As I have repeatedly told changingperspectives, all he has to do to avoid a flair is acknowledge the original pub date in the headline. He chooses not to.
That's not the case. I am "choosing not to" it just seems I misunderstood in the past, I didn't know I had to put that in the title, I just thought you had to flair it, as a mod, if it was older news, but now I see what you're saying. I do see what ESOTERIC is saying though, that it may ward other off with that tag, but I also understand the job you do as a mod, so no worries. I will make sure and add the date in the post in the future.
Thanks. :-) If I realized you weren't clear on that, I would have explained further, LOL. We have the flair both for reader convenience and because we've have quite a few occasions when people posted old articles with misleading headlines to jerk readers around by getting their hopes up. Got a lot of those submissions in the first half of last year.
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Vindicator ago
Old News -- flaired.
ESOTERICshade ago
Not to everybody. I have not seen it. You are negating the value of the inormation by doing that.
Vindicator ago
As I have repeatedly told changingperspectives, all he has to do to avoid a flair is acknowledge the original pub date in the headline. He chooses not to.
ChangingPerspectives ago
That's not the case. I am "choosing not to" it just seems I misunderstood in the past, I didn't know I had to put that in the title, I just thought you had to flair it, as a mod, if it was older news, but now I see what you're saying. I do see what ESOTERIC is saying though, that it may ward other off with that tag, but I also understand the job you do as a mod, so no worries. I will make sure and add the date in the post in the future.
Vindicator ago
Thanks. :-) If I realized you weren't clear on that, I would have explained further, LOL. We have the flair both for reader convenience and because we've have quite a few occasions when people posted old articles with misleading headlines to jerk readers around by getting their hopes up. Got a lot of those submissions in the first half of last year.
You can just put "ICYMI: " at the beginning.
ChangingPerspectives ago
Perfect that sounds good, thanks for the update. What does "ICYMI" mean by the way?
Vindicator ago
In case you missed it...
ChangingPerspectives ago
yeah I saw that, but I still don't know what "ICYMI" means, but I am happy to use it.
think- ago
I = In C = Case Y = You M = Missed I = It
;-)
ChangingPerspectives ago
Got it, that makes sense. I'm an idiot, lol.
think- ago
No, never mind - I also didn't know what the abbreviation meant at first. ;-)
AssFaceSandwich2 ago
Awesome, so now that we know, you can begin to put the date in the headline, spread important news, and there is no confusion.
Sweet.