File attachment descriptions

Samuel,

I think that it would be beneficial to forum viewers if there were descriptions provided along with file attachments. The site operators should be able to make this description required or not.

File names are not always descriptive as to the actual content the files contain. A description would be helpful in determining if the file should be downloaded.

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I vote for this suggestion

Thank you ErEf, I appreciate your vote.

I think the text of the message should explain what attachments are.

Yeah it would be the fastest way to find out what it is. Also something should be good if attachment is made a new revision indicator.

Chief,

I fully agree that the body of the post should contain a description of the files attached to the post. However this is not always done.

An example of when this would be nice would be if you had a web site for people to post desktop backgrounds that they have created or collected (just an idea, not something I am doing). Some one starts a thread for space themed, 3D, backgrounds. One of the posts contains three file attachments and the description in the post is “My new space themed 3D background”. That’s all fine and good, but there are three file attachments and the file names are not descriptive. Viewers are not sure if they want only one of the files or if they want all three.

If the person who made the files available to the web site had given a description of each file (The web site admin could have made this mandatory), then the web site viewers would have known that the three files were of the same image but at different resolutions.

File1.jpg
Space themed, 3D background at 800x600

File2.jpg
Space themed, 3D background at 1024x768

File3.jpg
Space themed, 3D background at 1280x1024

This is only an example but I feel that this type of feature would be helpful to both administrators and the web site viewers.

iconic, i see your point, but i don't really think we need more overhead in uploading attachments.