Genealogy Chat

gentle nudge

Just to help this along!!

nudge nudge wink wink.

Hi

Nudging is not too bad. As long as you dont do it too much in my opinion, if you just want to bring up a lost topic for attention then it is OK, especially if you are really in need of genealogy help.

Ben

Better nnnnnnnnnnnudge this up abit!

I nudge up threads if I see a genuine enquiry which is a few pages down which has never received even one reply.

I just feel sorry for them and hope someone else can help where I can´t.

Found it - thank you Cynthia - first time I've looked at 'help'. Managed to load my tree and put photos on without looking here - the obvious place to start!

I don't see any reason to be so upset about nudging.


It brings threads up to the front that are useful for newbies (and others!!!), giving lots of advice that we all have had to find out for ourselves. And anything that makes life easier for those of us who help is welcome.

A nudge can also bring up a thread that will answer a question asked by someone who didn't know that their question had been answered yonkers ago, but another person has realised that.




I do wish that postings could be removed completely though, instead of that stupid deleted either by administrator or ....................... That's useless!!!





sylvia

If you click on the Help bit - top right hand corner- there is some info there. I don't know if this is what Glen meant or not. Heather and I have both posted some advice in our Tips for Newbies and Are you new to all this? threads. Hope they are helpful.

Thank you for the info Christine - Glen I must be blind or stupid as I can't see anything about 'getting started' on the homepage - where is it please?

The main drawback to sticky threads is the overuse they get on other sites.

If half a dozen threads are made a sticky then it takes up a fair chunk of the opening page of threads, a major drawback of the way the boards are used is that if a thread dissappears of page 1 then folks don't tend to see them (or don't look).

The "getting started" threads on the homepage answer a lot of the more basic questions but are underused as it is, the sticky threads get ignored on other sites and it would be little different here that i can see.

It isn't a case of how the sites can be laid out, more a case of the misuse of the facilities that are offered and poor board ettiquette a lot of the time.

Glen

First Cynthia - thank you for explaining 'nudges' to me.

See some of us are very newbies on here and don't understand all the lingo and etiquette or the best way to find again what we have looked at before or how to save it so we can locate it again.

I don't know what stickies are and how do you make something a sticky? Is there a thread that explains these and other basic terms?

Hi Margaret, apology accepted. It would be useful if other people could delete their nudges and lessen the pages I suppose, but the main point of the thread is on the first page. Any other comments are usually just thanks from those who have found the tips helpful. You really don't have to plough through them all. The odd squeaky toy comment is just a way of communication between nudgers - it helps build up a fellowship. Regards.

Hear hear!

Personally I think they should have a separate board for new members to read the stickies before they start.

Margaret - yes, good point; it's a brilliant idea, although as Heather says, GR have been asked about it before.
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Well Margaret, thats what we have all been asking for - either that we have them as stickies or on a separate board or that GR go back to the old system where deletion dont shown - unfortunately they seem unable to comply with any of these reasonable requests.

I cant say that the nudges make it difficult to locate the point of the thread as its normally right at the beginning of same.


May be you could contact GR too.

It looks like I will have to admit defeat!

I see perfectly well that a useful thread (and there are lots of them without which I would have been lost myself) should be nudged now and again but some of them consist almost entirely of nudges, several times a day which, along with deleted posts, makes it extremely difficult to locate the point of the thread.

Perhaps some of the more popular threads (with lots of nudges or bookmarks) could become "stickies", and Genes could be persuaded to remove the "nudging" and "deleted" messages?.

Margaret

The above deletion was me, because my good self repeated my posting - I say, repeated my posting, lol.
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Margaret, with respect people who are new to this aren't aware of the workings on here, therefore it stands to reason that any nudged threads on Page 1 will be useful to them.

I still remember how intimidated I felt when I came on here for the first time, reading postings such as yours.

You may not mean it like that, but I have to say that's how it comes across to me. I hope I'm wrong. :-)

D'oh