This will be an interesting vote.
Hopefully not in the Chinese sense.
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Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
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Connie Neil - Jul 09, 2004 10:00:06 am PDT #4375 of 10289
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Jon B. - Jul 09, 2004 10:23:44 am PDT #4376 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I just want to bring up one point that I haven't seen addressed.
There are those who have asked why book club devotees can't hold the book club in Literary, and just skip and skim past the posts that are unrelated to the club. I get the impression, perhaps incorrectly, that those asking this question don't see this as much of an inconvenience.
The analogy that comes to my mind is the "MARCIE" user filter. If it's not much of an inconvenience for the book club, then surely it's even less of an inconvenience to skip and skim past posters that annoy you. And yet, few people have said we shouldn't code the user filter because of that. But it's a lot easier to ID and skip past a post by someone you don't like, than to ID and skip past a post with content you don't like.
It's a minor point, but hopefully it will help us understand each other a little better. {{{group hug}}}
Miracleman - Jul 09, 2004 10:36:53 am PDT #4377 of 10289
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
The analogy that comes to my mind is the "MARCIE" user filter. If it's not much of an inconvenience for the book club, then surely it's even less of an inconvenience to skip and skim past posters that annoy you.
I, for one, am not a proponent of the MARCIE filter. I often skip and skim past posters who annoy me and don't find it an inconvenience at all.
IJS.
Jon B. - Jul 09, 2004 10:41:03 am PDT #4378 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
And I respect your consistancy! ;^)
Jessica - Jul 09, 2004 10:43:52 am PDT #4379 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Huh. I feel like there have been a fair number of objections to MARCIE using that exact argument.
Allyson - Jul 09, 2004 10:54:36 am PDT #4380 of 10289
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
How does MARCIE tax resources?
Jessica - Jul 09, 2004 10:57:19 am PDT #4381 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It's an extra table to query every time someone loads a page.
[edit: whoops, I meant table, not database]
Kristen - Jul 09, 2004 11:47:54 am PDT #4382 of 10289
But an extra query uses a fraction of the resources that an extra connection does. My a-p issues have always been that I feel more threads means more posting and more traffic and, in the end, more connections.
That said, if someone wanted to put the MARCIE plan on hiatus until the connections issue is resolved, I wouldn't complain.
Jessica - Jul 09, 2004 11:55:48 am PDT #4383 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oh, I wasn't trying to argue against MARCIE. It's a feature that's been planned since before the board was born, and I don't see any reason to put it on hold.
victor infante - Jul 09, 2004 12:39:02 pm PDT #4384 of 10289
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
This will be an interesting vote.
Hopefully not in the Chinese sense.
I just realized. I'm having an existential crisis. Consequently, I've also realized that the worst thing that could happen with the book club is that in a matter of weeks, people will lose interest.
Funny how it takes monolithic real life headaches to put these things in perspective.