Repeated look-up requests - annoying

[casalguidi]

Hi Sarah

Any moderator would  be more than happy to move a post to another board for you if it has not got an answer where you posted it originally within perhaps a couple of weeks.

In Tabitha's case, .....................

If I still needed additional info or help I would post a new topic asking for that info and probably giving the partial info I received the first time (if relevant) to stop anyone reading my new post from wasting their time.

you would mark the original post completed (by replying to it or modifying the title) or using the report to moderator button (you can do this on any post except your own) so that it is then moved to a ""Completed" board by a moderator.  But, this isn't acceptable if it is a request for the same information as that requested in the original post regardless of whether the query was solved.  People spend lots of time looking for things only to find that the same resources have already been searched - often up to half a dozen duplicate requests by some people

Best wishes

Casalguidi

[pixieleigh]

Hi Casalguidi,

i was wonder how to make the topic say COMPLETED i have been trying to do that on lots of posts to get them out of the main screen so people don't have to wade through my completed requests.

can you tell me exactly how to do that? modifying the title i mean..



thanks, 
sarah

[casalguidi]

Hi Sarah

Every post that you make has four "buttons" on the right hand side ............. including one that says "modify".  Click that and it will enable you to edit the title or the body of your post.

Best wishes

Casalguidi

[casalguidi]

I forgot to mention, if you wish to modify the title then you need to do that with the first post in the topic otherwise it will just show up on the last post or whichever one you edit and won't be visible as the title on the boards until people look down the thread.

Casalguidi

[pixieleigh]

thanks,,...

i'm sure it was just too simple...

 

sarah

[Nick Carver]

I have to confess to having made the same request for information more than once -due entirely to my own incompetence. I did acknowledge the fact when the kind person who helped me pointed it out. I really ought to be better organised. The trouble is that I often plan to do soimething in my mind and sometime later, it is difficult to remember whether I actually did it or if I only thought about doing it. There are a few people (thankfully not many at all) who approach family history with a shot gun mentality, firing off questions in all directions without anything more than a rough idea of their target and they are probably the prime culprits. I'm sure they will learn their lesson. Not every message board is as polite as RootsChat.

[Mobo]

Is this nitpicking? 

I get quite cross after doing a search, along with others, supplying the answers, getting no response from the searcher, only to find the same question being asked again 

It's just wasting folks time. What do others think? Susan 

If only people would read THE BEGINNERS BOARD before they act - ah well !!

 

[Hackstaple]

And I thought it was me that got grumpy about it
I have lost count of the number of times when I have answered a question quite fully only to see the same question, slightly rephrased perhaps, appear a day later or the same day. So - other members tackle that with enthusiasm and post the same answers having spent the same search time all over again. Example I am looking for a marriage of Farmer Giles to Goodwife Jones in Wolverhampton. I ask if the enquirer has any idea which year. Then I post the GRO reference. Next day up pops the question Goodwife Jones married in Wolverhampton Dec 1885 Vol 1a, p. 325 - who did she marry? I kid you not!
Then there was the chap who posted 3 times in a couple of months if someone could tell him who were the parents of Billy Bunter Uxbridge Jan 1902 Vol. 11 Page 127.
[Names are changed to protect the identity of thoughtless and selfish members].

[Bryan.]

Hi

I am glad this subject has been brought up...I have been stewing on the same thing for a couple of weeks now.

Recently I did a look up for someone...they came back to me and asked if I could find any more info on this family....I spent two & half hours finding info... passed it on .........I am still waiting for a reply.

They are still posting messages about the same thing.

Thing is.......it has spoilt it....because I will not do it again.

          

Bryan