Dan- I would imagine most admins admin their boards and address objections viewing the boards in FLAT MODE. The ONLY time THREAD view is more appropriate is when you are trying to delete a post within a thread and you need to consider which responses are attached to the post you wish to remove--otherwise--FLAT VIEW is the way to go. When I click on the post to review it from the objection page--I'm seeing the THREAD with my selected option of newest first on down to oldest in the thread. So posting MULTIPLE objections on posts in the SAME thread wouldn't be necessary--it's overkill. There would be nothing wrong with pointing out multiple problems within your single objection--note that the thread needs complete review--but don't post mulitple objections for a single thread. On the other hand--if/when board admin procedures are rewritten--this topic should be covered to include this action when reviewing objections so that admins will uniformly review by thread and not by message. Joan -------- Joan, I had never seen what you described ("can't tell...which post within a thread the objection is attached to"). On the rare occasions I have to deal with objections, I always see the message to which the objection pertains. However, with a little experimenting, I found the difference. In flat mode I saw the whole thread and was unable to distinguish which message was referenced by the objection. On the other hand, in thread view I saw the specific message. If the entire thread was recently moved to the board (which is evident to me by the orange "unread" dots), then I will review it in its entirety. Otherwise, I have already reviewed the entire thread and, there is *usually* no need to review it a second time. In this instance I'm thinking as a *user* rather than as an admin. If I'm reading the 4th (oldest to newest) of 28 messages in a thread and file an objection on that message, it is inconvenient to have to navigate back from the main page to read the remaining 24 posts after filing the objection. Dan **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

On Feb 10, 2008 6:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan- > > I would imagine most admins admin their boards and address objections > viewing the boards in FLAT MODE. The ONLY time THREAD view is more > appropriate is > when you are trying to delete a post within a thread and you need to > consider > which responses are attached to the post you wish to > remove--otherwise--FLAT > VIEW is the way to go. > > When I click on the post to review it from the objection page--I'm seeing > the THREAD with my selected option of newest first on down to oldest in > the > thread. So posting MULTIPLE objections on posts in the SAME thread > wouldn't be > necessary--it's overkill. There would be nothing wrong with pointing out > multiple problems within your single objection--note that the thread > needs > complete review--but don't post mulitple objections for a single thread. > On the > other hand--if/when board admin procedures are rewritten--this topic > should be > covered to include this action when reviewing objections so that admins > will > uniformly review by thread and not by message. > > Joan > Joan, We all have to determine what works best for us. IMO, that is exactly why board admin procedures have not been written "you must do it this way". Unlike you, I clean up everything (subjects, classifications and surnames) on every board I adopt. Obviously I cannot do that in one sitting when the board has several hundred posts. By viewing in Thread mode, an interruption does not cause me to waste time figuring out which messages in the thread I have already finished. The ones I have *not* edited are still clearly marked with my friends, the orange dots. If I were viewing in Flat mode, those orange dots would have been annihilated as soon as I opened the thread. My way works for me. Since I do clean up every message in every thread on every board I admin, I rarely have objections...no obituary is classified as a Query, Surname entries do not contain extraneous surnames or non-surnames, etc. However, on the rare occasion on objection has been filed, I don't usually *need* to review the entire thread because I've already done that. The only message I need to be concerned with is *the one* on which the objection was filed, unless the entire thread has been recently moved to the board (again, I can determine that because of the orange dots). I have no idea why you are obsessing over multiple objections in the same thread. I'm talking about READING messages and WHERE you are taken after filing an objection (again, think USER not admin). Prior to the "repair" we were taken back to the message on which we filed the objection. It is *inconvenient* to be returned to the opening page, from a user's standpoint. Dan