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ps. I think the cultural war is more like a national stage version of the Stanford experiment meets Fear Factor - Just how far will our contestants cheer authoritarianism and propaganda * so long as it's on their side.?* Let's find out!
JackRiddler » Sun May 13, 2018 10:52 pm wrote:Then again, some people could actually respond to the popular-among-members demands, to stop flooding the board with new threads on old topics and stop repeating the same copy-pastes.
JackRiddler » Sun May 13, 2018 10:52 pm wrote:Generally: Hide thread would do wonders. Ignore just doesn't go far enough.
-- said "alloneword".I guess the 'max characters per post' setting in 'post settings' is currently set to 'unlimited'... most boards set a limit, I always thought it odd that there was no limit here, but can fully understand why that might be.
liminalOyster » Sun May 13, 2018 5:56 pm wrote:Please drop "Current Events" at least below GD. From a design (and ergonomic) standpoint, it's poor form to add new content piecemeal (IOW outside of a thought-through redesign) and esp to replace long-existing links with others in their same place.
stillrobertpaulsen » Mon May 14, 2018 10:56 am wrote:liminalOyster » Sun May 13, 2018 5:56 pm wrote:Please drop "Current Events" at least below GD. From a design (and ergonomic) standpoint, it's poor form to add new content piecemeal (IOW outside of a thought-through redesign) and esp to replace long-existing links with others in their same place.
Sorry, but I am personally giving that request a hard NO. This is a brand new forum that I think needs as a big of a spotlight as possible to give it every opportunity for success. I appreciate the fact that Jeff placed it that way.
RocketMan wrote:Discussion on parapolitics, the paranormal and parapsychology not so much.
minime wrote:The current layout most closely matches literary and journalistic format. Headline/lead (Current Events), story/analysis (General Discussion), backstory/detail (Data and Research), with the feuilleton (Lounge) at the bottom. It'll grow on you. JMO.
StillRobertPaulsen wrote:Sorry, but I am personally giving that request a hard NO. This is a brand new forum that I think needs as a big of a spotlight as possible to give it every opportunity for success.
liminalOyster » Mon May 14, 2018 12:38 pm wrote:StillRobertPaulsen wrote:Sorry, but I am personally giving that request a hard NO. This is a brand new forum that I think needs as a big of a spotlight as possible to give it every opportunity for success.
I understand your logic. But its the same or similar logic that I've periodically seen lead to user-base disasters.
From a purely functional perspective and an previous life in web design - it is essentially always bad form to suddenly shift page real estate to promote something "new," no matter how noble or exciting it may be to you. It is essentially always best form to build critical mass and acceptance and make a shift like that after announcing it in advance. This has been Google's protocol for almost two decades.Pushing stuff on people to promote it always seems to offend sensibilities no matter how subtly.
Given that this forum has been running for over a decade, there's a very ingrained basic physical habit to clicking in the same place on visit. Messing that up is exactly the kind of thing that drives users crazy and provokes ire, more of which is most likely not needed around here . And its almost always done in the name of thinking that the change will help "promote" something new and important. See years of failed Kinja redesigns and/or the level of ire the new Reddit desing is generating.
2c only.
JackRiddler » Mon May 14, 2018 4:27 pm wrote:And it's not working.
stillrobertpaulsen » Mon May 14, 2018 8:27 pm wrote:Please delete this, Rocket Man. I specifically locked a previous OP that engaged in this kind of baiting, but your post is worse, especially with that loaded question.
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