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!

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.

Can't you just set your # of posts per page to 50 and hit the thread? Or am I being silly?

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.

I maybe-it-could-be-written-more-clearly version of that is on the "Board how-to" page, under "How to Navigate".

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?

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".

Secret message to Miss Lizard. Get on AIM now, or I will say not only "dude" but "dudette"!

How about I do another rewrite on the How-To section, and the FAQ links to it:

Go for it dude.