Morning Discussion

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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 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
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    Not really, i've found it to be very cumbersome trying to follow replies around. The brilliance of the shack is how it collapses replies down so you can see the superstructure of the thread and then drill down into the content.

    May 22, 2010 9:11pm PDT
    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