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Nov 4, 2004 10:51:15 GMT
Post by billmcelligott on Nov 4, 2004 10:51:15 GMT
Can I make a suggestion.
Posters;
Can you look at your profiles page:
A signature of some sort helps the passing viewer to indentify who is talking to who.
This is why I like to see avatars and signatures. Its a mode of identification.
I noticed several posts that say , " Thanks Steve " or when you " so and so " said ?
You are fully aware of who you are talking to but the observer has not got a clue.
It makes your group insular, if you can not be easily identified. Possibly putting a new poster off.
I always use my own name which makes life for me easier, ( just in case I forget who I am) but if you use a nick name , placing your First name in the signature solves a lot of confusing comments.
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Nov 4, 2004 11:52:50 GMT
Post by jmd on Nov 4, 2004 11:52:50 GMT
Personally, I agree totally that a 'thanks name' when the person's registered name is different makes reading a thread quite difficult - after all, if someone has chosen to register by 'jmd' (to give my example), then it makes it easier for all readers to simply be referred to as 'jmd' - even for the ones who know the person in person
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Nov 4, 2004 13:19:56 GMT
Post by billmcelligott on Nov 4, 2004 13:19:56 GMT
yes either is fine. Its when you know someone and nobody elase does.
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Nov 4, 2004 16:54:54 GMT
Post by staffs on Nov 4, 2004 16:54:54 GMT
Great point Bill and more experience and constructive advice is given by bro Bill.Thank you
Lets all try to stick to that then eh !!after all freemasonry is spread universally over its surface and we are trying spread this forum over the four quarters of the globe
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Nov 6, 2004 8:56:03 GMT
Post by Hubert (N. Z.) on Nov 6, 2004 8:56:03 GMT
Could I make one suggestion regarding "non de plume" Would it be possible to indicate below that name the country of residence of the participant, mine is New Zealand, as that helps in understyanding and locating comments re events, terminology, etc.
Thanks, Hubert.
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Nov 9, 2004 14:34:17 GMT
Post by Sensei on Nov 9, 2004 14:34:17 GMT
Hubert,
Identifying the location of Forumites is a good one and could be easily incorporated in the signature or in the left hand column - accessed in your Profile and inserted in the PERSONAL TEXT box.
..and if left blank - assume UK (or am I being patronising about the posters mainly from the UK) If so, I apologise now unreservedly before somebody jumps down my throat - Oh, wrong forum....
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Nov 10, 2004 2:32:18 GMT
Post by Stash on Nov 10, 2004 2:32:18 GMT
Sensei's solution is a good one on another level as well. When we have someone's country, then we have a much better idea how to answer their posts if they have a query to which the answer depends on what customs that country hosts
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Nov 10, 2004 2:44:23 GMT
Post by whistler on Nov 10, 2004 2:44:23 GMT
Hubert, Identifying the location of Forumites is a good one and could be easily incorporated in the signature or in the left hand column - accessed in your Profile and inserted in the PERSONAL TEXT box. ..and if left blank - assume UK (or am I being patronising about the posters mainly from the UK) If so, I apologise now unreservedly before somebody jumps down my throat - Oh, wrong forum.... Now there is an interesting situation, I worked in Little Venice (anybody know the Warwick Castle), then lived in Worthing for a number of years until I regained my senses and returned home to Godzone. In all those years I don't think I met an Englishman, I met Scots, Irish, Welsh, Geordies, Devonshiremen, Kentish men Londoners- Nobody ever when asked said they where English. I think it is a very good Idea to add origins as you suggested - I suspect your throat would not be a good place to jump down - If we are to put origins on, I don't like Blank being an option for you Poms
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Nov 10, 2004 5:14:06 GMT
Post by Hubert (N. Z.) on Nov 10, 2004 5:14:06 GMT
Whistler, To make matters worse, I'm actually "A Man Of Kent" and not "A Kentish Man" - depends which side of the Maidstone River you were born in in Kent!
We say we are English, because British incorporates several states, ie the British Isles, but then there is the U.K. as well!!
Cheers Hubert.
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Nov 10, 2004 6:51:18 GMT
Post by whistler on Nov 10, 2004 6:51:18 GMT
Whistler, To make matters worse, I'm actually "A Man Of Kent" and not "A Kentish Man" - depends which side of the Maidstone River you were born in in Kent! We say we are English, because British incorporates several states, ie the British Isles, but then there is the U.K. as well!! Cheers Hubert. And when you see the scottish and Welsh nationalists you can't call the place the United Kingdom - Look at Ruff Ashler, , I hardly ever understand a word he says - I do suspect that if I or he had a bottle of Laphroaig we would find a common tongue
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Nov 10, 2004 6:57:20 GMT
Post by taylorsman on Nov 10, 2004 6:57:20 GMT
Whistler in my own case I'm your typical British Mixture. Of Ulster extraction, (Scots - Irish as the Yanks say), born in Scotland but have lived all of my Adult life in the South of Engalnd mostly the Home Counties but 10 year in Sussex. I consider myself to be British.
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