[tony]

Decisions about where posts belong are entirely judgement. Nobody can write rules that could be applied consistently to an operation like this.

Posts belong where Jan, Darrel and I deem proper. We are trying to craft a place that is easy to navigate so that you don't have to wade through dozens and dozens of posts that you consider drivel. Others, by the way, don't consider them drivel at all. We have to decide where they fit.

At the top of the screen is a selectionto jump directly to new replies to your posts. You are free to use that.

Sidney Lanier has one of the clearest views of this. Residents interacting with TV management, official services and such, nuts and bolts stuff, that's what he sees as fitting into General.

JohnnyM also has a very clear view. Read his two posts here and you can detect a change in his viewpoint from one to the next, and each just as firm as reasonable as the other. That's the way decisions on these go. And the view changes of where threads belong. A thread that starts out at as a simple question suddenly turns quite commercial. Its moved. Its judgement.

Inconsistencies? Maybe in your mind. Willy nilly. Get serious. We're doing our best to make sense of all this and make it comfortable to use. That includes reading for content, gentility, and obvious untruths. We can't catch them all, but we have caught some, and we have banned people for egregious postings.

As for leaving the "breadcrumb post" behind telling of a moved post. Jan, Darrel and I have talked about it and feel it is detrimental to the flow of a forum. Some forums do it, and some don't.

What rules can we possibly write? There will always, always be threads that fit between the topics. We have to make judgements every day.