Way too many duplicates and vanities. Please read - again. (Welcome Newbies)

Volume 3 ^ | 7-27-04 | AM

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thanks. In that case, I'll refrain from hitting abuse and reporting duplicate threads.

[snopercod]

...can you imagine the havock that trolls could have caused?

I don't have to. I was here when they used to blank out entire threads with clever HTML tags. We used to have to put about 20 or thirty </font> or </span> tags in each post to turn off whatever they had done.

It was wild and wolly back then, and kinda' fun. But the new focus software is much better for serious conversation.

[VRWCmember]

Cool Charts. In the membership section along with signups you need a chart for "Trolls Zotted"

[Yardstick]

Oh yes, the auto hyperlink feature -- that's one of my favorite upgrades to FR. Before that, it'd take me half an hour just to get a link up and running. Now you just type it and go. Probably been that way for a year (guessing).

[Admin Moderator]

Keywords are for your personal use. Searching them for duplicate articles is fruitless, as you mentioned earlier, in post #66

[Maigrey]

Bumpity Bump!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Needless vanity.;-)

[theophilusscribe]

Holy radioactive zotbait, Batman!

[TomServo]

It's tough home-schooling myself, building a new house and being a dupe-post Nazi.

But I'll try and do better....;-)

[Tarantulas]

Back in the bare-knuckle days, we didn't have these fancy ones and zeroes to program with. We used the letter "o."

And we were thankful for it!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

All you newbies pay attention and follow the rules! Or you'll find yourself living in a van down by the river...eating Government cheese!

[ShadowDancer]

Here, munch on one of these while I get you a tissue.

[glock rocks]

You are up to 1,253 points.

Is that good? Or... um, nevermind.

[TomServo]

LOL!!!! oh you......;-)

But you'll be pleased to know I nailed about a dozen dupes yesterday. :-)

[glock rocks]

we had a ton of "ann coulter was banned" threads.

You banned Ann Coulter??

[ShadowDancer]

But you'll be pleased to know I nailed about a dozen dupes yesterday.

Yeah, um, not touching that one.

[unixfox]

Maybe a link at the top of the page labeled NEW USERS might help. Just a suggestion.

[JBassett]

Profound.

[Scutter]

You have completely missed the point of my post.

[Scutter]

We generally use a 4 hour rule for duplicates, unless a thread is overkill, ie, "Terror in the skies, again". If a thread is posted over 4 hours, we usually let it go. If it's a breaking news item, in the breaking news sidebar, we pull it because it's still in the first couple positions in the breaking news sidebar. What we're trying to do is eliminate multiple posts within an hour or two. Today for example, we had a ton of "ann coulter was banned" threads. When a simple search for 'coulter' would have turned up hits.

I understand, and that seems like a reasonable rule. I just feel like the site is not as useful as a breaking news tracker as it used to be (I've been here as a lurker since 1998). What we really need is the ability for an author to append to his original post.