[nyscribe]

Hi,
I'm arriving in Christchurch February 3 and then on to Auckland on the 13th. Rick recommended this site to me and I've been reading all your posts. I'm a journalist on her own after raising a family and am interviewing in both cities. I'm hoping to connect here and possibly meet up with some of you when I arrive. This first trip is only three weeks but I have plans and dreams!
Thanks to all of you for being such great participants.

[Diny]

Have a wonderful trip - hope everything goes well for you.

Diny

[nyscribe]

I've a question. Should I introduce myself around on several forums? Is that considered good form or do most people stick with one forum?

"It isn't easy being green"
Kermit

[Moorf]

Hi nyscribe and welcome.

I used to use a couple of forums but I always gravitated back to this one, and here I've stayed!

I think it's the great mix of people here who can intelligently debate, have wicked senses of humour and that you can ask ANY question you like (hmm I think we have covered alot of varied topics from sea cucumbers to capital punishment :uhoh ).

Dip in your toes (the water is still freezing due to summer not making an appearance yet) and I am sure you will love it here :nice1

Moorf

[nyscribe]

Thanks, Moorph. I'm in. Coming from Billy Joel's New York State of Mind where anything is possible with some heart and humor, I'm asking questions and staying openminded. I'm very excited about the trip and my possibilities and realistic all the while. I lived across the street from 9/11 and for those of us that close (and many others) life as we knew it has never been the same.

nyscribe

[Beach Kiwi]

I've a question. Should I introduce myself around on several forums? Is that considered good form or do most people stick with one forum?

Everyone can post in any forum, well, except for the Admin one, which means you can too. Posting topics in the forum that is relevant to it is the best way to go, although some topics tend to cross over more than one forum's 'brief'.

Just post your topic in the forum that seems most appropriate. :nice1

Oh, and welcome aboard! :cool

[Diny]

NYScribe

I took it that you mant more than one forum as in this one, UK2NZ, move to NZ and the many others that are out there.

You can post wherever you like, any 'thread' on this forum or anywhere else.

Like Moorf, I used to flit around between 2 or 3 different ones but I don't anymore, I find it too complicated trying to keep up with who wrote what on which thread and on which forum.

I'm sure you'll find all the help and support you need on here - I can't speak for the others.

Diny

[Beach Kiwi]

Oh, I see, nyscribe uses the term 'forum' as the name for this whole message board!

All the message boards I've ever belonged to use the term 'board' - short for message board, or bulletin board - as the name for a place like this, and the term 'forum' as the name for each separate section of that board.

BBS, short for bulletin board system, the original name for these message boards, is also a term I've seen used as the 'title' for them.

So what term do you forum 'users' use when referring to the various sections of a message board?

[Diny]

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Oh, I see, nyscribe uses the term 'forum' as the name for this whole message board

I don't know - that's just the way I read it.

I've always referred to the whole ENZ site as the forum and each individual section as a thread or a topic.

I 'use' the forum as a means of discussion and communication with folks who share a common interest. All this BBS business is just the 'nuts and bolts' of the site to me, as long as I can read what people say and can post my own comments, the thought of correct terms and proceedures doesn't enter my head.

Diny

[Beach Kiwi]

I don't know - that's just the way I read it.

I'm pretty sure that your interpretation of his query was the correct one. :yes

I've always referred to the whole ENZ site as the forum and each individual section as a thread or a topic.

This thing we're posting in is usually called a thread. :yes

Forums, or each section of a board, usually have their own moderator/s, to keep the peace, or to keep threads on topic - unlike what we're doing. :mrgreen: I moderate on a board like this, totally different 'theme' than this one though, with about 5000 members, which is why I am into the 'technicalities' of message boards. :cool

[nyscribe]

1. Moorf, apologies for spelling your name wrong.

2. I used to work for a dotcom and the way we described what we're doing here (in the technical sense) -- what I'm now writing is a post, the post is part of a thread, the threads are under one identified topic, the topic is listed on a specific message board with the board's own name, several boards are part of a forum or specific area of the site.

Moderators covered specific boards and monitored the posts of those boards, kept people on topic if those were the rules, some board moderators were required to acknowlege every post and some just looked for bad language and unkind messages.

This site is great.

[Timbo]

Yes, but what hapened to New Zealand?? :roll: :angel

[nyscribe]

New Zealand is what I focus on now 99% of the time. The explanations were just questions and answers. Sorry if I got off topic

Onward!

[leslie]

when living in nz 10 years ago i met a big-time journalist named carol (someones aunt). she had a column in the main auck mag. v nice - lived/worked all around the globe then went home. she cannot be that hard to find and might be interesting contact.

good luck with everything...

[dmc]

From a fellow New Yorker, welcome to the ENZ community nyscribe.

Onward and upward.

[Pakeha Boy]

Hey BeachK: nyscribes not a bloke, she's a sheila! :laugh
Could be Billy Joels Uptown Girl actually?