Dan- If anyone is obsessing here it seems to be you in wanting to post multiple objections on various posts within the same thread when the vast majority of admins would only see this being redundant (not to mention becoming annoyed by it and possibly just trashing your reports even if valid) and when you are creating extra work for yourself for nothing. It sounded a bit like a slur when you wrote below "Unlike you, I clean up everything (subjects, classifications and surnames) on every board I adopt." I'm SO glad you and your boards are PERFECT but you have obviously not adopted many boards with upwards of 20,000 posts on them and more than 12,000 threads as I have. It would be an exercise in futility to attempt to review EVERY previously posted thread on those boards. Obviously someone can call my attention to any problems that arise when they do a search of the board. I don't think you will find many admins who admin their boards in THREAD view other than when posts within a thread are to be deleted--so it isn't unrealistic to expect admin procedures and policies to apply to the manner in which MOST admins process actions on their boards. We have to accept the fact that the boards will never be perfect and we'd all drive ourselves crazy if we tried to make them so--we all do the best we can but I think most admins would not welcome multiple abuse reports on a single thread of messages. 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 **************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. (http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025 48)

[email protected] wrote: >Dan- > >If anyone is obsessing here it seems to be you in wanting to post multiple >objections on various posts within the same thread when the vast majority of >admins would only see this being redundant (not to mention becoming annoyed by >it and possibly just trashing your reports even if valid) and when you are >creating extra work for yourself for nothing. > > It's possible to not realize that you may be posting multiple objections to the same thread. If an author on one of my boards clearly does not know how to post, when time allows I look at that author's posts elsewhere and post objections where needed. I don't open the threads, since I'm only looking at one particular author's posts. If a board admin has removed the Re:'s from the beginning of subject lines or has changed the subject lines completely without moving the posts to a new thread, it can be very difficult to know if multiple objections are being made on different posts within the same thread. I would hope that admins that receive multiple objections for the same thread would act on every objection received and realize that it's not always possible to limit objections to one per thread. I'd hate to think that there are admins that would trash valid reports. If that's the case, why be a board admin at all? > >It sounded a bit like a slur when you wrote below "Unlike you, I clean up >everything (subjects, classifications and surnames) on every board I adopt." I'm > SO glad you and your boards are PERFECT but you have obviously not adopted >many boards with upwards of 20,000 posts on them and more than 12,000 threads >as I have. It would be an exercise in futility to attempt to review EVERY >previously posted thread on those boards. Obviously someone can call my >attention to any problems that arise when they do a search of the board. <snip> > > Gee, I have plenty of boards that have or had that many posts and it's always been my goal to review each and every post. IMHO, better service is provided to users and RootsWeb/Ancestry when we strive to review each and every post, rather than just the most current posts. Lynne