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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared
Would thread prefixes be enough separation, using colour codes and the ability to filter by prefix, or would you prefer separate sub forums for each of the deals.
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I'd prefer separate sub-forums for a couple of reasons:
1. It's easier for me, as a user, then having to choose my filtering or look for codes. If I'm looking to find a book to read, I can just go straight to Deals/Books instead of having to remember to set my filtering, and then have to change it when I want to find out if there's anything happening like that awesome O'Reilly sale a couple of weeks ago.
2. It's easier for the people posting, for much the same reason. They just pick the right forum and post, and don't even have to know about, let alone use, prefixes. Therefore, they -- especially the newer ones -- are more likely to get the right posts in the right places, which saves a lot of work for the mods.
Nothing can be too easy for some users. Consider the fellow yesterday decided who the most appropriate way to ask for help with a problem with books on his PRS-505's SD card was by necroposting in a two-year-old discussion of .mobi DRM in the developer's section. Despite, y'know, the fact that his question had nothing to do with .mobi, DRM, or development. So the easier we can make things for the newbies -- and a fair number of the people promoting books are newbies and have no interest in being anything else -- the less tidying up will be required. Separate subsections are intuitive; prefixes require more thought and more effort.
I would like to see a voluntary "DRM free" prefix, though, so I can go straight to those books.