Where are all these quality topics that are being buried by long ramblings?

Posted by Foolness
Sep 8, 2012 at 04:08 AM

I admit I’m not a regular visitor but I do visit from time to time and reading posts like these and not spotting them make me scratch my head:

“I am also not complaining about length qua word count.On the contrary, I fondly recall an attorney on this forum writing an extensive and erudite post about using QRS software to work up a case for trial. The depth of the article caused me to think hard about features and limitations of QRS for my professional applications. To be sure, I read the posts on this forum to get a dose for my addiction to outliner software, but at the same time, I obtain essential information that enables me to work better.This attorney had lots to say; ergo the length of his post was appropriate.

Although I should think that I ought not have to expand on what I mean about “off-topic,” your post causes me to do so. On this forum, we have had extensive discussions about mind-mapping software, note-taking software, task-recording software, book-writing software, citation software, idea-generating software, bibliography software, spelling & grammar checking software, word processors, PIMs and other software related to thinking and writing. We have also had extensive discussions about the theories and principles underlying these products. We have also had some short tutorials about using this software. For example, I am awaiting your tutorial on using CT to code pdf files. Accordingly, a poster really has to move far afield to be off-topic on this forum.”

Have I been living under a rock and missing these extensive discussions about the theories and principles underlying these projects that are so extensive and erudite that they are more appropriate than any random long post that’s considered rambling and incoherent?

I don’t mean to insult anyone here. There’s certainly been discussions in this forum but I believe I made a similar statement before stating how I felt most of the conversation is leaning towards outliners and maybe more recently, there’s been more focus on the old basic views of outliners such as one pane vs. two pane instead of more extensive features that make each outliner unique.

If anyone can kindly share all these “worthy of length” posts in one major set of links, I would be deeply thankful.

I apologize if my request come off insincere but I really haven’t spotted enough of these so called threads to really get what the whole hubbub is all about with regards to what is exposition and what isn’t. It not only sounds pedantic but more than that, it sounds like the community has this treasure trove of knowledge that they are keeping from a more ignorant newbie that are of greater worth than the topics that can be initially glimmered by a person who signed up right now and being one of those ignorant visitors, I’d rather have these links be layed out in one easy to spot topic rather than interspersed across the forum only to be exposed when someone is offended by a name like Proust.