New K1 subforums?

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

yep .

[Yodrak 7]

consolemaster,

That is not what I wrote. It's not even close.

Yodrak

Awww.

Yodrak says VJ isn't as technical as he likes! Hehe.

Edited March 27, 2007 by Yodrak

[Mags 112]

Well, I think TracyTN seems very responsible....

[ChasUK 0]

I have the ability to add a "move" feature to people's accounts so that they can move threads between forums. .............

............ I would be more than happy to add this ability to people's accounts that have a long time standing with the site. .............

............ If we want I can create a sub-forum that is for immigration chatter that does not fit elsewhere (I have no clue what to call it) that things can be moved to... that is if the current forums are not enough.

Does anyone think that adding more people with the ability to move threads would be useful?

Yes good idea

Yes good idea

Yes good idea, (throw this one to the masses to come up with a suitable name)

and yes I do

Well, I think TracyTN seems very responsible....

Seconded.

[Jenn! 918]

Well, I think TracyTN seems very responsible....

Seconded.

Thirded. But she'll have to change her member title!

[jlvr 1]

So the end result is that all encouraging, supportive and congratulatory threads get buried somewhere in the forum dungeon that posters hardly go to, thus minimizing the encouragement, support and celebration?

[Niels Bohr 72]

No. Everyone gets a congratulatory from me.

[featherB 1]

No. Everyone gets a congratulatory from me.

Great.

[wissooner 0]

No. Everyone gets a congratulatory from me.

Yeah, we know...platinum in 5 weeks?!?!

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

So the end result is that all encouraging, supportive and congratulatory threads get buried somewhere in the forum dungeon that posters hardly go to, thus minimizing the encouragement, support and celebration?

No, I think that the end would be that topics that have gone way off-topic for the forum would be moved (as of today many are not being moved and cluttering up the certain forums). Congrats threads are great but a good idea would be instead of creating one for every opportunity maybe we can have an on going one and on occasion others too. Thoughts? If needed I can create a separate forum on the main page (at bottom of Marriage Based Immigration) for "Visa Approval's and Chit Chat". It would capture the "congrats" thread and some of the more off topic (yet still marriage immigration related) topics. Just an idea.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Captain Ewok,

It would be a great idea to have a separate congratulatory, and success forum. I also want to mention that nobody uses the chatroom. Should it be closed? It's occupying space, may cause lots of money too and/or increase server load.

Edited March 28, 2007 by consolemaster

[Captain Ewok 1,891]

Captain Ewok,

It would be a great idea to have a separate congratulatory, and success forum. I also want to mention that nobody uses the chatroom. Should it be closed? It's occupying space, may cause lots of money too and/or increase server load.

The chatroom doesn't load down the forum however I hope it is at least used sometimes! :-p

[jlvr 1]

So the end result is that all encouraging, supportive and congratulatory threads get buried somewhere in the forum dungeon that posters hardly go to, thus minimizing the encouragement, support and celebration?

No, I think that the end would be that topics that have gone way off-topic for the forum would be moved (as of today many are not being moved and cluttering up the certain forums). Congrats threads are great but a good idea would be instead of creating one for every opportunity maybe we can have an on going one and on occasion others too. Thoughts? If needed I can create a separate forum on the main page (at bottom of Marriage Based Immigration) for "Visa Approval's and Chit Chat". It would capture the "congrats" thread and some of the more off topic (yet still marriage immigration related) topics. Just an idea.

Still sounds like it will be in the forum dungeon. I think that a separate announcement type thread would be a good idea but if it's in a place that no one will go to, it's pointless.

I'm going to say what I was going to post earlier but didn't. I get all of what was said about whiny VSC filers, and I certainly always feel bad when I see things moving for VSC filers and CSC filers are still waiting for some sign of life from CSC. It may sound lame but I think we all experience a similar anxiety from the moment we put the package in the mail and it's all pretty much out of our hands. Granted, VSC filers usually feel that anxiety for a shorter period of time, but we need to vent, too.

It's fine to say that we should not have expectations of going from mailing to NOA1 to NOA2 within a month or six weeks. But when that is the actual time frame that things are being processed at VSC, how can we not? If 10 people have filed their application at VSC and 7 or 8 have NOA2's in 3 weeks, is it not completely normal that the 2 or 3 feel that something must be wrong with their case that they do not?

I haven't been on this board for that long so I don't know about the evolution, or devolution of it. But as I posted before, I thought that the sharing of the progress and disappointment and frustration was a part of it.

[ChasUK 0]

Still sounds like it will be in the forum dungeon. I think that a separate announcement type thread would be a good idea but if it's in a place that no one will go to, it's pointless.

I'm going to say what I was going to post earlier but didn't. I get all of what was said about whiny VSC filers, and I certainly always feel bad when I see things moving for VSC filers and CSC filers are still waiting for some sign of life from CSC. It may sound lame but I think we all experience a similar anxiety from the moment we put the package in the mail and it's all pretty much out of our hands. Granted, VSC filers usually feel that anxiety for a shorter period of time, but we need to vent, too.

It's fine to say that we should not have expectations of going from mailing to NOA1 to NOA2 within a month or six weeks. But when that is the actual time frame that things are being processed at VSC, how can we not? If 10 people have filed their application at VSC and 7 or 8 have NOA2's in 3 weeks, is it not completely normal that the 2 or 3 feel that something must be wrong with their case that they do not?

I haven't been on this board for that long so I don't know about the evolution, or devolution of it. But as I posted before, I thought that the sharing of the progress and disappointment and frustration was a part of it.

It's not a dungeon. Just a separate place like there's separate places for all sorts of things. So it takes a little while to get used to it. Not a problem.

I understand what you are saying as a VSC filer. However, the point that is being made on that front is that unless you experience the extended wait that CSC filers have, 128 days in my case, then you cannot know the anguish that causes. You can guess but not know. Tracy, I think it is fair to say, is a well seasoned poster here. Even she could not bear to come here because of the congratulatory threads of people whizzing past in relatively short times and it made matters worse when you see VSC's starting threads that express their angst, (albeit relatively justified), for waiting for 14 days!!

A further benefit of this action is to keep the K1, (and other forums), in a state where most of the showing threads are useful threads regarding actual problems and solutions pertaining to their subject. In other words there is less to sort through to find important helpful facts. If this is achieved by keeping all the "yeehaa" threads to a minimum, then I say "good show".

[no name 1]

Does anyone think that adding more people with the ability to move threads would be useful?

Yes. Just today I saw several threads that should've been moved or deleted (repeated posts).

My only fear is that by moving the chatter threads, a poster would then RE-POST it because it was moved...we would need to explain a lot that first few weeks where they went. And as much as I would welcome the chance to do so, I seem to have a lot of haters on this site..