Chit Chat 11/12 - 11/18

[Vegasgal]

No offense to anyone but does anyone know of a way to hide individual posts from your screen? There ends up being so many posts that aren't specifically related to a deal that it takes forever when you need to go back in and look for something.

I just finished going through almost 300 posts for the week ending today to get my shopping list together.

Thanks!

[StaceyLFreedman]

IDK, vegas.:shrug7: I'm just thankful to have this kind of networking and it's free so I just take the bad with the good. I've learned alot through the posts regardless of whether or not they're directly related the week's ad. Sorry I couldn't be of any help.

[forest42]

I've seen on some of the grocery forums, i.e. meijer. the moderator will collect all the deal posts from the replys and merge them into one post right at the beginning of the thread. Maybe we could suggest that of our GE moderator? :shrug7:

I agree that i'm just glad everyone helps out with ideas and deals, it certainly saves me a lot of time.

[petergabrielfan]

Most message boards have a way to block individual members' posts (in your settings, usually), but like Stacey, I don't mind. I learn a lot and the people are very helpful.

[petergabrielfan]

I've seen on some of the grocery forums, i.e. meijer. the moderator will collect all the deal posts from the replys and merge them into one post right at the beginning of the thread. Maybe we could suggest that of our GE moderator? :shrug7:

I agree that i'm just glad everyone helps out with ideas and deals, it certainly saves me a lot of time.

Someone checked and our mod hasn't posted since Sept. Hope everything is ok. A deal summary is great. Jen276here usually does one at the beginning of a thread of her own matchups, but I don't think we have any active posters with the ability to cut and paste others' posts into a summary post.

[Vegasgal]

Just so there's no confusion I was not thinking of blocking any one person. I was wondering if after you read a post if there is an icon or place that you can click to hide the post. If any of you are familiar with Facebook there is a box on the right-hand side of "Farmville" posts that says "Hide Farmville". If you click on that it disappears from the screen.

There is a series of icons on the posts. I'm not sure what they are for and I was wondering also if you can click on any of those and make a separate record of the posts you are interested in saving.

I find myself going back often to the thread and trying to skim through them looking for a particular post.

[petergabrielfan]

I know what you mean, and I don't know of a way to do that here (great idea). The icons on the posts are for telling you if someone is on line, giving reps and then for reporting a post as inappropriate. I wish I knew of a better way to sort posts, because that is a good idea.

[cheapchick]

I know what you mean...I've gone through hundreds of posts looking for one thing but I can't complain: I'm just as guilty of making chit-chatty irrelevant posts as anyone else. It's human nature right? Somebody says one thing and then you jump in with the "Oh me too! And BTW that reminds me..." Or is it just women that do this?

What you could do is copy/paste the posts explaining deals you want into the "Notepad" program on your computer. I've done that before and then printed it and took it shopping with me. It works well for some of the more complex scenarios. Just copy/paste as you find a deal and then no more searching!

Also I was wondering what happened with Jen276here...she usually has the matchups near the beginning. I've been working on looking for IPs to matchup to sales...I used to do that months ago but got tired of it. Very time-consuming...

Oh I just noticed Jen276here made a Deal post 3 days ago...nothing's in it
yet...

[cheapchick]

Jen276here usually does one at the beginning of a thread of her own matchups, but I don't think we have any active posters with the ability to cut and paste others' posts into a summary post.

I just did an experiment and I was able to cut and paste other people's posts into a post I made. I copied posts with links and they worked just fine...so I guess anybody can do it!

[Lori1969]

If I am looking for a certain product and remember seeing a post, I just type that product name in the "Search This Thread". Its a drop down (located in the specific thread) in the orange box right below the page numbers at the top right of the screen. It will then pull up a list of all the posts with that product name in them from that thread. If you happen to remember the posters user name, again click 'Search this thread" then "advanced search" and type in their user name. It will pull up all the posts they have written in that thread.
HTH
Lori