Standard way for dealing with posts that don't belong in the Lounge
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I don't think that there will ever be a way to stop people from posting items that don't belong in the Lounge - this is something that I can accept. What I don't like is when it turns into a 20 post thread about how it should be posted somewhere else. This wastes space, pushes down legitimate posts, and is just plain annoying. There was an example today of how I think it should work where the poster was re-directed to the appropriate location with a single reply. http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1288929#xx1288929xx[^] Is there any way to add a button on the the "Reply" page form that says something along the lines of "Not Appropriate for Lounge"? Clicking this button could pre-populate the reply with some stock text that has proven to be relatively effective in the past. Something like the following might work: "This post belongs in a different forum - the Lounge is intended for discussion on non-programming related items only. You could try posting this in one of the programming forums[^]. Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader
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I don't think that there will ever be a way to stop people from posting items that don't belong in the Lounge - this is something that I can accept. What I don't like is when it turns into a 20 post thread about how it should be posted somewhere else. This wastes space, pushes down legitimate posts, and is just plain annoying. There was an example today of how I think it should work where the poster was re-directed to the appropriate location with a single reply. http://www.codeproject.com/lounge.asp?msg=1288929#xx1288929xx[^] Is there any way to add a button on the the "Reply" page form that says something along the lines of "Not Appropriate for Lounge"? Clicking this button could pre-populate the reply with some stock text that has proven to be relatively effective in the past. Something like the following might work: "This post belongs in a different forum - the Lounge is intended for discussion on non-programming related items only. You could try posting this in one of the programming forums[^]. Chris LaQuerre eBusiness Projects Leader
Or even better. On any Forum there woud be button "Not Appropriate for this forum"