[wp-forums] Topic closed for no apparent reason?

[Mika A Epstein]

While I hate the slippery slope argument, it proves itself nearly every 
time on forums ;) People go off topic (or on a related tangent) way too 
fast.

>
> cmoral3s who needed the functionality for non-text widgets as well.


See and now he's totally got a separate issue! :D "I need this too, but 
for non-text...."

Mar Ventus wrote:
>
> Gotcha, Ipstenu. My concern was that, since the title didn't specify what
> time of widgets the OP wanted to wrap inside a div, I thought we should
> also provide other alternatives for users like cmoral3s who needed the
> functionality for non-text widgets as well.
> Other than that, I totally agree with the guidelines you mentioned, and as
> to our friend Joe Buckle, a JS approach could actually work for cmoral3s.
> As usual, many thanks for the clarification, ;-)
>
> Marv
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Mika A Epstein<ipstenu at ipstenu.org> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> cmoral3s posted after the post had been six months idle.
>>
>> Two major factors at work here:
>>
>> 1) We've had a major WP upgrade since then
>> 2) The post should have been made resolved a while ago
>>
>> He should have made his own topic, or been encouraged/asked to do so,
>> because as you rightly pointed "Not sure if yours is the same." It's not.
>> And as soon as we keep letting more and more people pile on one topic...
>>
>> Well I tell people it's like everyone shouting out their orders at 
>> once to
>> the barristas. You get bad coffee :) You'll get bad help if you do that,
>> since the helpers have to sort multiple threads, which are all in a 
>> single
>> line, to help one person. Most of the time this results in the OP never
>> being helped. That's why the guidelines say to make their own topics. 
>> It's
>> way easier to help each individual there, since rarely is the problem 
>> 100%
>> the same.
>>
>> There are exceptions of course, but it'll be like "Hey, I get this error
>> on this theme." or something very specific. Like Pagespeed and the media
>> uploader. You can tell they're the same because you don't get "I have the
>> same problem, but only when I use this plugin..." :) That 'but' is the
>> indicator that says it's probably not the same problem.
>>
>> We want to encourage forum users to open multiple threads about similar,
>> but NOT the exact same problems. And Joe Buckle jumping in there is 
>> exactly
>> why.
>>
>> Mar Ventus wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello, all!
>>> The following topic in which I was helping out:
>>> http://wordpress.org/support/**topic/add-html-wrapper-around-**
>>> widget-content<http://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-html-wrapper-around-widget-content>
>>> seems to have been closed for no apparent reason. The second poster,
>>> cmoral3s<http://wordpress.org/**support/profile/cmoral3s<http://wordpress.org/support/profile/cmoral3s>>,
>>> is experiencing
>>>
>>> the exact same problem as the OP, except that the proposed solution does
>>> not work for him because it only targets text widgets.
>>> I really think it should be reopened, unless we want to encourage forum
>>> users to open multiple threads about the exact same problems.
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Marventus
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