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• i was thinking about this earlier, it's probably the best system i've ever used. stuff like Disqus can di... : Veegeezee
• I can't even stand a forum like teamliquid.net, and that's pretty minimal. : givemesnacks
• yea, one of the reasons I hate looking outside of the shack for damn near anything. Huge forum signature... : dedgecko
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  Gawker blogs / Youtube both have terrible commenting systems. I like chatting here because it's like Sla... : jingletard
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    When do we get a rating system so we can bury Boring Writer's posts? : hussdelrio
    • (-1 offtopic) : jingletard
    • Please no. : givemesnacks
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  You know what is the worst? Fucking yahoo groups. Ugh. : Code RedBeard
  • Ugh. :( : davantalus
• 4chan. : Techy007
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  This system would not work for most sites. It barely works for shack. In fact, shack works around the system and it is a really poor situation. I've posted about this in detail before.

  May 21, 2010 3:39pm PDT
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  This system would not work for most sites. It barely works for shack. In fact, shack works around the sys... : haiku
  • You have 32K posts, you've probably posted regarding just about everything! : hussdelrio
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    you should post more about your crazy asian neighbor : hobosapien
    • agreed. : beastrabban
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      She recently had an adorable little baby!! I can hold him without him crying, but he will cry for anyone ... : haiku
      • Baby loves her daddy. : ThomW
  • Gamefly should overnight you a check : porp
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    What would you build? I assume it would be something other than a standard forum design. : Halen
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      http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=21617208#itemanchor_21617208 : porp
      • I thought about that automagic chat thread creation. It would be convenient if it rolled over day at 7am... : jingletard
      • Oh yeah, I remember this post. Most of that is about fixing the shacknews implementation of this syste... : Halen
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        I would LOVE that system. Seriously, someone please pay Haiku to do this. : Ecks
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          somebody pay him to make a design for me and I might : Clay
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            turn it back on clay : ninjase
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              actually bunch of haiku's ideas look like they were stolen from an irc discussion i had with nixxed and i... : Clay
              • that piece of shit, let's all burn haiku in effigy. : ejectorpod
      • make this happen haiku! : datoo
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        Making news threads automatically make a post in the chatty makes sense, but don't like removing FP/ER an... : sanchez
        • They could just post a new thread in the comments. Having FP/ER posts doesn't really fit with the rest of... : Dave-A
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        The entire day's chatty would be a single thread? That would be horrible. : CRasterImage
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          No, there's a new chat thingie every day, with multiple threads as there are now. : Dave-A
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            Ya, that is probably what he meant. But that isn't what he wrote. "There is one comments thread per day : CRasterImage
            • this is exactly what i mean when i say i like the system, thank you. haiku's points are fair too of cours... : Veegeezee
      • So it's really more of a problem with the inefficiency of how this system is implemented, not the system/... : givemesnacks
      • That's actually brilliant and should happen. : deveus1
      • I've been thinking about this problem too. What about a perpetual chatty that never gets refreshed, ev... : ventro
  • It's far superior to a "forum style" system though : ninjase
• I like it due to the fact you can see a reaction to a post without going through 10 more pages of unrelat... : GeneralTragg
• The one thing I wish the Shack had was an ability to sticky particularly interesting or important threads... : Modica Sol Solis
• Tech Report : bipolar
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  IMO it gets some getting used to, especially in enormous threads, but it sure is clean and concise. I wo... : caveatemptor
  • it has that, search Parent Author: caveatemptor You can even make a link to the search to check befo... : Sovos
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  reddit is somewhat similar to the shack - nested comments, no avatars, no signatures, no images, minimal ... : rock elf
  • and flip sarcastic responses : r_Ed
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  reddit.com commenting system is pretty good. It can deal with huge threads pretty well. : senseimoron
  • No it doesn't. It wastes, at best, twice as much space as the shack. That is only if all the replies ar... : CRasterImage
  • Not really, i've found it to be very cumbersome trying to follow replies around. The brilliance of the sh... : ventro
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  i don't understand why when i first show people the site they're like "i don't get it. it's too confusin... : davislovestacobell
  • People like sigs? I dunno, I've posted lots of other places, and at most had a sig that was my posting... : Vincent Grayson
  • If they want a sig, they need to become Shacker of the Year. : ecclesio
• I do quite enjoy the shack system, and it's fairly unique in my eyes and works real well here. Like peop... : Navy Spitfire