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by Maarten Goldstein, Mar 14, 2002 5:16pm PSTThe poptarts have been acquired! Maybe when Steve's Hershey ads fail we can always go with poptarts. I won't be posing with one though.
- It's super invisible soldier man. Thanks ninjase.cx. - File trading service Morpheus be changing. - Financial analysts know anything about the stock market? Five year old girls know better. - How can we contact ET. - Hey, tourist space shuttle. - Fast music in car = accidents. Thanks Lynn.Lastly, an update on BT's silly hyperlink lawsuit. Looks like they have little chance of winning.
as you guys have no doubt noticed, i cranked the post rate down. i knew this would be piss people off and they would make comparisons to me burning thousands of jewish people etc. as such i decided to hold off on really getting in to why for the first 24hours as it's not really possible to have a rational conversation with someone who is pissed off in most cases.
the thinking behind it was simple, to slow things down. we're pushing higher numbers of unique users than ever, but next to none of those new users are participating in the ER/FirstPost stuff. yes, the ER/FP stuff is great fun, but it's also less than 1% of our users eating up 90% of our resources. there is no doubt that these guys are valuable and part of the success of the website, but try to take a look at the big picture for a minute.
what if we doubled the number of posters in ER? it would be a mess, even the hardest of hardcore guys would have a tough time keeping up. We've reached a "critical mass" point. the way things are set up now we just cant grow those sections much further. what i want MORE people to be able to share the experience. imagine that.
so, we just dont seem to be adding hardly any new people to the ER/FP crowd. why is that? i ask a lot of people this (probably 40-50) that i know read the page but dont participate, and have been making it a point to ask any readers i know for months. The ONLY response I ever got, "it moves too fast"
of course there's a problem, part of the attraction to a lot of those guys who do participate is the speed at which things move. So now we are stuck with a balancing act. how fast is fast enough?
no matter what i do if it's a change, it's going to alienate someone, and I suspect maybe 5-10 guys will just say "this sucks" and give up. i hate to do that, but i'm just trying to get more people involved. my hope is that we see even more different and unique people get involved. alienating your readers is always a bad thing, no denying that.
these decisions arent easy, and believe me i dont do it just to piss people off. i think the ER/FP stuff is a great environment, and my hope is by just notching the speed down a little bit we can fit a few more people in there.
i suspect things will slow down for a couple of weeks, and by doing so we'll see a few more people who were intimidated by the crazy speed at how things were going perhaps participate.
now before you come up with a suggestion, yes, i can think of a dozen different programming related solutions that would almost certainly work better, but that's currently not an option. the only tools at my disposal are existing filters and post rate. I have been working on "other stuff" in hopes of a better remedy, but i'm working with what i've got for now.
did this decision have anything to do with the alleged "quality" of posting that people have been bitching about? not really no. i imagine a nice side effect will be some twits cant spam quite as fast, but the whole 'poopoohead' scheme i came up with as a programming solution in the future is more intended to address that.
will we hit the same critical mass problem again, but with more users? well yeah probably.. but i'm hoping by that time we've got a better solution than a crappy hack of just cranking down the post rate.
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ugly, but working thread collapse. !
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SHACKTOONS!!]b}y
Episode 10 - Post Rate Limit Revolution
http://people.ku.edu/~elewin/shacktoons/shacktoon10.jpg
see the rest at http://people.ku.edu/~elewin/shacktoons !!
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This doesn't look too small does it?
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and i got first! muahaha!
I already bought the collectors edition, but a full review would be nice.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/computergames/story/0,11500,667942,00.html
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me:
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Conehead! The name is Conehead!
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Steve says the post rate limit was basically something to slow the forums down because they move too fast and it discourages new people from joining conversations.
In that respect, why not make the post rate limit something that is dependant on new, unthreaded posts? ie, replies could be exempt or perhaps subject to a different post rate.
That would allow the fast exchange conversations within one thread, meaning individual threads would grow, but also slow the rate of new threads as the current post rate is doing. With collapsible threads on the way (funk.y?mthread=19233) more replies in existing threads would be easier to hide than lots of threadstarters..
Of course I have no idea how easy something like that is to do.
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She told me last night. "That girl needs a big glass of STFU Juice."
AH HA HAHA HA
that hurt a lot.
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Okay, now I HAVE to play the song.
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hip-hip-hell
STOP, DROP, AND TROLL
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Give me one good reason, other than the fact that the RIAA and MPAA don't want to let me do this, as to why I should not be able to do this.
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http://www.spacemoose.com/strips/time_machine2.htm
TEH MASTAH OF TYME!
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3 whole bananas (preferably overripe / frozen then thawed)
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup butter
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Put bananas in a bowl, and add the sugar and butter. Beat until well blended.
Add the flour, the baking soda and the salt, and mix again until well blended.
Place in bread pan, and cook at 350F for 1 hour.
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