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Should OP have an obligation to keep a thread index???........
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Bud:
No matter how diligent you mantain your thread, there always be people with "Give me step by step instructions" attitude, even if such instructions were posted one page back.
Simon:
it's a forum, clue is in the name. If something like this were to be done the best way would be for someone to distil the information from the chatter and put it into a wiki, but that is no small job to undertake.
Brumby:
As others have said, it is nice to have, but there is ABSOLUTELY no obligation - or even expectation (in my book) - for such an undertaking.

Even suggesting there is such an obligation is an affront, IMO.  For starters, it is not a house rule, so posting does not create such a responsibility.  Further, it is not the place of any member to direct any other member to undertake such efforts.  What bitseeker did in the TEA thread was excellent, but it was his decision to do that - and I have great respect for those efforts.  There was no obligation for him to do that.

Aside from this, not everyone will have the time to spend;
 - skimming through posts
 - deciding what should be indexed
 - typing up an index entry
.... and then to have the inevitable critics point out things they would have done differently.

If that day should ever come, I'll not be posting much - if anything - in the future.
tv84:
This thread should be closed as-is because the OP is not following his own rule.    :-DD
CatalinaWOW:
Absolutely no obligation.  But such summaries are useful and if someone has the passion to do it on a particular subject I can think of easy work around.  For example, create your index and post it to the thread.  A message to the OP requesting that a link to your index post be appended to the original message would probably be well received and only a trivial amount of work.  In cases where the OP has left the forum the moderators might be inclined to help.
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