I don't know about the coding of it, Jim, but I do know that it already awfully hard just to get people to remember to close tags, much less remembering to specify how white-fonty the tag is to be.
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DXMachina - Feb 22, 2003 3:24:28 pm PST #3146 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
brenda m - Feb 22, 2003 3:25:40 pm PST #3147 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
User-defined whitefont. tags like (a3.5), and if your Angel watching profile isn't up to Season 3 ep 5 it's whitefonted. Is that workable? I don't know. But it would be groovy.
But wouldn't that mean you'd have to tag virtually everything you post to be effective?
Jim - Feb 22, 2003 3:26:48 pm PST #3148 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
No, just stuff about the latest Buffy/Angel episode in non-NAFDA fora. But yeah, close-tagging is an issue.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 22, 2003 3:28:17 pm PST #3149 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
WE ARE BACK!
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PaulJ - Feb 22, 2003 3:28:18 pm PST #3150 of 10000
Actually, I had an idea during the blackout, while reading the posts at WX (I didn't get in because I didn't want to register for Yet Another Board, and also because I was planning to take a break anyway... and see where I am now): a "Skip" link above each post, close to the "Mark", number, etc. ones. This would make it easier for people to easily skip to the next post, if they see that the current one is written be someone they have... erm, issues with.
Basically, it's a t A NAME HTML link, taking you right to the next post. I think it could be a middle ground between the current setup and a full-fledged MARCIE, which some might consider too agressive.
Wait a minute, wasn't there something about now talking about policy until Monday...? Whoops.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 22, 2003 3:30:15 pm PST #3151 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I think it might be massively easier, Paul, on headache and on bandwidth, if people could just scroll.
PaulJ - Feb 22, 2003 3:33:08 pm PST #3152 of 10000
Yes, but that's already an option now, and apparently it's not enough, judging from the petitions for MARCIE.
What I meant wouldn't take bandwidth at all, because they would be relative links: in HTML, the t A NAME links just take you to another point in the page that you have already downloaded.
Rebecca Lizard - Feb 22, 2003 3:38:46 pm PST #3153 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Oh, I get it! Yes. I didn't understand, I thought you had meant loading a new page.
God, this cold medicine is the good shit....
Kat - Feb 22, 2003 4:54:41 pm PST #3154 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita! You rocking goddess you!
Question... how much of a drain on resources is threadsuck? More or less than regular page views?
Are there optimal settings we should have so as not to make it go kerblewy again?
Could someone threadsuck then archive, maybe in batches of 1000 posts in an html format, the closed threads?
DCJensen - Feb 22, 2003 5:36:35 pm PST #3155 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Has WX been closed again?