The Calendar

[RockyR]

Holy fast SERVICE Batman! That looks GREAT and is exactly what I was thinking about. Thanks for being so attentive to our suggestions and needs. Maybe now we can easily start using the calendar!

Can I make another suggestion? Put a STICKY in the Highland Games category and the Kilt Night category giving suggestions HOW to post on the calendar to give it an EASY (at a glance) & UNIFORM appeal... Sticky i.e.:

When you would like to make note of an event, please follow this general setup:

Title: CITY WHERE IT'S HELD / Name of event
i.e. Philadelphia PA Area Kilt Night at Brittinghams
i.e. Bethlehem PA Celtic Classic Festival
i.e. San Diego CA Kilt Night at McKeown's Pub

The BODY of the message should answer the following questions:

Who, What, When, Where, How

Example:
Who: Kilt wearers and friends in the Philadelphia Area... The band playing is the "Shaun Flemming Band"
What: Kilt Night at Brittinghams Irish Pub
When: 9 PM Friday Night, February 23rd
Where: Brittinghams Pub. 1234 Germantown Pike, Lafayette Hill, PA 11111
How (Much): $5 Cover

General Notes: If you'd like to eat dinner, call them at 610.555.5555 to make reservations. Show starts at 9 PM. RSVP by XXXX date if you want to meet up before hand. PM RockyR for more info.


This may help people not have to sift through each post to find things in their area (if the title is clear).

[RockyR]

Thoughts about the post counter...

While I agree that it is stupid to pad your posts to win some imaginary undetermined prize, it is useful to see who contributes and to what extent...

I like to know how active the person is who is giving me their thoughts and / or advice. If John Doe is professing to be an expert and offers his opinion on everything but only has 3 or 4 posts under his belt, those comments might not weigh as heavily as someone like Graham or Hamish with thousands of posts telling me their opinions. Just my $.02.

[Mike1]

I like to know how active the person is who is giving me their thoughts and / or advice. If John Doe is professing to be an expert and offers his opinion on everything but only has 3 or 4 posts under his belt, those comments might not weigh as heavily as someone like Graham or Hamish with thousands of posts telling me their opinions. Just my $.02.

Rocky, I see the basis of your theory, but it doesn't necessarily hold true.

I can register a new account and start posting -

"Cool pictures" after every picture post
"Nice kilt" after every new kilt is announced
"I don't have an answer" after every question is asked

Just those types of posts alone will get my post count into the high hundreds in very little time. I will certainly have the big post count, which would make my opinions worth more value by your theory, but I would actually be offering nothing in the way of intellectual value to any thread.

I think to use your theory, a member that has been here for 3 years might have a more valued opinion than a member that has only been here 3 weeks. But even that is a slippery slope.

I've been haunting online bulletin boards (anyone remember dial-up boards?) and forums for over 24 years and have yet to see any kind of number truly indicate a person's intellectual capacity on any subject. Other than the number of well-written and well-reasoned posts. And a perfect example is this - I have almost twice as many posts here as you (I had to open a new tab to check, believe it or not), yet you could engrave what I know about kiltmaking on the head of a pin. Needle and thread? Thread is colored string and needles are sharp at one end. Did I get that right? I'm told they can be used to re-attach buttons when they fall off, but you couldn't prove it by me.