Why Your Tiki Finds Deserve Their Own Threads - Collecting Tiki

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Fri, Nov 4, 2005 6:42 PM In my eyes, Tiki Finds is a potential goldmine of information and knowledge -- but it's all buried, limiting its usefulness. You guys have found an amazing array of fascinating items, and it breaks my heart to see them glossed over. Here's my treatise on what's amiss, and how it can be improved. The Problem In Tiki Finds, discussion of interesting items is difficult. Found items are buried quickly with new finds. Occasionally questions do get posed and answered, but one has to sift through unrelated posts to find the response. Along the same lines, the potential exists for the same questions to get asked over and over again. Sometimes folks think "My finds aren't worthy of their own thread." Here's why I don't think that's true: even common items are worth some discussion. Heck, the more common the item, the more likely it is that it will strike a chord with a wide audience, and the more likely it is that there will be plenty to talk about on the topic. Some great recent examples: badmojo's excellent thread on coconut monkeys, the drunkenhat and tikicleen's thread on ashtrays, and Sweet Daddy Tiki's thread on souvenir glasses. In each of these threads, folks anted up with items from their own finds, and people were able to learn a bit more about the background and history of the items. When unusual items get posted to Tiki Finds, any commentary on them becomes very limited. For instance, the posting recently of a bizarre Don Ho bubble blower garnered only a "love it" comment -- but there was no discussion about what the story with the item was. By contrast, when Virani recently posted an unusual mug in its own thread, a few folks were able to chime in with what they knew about it, and uncover some related items. The Solution Consider taking an extra moment when photographing your tiki finds to photograph them separately, and post them separately in threads that will enhance discussion. The improvements that were made to Search a few months ago should make it much easier to look for an existing thread; if there isn't one, feel free to start one. If you also wish to post the items together in Tiki Finds, go for it, and provide links to the item-specific posts you made. If we all took this very wee bit of extra effort, we could have much more useful discussions about these really fantastic finds, which would be great, what with this being a discussion board and all. Critiki - Ooga-Mooga - Humu Kon Tiki [ Edited by: Humuhumu 2005-11-04 18:46 ]

In my eyes, Tiki Finds is a potential goldmine of information and knowledge -- but it's all buried, limiting its usefulness. You guys have found an amazing array of fascinating items, and it breaks my heart to see them glossed over. Here's my treatise on what's amiss, and how it can be improved.

The Problem
In Tiki Finds, discussion of interesting items is difficult. Found items are buried quickly with new finds. Occasionally questions do get posed and answered, but one has to sift through unrelated posts to find the response. Along the same lines, the potential exists for the same questions to get asked over and over again.

Sometimes folks think "My finds aren't worthy of their own thread." Here's why I don't think that's true: even common items are worth some discussion. Heck, the more common the item, the more likely it is that it will strike a chord with a wide audience, and the more likely it is that there will be plenty to talk about on the topic.

Some great recent examples: badmojo's excellent thread on coconut monkeys, the drunkenhat and tikicleen's thread on ashtrays, and Sweet Daddy Tiki's thread on souvenir glasses. In each of these threads, folks anted up with items from their own finds, and people were able to learn a bit more about the background and history of the items.

When unusual items get posted to Tiki Finds, any commentary on them becomes very limited. For instance, the posting recently of a bizarre Don Ho bubble blower garnered only a "love it" comment -- but there was no discussion about what the story with the item was.

By contrast, when Virani recently posted an unusual mug in its own thread, a few folks were able to chime in with what they knew about it, and uncover some related items.

The Solution
Consider taking an extra moment when photographing your tiki finds to photograph them separately, and post them separately in threads that will enhance discussion.

The improvements that were made to Search a few months ago should make it much easier to look for an existing thread; if there isn't one, feel free to start one.

If you also wish to post the items together in Tiki Finds, go for it, and provide links to the item-specific posts you made.

If we all took this very wee bit of extra effort, we could have much more useful discussions about these really fantastic finds, which would be great, what with this being a discussion board and all.

Critiki - Ooga-Mooga - Humu Kon Tiki

[ Edited by: Humuhumu 2005-11-04 18:46 ]

Post #196489 by Humuhumu on Fri, Nov 4, 2005 6:42 PM