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Jon..... There's already the recipe and food related voice, and it directs you into the Super, not Deluxe...
Or are you saying to put recipes in the Deluxe instead of the Super? If so why not in the Imperial?
In the Deluxe recipes would be off-topic as they'd be in Imperial........
And someone would argue/wonder about why in the Deluxe and not in the Imperial...Both treats washers....as of now, recipes best belong to the Super...
Truth is really doesn't matter where you put a recipe as long as you title the thread "recipe" so people know that's a recipe....naming a thread with "recipe" have the same use, and doesn't matter what button you push to bring you to the destination forum according to the topic, I mean, I could press recipes now and start talking detergents in the same forum, original idea as I understand it was to make one dedicated to recipes, truth here is recipes are strictly correlated to the kitchen appliances and tools the same forrum talks of...
So IMO best solution, is that if there has to be created a new one for food and recipes , is best to include kitchen appliances and recipes all toghether....and let the rest to the super...though as the things are set at the moment, under the voice "food related" are meant to belong in the same Super forum also the vintage food advertisements I love to see, as well under the voice detergents the vintage ones regarding machines and detergents as well as for small appliances...after all they're related to food, appliances and detergents.....
You cannot make one of pure recipes..... I think....
That's why I say that the thing has to be studied very well, and may bring some confusions....
Though if that's a matter of having a kind of recipe book always available and easy to consult, robert might consider work out not a forum, but a kind of personal window like the photos of collection where one could add a personal or favourite recipes, you know, a simple ingredient and procediment page, maybe where you could add pics of the procediment, and that may be linked to the super forum whenever someone wants to discuss it or ask explanations suggestions/ variants, and the discussion thread links may eventually be linked to the recipe page on the bottom ..this way a recipe will be always available for future references as well as related discussions...and will not be forgotten in the archives....
Do you think that might work?
Robert, would it be too costly or complicated such a thing for you?

[this post was last edited: 9/29/2014-08:45]
 
"Truth is really doesn't matter where you put a recipe"

Last I heard AW's free forums are archived by Google but the paid forums are not. So if you want to find recipes via Google it matters at least a little. :)
 
Oh my gosh!!!, You missed the point.....:D
Things needs to be read in a speech complex, not just extrapolate thing by thing...
Did I maybe mention ATT or DL or donating forums? Or i just spoke of speaking of Imperial, Deluxe and especially Super? No! LOL :D
And that doesn't matter anyway as what I was saying was a different thing..
If you name a thread ex:
Recipe: Gnocchi al telegrafo...
"#Recipe # Food #Cooking : Southern Fried Chicken with my new Sunbeam Fryer"....
By naming or insering in thread title the word "recipe" someone who will look or enjoy recipes, food etc...will easily detect it's a recipe and not something else..... And it would be for whatever it is the forum section you're putting it....
Then the decision to make a forum donating or not that's another matter....that it's up to Robert, hypothetically one day he could even decide to make the whole website donating only as far as I am concerned....he already do so many things for our pure sake and for free....
I think that if someone post a recipe is primarily to share among members, and since this website, is primarily centered on appliances, rather than recipes and food, it's even all plus to it and a possibility it offers.... then, if this will also allow your recipe to gain visbility through Google results, even better, but IMO that has not to be taken for granted....and again, recipes and cooking are not the main topic this website is based on....
That sentence you quoted was to mean that by putting or hashtagging the word " Recipe" people will know it's a recipe and it will be found in virtually any forum here easily or at least more, and even if hypothetically there was a whole one for everything, as long as you name it "recipe" it's more easily deterctable that it's a recipe and also will also appear on the serchalator, if you type: "Recipe Apple pie" you'd have more chance to get an apple pie making related thread, rather than just stumble in a thread speaking of cooking-ware and baking dishes to make the apple pie, and so will not be mistaken or missed for something else...
As I have understand it, the proposal was to make the recipes and cooking related stuff more easily detectable by having a forum dedicated to them....and what I wrote was to say, that at times all you may need is to make them easily detectable is titling or hashtagging threads titles according to the topic...
Unfortunately as I said though sometimes recipes are just posted following a thread that initially may have just spoken about appliances....
Perhaps the idea of the external "cookbooks" and related links to pertinent discussion could potentially give even more visbility to these kind of recipes and everything is related and also give more ideas to continue and extend a discussion.......

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Freddy, I did understand your point. I'm making a different one. Some members use the Searchalator, and others (like me) usually use Google, because there's little if anything in the paid forums we ever need to search for. I'm reminding users in that first group that it does matter to members of the other where posts are placed.

I absolutely agree with your other comments about paid/unpaid forums. Unlike almost all other sites we visit regularly, virtually all of AW's value imo is contained in its free forums not the paid ones. Bravo to the admins for that, and imo they could easily get away with combining Super and ATTT into a single paid forum, but archived via Google along with the free ones. JMO.
 
I think the best approach to all this will be to use the radio button selection that the creator of the thread chooses when they click on "create new thread".

Currently the list of possible choices in the public forums are:

<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Vintage/Antique Automatic Washers, Dryers or Dishwashers at least 20 years old or more </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Modern Automatic Washers, Dryers or Dishwashers made less than 20 years ago </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Twin-tub Washers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Wringer Washers </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Ironers, Mangles or Iron Related Products </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Laundry or Dishwasher Detergents or Additives </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Wash-in Parties Invitations and/or Pictures </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Ranges, Stoves, Ovens, Refrigerators, Air Conditioners or Vacuum Cleaners </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Small Appliances </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Cooking Products and recipes </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Any other products for the home or home/automobile related posts </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Website related questions or to report bugs </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Appliance Related Wanted or Items for Sale </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Items you are looking to buy </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">eBay Auctions, Craigslist Ads, Classified Ads of Laundry Related Products </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Items you are selling yourself, non-professionally </span></li>
</ul>

Since Cooking Products and recipes is already a selection, that would work well. Then I could have the a drop down topic list on the index page so users can have a way to show only the threads within a forum that they are looking for. However, like everything else, this will only work if users pick the right selection from the beginning.

Again I am very busy at the moment and wont have time in near-term to get this done, but I will add it to the top of my wanted to ad features add list.
 
Recipes

If and when you all decide to get a recipe box set up, I have a fair collection of old cook books to pull from. Most of them are vintage 30's - 70's, regional or DIY from scratch types. I've got a small book case full and some more in boxes.

It's amazing how different a common, tired old dish tastes when done without the usual over processed, lite, imitation, lo-fat, lo-carb, canned soup type of ingredients. Not to start an elitest food rant or bag on anyone that enjoys that sort of fare, but every time I try a recipe from a magazine or on the web I have always had superior results with a vintage version and fresh whole ingredients.
 
a recipe box could be fun..

Lord knows poor Robert must have his hands full already maintaining the site, but if he should decide to add it, I would love a section just for recipes, I have tried sooo many of the vintage ones people have posted, and have yet to be disappointed, my vintage cook books are starting to get jealous when I log in, lol.
 
*gasp* Unimatic!!!

I must've missed something :-) This looks awesome! So do we just search for the tag we are looking for or how does one manipulate this feature?

*SQUEEEEE* LOL Sorry, I'm kinda giddy over this!

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