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Originally Posted by tastyratz
Maybe this is just the moderator in me (I help run other forums)
but this thread is super informative and helpful. To make it a better reference for those of us in a cold zone, what would a moderator here at bananas.org think of weeding all but the most pertinant and helpful posts out of this thread?
Its a wonderful conversation string but at 13 pages it could be easily be knocked down to 5 pages if someone just weeds out the fluff and off topic posts ("thanks", "its getting warm", posts with just emoticons, etc.)
Doesn't have to go formal but would make it less of a bear to go through for the meat and potato's of it.
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If someone can definitely say what the meat and potato part is then maybe. But it would only solve the "problem" temporarily and somebody would have to do it all over again next year and the year after that, as more posts and people come to the forum.
It's a sticky thread already, that should hint everybody that there's much to be extracted from the thread and it's just up to the individuals to make the effort.
What I think would be more effective is, if someone, and again that's not definite, would like to collect the information, extract it, add pictures and post it to the site as a document file. This way you could even prepare the "beginner's package", i.e. something that every new forum member could find in his/her inbox as a basic extraction of the most important information on this (and other) respected topic.
Still, it would require lots of time and effort to do such a thing. And I'm not sure who would have that time and be willing to do that.
I appreciate your idea and thanks for pointing it out.