all posts go locked away. Usually the first post, in those threads like HOWTOs and so on, keep the most important information that came along the posts of the threads. Users maintain that at their own discretion.

[dkmweeks]

I'd like to see the record kept, but divided and conquored.

It seems to me that there should be three areas in a long, worthy post: sumation, current dialog, and historical discourse. A post is a question or assertion. It would format according to which. An assertion would have the assertion, then its challanges, and those challange's responses. It would lead to policy suggestion.

A question would have the question, with it's suggested answers, which are assertions, and so have their challanges, conclusisions, sumation among answers and challanges, and then policy suggestion.

Such a facility would change many things.

[Deathwing00]

IMHO things are fine as they are. I see no point in your explanation.

[dkmweeks]

OK. I'll post a working example when I get one.

Thanks just the same.