Originally Posted by Bix

That is not what my post suggested at all.
Perhaps you might consider reading it again.

But to answer the extreme example you raise if there are that many posters interested in timelines perhaps looking into ways of satisfying their demand in some way would be a wise thing to do.

Your beligerance to the topic suggests you would prefer just to tell them to fark off.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

That was exactly the point. Over the last few weeks the Aus Mods have had to spend hours merging threads asking the same questions over and over again. At one point every single thread on the first page of the Immigration form asked the same question, in different ways - when am i going to get my visa. This then led to a spate of people advising others to send daily PLEs to Case Officers pestering them with with question - they all want to know exactly how long they will have to wait. We have been exceptionally patient, but the point still hasn't got across, hence the start of threads like this - No one can predict the exact timeline of a visa application, so its pointless asking, and pointless sending a PLE to DIAC to ask.

Secondly there was a spate of people trying to create division on the forum by nationality. BE has always followed a policy in the Immi forum of there being a thread for the applications each month. Suddenly people were starting threads that were so specific they were again pointless - such as "Only post on this thread if you are applying for visa type X from country Y during the month of May and you have 18 cats and a budgie." We therefore closed all those threads - we encourage people to post together and not divide applications by nationality.

The other upshot of this deluge of pointless questions and threads was that people with genuine concerns and queries actually stopped posting as their threads were being buried under a bunch of unanswerable enquiries about timelines. By removing and/or merging the senseless repeated questions we have managed to encourage people to return to the forum and are once again seeing sensible questions.

Obviously the PLE system is there for a reason, and a very good one. Its there so that people like Pam can enquire what is happening when there is a problem. It isn't there for people to abuse by sending repeated queries, taking COS from their work and thus slowing everything down. The sad thing is that while these impatient people sit pressing the send button because they can't think of any better way to fill their time,genuine queries like Pam's are getting sumbmerged under the rubble - the same as the genuine questions were in the Immigration forum. The danger is that if the system is abused too much it will be removed and we will find ourselves back in the old days - when you sent off your application and had no way of knowing what was happening until it was returned to you either as a grant or as a rejection.

I hope some of this explains stuff to people

Originally Posted by moneypenny20

accessible to all regardless of who is asking or what is being asked.

Originally Posted by Pollyana

Perhaps I am too busy keeping order in the rest of the forum to look at starting a new one for other people's timelines? If they want one, let them go somewhere and start one.