| | When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?Page 1 of 1 | I was told that Ask a Guy and Ask a Girl used to allow anyone to start a new thread. But that Ask a Guy was changed to only allow women to start a new thread, and Ask a Girl was changed to only allow men to start a new thread
Can you tell me what date and time this change happened? | |
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/30/2007 11:06:31 AM | I've gone as far back as page 231 in Ask a Girl, and did a bit of sampling - I'm not sure that it ever allowed same sex/forum to ask in their respective forums.
If you spotted an example - a thread may have been moved incorrectly though.
Is there a particular reason why you ask?
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/30/2007 11:20:41 AM | I remember the same sex being able to post in their forums when they were first set up, Trapped, and I did some sampling of my own. Looks like the change was made around the beginning of 2007.
(Yes, I am trying so hard to avoid cleaning out the closet that I actually looked that up. How sad is that?) | |
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/30/2007 12:04:15 PM | Thanks. I just thought you might have had a changelog for POF. Didn't expect you to go to all that trouble, but it was very appreciated.
I was using the figures for a post. But someone pointed this out, so I wanted to see if this skewed up my figures.
Thanks again.  | |
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/30/2007 12:32:29 PM | I have a question regarding this...
The restrictions for the Ask a Guy and Ask a Girl forums are based on gender... wouldn't it be more appropriate to base those restrictions on what the person is looking for?
With the format as it is, if a woman is seeking a woman, then she is unable to get feedback from the demographic group she is seeking... same for the men seeking men...
Just a thought...  | |
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/30/2007 1:10:05 PM | ^^^^
actually i agree with this but i see a flaw in the execution of it
lets say it was set up so it was based on what gender someone is seeking instead of the gender of the poster - a user could get around this filter by changing what they are seeking - in other words, they could change what gender they are seeking temporarily just so they could post to this forum and then change it back
at least set up the way it is, you can avoid filter dodgers because users can not alter their gender once their profile is set up | |
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rune3
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Msg: 9 | |
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/30/2007 3:07:20 PM | Ask a Guy and Ask a Girl used to allow anyone to start a new thread.
If any Gender could ask any other Gender any Questions at all in both the Ask A Guy and Ask A Girl, we'd really have nothing other than Chat Threads, and these Categories would be entirely redundant to other existing ones.
I also don't recall that either of these Categories had any Rule or Application Changes since their Inception. The Admin indicated these Rules in a Thread in the Moderator Forum shortly after they were added back in the Summer of 2006. As soon as I find this Reference, I'll have it added to the Top of those Categories.
If anything, these Rules may not have been properly posted at the Top of those Forum Categories or otherwise made well-known to clarify their Intent and Purpose, although could have been located in the Forum Rules Thread. Further, little Attention was paid by Moderators to enforce these Rules, as we were more adamant to have these Chat infested Forum Categories removed altogether.
A Year ago many Posters were well aware of the Gender-based Requirements in Respect to making new Thread in these Categories, as this Post clearly indicates: Requirement: Relax Gender-specific Advice
The OP could have searched for a Thread on this very same Topic and found one in under 1 Minute: ask a guy/girl. By prefixing or adding to this Thread "What Date ..." does not make it another Topic, but merely a Circumvention of Search Requirements. This Topic could have been posted there and would have been 100% On-Topic.
If you continue to make Redundant Threads, you'll have the Privilege to make New Threads revoked.
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rune3
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/31/2007 1:28:29 AM | | ^^^ The OP was asking "when did it change?" not questioning why -- no other thread seems to answer this question. There are clearly old posts in the "ask a girl" forum that were started by women and now it is impossible for women to start a thread there, so at some point, something did change even if it was just the actual coding of an informal rule. | |
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/31/2007 2:02:21 AM | The OP was asking "when did it change?" not questioning why -- no other thread seems to answer this question.
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Maybe there is no other Thread in Existence which addresses Why, how, when, what, either.
Why was it changed ...
When was it changed ...
Where was it changed ...
How was it changed ...
What was changed ...
Who changed ...
... is just minor varying on the same Topic and an attempt to circumvent Rules in Respect to redundant Threads. Posters, esp. existing ones who have been around long enough to know better who deliberately add such Fill to conceal Redundancy may even end up with a Ban.
This OP would have been more than perfectly suitable to post there. He could have searched for it, found it in under 1 Minute and posted his Query there. Fact is he never tried, never bothered to search, just without any Thought made yet another Thread.
The idea is to locate an existing Thread on the same Topic Matter.
Those who continue to make redundant Threads will have their Privileges revoked. From my End alone, 20-50 lose it daily.
At this Point, we have less than half the redundant Garbage on these Forums we had a Month ago. Knocking out more than 100 of the Top All-Time Attention Seekers, Chatters, invalid & redundant Thread Makers has done the Miracle Mile.
Unnecessary Moderator Workload has, as a Result, dropped substantially; and we are going to keep that Trend going.
We are seeing more and more Users, even relatively new ones bringing existing Threads to the Forefront to pose their Questions. In Fact, most of the Time, after they have located such a Thread, it usually answers their Question and find no need to make yet another one.
You can't help but see ...
... daily, and not immediately become aware of the Fact a Thread was closed for Duplicity, which also serves as a Link on how to Conduct a Search. And if someone can't be bothered to 'Google' for "Redundant", then its just plain Laziness.
There are clearly old posts in the "ask a girl" forum that were started by women and now it is impossible for women to start a thread there, so at some point, something did change even if it was just the actual coding of an informal rule.
Again, that was answered in my Post above too.
There have been no Rule Changes, those Threads just weren't caught by Moderators, and the Userbase doesn't get the Oportunity of vote on them either. |
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| When did Ask a Girl stop letting girls start new threads?
Posted: 12/31/2007 11:56:51 AM | Sorry, Ticketoride. I was aware of the rules. In fact, I've pointed out the issue of polarised threads and rules on quite a few threads. I've also pointed out that on a few threads that anyone is allowed to reply to threads in the Ask a Guy forums, because women apologised for posting there in the first place, and said that they weren't supposed to post there.
I've known for a long time that only men could start a thread in Ask a Girl, and only women could start a thread in Ask a Guy, but that everyone could reply. I also knew that the software didn't allow anyone to start a thread in these forums, if they weren't supposed to.
However, I didn't know that there were threads that had been started by women in Ask a Girl, and there were threads that had been started by men in Ask a Guy. I also didn't know that the software was changed at some point to stop this happening. But it seems to do this now.
Please see: "The Way men think VS. The Way Women think"
http://forums.plentyoffish.com/8992014datingPostpage2.aspx
Msg 48 & msg 49.
The result of the reply was why I posed this question in the first place.
I did a search, but I didn't see any relevant threads in which the question was dealt with.
As it was a new question, I assumed that it would not be appropriate to ask a new question on a thread with an existing question, as to me, it would be on-topic to answer the question in the Opening Post, and off-topic to ask a completely different question, unless it is directly relevant to get the initial question answered.
So I didn't see a problem in starting a new thread.
If I am wrong, then I humbly apologise.
Am I wrong?
Can I just ask any question on any thread, as long as the question is on the same topic as the thread?
Am I supposed to?
If so, if I someone starts a new thread on the same topic as an existing thread, because a new different question is raised on the same topic as the old thread, does that make the new thread redundant?
I ask this, because there are hundreds of threads on the same topic of "is he using me?" Each thread is started with a different question, but on the same topic. Should all of these questions all be asked on the same thread? | |
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