Hi everybody,
While I appreciate the purpose of this thread as a transition from NSF, I instead encourage people to use the "View the most recent posts on the forum" feature. By using this, you can simultaneously view all the most recent posts throughout the forum. It looks similar to NSF, but is broken up by thread titles.
To access this feature:
(1) enter the main page of the forum (where you see "General Category," "POIS Life Style," etc.).
(2) scroll to the bottom of this page where you will see a heading that reads "Forum Stats"
(3) under this heading, there is a link that reads "view the most recent posts on the forum." click it. you can now view and respond to the most recent posts from one location.
(see attached screen shot if you need additional direction)
Although I think that the "This may seem like a familar place" thread is well-intentioned, I also feel like it detracts from the purpose of the new forum. We don't want a new NSF that's 700 pages long. Let's create individual threads and really use this new forum to its full potential! 
Hi Hoping,
I appreciate very much your input. Poiscenter was formed precisely to try to organize the topics, making it easier not only for POISers but for researchers alike to follow given topics, without them being lost in a long string of posts, maybe never to be seen again.
But we have a mini-crisis right now. We are being restricted more and more at NSF, to the point that it is becoming very difficult to accomplish the very important things we need to accomplish. We need to GET OUT OF THERE, bluntly put. We need an area that is OURs, which this (poiscenter) is. Nobody can tell us what we are allowed to do or say here it is OURS. If someone needs to talk about alternative remedies, the CAN, without being called a jerk.
We also vey much NEED to promote the research campaign, which we can’t do over there.
BUT One problem many POISers have, is directly related to the “disease”. Many of us have attentional deficit, it often requires heavy concentration (for a POISer) to do anything new. A change over, from NSF to HERE is a big deal. So the Familiar Place is an attempt to give them a place to make an easier transition.
We don’t want to get into another 700 page monster either. So one of the extra burdens that Demo and I have is to make an effort to rescue the more relevant ideas with potential and spin them off into separate threads. So, for the time being we need this space.
As Hoping says though, with just a little effort, you can set up your configuration either with RSS or using the new posts link, and try to help us maintain a distributed format, without losing your familiar feel of free flow of thought.
As always, us POISers, once we DO make a change and learn a new way, we usually find it very useful. Ask Demo about his new RSS link??
