Handling Off Topic Talk Posts
You may have noticed that the level of off topic Sift Talk posts has been increasing lately. We love everyone's contributions to the Sift, especially when it comes to interesting conversations, but as is noted at the top of the sidebar, this "main" Sift Talk is reserved for specific types of discussions.
If you're a charter member and would like to, please feel free to post any general discussions to your personal blog. If you are not a charter member or if your post is specific to one of the many Sift channels, you can post to that specific channel's talk instead. To this end, we've made *[channel] invocations now work for posts in the main Sift Talk.
So, if you Gold Stars come across a post here that you think would better belong to a channel's talk, feel free to invoke it. Keep in mind, however, that talk posts can only be associated with a single channel, so invoking on a post already in a channel talk will fail.
If you're a charter member and would like to, please feel free to post any general discussions to your personal blog. If you are not a charter member or if your post is specific to one of the many Sift channels, you can post to that specific channel's talk instead. To this end, we've made *[channel] invocations now work for posts in the main Sift Talk.
So, if you Gold Stars come across a post here that you think would better belong to a channel's talk, feel free to invoke it. Keep in mind, however, that talk posts can only be associated with a single channel, so invoking on a post already in a channel talk will fail.
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Awesome! Will invoking a channel take it off the Main Talk page?
Yes, it will be sent to the specified channel talk without the "cross-post" box initially checked. But it could be cross-posted to main Sift Talk subsequently by the submitter or an admin.
Ah. Sifty doesn't give a confirmation comment?
I just did it to
http://politics.videosift.com/talk/Will-Ron-Paul-Be-Excluded-from-Iowa-Debates
and it's still on the front.
Hehe. Thanks for beta testing it for me. I didn't try using the invocation myself.
Fixed the video manually and invoking should now properly remove the post from main ST.
SiftTalk moving v1.0 is now live!
while i mistakenly posted an articel about Ron Paul and fundraising to the "main" sift page.
how did my post
http://politics.videosift.com/talk/Will-Ron-Paul-Be-Excluded-from-Iowa-Debates
get on the front page when I posted it into politics ?
Qruel, there is a box you can check at the bottom that will ask if you want to cross post to the main ST page. I know I've been guilty of checking it a few times on accident. That may be why.
Question: Was my Half-Life 2 post in VideoGames Talk kosher?
Well karaidl, so long as it was prepared according to Jewish tradition, I don't see why not
There might be a cockroach in the system. Or an ant. Either way, there's a bug.
Lookie here: http://www.videosift.com/talk/Cat-Door-hacked-to-keep-cats-carrying-mice-out#comment-250040
Yeah, yeah, I'm too lazy to use HTML. Cram it.
I tried the invocation twice to no avail.
All fixed up. Thanks again MG. Now it's v1.0.
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