I'm really getting frustrated trying to distill information from some of the Owner club threads. Specifically when someone tosses a tech issue on the table. It's a great audience...everyone is there, however it's hard to pick out one bit of content from another. Overlapping conversations cloud the issue; continuity is lost.
Because the poster has dumped his tech thread into the bottomless pit of the club thread prattle the clear statement of the problem, trial/error, resolution can be difficult to track.
I'd like to see an ability to cluster posts together. This actually feels pretty tough to do automatically but if a new option is created to create a 'sub-thread' rather than a 'new' thread we have the ability of both. A feature of a sub thread is an internal identifier that isolates that sub-thread content (so it looks like a separate thread). This way after the fact, you can search a post and reconcile the conversation.
The context of the game is solid.
The post get's the visibility of those watching the thread.
The sub-thread can be reassembled to form a story from start to finish.
What would Martijn & Robin need to do?
** A new "Reply - Create Sub-Thread" button would be needed; this is at the THREAD Level. This would create a new unique identifier allowing tracking associating the subThreadID with the post.
** A new "Reply Sub-Thread" button would need to be added on a POST....NOT the Reply button at the bottom of the thread. This allows out of order replies the ability to associate the reply to a sub-thread rather than the main thread. Furthermore, if the selected post is NOT a pre-established sub-thread, a new sub-thread would be created and as such the "Reply Sub-Thread" would be tied to the original post.
** A new "Re-assemble sub-thread" button would be needed on a POST. This allows pulls all the sub-thread posts together in one seamless report.
** A "Reply" on the thread goes into the pit of doom that is the shared thread. Perhaps a prompt to confirm that a generic post to the thread is desired, rather than creating a new Sub-Thread and/or post a reply within a preexisting sutb-thread. I would think the extra prompt would ONLY be needed on "Club" posts, but the ability to post a sub-thread on any post could extend outside of the "club" context.
** Something cleaver may be possible if someone "Quotes" a section of text from a post and hits the "Reply" button. Obviously, the person at the keyboard wanted to associate their post with another. The same pattern could be used to associate to a sub-thread or create a new sub-thread/associate.
More than one quote from multiple posts crossing multiple sub-threads could get weird. Picking one is possible but picking neither probably makes more sense.
Thoughts???
faz