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Should OP have an obligation to keep a thread index???........

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Smokey:

--- Quote from: tv84 on October 29, 2022, 11:56:57 am ---This thread should be closed as-is because the OP is not following his own rule.    :-DD

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Once you guys say something worth indexing, I'll start the index :⁠-⁠)

I kid.  Seriously though, I said obligation when I should have said expectation.  If you actually make it a forum rule then it goes from expectation to obligation though. 

Imagine if you volunteer for the job of being a project manager, then never show up to work after the first day.  When it comes time to present the teams work to the rest of the company, it's the project managers job to make the summary report and not just photocopy thousands of pages of technical discussions and drop them on everyone's desks in file folders.

fourfathom:

--- Quote from: Smokey on October 29, 2022, 08:53:12 pm ---Imagine if you volunteer for the job of being a project manager, then never show up to work after the first day.
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When you pay me to manage the thread summaries I might think about showing up for work.  Until then I am voluntarily participating in an online discussion.  It's not the same thing.  Or are the rest of you all being paid???

Smokey:

--- Quote from: fourfathom on October 29, 2022, 09:29:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: Smokey on October 29, 2022, 08:53:12 pm ---Imagine if you volunteer for the job of being a project manager, then never show up to work after the first day.
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When you pay me to manage the thread summaries I might think about showing up for work.  Until then I am voluntarily participating in an online discussion.  It's not the same thing.  Or are the rest of you all being paid???

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I did say volunteer.  If I go to a soup kitchen and volunteer my time for free to make soup for the day, but then never show up....  That still breaks stuff, pay or not.

fourfathom:

--- Quote from: Smokey on October 29, 2022, 09:41:01 pm ---If I go to a soup kitchen and volunteer my time for free to make soup for the day, but then never show up
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Not the same thing either, and I'm sure you know it.  Exactly what did I volunteer for when I joined this forum?  I will admit that I didn't read the fine print...

Anyway, yeah an index (and indexer) would be nice but it's far from an obligation or even an expectation.

artag:
How are you supposed to know how popular your thread will be when you start it ?
Some threads even get a new life long after the OP has gone.

The problem is, the only reasonable place to put an index is at the start : you can't put it at the end, it doesn't stay still. And the only person who can edit the OP's starting post is the OP (or the mods, presumably but I don't think they'd appreciate being landed with the job of making an index).

So, I don't think it's reasonable to require the OP to do it (and Dave agrees), and if some kind person comes along later and writes one there's no way to find it.

I think it needs forum software support to add an index, or perhaps as a workaround, if it's possible, a manual moderator action to move someone else's index to the front of the thread and permit change of maintainer from time to time as required.
 
I guess that's a formalised version of CatalinaWOW's idea.

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