@Wilso,
Quote:There's a lot more to life than A2K.
HE"S A WITCH!! BURN HIM!!!
Its probably not his fault, its Global Warming.
@Robert Gentel,
I admit to upcoming the mosted hated folk as a sort of civil disobedience exercise, other than that I rarely vote at all and hate, hate, hate the ignore
@djjd62,
******* spell check, I was sure I disabled it, "upcoming" should obviously be "upthumbing".
@Frank Apisa,
My ignore function is to quick scan a post and move on, I, without aid of any artificial device, completely ignore any post longer than two simple paragraphs.
@Frank Apisa,
Frank Apisa wrote:The regular complaints about votes...the crying...is ridiculous.
On this much we agree, they are meaningless Internet points that will do nothing more than sort posts on an Internet forum. And if people care about them so much they should just say popular things. If I wanted a lot of up votes I'd just stick to saying populist political viewpoints and reap them in.
@Robert Gentel,
Quote: If I wanted a lot of up votes I'd just stick to saying populist political viewpoints
Each to his own, eh? Me, I wouldn't NEVER say nuthin that aint a populist viewpoint.
@layman,
Kittens, pictures of kittens.
Trust me on this one.
@Robert Gentel,
Quote: And if people care about [up votes] so much they should just say popular things. If I wanted a lot of up votes...
That aint really the way it works, though, eh? The onliest real way to see if it's popular is to get down votes. Real peoples don't vote on nuthin. But commies vote every time, and they down vote anything which has the least bit of appeal to the ever-popular notion of "common sense."
@djjd62,
Quote:and hate, hate, hate the ignore
I would have downthumbed this post, except I have you on ignore and didn't see it.
@djjd62,
Quote:I rarely vote at all and hate, hate, hate the ignore
I aint got no problem with the "ignore" feature. It's a necessary crutch for them who aint got no kinda self-control.
But, now, this here "blocking" feature....that aint nuthin but the empowerment of every petty-ass dictator wannabe on the site. And they's a shitload of them.
I use most of the features the site has, in one form or another. Way I see it, others do what they do, with no complaint from me. I do what I do. So there.
I'm very curious to see how threaded conversations will work in practice. I haven't been on a board that used them in some time, and my past experience with them was that we had to follow all the threads to figure out where the interesting/meaningful part of the discussion had gone.
I'm looking forward to the next generation of A2k.
In lieu of a "voting" system, I would like to see the implementation of a time-saving program that would just randomly throw-in pre-selected nouns, adjectives, and adverbs when I make a response to any post I disagree with. My list would certainly include all the time-tested stand-bys such as:
Holy Roller
******* asshole
sneering
straw man
moronic idiot
Well, it might take me a few months to complete the whole list, but y'all get the idea, I'm sure.
I suspect that there may already be such a feature, but aint no one told me about it yet.
@Robert Gentel,
Robert Gentel wrote:
BTW, I wouldn't recommend using ignore for those spammers. First of all we have significantly stemmed the flood of spam this month and that kind of pages and pages of spam thing isn't happening much anymore (and we'll continue to work on fixing it, it was completely out of control)
Also because there will eventually be a limit to how many you can ignore (mainly a technical issue with performance on the future platform) so you will be wasting your valuable block slots on spammers who aren't gonna be let back in anyway.
Perhaps I don't know the definition of "spam" used here, but I think I've seen maybe two or three examples of what I would consider "spam": Posts that are totally unrelated to the subject and are simply attempts to hawk goods or services.
Whatever your'e doing to stop it is working very well.
@Robert Gentel,
Robert Gentel wrote:
Yeah, the good news is that right now while tags essentially define what "forums" topics are in and while such bad metadata destroys forum organization the new system will not rely on tags nearly at all for forum organization and their importance to taxonomy is going to be relegated to near hashtag on twitter status.
The tags are a good example of what should have been a helpful feature corrupted by the pettiness of certain members. Unfortunately, I don't think anything you do can completely counter this unfortunate tendency in some people.
It's like choosing a name for your baby. You have to think "Now how could some asshole distort this to make my kid's life miserable?"
