And now we even have featured conversations for this forum.....from 2015.....

https://www.gardenweb.com/discussions/cooking

Here is Cooking, be sure to put it in the ”your topics” list

[Cooking forum[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/home-and-garden-discussions-dsbr1-bd~g_319)

Oh and today the topics are all back to "normal". I guess yesterday was a website update in progress day.

If people keep posting a topic to multiple forums, the cooking forum will be here in a matter of time. ;)

Ya, I don't like that multi-forum posting thing either.

Confession - I cross-posted today. So, this is a bad thing? I am sorry. Please educate me why? I posted yesterday on kitchens and got no replies. So I reposted today and did it with a crosspost.

Is it preferred that I post over on kitchens and then do a separate post here with a link? (I did that last time.)

I am starting a new, really big, project, and I need my GW friends to help me. Pretty please.

Visualize grovelling.

FWIW, I don't think it's a bad thing to post a topic in multiple forums if it can fit into each category.

Unfortunately, we can't account for other people's poor judgement or lack of tech savvy - or even 'fat fingers'.

I don't see any point in letting it bother me, though.

Localeater, there are definitely exceptions, I've done the same. I think mine was about a flower I was growing last summer and the only replies I got were from here, but we talk about our summer gardens every year, which I consider "conversation."

Everybody's welcome to post here, but I like the small community feeling we have. When someone does a cross post about decorating and the "Pro's" join in, it takes away from the purpose of conversations and puts it back to decor because others start doing the same.

Normally it didn't bother me, but it's happening quite a bit now. This is me being selfish, lol, but I rarely visit the decor side anymore, so it's disheartening to find a lot of decor talk on the conversation board.

Unless it's about what cat bed would match the room? :)

^^^Bingo, oakley - you said exactly what;s on my mind. I feel a bit 'selfish' about it as well but there it is. The sense of 'privacy' within our small conversation community is disappearing and of course I know that was a very false sense of security even before Houzz - we were open to unknown lurkers forever. The cross posting that includes the conversation forum has made us more visible to people that never knew we existed before - which would not always be a bad thing except..... because we have Decorating in our forum name, people think this is just yet another place to ask about drapes or paint color. And yet I find it perfectly ok when familiar names pop in with a question about drapes or paint color of furniture arranging. That's not a particularly flattering admission on my part so think of me what you will.

localeater I too have some pending decorating posts to make and planned to ask here when I'm ready. I'll probably also post on the 'real' decorating side but as a separate, not cross post. It will mean following 2 threads but since I don't expect either one to become a hundreds+ topic, I'll deal with it.

3katz that's a great way of putting it - distracting nuisance - and again it's because we have Decorating in our forum title and new people don't know the basis for this forum.

I do love our little corner, and want to help keep it pristine. I have been visiting the the several of the other forums lately because of my project and it is a bit disheartening. I will do separate posts going forward. Thanks all for your advice!