What's a three-click rule?

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.

The three click rule is supposed to be a good thing. TWOP's problem is that reading any article is twenty clicks.

I'm so lost.

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.

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.

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...

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?

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...

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.

Oh dear me - there's yet another reason to deleted that site from my favorites list. There's no hope for me there if there's that sort of 3 click rule for posts. Heh.

I semi-lurk at their Six Feet Under forum, and after the SFU finale, I posted once or twice. They have a thread entitled Marry Me Aaron, which is for throwing roses at the recapper. (He deserves it, and is currently the only TWoP recapper who doesn't set my teeth on edge.) Anyhow, in my post, which was 99% glowing and all You-got-me-back-into-the-show cakes, I mentioned that Aaron's f-count (how many times they use the f word in an episode) was off. I did it in a funny (I thought) way, making fun of myself, with mentions of my own pedantry, etc., mostly because I was trying to offset the cloy-osity of the rest of my praise-filled post.

I went back to see if it got any response, and unless I'm mistaken, Sars deleted it and inserted her own post saying take corrections and criticisms to email. They're so drunk with power they don't know glowing reviews peppered with jokes when they see them. It's highly entertaining (if you find hypocrisy entertaining) considering how snarkolicious most of their recaps are.

They're a lot stricter over there. Also, more capricious. Our own jengod managed to get banned. Their loss...

WROD, DX. They recently banned a lovely Bronzer (intelligent, not a flamer in the least) because she apparently used 'um' in a post. They're ridiculous. Now why am I talking about this in Bureau?

Erm... Ummm...

I move that we shower our stompies, techies (and ourselves), with all the love, affection and appreciation we can muster, and then just a little more, because even when things suck here, they're better than anywhere else on the 'net. t /shameless suck-up