I agree that threadsuck has a problem in that it's not intuitive, whereas "download" is. But then, I still have no clue what "meara" means when used as a verb.
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Lyra Jane - Dec 31, 2002 7:46:32 am PST #2491 of 10000
Up with the sun
billytea - Dec 31, 2002 7:56:53 am PST #2492 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I agree that threadsuck has a problem in that it's not intuitive, whereas "download" is. But then, I still have no clue what "meara" means when used as a verb.
Goodness. Do mine eyes deceive me, or is there no mention of a meara in the FAQ?
Lyra, a meara (so called after the meara, because of her habit of mearaing, and in recognition of some of her prodigious mearas of yore, and hopefully the rest of this explanation will allow you to map all that back onto English) is a catch-up post containing multiple responses to previous posts. So, for instance, if you come back to the Natter thread to find 300 posts have been made in your absence, you go through them all and have responses to six of them, and you put them all into the same post - that post's a meara. And an accomplishment, which is why they deserve their own brand name.
Jon B. - Dec 31, 2002 8:04:14 am PST #2493 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I've bookmarked your post, billytea. I think it would make a perfect addition to the FAQ as written. I'll add it ASAP.
Lyra Jane - Dec 31, 2002 8:11:16 am PST #2494 of 10000
Up with the sun
a catch-up post containing multiple responses to previous posts.
Got it. Thanks, Billy.
meara - Dec 31, 2002 8:52:01 am PST #2495 of 10000
Hee! Sorry about the confusion!
t does tiny little dance of being in FAQ
Allyson - Jan 01, 2003 12:13:53 pm PST #2496 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Edited to move to the appropriate thread.
Cindy - Jan 01, 2003 12:16:10 pm PST #2497 of 10000
Nobody
Allyson - I think you wanted that in Bureaucracy.
Allyson - Jan 01, 2003 1:30:33 pm PST #2498 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Good call.
§ ita § - Jan 01, 2003 6:39:29 pm PST #2499 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had a thread deleted thought -- not too hard to maintain the links, now that I've had time to ferment.
Deleting a thread -- removes the posts from the posts table and flags the post header (making it invisible in all thread lists, and deleting it from subscriptions and bookmarks). When someone clicks on a link to a vanished thread, it can forward the user to the standard archive thread where an anchor has been placed by the zipped file with the thread ID in it. The forward can automagically generate that anchored link.
Jon B. - Jan 01, 2003 6:42:18 pm PST #2500 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
When someone clicks on a link to a vanished thread, it can forward the user to the standard archive thread where an anchor has been placed by the zipped file with the thread ID in it. The forward can automagically generate that anchored link.
Me likey.