Posted on 07/27/2004 1:11:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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Thanks. In that case, I'll refrain from hitting abuse and reporting duplicate threads.
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.
Cool Charts. In the membership section along with signups you need a chart for "Trolls Zotted"
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).
Bumpity Bump!
Needless vanity.;-)
Holy radioactive zotbait, Batman!
But I'll try and do better....;-)
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!
Is that good? Or... um, nevermind.
But you'll be pleased to know I nailed about a dozen dupes yesterday. :-)
You banned Ann Coulter??
Yeah, um, not touching that one.
Profound.
You have completely missed the point of my post.
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.
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