Too Much Information!
It's been a while since I posted. I am not sure this is the place to post this - moderators, feel free to relocate it to a more appropriate thread.
I see that 2-2-V-1 is an incredibly important line of inquiry, but it is notable that posts in this thread have been falling off as the thread has grown longer.
One impediment to my own participation has been keeping up with the huge volume (976 posts on this thread alone!) of information, opinion and speculation about 2-2-V-1. This is compounded by the evolving nature of our knowledge - what we though we knew as true a few months ago turns out to be not true, but the discredited "information" remains here forever. And the old information always has equal weight (except temporally) to the better information that should supersede it. It takes a lot of time and mental effort (for me at least) to wade through the old info and finally apprehend our current state of knowledge. Some of us do not have that time, or perhaps our minds do not work in such a way as to make sense of it all. Compounding this problem is that more formal information posted on the site, such as the FAA report or past articles from TIGHAR Tracks, remains unedited and untagged, yet they also often contain incorrect information/interpretation that has since been superseded.
At some point this large amount of information and the way it is organized (or not, actually) becomes an impediment to progress and participation. A significant problem is that subtopics on this thread are all mixed together, and one has to spend considerable effort to find the next iteration on a subtopic, meanwhile (naturally) I get continually distracted and diverted by post on other subtropics.
I wish that there was a way to organize and consolidate 2-2-V-1 information and posts by subtopic (I also wish this could be done for some other major threads). Possible subtopics on this thread would include the rivets, the printing, the possible location of 2-2-V-1 on the plane, alternate sources for 2-2-V-1, history of aircraft construction, whether the rivet lines are straight or tapered, etc. It seems to me that some kind of meta-tagging of each post would help a lot. Perhaps the moderators would consider doing this. If not, I am willing to help - it should be a fairly routine task of cataloging. Of course we would also need a database query tool more sophisticated than the simple search function provided on this site, but I believe that should be fairly simple to implement with well-known and common functions.
Alternately, the moderators could perhaps be more active about limiting threads to a specific line of inquiry and create new branch threads much more frequently.
Struggling to keep up,
Jon Romig