why are u even limiting how short and long our posts can be? It seems like a control-ist thing to do. Kinda like R.A.T.S,. A secret forum for a
de-info websie? A website dedicated to release info and discuss, and here u are making a forum to hide info.
New Minimum Character Count For Replies., page 7
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reply posted on 12-4-2009 @ 04:58 PM by cranberrydork
In short, the user generated crap which dominates the system costs money to host and serve, but doesn't offer much of a return in monetization. But it seems to me that this is just the problem of too much crap on a lot of these "social network" driven websites where sorting for quality hasn't been well thought out.
the above is from a blog post that links to a larger article here
how serendipitous that I would stumble across this
reply posted on 12-4-2009 @ 05:13 PM by Vector J
reply to post by scooterstrats
Its a valid point that it being a low day, there arne't that many mods around, but hey, SO was on 19 mins ago apparently, but he hasn't come back to comment on the thread. I'm sure that given the points made in this thread that a concensus is being mounted in mod/admin county of what to do and we'll here back when they've made a descision. Or something like that...
Its a valid point that it being a low day, there arne't that many mods around, but hey, SO was on 19 mins ago apparently, but he hasn't come back to comment on the thread. I'm sure that given the points made in this thread that a concensus is being mounted in mod/admin county of what to do and we'll here back when they've made a descision. Or something like that...
reply posted on 12-4-2009 @ 05:14 PM by roadgravel
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by AntiConspirator
You are not supposed to use any character of your choice to fill the space, like you did with the spaces, you can be penalised for it.
As the above explanation was done in 20 characters less than the minimum, I had to add this.
What is the difference in your post and his? Both used a filler.
Will the T&C define what is deemed 'filling a post'? Is the same character repeated more than twice in sequence a violation but a filler phase is not. Very much like the 'second line' method previously used.
I was only required to have 75 characters since I used a quote and did not alter it. (quote bonus, no penalty since I did not change it).
reply posted on 12-4-2009 @ 05:27 PM by Ant4AU
reply to post by Comatose
That's is a good idea in theory but that could easily be abused by members. Skeptics could mark believers threads as useless and the other way around.
Not trying to be a smarty pants, here but that reply answered his question directly to the point and I still needed 11 characters to post. This is the problem that the members are having with the new system.
That's is a good idea in theory but that could easily be abused by members. Skeptics could mark believers threads as useless and the other way around.
Not trying to be a smarty pants, here but that reply answered his question directly to the point and I still needed 11 characters to post. This is the problem that the members are having with the new system.
reply posted on 12-4-2009 @ 05:34 PM by Comatose
reply to post by Ant4AU
Even if people abuse it, you'd still be able to display the hidden post and vote the score up if you do think it's actually useful.
Obviously if the poster thinks there's abuse, he/she will say something about it which will result in people viewing the post and possibly rating it back up.
I think abuse would be easy to identify/rectify and probably less problematic than this character requirement stuff.
Even if people abuse it, you'd still be able to display the hidden post and vote the score up if you do think it's actually useful.
Obviously if the poster thinks there's abuse, he/she will say something about it which will result in people viewing the post and possibly rating it back up.
I think abuse would be easy to identify/rectify and probably less problematic than this character requirement stuff.
reply posted on 12-4-2009 @ 05:37 PM by Comatose
reply to post by RubberBaron
Maybe posts that reach the vote threshold can be submitted to administrators for 'approval' ? That could help with admin work load, since they won't have to read over each little post and decide whether it contributes or not.
Then again, it might create extra work. Depends on how things are done at the moment and the quality of information ATS is aiming for.
So kinda a balance between automated/manual.
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Maybe posts that reach the vote threshold can be submitted to administrators for 'approval' ? That could help with admin work load, since they won't have to read over each little post and decide whether it contributes or not.
Then again, it might create extra work. Depends on how things are done at the moment and the quality of information ATS is aiming for.
So kinda a balance between automated/manual.
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reply posted on 12-4-2009 @ 05:39 PM by alyosha1981
Ok I have a question about this change, how will this effect perfectly on point short answers such as a scenario where say a video posted was removed
by youtube and in the heat of a thread some member finds a copy and posts the link to said video such as what happened
here The member did the thread a service by providing a new link to the video,
obviously that was their point, short post? yes valuable? absoluty.
