State of the Boards
by Tally Ho · in ThinkTanks · 10/11/2003 (11:28 pm) · 7 replies
The influx of meaningless posts by people who should be restricted keyboard access is dragging down the boards. Please:
1. Try to think about what you are saying before you write it.
2. Do not repeat nagging questions, answers to which you could probably find yourself.
3. Do not act like a pest.
4. Try and be relatively mature.
5. Do not bother people by microscoping in on parts of their posts you find bothersome, like spelling or some other tangent. noone is here for that. if you reply to a post that someone clearly put some time and thought in to, respect them by acknowledging such with at least a similar degree of it.
6. Do not deride people for contributing. Reply to their argument, not to their person.
7. Nobody cares how _______________ you are, wherein ______________=self-love. The more satisfying compliments in one's life come from others.
.crank.
1. Try to think about what you are saying before you write it.
2. Do not repeat nagging questions, answers to which you could probably find yourself.
3. Do not act like a pest.
4. Try and be relatively mature.
5. Do not bother people by microscoping in on parts of their posts you find bothersome, like spelling or some other tangent. noone is here for that. if you reply to a post that someone clearly put some time and thought in to, respect them by acknowledging such with at least a similar degree of it.
6. Do not deride people for contributing. Reply to their argument, not to their person.
7. Nobody cares how _______________ you are, wherein ______________=self-love. The more satisfying compliments in one's life come from others.
.crank.
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#2
10/12/2003 (8:58 am)
I am with you. Thank you for you'r "state of the union (board) adress" they should become a weekly tradition. THIS REALLY IS GOING DOWNHILL. Thanks to UFO requests, Fp, turned Nate's League happiness, and SC's.
#3
Sorry.
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10/12/2003 (11:33 am)
Hmm. From past discussions it seems like especially 4, 5, 6, and 7 were written with me in mind. Oh well. I'll try to shape up, tal. Just FYI, I have stopped correcting spelling and grammar (5), have apologized about my mean post on slugthog's thread and won't do it again (6), and I know that the best compliments don't come from yourself, tal, I don't think I have been bragging or anything (7). As for number four, that is going to be hard. I try my best to be mature, but as a twelve-year-old it will never really be easy. A kid is a kid.Sorry.
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#7
Laziness being the dominate human attitude, I doubt that most readers look back more than one or two pages for a thread therefore they just begin a new thread.
This board was created with developers in mind and the popularity of TTanks has generated a posting rate which is outside its design limits.
Perhaps we should create an thread titled, "Your mother does not live here. Please clean up after yourself." and keep it as the most current.
Maybe I'll do that.
Deleting a thread is not instantaneous nor apparently trivial. Java submits a request to the moderator. Since this board is unmoderated I have some question where that request is delivered. If nowhere then cleaning the board is going to be problematical to say the least.
slugthog the curious
10/12/2003 (2:55 pm)
I suspect there are so many bobtail threads because threads are sorted with the most current to the top. If a reader has his options set to show only twenty threads then earlier threads are sorted to previous pages.Laziness being the dominate human attitude, I doubt that most readers look back more than one or two pages for a thread therefore they just begin a new thread.
This board was created with developers in mind and the popularity of TTanks has generated a posting rate which is outside its design limits.
Perhaps we should create an thread titled, "Your mother does not live here. Please clean up after yourself." and keep it as the most current.
Maybe I'll do that.
Deleting a thread is not instantaneous nor apparently trivial. Java submits a request to the moderator. Since this board is unmoderated I have some question where that request is delivered. If nowhere then cleaning the board is going to be problematical to say the least.
slugthog the curious
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