It removes the conversational aspect of the board because you're listening to only one side of the conversation. It turns the board into a Live Journal friends list.
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DXMachina - Nov 09, 2004 11:55:38 am PST #8696 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Wolfram - Nov 09, 2004 12:02:46 pm PST #8697 of 10000
Visilurking
Something like that. It's one of those things that if everyone did it would make this board a pretty cold and inhospitable place. Contrast that to a function like Message Center which filters out threads you don't read, but not posters, and which totally rocks.
brenda m - Nov 09, 2004 12:03:44 pm PST #8698 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
Urgh. I thought Daniel was thinking of using the filter as a sort of jerry-rigged search function, but this I like even less.
Did we ever work out the search bugs, btw? That would be nice to have back, unless it's still problematic.
Jessica - Nov 09, 2004 12:05:55 pm PST #8699 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It removes the conversational aspect of the board because you're listening to only one side of the conversation. It turns the board into a Live Journal friends list.
Yeah. Let's not go there.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2004 12:06:45 pm PST #8700 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's been no additional work done on the search function.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2004 12:11:59 pm PST #8701 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh -- is it worth explaining blinvisible, do you think? I mean, in terms of inches occupied by the explanation?
DXMachina - Nov 09, 2004 12:12:22 pm PST #8702 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I thought Daniel was thinking of using the filter as a sort of jerry-rigged search function, but this I like even less.
I think he was, but for that we'd be better off reinstituting Search. IIRC, we turned off search because we were worried it was causing our problems when we first started having them, that it was chewing up bandwidth. In fact, Search probably wasn't the cause.
We could try reinstating it, maybe setting it up so you could only search one thread at a time.
amych - Nov 09, 2004 12:14:12 pm PST #8703 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
is it worth explaining blinvisible, do you think?
I'm not sure it is -- it's clear from the context what it means, and that it's something that jokey-rhymes with "invisible". Beyond that, I think people will either ignore or ask rather than read the FAQ anyway.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2004 12:15:53 pm PST #8704 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We could try reinstating it, maybe setting it up so you could only search one thread at a time.
Search never made it out of beta, so it's a ways from being ready yet.
DCJensen - Nov 09, 2004 1:52:40 pm PST #8705 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I sometimes don't see in advance the abuses one could use things for. I just thought it would be handy when people were rushed, "I didn't expect the spanish inquisition." Hee.
No really, just didn't think of the negative aspects. Completely missed my radar.