The placement of a thread is basically irrelevant in an electronic system.
We have a forum search engine and Google.
I, too, quite disagree : e.g., take a look at
www.supertopo.com forum (no plurality!)
and contrast it with
www.rockclinbing.com forumS (Beginners, Gearheads, TheLab,
Trad, Sport ...). One doesn't always have success even if using a Search (there
are frequent remarks about this on RC.com, when folks are flamed for having
asked an oft'-asked question), and there are times when one isn't looking for
some specific topic but just browsing --and it's a bother browsing both with
many unrelated subjects AND few-listings-per-page (though e.g.
www.ukclimbinghas long pages so that's less an issue).
Elsewhere (Fancy knots), Drnihili wonders about a list of
ABOK errors;
I think that a Search for that, under Chit-Chat (only ... at the time), will find
my postings (my list in 3 installments, was it?). (To the particular knot
at question, though, I don't recall that being among what I found or
found that others had found --just don't recall it.)
As for
What is gained by moving the classifying-a-*bowline* thread? ,
again, I say that strength/vitality is given rightfully to the other,
to-be-renamed forum; it can provide some motivation to get more
active in that exploration of fundamental ideas. (And we know that
some pure research can lead to applications; theory can feed praxis.)
Meanwhile, I hope we can quickly dispense of the now vogue act
of questioning every thread's placement, which was at first done
provocatively. Let's not play the game
If it's not perfect, then it
can't be right! - - - - - - -
Maybe (for want of better, yet?) "Knotting Concepts & Explorations"
is a satisfactory new title for the "Theory..." forum. (I don't like
Xarax's "Study ..." because I think that there is room for
studyin "Practical" (too). "Philosophical..." has merit but needs an
"and/&" and thereby becomes excessive of characters if not also
awkward. I see in "concepts" the immediate issue of the contentious
thread; and in "explorations"
some of the *new* knots topics,
esp. where some structural idea is given a series of manifestations.
(And I hope to take that splayed-eye knot and *run* with it in such
an exploratory fashion!) "Concepts" also covers nomenclature,
which goes hand-&-hand with conceptualization. AND I think that
this title doesn't otherwise (overly) confuse, esp. in standing WITH
"Practical...".
Now, "Computing", as I suggested elsewhere (in this or another thread?),
belongs on its own, IMO : there should be some activity here, and
even if infrequent, there will be benefit to finding all such threads
together. And I think it's a general topic that can well accept
contributions from both Fancy & Practical knotters. (For that
matter, so too Knotting Concepts & Explorations.)
--dl*
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