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Ryn | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 09:01 am  Nice post Flint, I am always impressed with your use of the english language (shoud I have said verbage??), even if you are Canadian - hehe Really, you do a great job of puting things in perspective and I always make it a point ot read the entire post |
Chris | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 09:41 am  Laurie: I started a couple of new topics on this board, back when it was still in its infancy. Only to find a couple days later that someone else started another new topic on the exact same subject. Now I NEVER start a new topic, I just find a topic somewhat similar and put it in there. This starting 100 new topics a day is just idiotic. Some people think every thought out of there head is so important that they have to create a new topic to showcase it. <\rant> |
Pugsrugly | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 09:53 am  I concur Chris, it is so frustrating to see the same conversations in six different threads of the same subject matter. It is an ego trip for posters to start a thread so they can see what happens. I think it should be pointed out to them the appropriate thread their thoughts could be placed or ignored completely to knock their ego down a couple of notches. However, I was cussed at for pointing out the duplicate threads so it is a land mind to do so. I have started a total of ONE thread and that was because I was one of the first George haters and I hade no thread to vent, so "Was George dropped on his head as a child?" was my only one, now there are 6,000 with that same topic. |
Gail | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 10:10 am  It is frustrating to have many duplicate threads. Chris - I don't know if you know this but 80 - 100 new threads a day is pretty much an accurate number (good guess!). (Thursday night - Saturday morning we had well over 200 new topics because of having 6 nominees) The problem gets to be that if the General Discussion folder gets longer then 120 threads, you can't find anything. (Plus, it takes much, much longer to load the pages) We have had quite a few really interesting threads that get buried at the bottom of the list. The past day or so, more and more people have made a real effort to find topics that already exist and we have seen some good meaningful conversations come out of it. |
Pugsrugly | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 10:16 am  Do you think it is a "newby" problem?? I know when I started here I read for about a day and a half before I would even comment - much less start a new thread. And if so, it is hard to educate the "newbies" because everyone views it as a flame to point out when someone starts a duplicate thread. |
Gail | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 10:38 am  Maybe partly newbie, but also more passion, emotions running high and a desire to start posting like crazy. After banishments and nominations, it is like everyone is wanting to all talk at once and threads are getting created at the same time. With 6 nominees, keep in mind you have topics for and against each one. For some reason, George ended up being the prime target Saturday night and no less then 20 "hate/banish" George topics started. Not so many anti other houseguests topics because the TV show has not really made anyone look really bad - borderline on Cassandra and Brit - nothing much on Curtis, Eddie or Josh (Curtis,Josh and Eddie who). It will all change after tomorrow night. I think it will depend on who they show bad on the TV show or who they try to make look bad on live feeds. There are 26 cameras in there, we only see 5 (counting chicken cam) |
Gail | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 10:43 am  I almost forgot . . . another reason there are so many topics is sometimes people start a thread with a comment like "You won't believe this" for Guess what just happened? or something like that. There was a pretty good topic the other day (can't remember which one right now) that was like that that nobody would have guess what it was - so, we ended up having several other topics the same. |
Chris | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 11:45 am  Gail: I don't even look at the topics list any more (too depressing). I use the "New Messages Search". Today I went down the results of that search, responded to the same subject in two topics in a row, opened the third topic, guess what? SAME EXACT SUBJECT. I'm beginning to think that the board would be better setup with FIXED topics, with no choice to create new ones. Even my hard drive doesn't get that fragmented! |
Spaga | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 12:01 pm  Once again, nice post Flint. Good job. Always enjoy your posts. |
Gail | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 01:18 pm  Chris: We have thought of that several times. The only problem is if we had a folder that said Brittany, we would have Brit Haters and Brit lovers duking it out (No, really) Then, what if we had separate Brit Lover and Hater Folders and she had Josh did the wild thing (dream on!) Would that go in the Brit folders or Josh folders. If someone has a good idea, please let us know in the Bugs and suggestions area - me personally, I left AOL because I begged them 3 times to create new topics and when they finally did, it was only two. Again, if you have a way to do it, let me know over in the suggestions area. |
Pugsrugly | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 01:33 pm  How about you have to be on her for two weeks before your able to start a new thread. |
Chris | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 01:39 pm  Gail: I understand. I had thought about the "cons" as well. Just no way to win at this, I guess. |
Gail | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 01:56 pm  Pugs - do you actually think you could go two whole weeks without posting? I know I couldn't! I understand your reasoning though - take a watch and see approach. Most people do that, it's just a few that don't. |
Pugsrugly | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 02:02 pm  I did not mean not post to already existing threads, I said two weeks to have the ability to START A NEW THREAD. Hey the more the merrier on the existing ones! |
Gail | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 02:17 pm  Oh, okay, I see. Good idea but not really do -able. Would have to be done manually. Hopefully, the posters here will settle down to a large group of folders that they will like to keep posting in for a while. |
Moderator | Tuesday, August 29, 2000 - 02:17 pm  Unfortunately the software doesn't have a timer like that in it, Pugs. We'd have to manually police it and, needless to say, there's no time for that! Otherwise, it sounds like a grand idea. (c) |
Laurie | Wednesday, August 30, 2000 - 08:54 pm  Sxysdy: With all due respect, I have read in several threads your advertisement for the website which you are promoting (as listed in this thread and several others). If you had read my post you should have realized I am quite pleased with this website and all of the work the moderators/operators and administrators do. I appreciate their efforts, am content here and do not wish to visit a site where "the inmmates may be running the asylum". This morning I received an email promoting your website. I can only conclude that my name/email address was rousted off one of these threads, as I have never been to the site you have been advertising... and if I wished to go there I would have done so when I read your post. I consider this a misuse of my email address. If you wished to contact me regarding an opinion or issue that would have been appropriate, however I do not believe it proper to be contacted by pulling addresses off this site's threads and emailing them for solicitation for another site. Once again, if I had been interested in your site I would have visited it from the address you have posted here and in many other threads. However, pulling names/emails off of these threads, I do not believe is the proper course of action. You might want to consider requesting the Admin of this site create a link if it is your desire to attract or recruit people. It would be much more respectable than posting advertisements throughout these threads and I believe, people would appreciate that more than a misuse of their email addresses. Kindly, remove my name from your/your site's email list. Thanking you, in advance, for respecting my wishes. |
Admin | Friday, September 01, 2000 - 10:10 pm  Just for the record, I have never used email addresses from this site to promote anything. I have the ability to create an email list of everyone, but have not and will not use it for anything not related to this board. Flint: Thanks, well put! Ryn, Gail, Moderators: Thanks, well put! Everyone else: Bite me! (just kidding!) |
Laurie | Saturday, September 02, 2000 - 08:49 am  Admin, I was not at all referring to you in my post. I addressed the post to Sxysdy, as it was her website from which I received the email. As I have said throughout this thread and others I respect the job you all are doing. I enjoy this site and enjoy the control that is exercised. Again, my sincerest appreciation to you all. |
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