Team members with mod-rights, this message is for you. Please read and acknowledge.

Hi everyone,

I'm going through some of the posts in the "sims 3 downloads support" section as I write this, and I often come across user double posts (for an example, see this topic). Some of you are merging these posts but I still see way too many double and triple posts. 
So I'd like to remind you all to please merge those double posts. Simply copy the posters double post, edit the message above it,  and paste their double post into the first message. Add an //EDIT between both messages, and a request at the bottom to the user. A message may come out looking like this:


Hello!

I have a problem and I hope you can help! My problem is blah blah blah.

//EDIT

Oh and I forgot to mention that blah blah blah.

//EDIT

Oh and also, blah blah blah.

Please edit your post rather than replying to it if you haven't received a reply yet, thank you!
- Lady ElDi 


Needless to say, you will post with your own name of course

So far I haven't come across any threads (surprisingly) that have posts inside in need of merging.  This is probably because of my timezone and everyone else already doing it.  

But I have seen an increasing number of posts all being merged when it's not necessary, or a few posts being merged together with no mod/helper username available or comment about how to use the edit button. lol  Much like the example thread your posted, ElDi!  I always edit posts in red font color and include my username!

What determines whether or not two or more posts should be squished together?  I can imagine it'd be obvious, and I don't mean to step on toes or ask unnecessary questions, it's just I've seen a few things merged (as I stated above) when it's unnecessary - literally to the point of me not getting notified via email that there was an update to a particular thread! This is a little worrisome to me because then people aren't getting helped in a timely fashion.  In other words because of my forum settings, when a person posts something in a thread I'VE posted in, I get notified via email.  If I don't get notified at all because of a lot of editing, it means the thread is technically "read" so I get no notification until that user that made the thread makes a post saying, "Hey! Where's my help!?"  lol.

Needless to say, and sorry to ramble, I will work diligently on helping to clean up the forum and merge posts for you guys.  

Lady ElDi wrote:Hello,

I actually edited that post after writing this message  so it's probably a horrible example hahaha.
But lets have a look at this thread. We're starting about halfway down the thread where the user replies, and again for a total of 4 times without editing their post. You're actually the first on the "scene" after her 4 replies
Those 4 replies should be merged into 1 reply, since there are no replies by other users in the time she posted those 4 replies.

We don't usually post a message when it's just 2 messages that have been merged into 1, but if someone keeps doing the same thing, or there are a lot of posts in a row by the same user, it's recommended to post a little note at the bottom. Some mods like to do that immediately, which is fine by me as well.

I feel like a derp, because I WAS there on the scene after all of those replies.  I plead not guilty!  Maybe.  I'll use the excuse of perhaps not being promoted to Sims 3 Helper at that time, forgive me!     Lol.

Either way, that's an excellent example so thank you for posting that!  

While I do agree that these posts should be merged into one, I do agree with you Lady Eldi. People don't read at all. It is a chaos when the users tried to bump, and that is the reason why Carlos suggested this. I do think a kind of post like this is essential, even though some people don't read. I still have high hopes that some people will read it.

Read and acknowledged!