The Search Engine for this forum appears to be working a little more reliably than in the past (although why a search for "Wordsworth" suggested threads about Martinu I have no idea
). I should emphasise that I know absolutely nothing about the technical aspects of Search Engines, how they work or do not work properly!!
New members or indeed long-serving members searching for threads on a particular composer might well be bemused by duplicate threads.
To give an example:
In the New Recordings section there are threads entitled "Caspar Diethelm (1926-1997) Symphonies etc from Guild" and "Caspar Diethelm Symphonies on Guild" started within a day of each other. I shall attempt to merge these threads but in doing so the members who started each thread may lose original authorship. I apologise if this offends either member.
It is not always easy-as I (Dundonnell) know full well from personal experience-to decide where best to locate a thread within the forum or whether to discuss a composer, say William Wordsworth (sorry for repeatedly using him as an example), within a thread explicitly devoted to him or within a thread devoted to the releases of, say, "Lyrita" or "Toccata".
It would be very helpful I think to members if it was possible try to minimise the duplication of threads. It will never be possible to eliminate such duplication! Nor would any of us wish to discourage members from posting about a subject of interest to them and (hopefully
) others.
Just an idea to try to be helpful.......
