Later View, Favorites and References.

[ganesh_mourthy]

Hello All,

I am just wondering if you ever had a problem rummaging through the past threads unable to locate something that you felt you should read again?! Yours truly has (or have?) that problem often .

Now that we have a treasure trove of musical information in our Rasikas.org repository as threads, would it not be nice to have something like 1.later view, 2.favorite and 3.references to be marked wherever possible? I am not sure if that needs a painful deal of work by the moderators, but just a thought which can be done at some later point when it becomes possible.

yours truly
GM

[vasanthakokilam]

GM, I can only tell you what I use for such purposes and not necessarily recommend it. See if it suits you.

It is simple. Four folders in the book marks: Later View, Favorites, References and General. The General is the grab bag where you can put stuff if you can not decide which of the three it should go to. The link to the topic itself is the default when you bookmark it. If you want to bookmark a post in a thread, click on the post number at the left margin (i.e #22 ) and then bookmark it.

You need to be a bit meticulous and put it in the right bookmark folder or if you put it in General folder, make it a habit to visit it every weekend and move things to the right folder.

Your posting reminded me of a project I requested srkris to start last July which he did. I did not have time to promote it further. This is as good a time as any. It is my longstanding wish to solve the frequent complaint we get from members and non-members. "There are a lot of great posts sprinkled all over the place at this site but they are so hard to find among all the noise and chit-chat."
I think the 'crowd-sourcing/member-sourcing' solution I outlined here http://www.rasikas.org/forums/viewtopic. ... 30#p271630
should help this cause. All, please read the above thread and act.

[ganesh_mourthy]

Thansk VK that is fantasitic and a simpler way of doing it. I do not even understand why it did not occur to me. Just to confirm , you are meaning the browser bookmarks right?

I appreciate it is certainly a lot of work when yo you are upto the eyeballs with the lot other work in here. On the other things with the links we should discuss as a lot of good things wrote disappears in the hustle and bustle and noise.

[Rsachi]

Bookmarking puts the onus on the visitor.
I do believe the feature of labels or tags for any post will also help in sorting. It will allow a stack bar on the right or left side where labels are aggregated with counts.
I find the search function very useful, quick, and effective for me. I only wish that the search results had some pattern or categorisation apart from chronology....
Asking for features is easy but Kris and VKM have to cope.. My sympathies

[arasi]

G_M (that sounds good ),
Yes, they both are overworked. This is just the forum bit. They have their jobs and families too to spend time with...

Sachi, he is srkris (Ramakrishnan).

Also:
While we are on the subject of names, vasanthakokilam came to be called VK over the years. Our other very active member V.Kailasam who joined us is also addressed as VK. Then, I noticed that our moderator was being called VKM, which applies equally to the other valuable member! So, I started addressing janitor supreme as VKokilam (spring cuckoo is an ancient name for him)... :-\

[ganesh_mourthy]

Yes that is sorted Arasi , but also means that the rasikas have to take on the onus sometimes and spare the mods. This a bit outside of their personal domain, but also their fav bit I guess.

Coming to Initials, I did have a lot of problem initially to make out Vasanthakokilam and always looked out for accusative pronoun and objective pronoun around but never found one easily. I knew it would be tactless to ask rightaway but since the VK initial was shorter, than even "him or her ", the forumites used VK which made more confusing to me.

But, with the writing style and contents sometimes you readily attribute a gender, imaginative face, age, etc

You also do this with speeches, authors, singers etc., Whenever I heard to a cine song first and later watched the picturisation , it never used to be in line with what I imagined of it.

I am still confused with many handles or forum name here. But does not matter, and it is just a rambling on a saturday morning after you have a lie in , a lazy bath, and a hot cup o Joe.

From your name , already comes to mind a type of gait .....

Oh how badly we need a insignia...!!!

[arasi]

Gait? Forget it! 'naDaiyum thaLara' is more like it

At the very beginning, vasanthakokilam was addressed by his full name. When the trinity got to be called T, MD and SS, the musicians Ari MMI and SS, we mere mortals didn't need long names, someone decided, and others followed. I call him spring cuckoo once in a while in place of a chuckle.

It's hard for me to know a forumite's gender (of foreignites too! Gosh, that key on Munirao's keyboard has to be fixed some day...!). Eight years ago (can't believe it that Rasikas was born that many years ago). I marvelled at VKokilam's speed at which he fetched info and said I was so proud that a woman did all that, and Kokilam admitted to his hiding behind a woman's name! Yesteryear singer Vasanthakokilam's music is something he adores. That's why the name.

I am really acting my age and telling old stories :-@