Wow, I'm amazed that worked the first time, ita.

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I just think the term would add a touch of vulgarity to an otherwise clean design. Plus, forget looking it up in a dictionary to figure out what it means, if English isn't your first language.

If it comes to that, I believe you should be able to just ask someone, Rob. You can't look up "meara" or "Nilly" or "xpost" in a dictionary, either.

I like "threadsuck".

Wrod.

None of the words you mention are part of the user-interface for the board, so I wouldn't apply as high standards for choosing them.

I think we should try to choose words for the interface that don't require a new user to ask what they mean.

Oh, c'mon, it's no more anti-intuitive than the way we use "tagline". And, eventually, we'll have a MARCIE. People are going to have to find out what that means, too.

This is the internet. There are going to be neologisms. "Threadsuck" is a perfectly good term. And if your opposition to it is based on the grounds that a word with "suck" imbedded in it isn't going to be workplace-friendly-- dude, if it's not huge text or in the title bar of your window (as a title of a thread would be), and it's only *imbedded* in the word, I really can't entirely be swayed by that argument.

I think it hurts usability. Browser based interfaces start off at a disadvantage, since they usually don't have things like tooltips or context sensitive help. Picking code-words for the "buttons" just seems to make the board it harder to use.

I'll be arguing against using "MARCIE" anywhere in the user-interface, too, if it comes to it.

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I still don't know quite what a CVS repository does, but I do note that it's finished ahead of schedule. Yay Karl!

And, eventually, we'll have a MARCIE. People are going to have to find out what that means, too.

I also like "Squelch Noisy User Filter." Table Talk had "Evade Noisy User Filter," but I wanna SNUF porn, never ENUF porn.

Threadsucking through the interface is a new feature that WX and TT didn't have. You've probably all discussed how people are going to use it back in "Building an Unlikely City," but I wasn't there. (So I kind of haven't earned the right to be so free with my opinions here, huh. I'm not coding, don't listen to me.) Anyway, if people might want to suck several of their favorite threads daily for a kind of Buffista Digest, you might want a separate page for threadsucking with checkboxes and options. Or if people are going to look at a thread with 1000 messages and think, "I'll suck that for later," then maybe you want the buttons in the Message Center.

Clicking "threadsuck" will take you to a page that asks which post to start from, right? That page will kind of explain it. People won't just be clicking "threadsuck" out of curiosity and getting stuck with a 2000-post download.

I still don't know quite what a CVS repository does, but I do note that it's finished ahead of schedule. Yay Karl!

Not finished just yet. Testing. There will be bugs, permission issues, and other normal shake-out difficulties.

But it looks like we might make the schedule.

Michelle T.'s requests have been added, at a mid-priority. Yay for CVS having and testing!

I also like the idea of SNUF as the name for the filter, and I don't feel that 'threadsuck' is any worse or any more obscure than other internet words. If people feel it's a problem, let's add it to the FAQ, along with all the other obscure words. In fact, it should probably be mentioned in the FAQ anyway.