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07-06-2021, 06:09
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#16
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Allegan, Mi
Boat: 1968 Columbia 50
Posts: 615
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
I never use the search function on CF, I much rather prefer to use google to do it for me. Google does a much better job. I just add cruisersforum to my search words, and it returns with results, I then click on "more results from cruisersforum.com". It will list matching results by date, which I then use to visit pertinent threads...easy peasy as my 13 yr old daughter would say.
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07-06-2021, 06:22
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#17
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Petersburg, AK
Boat: Outremer 50S
Posts: 4,229
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
In counterpoint, this was posted yesterday, by a brand-new CF user, to a thread that was last active in 2009:
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Originally Posted by Robert Laws
...I know this is an old thread, but it is very useful, so I want to add a little more information. I have a velvet drive in my narrowboat in Cambridge (UK)...
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07-06-2021, 06:25
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#18
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
Boat: FP Belize Maestro 43 and OPBs
Posts: 12,888
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
I often wonder how newbies find those old threads they necro-post in.
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07-06-2021, 06:31
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#19
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea
Boat: FP Belize Maestro 43 and OPBs
Posts: 12,888
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
Quote:
Originally Posted by S/V Adeline
I recently (this week) performed a search for the term(s) *marine toilet*
The top 10-12 results had absolutely nothing to do with marine toilets....
Teach us wise one
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Two things:
1. Don't use the top search box (the forum search engine is brain dead), use the one that says "Google Custom Search". You will get a few ads at the top of the page, just ignore them and look at the links to CF content.
2. If you are looking for the phrase "marine toilet" rather thn posts containing the words marine and/or toilet, enclose the phrase in quotes.
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07-06-2021, 06:31
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#20
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Petersburg, AK
Boat: Outremer 50S
Posts: 4,229
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
And I often wonder, since it happens frequently, how someone who joined 5 or 10 years ago is just making a first post now
For the necro thread posters, well, I’ve always assumed it was the Google custom search. I know for me it is pretty indiscriminate about dates.
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07-06-2021, 07:02
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#21
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Southern Oregon
Boat: Storfidra 25
Posts: 25
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
On another forum related to wooden watercraft building, the “owner” of e forum abandoned the forum and we lost a lot of good info…old info isn’t always irrelevant and is part d the chain of knowledge.
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07-06-2021, 07:20
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#22
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2014
Posts: 7,310
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
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07-06-2021, 08:34
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#23
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Southern Maine
Boat: Prairie 36 Coastal Cruiser
Posts: 3,081
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
Quote:
Originally Posted by StuM
I often wonder how newbies find those old threads they necro-post in.
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I'd be in favor of locking "old" threads from some set time ago, to prevent new posts to ancient threads. I will admit that sometimes there's value in resurrecting a very specific topic from long ago, when there's new information. But more often, the new posts add nothing.
I wouldn't be in favor of deleting old posts, for all of the reasons already mentioned above.
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07-06-2021, 08:49
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#24
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2018
Location: Montreal/Sarasota
Boat: Shark 24 / Compac23
Posts: 18
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
I have two boats...one of them built in 1975 and one of them built in 1985.
I want legacy stuff kept as long as possible.
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07-06-2021, 08:50
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#25
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 11,002
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptTom
I'd be in favor of locking "old" threads from some set time ago, to prevent new posts to ancient threads. I will admit that sometimes there's value in resurrecting a very specific topic from long ago, when there's new information. But more often, the new posts add nothing.
I wouldn't be in favor of deleting old posts, for all of the reasons already mentioned above.
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What would be gained by locking old threads?
What advantage would there be in blocking discussion?
Lots of new threads add nothing (some might argue this thread doesn't offer anything). Who gets to decide the value of a discussion.
As long as it's not in violation of forum rules and they aren't running out of server space, I say let er'rip and keep it all.
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07-06-2021, 08:59
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#26
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Boat: Retired Delivery Capt
Posts: 3,683
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptTom
I'd be in favor of locking "old" threads from some set time ago, to prevent new posts to ancient threads. I will admit that sometimes there's value in resurrecting a very specific topic from long ago, when there's new information. But more often, the new posts add nothing.
I wouldn't be in favor of deleting old posts, for all of the reasons already mentioned above.
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Agreed
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07-06-2021, 09:03
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#27
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 353
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
KEEP ALL CONTENT! Then never destroy but archive to searchable storage.
I can work through any out of date information.
Basic electricity and electronics are still the same as I learned over 50 years ago. The engineering changes but the same basic principles are law.
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07-06-2021, 09:14
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#28
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Sponsoring Vendor
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Hollywood, Fl.
Boat: FP Athena 38' Poerava
Posts: 3,984
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
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Originally Posted by Montanan
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LOL. I was thinking that some of the Mods are getting a bit long in the tooth as well. But then there's that dang mirror I shave by every morning.
But deleting such a wealth of information, though it may seem dated to some, is akin to fingernails down a chalk board to me. What's it they say about not learning from history?
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07-06-2021, 09:56
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#29
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Campbell River, BC
Boat: Union 36
Posts: 160
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lake-Effect
It's not bread...
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Unless it’s Wonder Bread (Bimbo bread in some parts). That stuff never goes off.
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07-06-2021, 10:05
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#30
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Arctic Ocean
Boat: Under construction 35' ketch (and +3 smaller)
Posts: 2,731
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Re: Too much old content on CruisersForum
Quote:
Originally Posted by sailorboy1
if you don't want to read old content, don't read it
I use the search function and have always had pretty good luck with results. Also Google search comes up with a CF a lot of time.
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But sometimes looking for an answer or advancements on certain subjects you get your own past posts with Google search..
Feeling like "I'm I the f***** expert on this ?"
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