THIS PLACE SUCKS ! ! !

can I go directly to sobbing?



kidding.



I look forward to seeing what the next rounds of changes bring us.





(I think I've liked (eventually) all the changes other than the loss of the photo galleries and I don't think you did that on purpose)

BTW, for those who haven't tried it, the "filter noise" feature is really nice right now for the decryptonite (sp?) flood, which I only noticed when logged out.

Many of the changes we will implement are along those lines, better filtering for a better experience.

I haven't used it in a long time but I noticed previously that the noise filter was too sensitive in that it blocked out things I wanted to see including one of my own threads (harrumph!)

I didn't, the software was hacked repeatedly and we just never had time to replace it. But I still have it and hope to replace it we custom photo code one day and perhaps even restore all the previous photos.

I do not know if photos will make the next rewrite (the sociological and cultural problems are much more important to tackle as are the infrastructure problems), but it's always been part of the plan.

Please give the option of blocking decryptonite !!!!!!!!

I don't think that is possible (but it's been years since I looked at that code and can be wrong) unless you voted the topic down. Anything you vote up should never be filtered for you.

The filtering is certainly not perfect (it's an admittedly crude algorithm) but I don't believe it will allow for that situation. I suspect you might have run into something related to read tracking and the sorting of unread first.

For users without much activity (or certain use patterns) it certainly can be too strong, but it gets better (it is largely based on what forums the topic you tend to vote down or up come from) over time.

To avoid repeating myself:

http://able2know.org/topic/195102-1#post-5063507

I'm not trying to increase your burden here, but i went to my profile and didn't see anything about "filter/noise." I'd like to use the option, if you would just tell me where to find it.

Possibly. It was in the first couple weeks of the new format. Did one's own thread always include a personal thumbs up? Anyway... I haven't had an issue with scrolling past or voting down the few threads that I know I'll never want to see until today's decryptonite invasion.

um...

Filter noise......wah?

How?

Where?

Joe(thankyouplease)Nation

Set - go to New Posts. It's a toggle at the top of the thread listings.

This is exactly my situation.

Thanks. Now i'm curious as to how it decides what is noise, but i'll leave the boy alone.

Each forum (or tag, if you will) has an "add forum" or "remove forum" at the top right in a green link, that is how you can manually override what happens automatically.

What happens automatically, is that each time you vote on a topic, that data is aggregated to the topic tags/forums, so each user has a running score of what forums they tend to like and what they tend to dislike.

For new users and some use patterns there is not much data for the automatic part and not enough forums added at the beginning (which is an easy change we will make in the rewrite, making a default data set to start with) but you can basically go to each forum and pick what you want/don't want included in your filters. The forums you add, and topics you vote up are included, the forums you remove (or that are auto removed based on vote history) are the ones excluded.

There might also be a popularity bust-through figured in to the algorithm, so that it only filters low scoring topics but it's been years since we wrote that and I don't recall the exact details right now.

Cool, thanks for the information. That was a big "Doh!" moment for me, not to have seen that up at the top of the page, but then we tend to assume that we are seeing what we've always seen. Thanks for all your efforts.

And yes, this place really does suck!

And yet you (and 100s of others) come here every day for years and do multiple posts. Logic would say that it must not suck so badly.

That being said, the recent Dekryptonite flood was highly annoying until I just learned how to filter it out.

I think you missed Set's tongue being firmly planted in his cheek.

dooooh!~

apologies

=awesome. Thanks!