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Hi Keil forum supporter
Everytime I look in this forum I wish to have a filter button to selct only Arm7 themes..
Isn't it possible to install a selction box feeded from the Toolset/Architetcure entry?
Would be very nice if it's possible to switch off uninteressted C166 and C51 or Arm7 threads..
hopeful
G.K.
Yes, I was talking about the tunnel vision that tends to creep in when people spends too long time limiting themselves (no access-rights locking, but private choices) into a single narrow sub-forum. Especially on a forum implementation where the user really has to switch back and forth between the sub-forum to pick up any new posts. A bit less so with the option to just filter content.
Two important things tends to happen: - The number of posts every user needs to read gets down. This may be seen as good. But that also represents a loss of invigorating influences from other areas.
- Eacy post gets read by less people, and the number of people who may answer will be fewer. And the probability that a stupid answer will be accepted without comments gets higher. This is a bit similar to emailing answers directly to a requester - no good safety guard to make sure that the blind will not start to lead the blind.
In the end, it is often quite important to pick up influences from other fields just to get everything into perspective.
I think it would be an interesting exercise to analyse a statistically-significant sample of threads, and see how many really were specific to only the stated toolset/architecture.
I suspect that the majority are not at all specific, but quite applicable to other - or all - architectures...