Reinventing the wheel.

Post #163,876 by Another Scott 7/11/04 10:26:42 PM Reply	Reinventing the wheel. This board is, effectively, an improved Usenet group. These problems were solved on Usenet years ago. Intelligent reader software could assign scores to threads and authors. Don't want to read threads about something? Give it a negative score or kill-file it. Similar with authors. Good Usenet readers let the user filter out things with amazing flexibility. But doing something like this with a web-based system might be difficult (as it would mostly be server-side stuff). But perhaps admin can implement a simplified version of thread hiding here - e.g. permitting a thread containing a hidden message ID to be hidden as well if desired. I would suggest considering how a good newsreader makes things easy for readers before reinventing the wheel. Pronews/2 (for OS/2), PC Yarn, and [link\|http://slrn.sourceforge.net/\|slrn] are all excellent newsreaders. It would be amazing (and probably be a waste of time) to implement similar [link\|http://slrn.sourceforge.net/manual/slrn-FAQ-4.html\|scoreing] features for zIWeThey v2. But I'm sure admin enjoys a challenge. >:-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #163,877 by deSitter 7/11/04 10:30:58 PM Reply	Re: Reinventing the wheel. This is far simpler. If you really despise a particular forum, disown it and be done with it. -drl
Post #163,879 by Another Scott 7/11/04 10:36:02 PM 7/11/04 10:46:19 PM Reply	Broom's talking about a thread. As I understand it, he wants the LRPD to ignore new posts in a thread he doesn't like. In other words, he wants to be able to kill-file a thread, not a Forum. As we know, Forums can already be kill-filed. If you really despise a particular forum, disown it and be done with it. What fun is that? zIWeThey is all about making demands on admin, not exerting self-control. Don't you know that by now? Sheesh. [edit: typos...] Cheers, Scott. ;-j Edited by Another Scott July 11, 2004, 10:46:19 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #163,880 by deSitter 7/11/04 10:41:34 PM Reply	Re: Brooms talking about a thread. Well seriously, I think this is important software - the number of failed forum attempts is staggering, and here we have a brilliant programmer solving an important problem. -drl
Post #163,881 by Another Scott 7/11/04 10:44:09 PM Reply	Hear, hear!
Post #163,956 by jb4 7/12/04 1:16:09 PM Reply	Amen, Brother! jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #163,885 by broomberg 7/11/04 10:53:23 PM Reply	Correct
Post #163,893 by admin 7/11/04 11:22:30 PM Reply	Ah, excellent. I've been looking for something to use RETE for... ;-) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #163,898 by FuManChu 7/11/04 11:52:22 PM Reply	RETE? [link\|http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computing/rete\|http://www.hyperdict...om/computing/rete] ?
Post #163,899 by Another Scott 7/11/04 11:58:53 PM Reply	I thought it was something like... Regular Expression Tofu Environment. Admin is a Veg after all... Cheers, Scott. :-)
Post #163,900 by deSitter 7/12/04 12:00:58 AM Reply	Re: RETE? From what I just read it's a way of considering super-messages many-to-many among nodes. I think that is just what I meant a few posts ago when trying to get to the abstract idea behind this thing. Scott dismissed it hilariously as bowel movements :) But hey I got somewhat close to the idea. -drl

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