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meh:
--- Quote from: iago on June 03, 2010, 09:20:43 PM ---Lots.
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Shame. No US board I know of seems to support out-of-sight-out-of-mind type functionality.
snowbank:
--- Quote from: meh on June 03, 2010, 10:16:09 PM ---Shame. No US board I know of seems to support out-of-sight-out-of-mind type functionality.
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Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this out-of-sight-out-of-mind stuff gets dug up and slapped onto Fred's back. That's what he's trying to avoid. I think he wants stuff gone in a more timely fashion, which means threads ideas will get repeated as new people come onto the board. He'll do something to fix it, though. ;D
Shecky:
--- Quote from: meh on June 03, 2010, 10:16:09 PM ---Shame. No US board I know of seems to support out-of-sight-out-of-mind type functionality.
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Well, in the cases Fred's addressed publicly, people were getting their knickers in a knot over stuff that was days (and, I believe in some cases, weeks) old. Having a short-lifespan design could possibly eliminate some of that - give people less stuff to piss themselves off over, and they might behave better. Nothing's ever 100%, though; some folks are just bound and determined to be offended, and some topics are almost automatic button-pushers. Keeping a non-topical subforum open will have to be a balance between blandness and riot. As has been noted by some here, most of the general Mac's threads have a long, long history of being non-riotish, so that gives me more hope that they'd tend to be that way than fear that they'd degenerate into snipsnarksnarl. I think if we have something like that but keep a fairly regular eye on it (and maybe address via PM people who look like they're edging towards the Dark Side), it should work.
Still, that requires modding, and we're short-staffed. *shrug* In the end, there's no way to know other than diving in and finding out.
meh:
--- Quote from: snowbound on June 03, 2010, 10:20:20 PM ---Unless I misunderstand what you are saying, this out-of-sight-out-of-mind stuff gets dug up and slapped onto Fred's back.
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You do misunderstand what I'm saying.
Imagine a board where old threads /cannot/ be bumped to the top by latecomers, but only to the top of the /second/ page in a page list and not at all to the 'unread' list unless its a 'new replies to your posts'.
Imagine a board where private fights in old threads /cannot/ be watched update-by-update by non-involved parties without specifically digging for them at each post.
That is what I mean by out-of-sight-out-of-mind: the automatic elimination of public spectacle and latecomer zombie threads in the non-directed sections of the board. No mods.
Sort of like sageru on 2ch except probably even more aggressive.
El Diablo:
Just tossing this out, but can we have a chat for touchy topics? not in the main link, but a private link? Not public? Sign up to join in?
Board stays clean, chat is private, and well, I can have more fun again? :)
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