I stand by my poopiness.
Inara: I think she looks adorable. Mal: Yeah, but I never said it.
'Shindig'
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 § - Oct 10, 2002 11:08:05 pm PDT #458 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
P.M. Marc - Oct 10, 2002 11:10:43 pm PDT #459 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I have no bunions, and I stand in the porta-potty with ita on the number companion summary issue.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2002 11:12:37 pm PDT #460 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I have no bunions, and I stand in the porta-potty with ita on the number companion summary issue.
I defy you both! t strikes pose of defiance
I insist on large batches of grumpy East Coasters backing you up before I give up on this entertaining idea.
Noumenon - Oct 10, 2002 11:27:03 pm PDT #461 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I tried Microsoft Word's AutoSummarize on a hundred posts and it did not work. It did a really good job on the Sunday Journal article I tested it on though. Wish there could be a technological solution to Natter. Like maybe your post expires in 30 minutes (or 2 hours, or 24) unless you click "Post" instead of "ComPost."
Jen - Oct 10, 2002 11:29:11 pm PDT #462 of 10001
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Here's one grumpy East Coaster, although I'm not sure I've ever number-slutted so my opinion probably isn't worth much.
That said, if I slut by accident, I'm not going to go back and try to remember what I've read before. I skip and skim with regularity to save time and continue to be employed, and having to recap would defeat that process.
Burrell - Oct 10, 2002 11:38:15 pm PDT #463 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm not down with the summarizing for the simple reason that I cannot be trusted to be able to summarize the previous 100 posts, unless I've just been trying to power through them, in which case I'll be mildly huffy and therefore not wanting to summarize them. But that's just me.
lori - Oct 11, 2002 12:33:01 am PDT #464 of 10001
No on the summaries.
Theodosia - Oct 11, 2002 5:48:56 am PDT #465 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'd be terrible at summarizing because I'm only going to be able to remember the shiny things like discussion of voter turnout and completely forget the discussion of, um consignment shops, et cetera.
Typo Boy - Oct 11, 2002 5:51:35 am PDT #466 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
There is a technological solution to the summaries possible. But, due to the wetware, it would not work.
It would not be that tough to add a new field to the posts table (whatever it may be called) "summary". Anyone who think their post is worth summarizing could simply fill in the summary field which would be short. Summary view would , of course, show only the non-blank summary fields.
The problem is that
A) Most people would not take the trouble to fill in the summary field.
B) Probably those making the most important posts would be least likely.
C) And the summary field would be used for various sorts of jokes, and added snark. So anyone trying acess a summary view would get few summaries and a lot if injokes.
Ultimately, I think we are better off just sticking to skipping and skimming. Summaries run into the human component; as I said it's a wetware problem.
Laura - Oct 11, 2002 6:21:46 am PDT #467 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
When a summary has been requested in the past some poster has provided it without a formal system. Don't think the system is broke.