Can one make an anti-proposal? Because I'd like to vote* against ever having anything as utterly idiotic as a "three click rule". Can't even read a perfectly nice TWoP forum without cringing every five minutes.
[*] No, not really.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
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RobertH - Jun 26, 2003 10:37:25 pm PDT #2714 of 10005
Disaffected college student
Lyra Jane - Jun 27, 2003 3:26:18 am PDT #2715 of 10005
Up with the sun
What's a three-click rule?
DXMachina - Jun 27, 2003 4:07:45 am PDT #2716 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Robert, are you talking about this?
This is often referred to as the 'three click rule': which means that any page within a site should be no more than three clicks from the home page.
I'm trying to figure out how it applies.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2003 4:18:15 am PDT #2717 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The three click rule is supposed to be a good thing. TWOP's problem is that reading any article is twenty clicks.
Cindy - Jun 27, 2003 5:14:12 am PDT #2718 of 10005
Nobody
I'm so lost.
Jeff Mejia - Jun 27, 2003 5:51:01 am PDT #2719 of 10005
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
TWOP's problem is that reading any article is twenty clicks.
Yeah, what's up with that? Is it an attempt by TWOP to drive up ad revenue by increasing the number of page hits (more pages/article=more page views), or does it help balance the load on the server?
BTW, I thought that we are always just one click away from the home page anywhere in the site here, since the "Buffistas Home" link is at the top of the page.
RobertH - Jun 27, 2003 4:26:23 pm PDT #2720 of 10005
Disaffected college student
No, the "three click rule", as it applies to (some of) the TWoP forums, is that one should not compose a message so long that it requires more than three clicks on the scroll bar in the composition box to go from one end of it to the other.
Put simply, it's a rule that says long posts (and five reasonably hefty paragraphs qualifies as a long post) are bad. Period.
DXMachina - Jun 27, 2003 4:30:16 pm PDT #2721 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I guarantee you that will never happen here. It would be kind of a he/she who is without sin casting the first proposal, and you'd never be able to find anyone round these parts terse enough to do it...
Sean K - Jun 27, 2003 4:49:19 pm PDT #2722 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
That's not to mention the fact that there is nothing even remotely approaching uniformity in monitor sizes, display resolutions, text sizes and personal browesr style settings.
There is no possible way of determining how much text constitutes three clicks.
What a stupid rule. How do they enforce it?
DXMachina - Jun 27, 2003 4:56:50 pm PDT #2723 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
What a stupid rule. How do they enforce it?
They're a lot stricter over there. Also, more capricious. Our own jengod managed to get banned. Their loss...