Please include the date of the article in news posts ! - Sep 15, 2008

[1puffer]

Hi All   

There are a lot of news posts that have no date mentioned at all in the subject or in the body.   

Hence readers have no way to determine when the news occurred.   

Please include the date the news was posted (you can usually find this right in the article) in the subject line.  People will read your posts tomorrow, next week, next year and maybe in several years from now.   It's cool if they know when news happened and the date you post isn't always the day, week, month the news happened. 

This is to help all readers, please help out. 

Thanks

1puff   

[dOc]

Good idea brotha. 

[Cannabis_Rx]

The date is under the heading?

You posted on
September 15, 2008, 07:57:23 PM

Which means the Story or article is around that date and time.   

Is my thinking wrong? 


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Sept 18 2008 7:56

[1puffer]

The date is under the heading?

You posted on
September 15, 2008, 07:57:23 PM

Which means the Story or article is around that date and time.   

Is my thinking wrong? 


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Sept 18 2008 7:56

I hear ya but I think it can be wrong, in some instances.   Sometimes we catch news that happened yesterday, last week or last month. I may be the main offender of posting old news. Another advantage it will help for searching too.  I doubt %PostTime is a field that is search able but %SubjectLine is. Another advantage is when browsing old topics on pages 2,3,4 etc having the date on the Subject line is just a bit more informative.

Here is an example post...

http://phillynorml.org/forum/index.php?topic=411.0

Thx Much!   

[Derek Rosenzweig]

I'm all for this, in fact it will make things easier on me when our new website goes live (all the news posts are taken from these forums). In fact, one thing I'd also like people to do is to include the original URL of the article somewhere in the post. This way I can include it easily when I set it up to appear on the front page of the new site.