And Angel is UnAmerican for Buffy, right?
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2003 12:01:31 pm PST #2747 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph L. - Jan 10, 2003 12:06:12 pm PST #2748 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Well, yeah. He's originally from Ireland, y'see...
t /Natter
t runs away
Katie M - Jan 10, 2003 12:20:34 pm PST #2749 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
And Angel is UnAmerican for Buffy, right?
Right. Etc., etc. I assume we apply this to all shows, so we don't talk about S4 Farscape in Angel without whitefont, for instance.
Well, yeah. He's originally from Ireland, y'see...
t /Natter
t runs away
Come back! I snickered!
John H - Jan 10, 2003 2:03:39 pm PST #2750 of 10001
Dudes, I am so proud to have made it into the FAQ with my own entry, but I feel we probably need an explanation of exactly how to read the last fifty posts of Natter (or indeed any other thread). I remember someone wondering how it was done.
- Look at any post. It'll be marked #1234 of 4567 or whatever.
- The 4567 part is the total number in the thread
- Now look up at the browser's URL bar. You'll see that your current URL ends in something like showthread.php?thread_id=25&post_id=1219 -- to leap directly to the point fifty from the end of the thread, you replace the number after post_id= with the number you want (in this example, 4517, because that's 4567 minus 50), and hit Enter.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 10, 2003 2:05:17 pm PST #2751 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Can't you just set your # of posts per page to 50 and hit the thread? Or am I being silly?
John H - Jan 10, 2003 2:08:58 pm PST #2752 of 10001
Can't you just set your # of posts per page to 50 and hit the thread?
Er, not as you've written it there. Did you mean, set it to fifty, hit the thread, then hit "Last" or "Return"?
I'm not sure what those commands do.
But anyway, my way doesn't involve waiting for any pages to load, or cleaning up afterward. It's also useful if you want to skip and skim in lots of 100 posts or whatever.
You can say "2,000 posts of Natter! Let's dip into it 500 posts in. Skip ahead a thousand. Skip back a hundred" or whatever.
Jon B. - Jan 10, 2003 2:28:36 pm PST #2753 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I maybe-it-could-be-written-more-clearly version of that is on the "Board how-to" page, under "How to Navigate".
John H - Jan 10, 2003 2:35:28 pm PST #2754 of 10001
So it is. And yes, is probably could be written a little more clearly. It's technically incorrect as well, because it says if your URL ends in 123, you're viewing post 123 at the moment, when strictly you're viewing the page that begins with post 123. Minor point though.
How about I do another rewrite on the How-To section, and the FAQ links to it: "for how to leap around threads, moving 1000 posts in a single bound, or skipping to the point exactly 50 from the end, see the How-To page" or similar?
John H - Jan 10, 2003 2:35:40 pm PST #2755 of 10001
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 10, 2003 2:44:50 pm PST #2756 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I have nothing productive to add to this discussion. I will say, however, that I love you, John, but it's incredibly disturbing when you say "dudes".