| allidoiswait-Since I started the Master List of 2012 Acceptances thread, I feel the need to defend it. This is of course, if that is the thread you are referring to!
It is set up in the same manner as the college acceptance threads--by username. It is not "stupidly set up". Many of us have been on the board for several years and know each other by these names. Let's say last November I gave lots of advice to "smartkid64" and I know that she applied to certain schools. Since it is in alpha order, a logical format, and is not as you state "stupidly set up", I can easily go to the thread and look her up to see how she fared.
As far as scanning through everyone to find the new information, well, you just see who posted last and scan alphabetically to that name to find their information. What could be easier or an improvement on that?
If the info was not in alpha order by screen name, you would THEN have to scan through every line to find someone's info since it would NOT be in alpha order! It would be in order of who posted last, which after five or six posts, would be on the next page and in no logical order at all. |