moving posts?

thats one job of the moderators.
and its happens fairly frequently
like my post regarding the farmer knife.
they were right to move it.
the post content had nothing to do with bushcraft nor survival
and the knife is not yr typical bushcraft/survival style knife,
nor was that my intended purpose for it.
i shlda posted it somewhere else originally or given it a bushcraft flavor.
this is where i hang out the most and didnt even think about it at the time.
not surprised nor frustrated that it got moved.
an appropriate move by the moderators imo.
 
That's about the strength of it. On a forum this big an eye has to be kept on the filing system as well as just performing janitorial duties. There's already a great deal of latitude but when people tacitly agree to cnt each other off they have to get moved to the play pen. Other stuff that amounts to little more than a general tourists review of a knife or “I am craftily advertising my services” gets moved too. It's been that way since forever. Only because a generous amount of latitude is often offered and we post pictures or dogs, and children, and whatever else that doesn't strictly adhere to the brief so often human nature kicks in an what ought to be regarded as an occasional privilege starts to be considered a right, and a new baseline. Folks then start deviating from that new baseline they perceive and get a shock when their threads are relocated. Once in a while a memo goes round and policy has to be reigned in a bit to keep the house tidy. Nothing new in the ebb and flow there.
 
Myakka said:
still don't understand
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If you read the FAQ section, you will see that each Forum has a topic. Each thread in that forum is supposed to be about that topic. If a thread really does not pertain to that topic, it may be moved by a moderator to one of the other forums that actually is devoted to that topic.

Sometimes a thread devolves to the point where it is moved to Whine & Cheese. This most often happens to threads whose opening post was trollish or overly opinionated. There are few rules in W&C and moving a post there lets people call BS on BS posts.
 
We haven't started moving posts "all of sudden". We have been moving threads to the appropriate forum for years. Most recently W&SS was falling into the "I post here most often so I'll post what I want" forum. I have explained myself in the link to my post. It has been a sticky in W&SS for quite some time so it should not have been any surprise that threads were going to get moved if they did not fit the W&SS criteria.
 
There is some overlap between forums. We don't get picky when it could go either way. But if there is no woodcraft, why shouldn't the post go elsewhere?

Some of the confusion comes from the manufacturer forums. We don't interfere with their subject matter. So it looks like they overlap in ways that topic forums don't get away with, and that's just the way it is.

Keeping to the topic lets people know where to look for a kind of information. Making every forum an anything goes forum would contradict the idea of separate topics and break up Bladeforums into completely separate forums for groups of friends instead.

Out of all the threads started every day, very few get moved, and many of those moves are obvious and uncontroversial.
 
Trying very hard not to sound like a rookie, but what make the difference of where a post/thread/subject goes in the forum? If I started one & for some reason it got moved, what would make the difference? Maybe I have not been on here long enough to realize or to tell, but I can not see the harm in moving them. Make any sense?? :confused:
Thanks for the help.
Be safe.
 
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