FB:Forum Identifications

23rd Sep 2003 12:17 #1

Member

Baldrick,

Perhaps I'm getting too creative today, but your posting in the Programming forum made a click to me.

How about identifying forums with TLAs (Three Letter Abreviations)? This way, looking at the list of recent postings would help identify postings by interest - instead of having to go to the individual forum.

It is possible to mark the posting so that it identifies the forum, but it's a lot of effort and not easy to follow.

I suppose it should be possible to implement this on the forum engine. If so, then some suggested TLAs for forums:

NEW: Latest News
NBE: Newbie / General Discussions
SVA: (S)VCD Authoring
DVA: DVD Authoring
CAP: Capturing
AUD: Audio
NBC: Newbie Conversion
ADV: Advanced Conversion
DVC: DVD To (S)VCD
DDR: DVD to DVDR
EDT: Editing, Cutting and Joining
SPL: Software Playing
LNX: Linux Video Forum
MAC: MAC Video Forum (I think this forum already generates a TLA)
MED: Media
PRG: Programming
HDW: Hardware DVD Writers
REC: DVD Recorders
HPL: Hardware Players
UGD: User Guides
GLO: Glossary
COM: Computers
OFF: Off Topic
FDB: Feedback
TST: Test
POL: Polls - although this could also state TGP for TPO 8)
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23rd Sep 2003 12:30 #2

lordsmurf

Video Restorer

Cool idea, but I'd ignore them.
In fact, I've got enough abbreviations as it is.

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23rd Sep 2003 14:57 #3

The village idiot

Member

Originally Posted by lordsmurf

Cool idea, but I'd ignore them.
In fact, I've got enough abbreviations as it is.

That's what I was thinking. Maybe for a few key forums but not for everyone of them. Things like news and important site announcements. But for general use I would ignore them.

Hope is the trap the world sets for you every night when you go to sleep and the only reason you have to get up in the morning is the hope that this day, things will get better... But they never do, do they?

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23rd Sep 2003 18:10 #4

Cornucopia