The OP saw that this thread:
Clock gets reset every time i reboot the machine - openSUSE Forums
wasn’t going anywhere, so started this nearly exact thread 6 minutes later:
Clock gets changed every time i reboot the machine - openSUSE Forums
Another thread was started a day or so later, wondering why posts weren’t showing up as new, but that didn’t go far.
Is the forum activity so high that some posts get lost in the crowd? Or do some posts just get lost?
Just curious.
> Is the forum activity so high that some posts get lost in the crowd?
> Or do some posts just get lost?
there is one other possibility!
you found the treads, right? so the threads ARE there…maybe it was
just that “demra” couldn’t find them…
i’ve seen that happen several times…i remember one made a hostile
voiced post saying something like: This forum and openSUSE sucks! I
asked for help and no one answered.
and, i gave him a link to his original post which had several good
answers…but, he never came back (or, rather he never said “sorry”
for falsely condemning the entire community for not answering)…
i conclude he just didn’t know how to find his posts and their answers…
further proving my contention that every human on earth is NOT
suitably equipped to use either openSUSE or our forums…
idea: if you think this is a problem (finding one’s own post) perhaps
you would like to write a how-to for folks needing such help and
putting it in:
http://forums.opensuse.org/new-user-how-faq-read-only/unreviewed-how-faq/
but, my experience is that the folks not able to find their own post
won’t be able to find your excellent instructions either…
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palladium
If you started a thread and can’t find it for some reason, click the forum control panel and you can find the threads you started and the posts on threads you participated.
There are many possibilities to explain the forum behavior I described. I offered a conclusion one might jump to with limited knowledge of how the forum works.
I can accept for now that a direct answer to my question doesn’t exist, that I’ve asked the question badly, or that the behavior I’ve observed simply doesn’t happen. I will continue to observe until I answer it myself or can ask a better question.
Thanks and Happy New Year.
GregBrannon wrote:
> I can accept for now that a direct answer to my question doesn’t exist,
you asked two Qs:
Q1:Is the forum activity so high that some posts get lost in the crowd?
A1.1: No. all posts stay in the database forever (almost) and are
therefore available no matter how high the forum activity might be.
A1.2: Yes. in the forums structure if a user does not know how to
search or find one’s own post, then the high level of activity will
very soon cause a post to scroll down the web page and to the
next…never to be seen again (by the person who does not look,
search, and find it)
Q2: Or do some posts just get lost?
A2.1: No. Once received posts do not get lost (barring catastrophic
failure of technology).
A2.2: Yes. If the post database and ALL backups, google caches and
etc are wiped out.
A2.3: Maybe there are incidents where individual posts are accidently
wiped out by technical glitches…as they say “S–t happens.”
however, the post you singled out didn’t lost…they are still there.
so, no need to wait for a ‘direct answers’…i got lots of’em.
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palladium
How does one mark a thread SOLVED. I’m sure it’s staring me right in the face, but I can’t see it.
Thanks.
GregBrannon wrote:
> How does one mark a thread SOLVED. I’m sure it’s staring me right in
> the face, but I can’t see it.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
it is not possible here for reasons explained in several past threads
within this this forum…the last thread i see (quickly) is named
“Mark thread as solved” and was begun on 16 Nov 09…
but there are MANY other…which you can easily find via this page
http://forums.opensuse.org/search.php
or a quick google search using the site restrictor, like
site:forums.opensuse.org mark thread solved
yields about 2,390 hits, here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforums.opensuse.org+mark+thread+solved
most people will ask before searching…but, i don’t know why since
it is easier to sreach than make a post and wait wait wait wait
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palladium
Thanks again.