Single side bevel edge sharper than double bevel edge?

[grepper]

Grepper,

Thanks for starting a new topic with this. I prefer many more focused topics to a few catch alls. Someday, the newbies and searchers of the future will thank you. Good moderating!

Ken

Yeah, that sure is how it goes with forums.  Conversation naturally ebbs and flows in various directions and soon threads bloat, end up having nothing to do with the beginning subject, and as you noted make it very difficult to ferret out information when reading a thread or doing a search.

An excellent example is: http://bessex.com/forum/showthread.php?t...78#pid1278 


That valuable info should be in the BESS or Edge Sharpness Testing forum, but is now buried in the All About Edges forum in a post called 150 gf sharpness.

I've seen stuff like that in many different sites, and good forum design can be ameliorative.  Too few or badly named forums leads to forum bloat and badly categorized threads.  Too many forums is just plain confusing and leads to the same issues.  I'm sure that good forum design can be a real hair pulling freak show.  I think the answer is not static, and that site design must be metamorphic and evolve with the forum as it grows and changes.

I guess it's up to us posters to try and control thread bloat as best we can, and start new threads when applicable as well as to provide useful feedback and suggestions to forum admins.  Sometimes however, conversational ebb and flow is just unavoidable and seems inherent in the nature of the beast.