I guess I don't understand. Why would Admin B be (concerned? worried?) if Admin A or Staff transferred (moved) a post to Admin B's board? If we trust that each Admin does his or her job to review posts, it shouldn't matter if Admin B was aware a post was moved. Since Admin B actually moved a post, it implies that yes, the Admin did his/her job. Although it is not required duties, as Joan has said before on this List, Admins can easily review and "fix" posts before moving them so that the post/thread is appropriate to ANY board. It only makes sense, for example, to change a "HELP" subject line to a more specific and descriptive subject such as "Gary SMITH born 1892 York Co., PA, need death date". Then, after "fixing up" the thread, it's already done-done before moving it all. I'd actually be relieved/happy/okay to realize it was a moved post (usually evident by the older date), because at least it had already been seen/checked/reviewed by another Admin. It won't be spam/commercial/inappropriate, even if it lacks a fixed surname field (not required duties). If I trust other Admins to do their jobs (as I do trust), then why do I need to go check the post again? or even concern myself that a post or thread was moved into my board? Just another way to look at the issue. Judy On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:46 AM, MJDallas <rwlistsboards@comcast.net> wrote: > Lynne wrote: > > > And visiting the boards regularly allow you to view recent posts that > > were transferred to your boards which may need to be edited in some way. > > > > Wish we could receive a report of transferred posts. > > Lynne, > > Amen! One board admin, Tilman (bless his heart!), very generously takes > the time to post a reply to the transferred post, which gives me a > heads-up that there's been a post transferred. As admin of the Poland > general locality board (and 100+ others), I'm certain that there are > posts transferred there which should be on one of the province boards. > And a post transferred to the wrong board would go unnoticed as well. > For me, having some kind of notification of any transferred posts would > be very welcome. > > -Marie

J.A. Florian wrote: >I guess I don't understand. Why would Admin B be (concerned? worried?) if >Admin A or Staff transferred (moved) a post to Admin B's board? If we >trust that each Admin does his or her job to review posts, it shouldn't >matter if Admin B was aware a post was moved. Since Admin B actually moved >a post, it implies that yes, the Admin did his/her job. <snip> > If Report Abuse is used to note an off-topic message, I'm betting that most admins wouldn't first edit that post before transferring it. I usually review posts in thread view. If a post is misplaced, I only review the first in the thread and then transfer it. I agree it would be nice to review the whole thread, fix anything, and then transfer it, but that doesn't always happen, especially if the post is being transferred from a huge board to a small one. AFAIK, staff doesn't move many threads and I'm pretty sure when that happens the posts don't get reviewed first. As far as trusting that each admin does a good job reviewing posts, you only need to adopt a previously adminned board to know that doesn't happen all the time. Lynne