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What are the Pub's Positive Patterns?
Paynesgrey:
--- Quote from: iago on June 03, 2010, 07:53:47 PM ---Stop dating the one who hurts me (undirected chats in a general chat area), or swear off humans (the whole forum) all together? The former. :)
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Alexander looked out over his domain and wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.
I look at this straight line, and weep because among all the really saucy lines clawing and screeching to get out of my head, I can't find a single PG-13 one.
Heretic:
Regarding Weird and the like....would it be possible to set up such threads with a very short post life-span? Something like, "All posts over 48 hours old are automatically deleted every night."? This would (I think) be long enough to maintain the sense of community and conversation across time zones, but hopefully short enough to keep things fresh, and to keep the threads from getting too large.
Sorry if this has already been suggested and just won't work.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Heretic on June 03, 2010, 08:32:00 PM ---Regarding Weird and the like....would it be possible to set up such threads with a very short post life-span? Something like, "All posts over 48 hours old are automatically deleted every night."? This would (I think) be long enough to maintain the sense of community and conversation across time zones, but hopefully short enough to keep things fresh, and to keep the threads from getting too large.
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It would however kill the ability to keep conversations going over weekends for people who do not have reliable weekend net access.
iago:
I thought I recalled "Weird..." being a not-Angst thing in terms of its location. But it's definitely where some of the blow-up happened.
The idea of a short lifespan pub (though I agree, 48 hours is way too short) is, at least, intriguing to me. The problem with that, though, is that thread expiration right now (as an automated thing) depends on the concept of topics which are inactive for a period of time. Deleting *some* of the posts out of a topic just isn't in the cards right now.
I *suppose* a different tweak could be done, where a topic within a short-span board gets *locked* once it's 7 days old, or whatever, and then suffers a quick (+7 days more) death thereafter.
While I'm not sold on that as a solution, it *does* sound like I need to suss out a compromise position. I've got a few ideas bubbling. Stay tuned.
meh:
--- Quote from: iago on June 03, 2010, 08:54:53 PM ---The idea of a short lifespan pub (though I agree, 48 hours is way too short) is, at least, intriguing to me. The problem with that, though, is that thread expiration right now (as an automated thing) depends on the concept of topics which are inactive for a period of time. Deleting *some* of the posts out of a topic just isn't in the cards right now.
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How if you have each post in a thread /shorten/ the requisite period of inactivity.
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