PTR posting etiquette

[Hercules]

Back a few years ago when posting trip reports everyone was posting new threads for their reports. Then sometime last year or so, there were a few people who started running threads for their trip reports, and posted all of their reports in one thread. I am starting to see the majority of people making threads for their entire season of reports. Is this what is now preferred, kind of as an attempt to keep things clean in the forum? Or are people just trying to make themselves feel important by creating a thread with their name on it? I am going to have a fair amount of reports to post by the end of the year, so I just want to see what is proper.

[Wes]

If you do like one trip with multiple parks (ie: a week in the midwest) I think it's best to consolidate them into one report as opposed to posting new threads for individual parks.

 

However, you don't have to consolidate every report you do in a year into one thread or whatever. I think Big Mike started this and people imitated due to the success of his thread.

[larrygator]

Jay - What Wes said. Feel free to follow either approach, there is no proper or accepted way.

 

Don't think too much about why some people create threads with multiple trips or while others create multiple Trip reports. Some people might enjoy starting as many threads as possible while others might enjoy a continuing thread to document their season.

 

Both ways have their pros and cons.

 

The only prefered style is that if you create a continuing thread update your front page with:

- An updated sub-title to announce new submissions

- Jump links on your first page to create a Table of COntents to make your thread easy to navigate

[Hercules]

Thanks a lot for your responses guys. I really appreciate it. Everything makes more sense now.

[robbalvey]

I do want to add this -

 

For search engine optimization (if you are concerned about this sort of thing), a seperate trip report for each park will get picked up by the Google, Yahoo, etc, bots easier than one report for multiple parks. The title of your thread becomes the meta title header which is what those bots look at.

 

For our inclusion in the park index, however, either format will work.

 

I will say that it is much easier for us to choose a TR for the park index if each park is at least posted in a separare post. For exampe if you visited SFOG and Lake Winnie, make one post for SFOG and then one for Lake Winnie, even if the follow one right after the other.

 

So that way in the park index, we can easily link to your SFOG or Lake Winnie report withone someone having to scroll through the photos of one park to get to the other.

 

Make sense?

 

--Robb

Edited June 3, 2010 by robbalvey

[Hercules]

Thanks Robb. Makes total sense. Thank you for adding some additional information.