Author: Peter Kappler
Date: 15:20:07 11/29/03
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On November 29, 2003 at 17:37:02, Russell Reagan wrote: >On November 29, 2003 at 14:25:46, Günther Simon wrote: > >>This formerly great message board is nearly unreadable nowadays. >>A very few people spam it the whole day with boring nonsense >>and tautologies or pure speculations, even my grandma would not >>have made on a rainy day. > >I think Mathieu's suggestion is one good solution. Most people post on one topic >mainly (for instance, I like the programming aspect of computer chess), so their >posts would be mainly only in one section. Plus there would be fewer posts in >each section, making it more readable. > >Another idea might be to "flatten" the threads. Currently we have something like >this: > >Thread1 > Re: Thread1 > Re: Thread1 > Re: Thread1 > Re: Thread1 > Re: Thread1 >Thread2 > Re: Thread2 >Thread3 >Thread4 > Re: Thread4 > >And so on. It might make it more readable to not show the sub-threads on the >main page (flatten them). Then you would only see: > >Thread1 >Thread2 >Thread3 >Thread4 > >Then your screen would be less cluttered. You could click on the thread to go to >it. I actually like the current layout. From the size of the thread and the names of the people involved, I can pretty quickly determine if it's junk or something worth reading. > >An idea that would be a more significant undertaking would be to setup a >newsgroup server to mirror CCC, which would allow you to read it as any other >newsgroup, and filter things however you'd like. > >One quesiton I have for you: If you had a particular poster ignored, would you >want to see the responses to posts made by that person? Definitely not. The purpose of a killfile is to hide every trace of an unwanted person, including responses to their posts. The idea is to see no sign of their existence. :) I think a killfile would partly solve the navigation problems mentioned above, and would certainly simplify the job of the moderators. BTW, this idea has been suggested here for years, but it seems that the ICDChess guys don't have the time or inclination to add new features to CCC. Perhaps we can convince them to release the CCC source code so that we can all contribute? -Peter
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