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    When I post here creating a new thread the thread appears in the woodwork forum but when I create a new thread in woodwork it does not appear here. That annoys me because if I post here I mean it to stay here and not be posted to WW other wise I would have posted there as well. Some really useless stuff to woodworking gets posted to both because of this. I posted this morning here and I found it repeated in the WW forum where it really has no place. Can I create an account here unique to this forum to prevent this happening or can it be stopped by the forum admin to save me doing that.
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    I guess this was set up because woodies are more likely to be interested in some aspects of metal work than the other way around?
    Woodies after all have to use metal to do WW but there's not much use for wood in MW.

    I agree it would be useful for a person that first sets up a thread in the MW forum to be able to determine if their thread has any relevance to woodies although many metal workers might not even know if woodies would be interested or not. Anyway I doubt the forums would allow for this level of control.

    BTW if you're referring to the post on the outboard powered motorbike I think there would be some woodies interested in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    I guess this was set up because woodies are more likely to be interested in some aspects of metal work than the other way around?
    Woodies after all have to use metal to do WW but there's not much use for wood in MW.

    I agree it would be useful for a person that first sets up a thread in the MW forum to be able to determine if their thread has any relevance to woodies although many metal workers might not even know if woodies would be interested or not. Anyway I doubt the forums would allow for this level of control.

    BTW if you're referring to the post own the outboard powered motorbike I think there would be some woodies interested in it.
    But it does not stand as a thread in the WW forum only appearing as a new thread until viewed, I think that is how it might work. Does it appear initially and then disappear from the WW forum somehow? None of it seems to make sense to me and as I said in the OP if I wanted it there I would have put it there. Then if I create a thread on the WW forum why doesn't it get posted here?
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    I really can't see what the problem is, it is only a reference that gets posted on the Woodwork forum, if it is not of interest then don't click on it.

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    Hi Chris,
    I think occurrences as you describe happen because it part of the left over baggage from when the Metal Work Forum was a small sub forum of the Australian Woodwork forums prior to 2015.

    I think it might be the same for those of us who joined up over at WW forums prior to our separation as Forums in 2015.

    The forums at this point be might considered parallel but still linked in ways because of the dual member ships.

    There are some bugs in the program relative to that and each successive upgrade does not seem to improve things .

    Be assured that there are Admin people working on such programming and its helpfull to those admin computer folks for members to outline the defects when and where they occur.

    Grahame

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris Parks View Post
    But it does not stand as a thread in the WW forum only appearing as a new thread until viewed, I think that is how it might work. Does it appear initially and then disappear from the WW forum somehow?
    It disappears to you in "new posts" if you read it, just like any other post does, provided no one adds to the thread which no one can do for these MW notification posts. If you look in the Metal work subforum of the WW forms you will see those notification posts are still there.
    https://www.woodworkforums.com/f66

    None of it seems to make sense to me and as I said in the OP if I wanted it there I would have put it there. Then if I create a thread on the WW forum why doesn't it get posted here?
    I reckon it' probably reasonable enough give the probable constrains of forum software

    Like I said above, someone has deemed that woodies might want to know about MW but not the other way around, especially because the WWFs are far more active and would result in the MW forums being dominated by WW notifications.

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    Quote Originally Posted by China View Post
    I really can't see what the problem is, it is only a reference that gets posted on the Woodwork forum, if it is not of interest then don't click on it.
    The issue (for me) is if I wanted it posted to the WW forum I would do that, pretty simple really. As I said, it does not happen in reverse for some reason and I know more than one person here whose membership was in the times before the forum was separated from the WW forum. If I decided I did not want to be a contributor to the WW forum as has happened in at least one instance the post would still be seen there. As Grahame said, it is most probably a problem left over from years ago and I don't know why but it annoys me but I can understand that fixing it for one person's convenience is simply not going to happen.
    CHRIS

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