Thread: Inability To Distinguish Hones From Honing

Posting honing questions in the hones forum and vice versa can be annoying. I would also like to say that it can be a common mistake brought on by a member not fully understanding or reading the differences between the two.

I myself posted a thread about king hones recently in the hones forum that turned into a honing thread. It's a very fine line between the two.

Why the two categories aren't merged is beyond me but it is justified, as stated earlier by Glen that those looking for hone information get drowned out by the multitude of honing related topics.

Not being merged and being so similar, only differing by a few letters, we can understand why we see honing posts in the hones forum.

The fact that such an inconsequential thing ruins your day is a bigger issue, and no a mod can't fix that with a pm.

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

Posting honing questions in the hones forum and vice versa can be annoying. I would also like to say that it can be a common mistake brought on by a member not fully understanding or reading the differences between the two.

I myself posted a thread about king hones recently in the hones forum that turned into a honing thread. It's a very fine line between the two.

Why the two categories aren't merged is beyond me but it is justified, as stated earlier by Glen that those looking for hone information get drowned out by the multitude of honing related topics.

Not being merged and being so similar, only differing by a few letters, we can understand why we see honing posts in the hones forum.

The fact that such an inconsequential thing ruins your day is a bigger issue, and no a mod can't fix that with a pm.

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Originally Posted by Utopian

I'm just throwing this out here in case anyone else's day is ruined by the absolute disorder created by this violation of trust created by those who ignore this most basic of social norms.

Originally Posted by S0LITARYS0LDIER

The fact that such an inconsequential thing ruins your day is a bigger issue, and no a mod can't fix that with a pm.

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I like the way it is now with them separated, but whatever the mods/admin decide is cool. Even when the odd thread does get posted in the wrong forum it's not that big a deal. Title usually gives us an idea what it is anyway.

Same thing seems to happen in the Brushes/Brushmakers forums.
Guys do brush builds in the wrong one, it seems.
Oh well. If that is all that is wrong, we are doing great!

I'm with Utopian it bugs me to, seems simple to post in the right place, perhaps a change in the sub-categories description is in order.

Descriptions on all the aforementioned sub-forums seems adequate.

One just needs to read a bit and place their threads in the proper place.

Problem solved!

Originally Posted by Utopian

Obviously I'm a noun.

I could have sworn you're a contraction!

Splitting into hones and honing might not have been a perfect solution, but there are times when there is an unusual amount of buzz around certain honing methods or around certain hones, and this separation helps keep the other subject from getting lost in new posts in the respective forums. I agree with Randy that there's a clear enough difference, but it did look cleaner and simpler when they were combined.