No love for the ADE forums?

Really dislike the practice of printing forum comments in the newspaper. That and the name calling keeps me from visiting the site more often than once every 6 months.

LozerBoozer: The Enterprise allowed that until just over a year ago, when we decided to restrict comments to just editorials, columns, polls, blogs and forums. For the explanation, look for the editorial from March 28, 2011, titled "It's a new day online." We're happy with how things have played out since then and don't plan to go back on that decision.

-Peter Crowley, managing editor

I love the ADE forums but most daily newspapers allow readers to comment on ALL articles, not just a few, or not just the question of the week. Maybe the ADE needs to address this.

Source of frustration from Vic and Wilford are not personal ones. Simply not real cunducive for a forum from the ADE, considering the readership. Thats all. You have to speak to the level of your intended audience, and those two have few. I enjoy the rhetoric and use of words for the sake of language, but most 'click' out as soon as the name appears. And yes, I know this for fact.

I'm going to do my dead-level best to treat each and every poster with the dignity they deserve. I would miss the value of this Forum if it were not available.

bjccd5 - if a few posters are challenging your frustration level to the point you are unable to enjoy reading/posting...all the more reason the newspaper needs to educate themselves on how to manage their comment section...like installing an ignore button. We all have posters who 'get under our skin'. The ignore function enables one to go to a member list and click on that member's name and 'POOF' we don't see their posts.

OTOH...EVERYONE ought to be able to post...regardless how others think/feel those posts are ridiculous.

Just my opinion.

I may not agree with you most of the time Wilford but I don't mind your 'big words'...if I don't know what they mean I look them up. Only one of the reasons this newspaper needs a comment section.

Hey bjccd5, I know I've been a big source of your frustration and I'm sorry. I've developed bad habits on some of the major newspaper comment sections and carried them over to this little town paper. I can't promise not to use big words from time to time, but I can be a better poster. Have a nice day.

I love the ADE forums, yet get frustrated with the folk who can't seem to view a differing opinion w/out personal attacks. Viewing other's opinions and challenging some of the thoughts is certainly mind provoking, yet a select few attempt to squash the process by responding through rhetoric that even Harvard Grads laugh at. Type to an audience that can understand and maintain conversation w/out demonstating your own ignorance by attempting to sound smart.

No conclusion required, pseudonym: “I promise, unless an unanticipated responses start rolling in” Again pseudonym, Incorrect, it would seems that the largest hurdle facing this forum is that the discussion board participants (originators) perhaps fails to present a thought provoking challenge. Some modest changes to the thought processes of the participants (originators) in the ADE forums would go a long way in achieving a very measurable improvement in the use of this resource. The benefits of having a forum operant with an elevated knowledge of local, state & world affairs, included with their thought provoking treatises will elicit a more genuine response. It's just a minor genuine suggestion to better improve and increase the utilization this resource.

In conclusion, I promise, unless an unanticipated responses start rolling in, it seems that the largest hurdle this forum faces is the discussion board software through the ADE web platform.

If I recall correctly, this web-based platform just recently was changed/upgraded. Perhaps some simple tweaks to the system would make this much more user-friendly, both to the poster and reader.

Some modest improvements I think would go a long way in achieving measurable improvements which in theory would increase use of this resource. Perhaps the existing software is being under-utilized and some of these things can just be altered at the admin level.

Times are challenging, please understand that this is not some entitled plea for the ADE to invest additionally in this platform. It's just some genuine suggestions to better utilize this resource.

On the front page, where it shows "Hot Topics" for the forums area.., well, it would probably be helpful and encouraging to actual forum discussions to show a time stamp of some sort next to the topics, especially when this area gets so little action.

Not to invoke a famous local hockey coach of that past, but can he (it) do that?

Huh, so it just crunched my text of the opening post.

An edit function would also be helpful. Beggars cant be choosers though.

Well, I can see the first problem, being this the first time I posted in this area.

The software crunches all text into one mess of a paragraph even if the poster breaks the text with paragraphs. Is there any way to fix that? I could see that as a large impediment and possibly one of the reasons the place is a cricket sanctuary.