Originally posted by BigMackCam I'm not opposed to it personally, but it makes the "latest posts" functionality pretty useless, as all you see is a bunch of largely identical posts from one member (assuming the cross-postings are posted one after another in quick succession). When I was a moderator, we used to receive complaints about multiple identical posts like this. In some cases, those filing the complaint would describe it as akin to "spamming". I don't know about that, but it's certainly against forum rules to post the same content in multiple threads. Some latitude was allowed for the clubs, but only to an extent. If the club posts are spread out over a number of days or weeks, it's less of an issue...
The latest posts function is pretty useless. I've started threads that went for day without making it to the "latest posts" page. I see endless Fuji and Sony posts at the same time my posts are buried in some kind of "latests posts" twilight zone. So, IMHO, "Latest posts are usually are irrelevant because of non-Pentax postings, not by multiple posts.
I expect a little better rational from the mods on this. A bunch of people complain means next to nothing. Are there more than those who like it the way it is? Why would you run a forum for these guys?
If I shoot a relevant image with the K-3 and DA 18-135 it's relevant to the "Forest Walks" thread, the K-3 images thread and the DA 18-135 thread. What would be the advantage to posting in only one of them? There's also the 200mm club, the magic light club, the DA* club, and many other overlapping clubs where you could legitimately post 3 posts the same in different forums.
I'd be happy to get this debate out into the open instead of being exclusive to complainers and mods. Let's see if these folks are willing to state their opinions out in the light of day, as opposed to hiding behind the mods' skirts. Maybe a poll. It sounds like the mod team may be catering to forum "special interest groups." I'd suggest such complaints are actually attacks on specific individuals who post in multiple threads rather than any concern for the "latest posts" page, which as I have pointed out, does not accurately display recent posts in any case. I have had multiple posts that never made it onto the recent posts page, at all. I'm not going to complain about that, it's not a concern. But I'm certainly not going to give any credence to the suggestion that cross posting ruins the "recent posts" page more than many other factors. I can recall, about twice, when that was even an issue.
What happens more often is I post in multiple threads, and none of them makes the "recents" page.
I guess the referred to complainers don't care. They don't want to build people up, just slap them down.
I'd love to be able to find out who these people are and block them from seeing my cross posts. I have no need to share what I do with people who don't like what I do. And yes, a lot of it's personal. The forum I've those people a place to complain, it doesn't give those they complain about the ability to restrict their access to our posts. There is an ignore function, these individuals have every right ability to ignore cross posters. Unfortunately, if you are a cross poster, there is no ability to restrict these complainers from seeing your posts. They have the solution, cross posters don't. Yet they complain to the mods about us. How warped is that?
Dudes, do the right thing, ignore me and everyone else who's posting style is not to you liking, quit bothering the mods with this nonsense.
Last edited by normhead; 12-01-2020 at 09:27 AM.