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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3295310, member: 19463"]While I fully agree with TIF's point on this I just see this as another problem we can't let bother us too much because we are dealing with canned software and owners who are much too consumed with more significant matters like protecting CT from spammers and evils of more weighty nature to listen to the likes of us. There are several things I would like to see changed but the fact remains that this list is pretty much a love it or leave it situation and we will not see the faults as we see them corrected. The Best Answer thing is not tops on my list but remembering the trouble we had getting Ancients separated from modern World coins, I don't see any change happening. Coin Talk is and will remain primarily a venue for modern US and bullion buyers. I wish there were a way of separating discussions out a bit more but many people here complain about the more stringent rules over on Forvm which caused some of us to move most of our activity here. Features like Best Answer and (the one I hate) Recent Topics are put into canned software to sell the package to as many different users as possible. I don't know just how customizable this XenForo one is and how much trouble it would be to disable such matters even if the owners agreed that it was a good idea. My personal experience with software started in the 1980's when I was tasked to talk not to the people who were writing the program but to IBM employees whose job it was to talk to the customer and the programmers who really believed they knew everything about everything (and this was before <i>The Big Bang Theory</i> and <i>Dilbert</i> made it fashionable to be and to laugh at Turbo-geeks). Features that are put into canned software are a lot like accessories they make you buy on a car to get the ones you wanted. Some can be ignored more easily than others. I bought my last car because it did not have a Satellite radio antenna and a electronic key system. That meant I had to ignore several things the manufacturer saddled me with. Perhaps we will have to use <i>Ignore</i> here as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3295310, member: 19463"]While I fully agree with TIF's point on this I just see this as another problem we can't let bother us too much because we are dealing with canned software and owners who are much too consumed with more significant matters like protecting CT from spammers and evils of more weighty nature to listen to the likes of us. There are several things I would like to see changed but the fact remains that this list is pretty much a love it or leave it situation and we will not see the faults as we see them corrected. The Best Answer thing is not tops on my list but remembering the trouble we had getting Ancients separated from modern World coins, I don't see any change happening. Coin Talk is and will remain primarily a venue for modern US and bullion buyers. I wish there were a way of separating discussions out a bit more but many people here complain about the more stringent rules over on Forvm which caused some of us to move most of our activity here. Features like Best Answer and (the one I hate) Recent Topics are put into canned software to sell the package to as many different users as possible. I don't know just how customizable this XenForo one is and how much trouble it would be to disable such matters even if the owners agreed that it was a good idea. My personal experience with software started in the 1980's when I was tasked to talk not to the people who were writing the program but to IBM employees whose job it was to talk to the customer and the programmers who really believed they knew everything about everything (and this was before [I]The Big Bang Theory[/I] and [I]Dilbert[/I] made it fashionable to be and to laugh at Turbo-geeks). Features that are put into canned software are a lot like accessories they make you buy on a car to get the ones you wanted. Some can be ignored more easily than others. I bought my last car because it did not have a Satellite radio antenna and a electronic key system. That meant I had to ignore several things the manufacturer saddled me with. Perhaps we will have to use [I]Ignore[/I] here as well.[/QUOTE]
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