Locked Threads on Lancashire Lookup Offers

[JenB]

it does seem a bit pointless to make the offer if you then have to hunt around for the people you are offering to help! 

But surely if you do as suggested and click the 'notify' button (see quote below) you won't have to hunt around for them?
 

We will ask the moderators to "lock" each "LOOKUP OFFER" as soon as possible after it has been posted so that people cannot reply to it directly.

If you then go to the Request Board for the county and click the large NOTIFY button,  you will receive a notification when a new request is posted in the relevent county.

[Necromancer]

trouble with that is that you'd get notified of all threads for that county ....... probably not a lot if you login every day, but could be humongous if you leave it for a while .... 

[Mr. MIGKY]

I agree with Celia, it does seem a bit pointless to make the offer if you then have to hunt around for the people you are offering to help!  

Keenbutconfused and Migky - why not just place new offers on the regular Lancashire board? Then they will stay open, people can post a reply direct and you will get notified.  

And nosy parkers like me can still butt in if we want to  
Barbara

I have had mine removed Barbara now. I would have done this but i had a thread started by my self called " whats free on the net " for some reason after it had been running for well over a year some one asked for it to be removed from where it was and put on useful links. this berlin bob did with out prier contact with me and to make it worst i could not post to the thread at all. After a long discussion with berlin bob Iwas told that it should remain there but the new thread somebody els had started up was ok to stay where it was?
But in the mean time to my frustration after trying to unlock the thread i hit the delete thread and lost the whole thread. Now all the great free web links have gone. It has not been a great day for me on here and will hold back from further posting for now. Need a clear head to play with word i think.
Migky

[kerryb]

Sorry I didn't read the notice on the Sussex Lookup offers board when I posted there recently and just used my common sense and offered to do some lookups  which some people took up.

I just thought I'm offering a service rather than asking a request so it should go on the look up board. 

Kerry

[celia]

trouble with that is that you'd get notified of all threads for that county

  I was about to say that

why not just place new offers on the regular Lancashire board

Then you can call it lookup offer for & Graves only.  
Celia

[JenB]

trouble with that is that you'd get notified of all threads for that county

I was about to say that

I agree with you entirely, I was just making an observation on the 'having to hunt around for them' message.

Jennifer

[Arranroots]

Keenbutconfused and Migky - why not just place new offers on the regular Lancashire board? Then they will stay open, people can post a reply direct and you will get notified.  

Most unhelpful Barbara - this would just mean that the Mods would have to spend their time moving them!

Try looking at some of the longer "Offer" threads that do exist on the boards of Rootschat and see if you can make out who is replying to whom.  

The resultant mess also causes people to receive notifications of topics to which they have contributed for months and years after they have lost interest - did anyone ever contribute to the Corkcutters thread and live to regret it?  Or ask for  Pilots Look-up and find that they still get notifications even if nothing was found - 30-odd pages later?

The Moderators try to keep things simple and neat - but that will never suit everyone.  Please try to stick to the few basic rules and we will try to help people as best we can.

Thanks.

[Erato]

The Moderators try to keep things simple and neat - but that will never suit everyone.  Please try to stick to the few basic rules and we will try to help people as best we can.

So, if the Lookup Offers are to be locked, why not make it the clearly stated policy [in large red letters at the top of each lookup offer board]that lookup requests should be made by PM to the person making the offer.  This would permit eliminating the Lookup Request boards entirely, thereby streamlining Rootschat a bit.

[Arranroots]

I refer you to the post by the Copyright Editor above  - each board has a How to Use this Board thread, which clearly states that Look-ups should be posted on the L-U board and then locked.

It helps if those requesting info mark their thread "For the Attention of" or otherwise refer to the Offer in question - otherwise it's not too much of a hardship to keep an eye open for things that interest you, surely?