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
John, I didn't understand half the things you just said, but thanks (for the other half.)
From a coding point of view, it's aesthetically sloppy. Right now, they appear in the order of creation. They could appear alphabetical or in most-recently-posted-in order -- basically anything that's sortable. Forcing threads to appear in a specific order means you have to hardcode in the thread id's which is badbadbad.
Can you just trick the order of creation into thinking Voting Discussion came before BBaBB? And has this now become a BBaBB question, because I am so not qualified to post in there?
Can you just trick the order of creation into thinking Voting Discussion came before BBaBB? And has this now become a BBaBB question, because I am so not qualified to post in there?
It is a BBaBB question, but anyone is qualified to post in there. Honest. "The order of creation" is also known as the thread ID. If you look in the URL of this page, you'll see a piece that reads "thread_id=25". To "trick the order of creation" we'd have to change that number and that is NOT something we want to do. Trust me. ;)
In honor of the discussion being held there right now, I propose that Lightbulb be given the thread number 24½.
John, I didn't understand half the things you just said, but thanks (for the other half.)
t straight-quotes evangelist
Wolfram, dude, you're writing your posts in some word-processing program that automatically replaces all the quotation marks or apostrophes you type (", ') with the special-character "smart quotes", which curl around the word instead of being straight. You can see it in the I've here:
I doubt I’ve
Thing is, these often translate very, very badly to the internet. Especially in plain-text email. If you don't know what they are, (forgive me for making the assumption) you probably will not miss them gone from your documents; go to your word-processing program's preferences (in Microsoft Word, it's under the Tools menu, in AutoCorrect, the AutoFormat As You Type tab) and turn them off and you'll never have to worry about your posts looking odd on the internet.
This has been a moment of internet-typography evangelism. We now return you to your normally-scheduled, unhijacked thread.
Wolfram, I think he's saying you're bent! Durned furriners.
Wish I could get bent. Damnit.
I said BENT, not another word that sounds similar but has an a instead of an e! No, wait! AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
What were we talking about?
Oh, well. My apologies to everyone I unintentionally offended. Everyone I meant to offend, piss off.
John is correct and funny. From now on I'm going to call Wolfram 'Tungsten'. Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
This content free post is brought to you by the letter
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Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
If there's a Joss, there is.
This content free post is brought to you by the letter W and the number 74 and a crippling lack of sleep.
Snerk!
Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
If there is, I've never seen it.
Ah, periodic table humour - is there a better kind?
Well, they do say timing is everything.
Timing... periodic... get it? You see, it's the
periodic
table and--
Um. Yeah. Shutting up now.
