FedEx Posts? Please indicate it in the Title!
 

This is not a FedEx only forum so, if you're posting about your company's bidding etc. please, put "fdx" or something in the title. Sometimes I have to get through most of the thread to realize it's about FedEx. (I hear the violins being played now)

I know I know, there are more important things to worry about. I say this tongue-in-cheek....sort of ;)

How about it mods?


yeah yeah, maybe I should have put "rant" in the title of my post:D

Exactly, Radials. Most guys are catching on, but some just don't care that they're causing a lot of wasted clicks by not prefacing their posts with FDX, FedEx, etc.

And a wasted click is a horrible thing... Did I just hear Sally Struthers?

Yeah you might have to buy a new mouse avery 4.8 years! Instead of 5 years.

Why don't we make this a true FDX decision - the mods can poll the FDX guys here on what we want to happen and then can do the opposite and tell us it is in our own best interest!

I was against it in the beginning, but why not bring back the Purple Tails Forum. It worked out well and nobody had to listen to us if they did not want to. I was against it before I was for it.

Your mouse would wear out at about that same rate if FDX pilots had the courtesy to start the thread with FDX. (or maybe some of your pilots just cannot figure out how to.)

How about, if you dont see the airline you are interested in the title, DONT READ IT.

Oh yeah, there are threads that are non FedEx without the company specifically identified. No big deal. :rolleyes:

Is this a FedEx rule only, or do the other guys have to do it too?

How about just the ones who do not have the courtesy to start the thread with the name of the company? (So it sort of becomes a FedEX rule only by default because they do the most.)

That would mean that all thread titles would have to have a reference to the airline. Somehow I don't think that would work.

Well, the non FedEx threads do not dominate like the FedEx threads. I don't think that Billy Bob's Air Cargo is the subject airline in many threads:rolleyes:

I didn't mean to start a discussion on the details or proposed rules. My post did say that my tone was tongue-in-cheek. I guess my intention was meant as food for thought to the mods as my vote to reinstate the separate forum for FDX folks or maybe just some encouragement to people starting threads to do it as a courtesy if they happen to be thinking about it

It really isn't that big of a deal for me.:)

I talked with one of the mods, great guy who's doing this for free. Said we had a purple page for us but guys started to flame anyone who wasn't a purple poster and it got ugly... so they dumped us in with everyone else

I find that hard to believe that we'd hose ourselves over like that... not!

How about anybody that dosen't like reading untittled FDX threads become a moderator so they can retittle the threads to their heart's content. As a bonus they can move the really interesting threads out of the cargo forum where they will die a quick death. :confused:

We expect the same from you then Nitefr8...ooops. FDX - we expect the same from you then Nitefr8.

Thanks for making my point.

This has to be the third of fourth thread about the very same thing.

Who cares?

Call out all of the other offenders as well or is this rule only subject to frequency of violation?

Apparently you do since you clicked on this thread.:D

Says the person who started the thread.

Do you watch a program or listen to a song you do not care for?

I'm tired of listening to the whiners - PLEASE BRING BACK THE "PURPLE TAILS"!!!

That way the CARGO section can return to it's normally quiet routine....but then what will the CARGO section whiners have to gripe about at that point? Hmmmmm...I'm sure they'll come up with something trivial.

Hey, is that radial purple???

"How about it mods?"

"How about, if you dont see the airline you are interested in the title, DONT READ IT."

"How about just the ones who do not have the courtesy to start the thread with the name of the company?"

How 'bout..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1WJl...eature=related

Hey mods ... this subject is getting old and stale. Can we please close it? thanks

The proper thing to do when one has a problem with a post or thread is to use the report a post feature.

I don't lock threads because one user finds it old and stale.

Maybe you should cuss out RJ or something. That might do it....

Dude.. you're killin me......:D:D:D

Show me one thread I have started without a proper header!

New rule; If you post about an issue, it has to be a big deal. There.:D

(now if I can only be a mod!:cool:)

Yes, sometimes. However, "not care for" and "no big deal" are two different animals. Apparently, you apply your point to message board threads and read and post on threads that you don't care for.

I do care when a person singles out an individual group, indicating as if that group is the only violator.

Its no big deal when I read a thread that doesnt have a specific airline in the title. These boards are for information / entertainment. If its a topic that doesnt apply to me, I move on and keep my mouth shut.

Cosmic idea, no? :cool:

I think you are missing Radials point. If there is no airline name in the title you have no way of knowing if the topic does not apply. Is that really that hard to figure out?

Are you kidding?

This is far from rocket science.

Radials' point is quite crystal, thank you very much. :rolleyes:

Which one is it?

By default, FedEx pilots are pretty much the "only violator" (since you put it that way) because FDX threads happen to dominate the cargo forum. Given this dominance, it is pretty much by default that threads that are airline specific usually have the name of the airline.....except for, as is evident many times, FedEx. Nobody is posting about bidding at Jim Bob's Air Cargo and not indicating the airline in the title. Get it now?

Now, that doesn't mean I'm cutting on FDX pilots in any way. It's just, again, a default of the situation.

Alright, too much time off for me:o, I'm finished with this one. Peace!:cool:

Stirring the Pot
 

So following this logic... If FEDEX dominates the cargo forum would it be safe to assume that a thread without an airline title would be a FEDEX thread? If they are the majority, by default, as you say. And if that is the case, should a FEDEX thread not have FEDEX in the title but one that is NOT FEDEX in the title? ;)

This whole thing is ridiculous but thanks for stating what seems to be logical.


The only 'non airline specific' threads are FedEx.
Therefore, if one comes across a thread without a specific airline than it must be a FedEx thread.

Hey,

I have a solution! Why don't we start all FDX threads with FDX. Is it really that big of a deal guys? You are all starting to sound like a bunch of spoiled children. Grow up.

I completely agree! I believe all non-FDX posts should be prefaced by the airline in question. Why must the majority suffer for the few??;)

non sequitur

there have been times in which UPS threads had much presence. so, that wouldn't work. as silly as this thread has become. I do think it is courteous to indicate the company, especially with UPS, and FedEx especially lately.

come on, i.e. "MD11 Displacements" could be a number of freight outfits. practically every thread that has to do with one company has the name of the airline in the title field. why should FedEx threads be the exception?

play well with others. i think that is the point.

Please show me where I said FedEx should be an exception?

Never once did I state that.

All I'm saying is.... read a thread, if you dont like it, move on.

It is a common courtesy to place a specifc airline in the title, not a requirement. Dont point out a specific group as if they are exclusively in violation of this courtesy. :rolleyes:

Hi!

I have noticed this phenomenon myself.

Prefacing the title with FDX..... would be a GREAT idea!

cliff
GRB

Next you will tell me to put the seat back down when I'm done.

One simple suggestion, 4 pages of whining, "poo me", "but were so important", nonsense.

Grow up.

sure, here ya go.

certainly seems like you are advocating an exception to me

I will ask you what you asked someone else. do you read books, watch movies, listen to music that you aren't interested in? often times one reads through several before one realizes that one isn't interested. if they had known, they wouldn't have clicked on it in the first place.


nobody was talking about a hard rule. the original post was jovial and the point was a call for courtesy. you seem to take yourself too seriously and turning this into something bigger than it is. did you have a bad bid month or something?

just look at some of the recent threads. it is indeed FedEx threads that are in violation