I posted this open thread yesterday because I wanted to ask a question that belonged in an open thread, but the last open thread was only until the date of February 17th. Is there a policy for who posts open threads, or how they’re posted? If there is such a policy, does it go for only open threads, or for other special threads as well?
I noticed that different people post the open threads over the course of weeks or months when I was searching for them. I’m guessing that the policy is that if a given user notices there is no open thread for the week in which they would like to post, after searching for it, they create it themselves.
Thanks for replying, Tenoke. If I create another open thread in the future, I’ll post them in Discussion, and use that tag. When I looked at my computer when I created the post, I thought I saw the date was the 18th. I might have posted it shortly after midnight, so it could have been on the 19th, but then I don’t know why it’s written my post was created in the middle of the day (12:57 p.m.). That is weird. Anyway, thanks again for clarifying.
I posted this open thread yesterday because I wanted to ask a question that belonged in an open thread, but the last open thread was only until the date of February 17th. Is there a policy for who posts open threads, or how they’re posted? If there is such a policy, does it go for only open threads, or for other special threads as well?
I noticed that different people post the open threads over the course of weeks or months when I was searching for them. I’m guessing that the policy is that if a given user notices there is no open thread for the week in which they would like to post, after searching for it, they create it themselves.
No and yes. And I’m sorry but you did it badly (I’m saying this only because you are asking). So for the future:
Open Threads belong in Discussion and not Main.
Open Threads should have the ‘open_thread’ tag.
There is generally no point in calling the Open thread ‘...18-24..’ when you have created it on the 19th.
Thanks for replying, Tenoke. If I create another open thread in the future, I’ll post them in Discussion, and use that tag. When I looked at my computer when I created the post, I thought I saw the date was the 18th. I might have posted it shortly after midnight, so it could have been on the 19th, but then I don’t know why it’s written my post was created in the middle of the day (12:57 p.m.). That is weird. Anyway, thanks again for clarifying.
Time zones?
Yeah, possibly. Anyway, I’ll avoid these mistakes in the future.
I’ve posted some open threads. So far as I know, there’s no policy, just custom.
The closing date on an open thread is an invitation to start a new thread, not a rule against posting to the old thread.