Hello,
1) What was yesterday's promoted post thread? A link would be great. Was someone affected by it?
2) Selective moving of content - refer to one of my EDMW stickies. There's too much volume in EDMW that the database has be constantly pruned. In a few months, several threads would cease to exist. EDMW is great for just current happenings and discussions - beyond the "now", sadly useful discussions would just disappear. There's no balance that can be figured out other than moving relevant threads out to preserve them longer and have a form of categorization. EDMW is too diverse, but that alone isn't the problem - there are also an equal number of useless threads that clutter that place.
3) Viewing and replying - well, what makes you think you can view this thread if it's still in EDMW? It has to be a very active discussion if at all you can view this again, else it will never attain visibility. There's much better ways of checking back on the discussions that you've participated, such as searching threads based on forum nickname, etc. Or using our new iPhone forum app that keeps a good history of your recently accessed, replied discussions.
Similarly, complains in EDMW would just get drowned in the mass of other discussions. It's just pure luck I stumbled upon it.
Other forum sections exist for focused and relevant discussions. If everyone's lazy to access the relevant forum sections, that's just sad. It's like saying you've no interests whatsoever and you're just browsing. For that purpose, there's the latest threads tool.
Possible to check with you if yesterday's promoted thread on EDMW was on the so-called "right forums" ?
Shouldn't similar actions to move it to its appropriate sub-forum be carried out?
Does a promoted post in the wrong sub-forum violated HardwareZone's Terms of Service?
If yes, then I've got nothing to say.
I just feel that the selective moving of threads around for the purpose of balancing your readership among the sub-forums is pointless.
Anyway, low chances of me viewing any replies to this post as I dun check this sub-forum often, maybe once a bluemoon or when I am wrongfully infracted.