The original content of my post, under this subject header, was about the recent events involving a couple of our well-known and well-liked admins, and apparent accusations of checkuser abuses.
The subject of how to deal with reading and catching up on threads was secondary, although still somewhat related, but nevertheless off the topic. This brought to mind the idea that people might integrate some basic courtesy in posting threads which deviate from the core topic, perhaps just by adding an (OT) in the subject line.
More to the point, condensing excessively long subject headers would be good thing to do, particularly if they have words like "Nazis" and "rape" in them.
-stevertigo
On 9/1/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
On 8/31/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Because in my personal opinion the quality of posts varies per author, not per thread.
Mind you, in practice I still read everything ...
I would call that impressive, but really, it's just mental :)
There are limits! A loooong post from some sender that I don't recognize, and that begins with "Some bastard just blocked me ..." is likely to draw as much of my reading time as the post that I am now answering. :-)
Ec
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On 9/1/07, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
The original content of my post, under this subject header, was about the recent events involving a couple of our well-known and well-liked admins, and apparent accusations of checkuser abuses.
The subject of how to deal with reading and catching up on threads was secondary, although still somewhat related, but nevertheless off the topic. This brought to mind the idea that people might integrate some basic courtesy in posting threads which deviate from the core topic, perhaps just by adding an (OT) in the subject line.
More to the point, condensing excessively long subject headers would be good thing to do, particularly if they have words like "Nazis" and "rape" in them.
-stevertigo
On 9/1/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
On 8/31/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Because in my personal opinion the quality of posts varies per author, not per thread.
Mind you, in practice I still read everything ...
I would call that impressive, but really, it's just mental :)
There are limits! A loooong post from some sender that I don't recognize, and that begins with "Some bastard just blocked me ..." is likely to draw as much of my reading time as the post that I am now answering. :-)
Ec
Yes, off topic notices would be good. I try to remember to change the topics, when I do, but believe I've only succeeded a few times.
KP
On 9/1/07, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
The original content of my post, under this subject header, was about the recent events involving a couple of our well-known and well-liked admins, and apparent accusations of checkuser abuses.
The subject of how to deal with reading and catching up on threads was secondary, although still somewhat related, but nevertheless off the topic. This brought to mind the idea that people might integrate some basic courtesy in posting threads which deviate from the core topic, perhaps just by adding an (OT) in the subject line.
More to the point, condensing excessively long subject headers would be good thing to do, particularly if they have words like "Nazis" and "rape" in them.
-stevertigo
I can see your point, but don't really mind topics straying a little as long as they stay in the same general area as the rest of the thread. I think it's a good thing to let the conversations unfold organically to the things people actually want to talk about. To much fracture in the topics just tends to be confusing, I think (it's not entirely clear to whom you are responding and posts on the same topic go in different threads, etc.) However, that's just a personal preference.
--Oskar