Posted by Dr. Bob on December 13, 2001, at 15:45:43
In reply to Re: Redirect: feelings towards psychotherapy » Dr. Bob, posted by JahL on December 12, 2001, at 21:52:41
> I'm not exactly sure how redirect works; if you are just suggesting the conversation should wind down or move over, then great. I agree.
Yes, that's what I mean to suggest.
> I wouldn't be so happy if you were physically placing a redirect link on PSB since if I wanted my comments posted there I would've done so myself. In doing so you would be automatically involving me in a debate I've already expressed no desire to participate in.
I guess I've ended up doing redirections a number of ways. I'll try to explain, but it's going to get complicated... Say a post to PB isn't really about medication. Let's call that post P.
1. If P is the start of a new thread, sometimes I just move it to PSB and delete it from PB. "Moving" it to PSB means I post to PSB myself and quote P in my post. Let's call my post Q. Q then starts a new thread on PSB.
2. If P comes along in the middle of a thread, however, I leave P there, since it does kind of "belong" to that thread, and post a redirect request. Let's call that p ost R. R goes to PB.
a. Sometimes I do also move P to PSB, as in case 1. In that case, I include in Q to a link to P, so people on PSB (who maybe never saw the thread on PB) can see how the discussion got started. I also include in R a link to Q, so people on PB can continue the discussion just by clicking on it, being taken to Q, and replying. Their post then continues the thread on PSB started by Q.
b. Sometimes, however, I don't move P. In that case, if people on PB want to continue the discussion, they can reply to P or R and redirect their reply to PSB when they preview it. Their post then starts a new thread on PSB (since in this case there's no Q).
(Sorry about the P and Q business, but I started out with words and it was even worse! :-)
Any way, in cases 1 and 2, I move P to PSB and "involve" that poster there. Is that something you'd object to? You wouldn't have to participate in any discussion there. It's just that your post, P, would be there, quoted in my post, Q.
> Maybe you jumped the gun a little o n this one; I thought Judy's last post had effectively rolled things up...
Maybe. But sometimes I've thought things were all rolled up and then they kept unrolling. Maybe because people got there later, via the archives?
Bob
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