Author: Pete Galati
Date: 01:01:07 05/20/00
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On May 20, 2000 at 03:19:15, Dann Corbit wrote: >On May 20, 2000 at 03:16:18, Dave Gomboc wrote: >>On May 20, 2000 at 01:15:47, Peter McKenzie wrote: >>>I find it difficult to wade through the various threads that don't interest me >>>(yet another Deep Blue thread or 10 million posts about some Fritz game for >>>example) to find the ones that do. >>> >>>I'm sure others have this problem, in the past it has been suggested that only >>>including the thread heading on the main page would make the forum much more >>>usable. I think this would help, perhaps we could have an opinion pole on this >>>issue? >>> >>>Any other ideas on how to make CCC easier to read? >>> >>>I'd like to be able to kill threads so that I don't see them again but >>>implementing that sort of thing would be quite an effort. >>> >>>cheers, >>>Peter >> >>I'm not sure that thread collapsing would help much. Some people have this (IMO >>annoying) habit of posting a new message on a currently discussed topic instead >>of continuing a thread, so we end up with about five threads discussing the same >>thing, all at once. > >Another thing that I see is very interesting discussions completely unrelated to >the thread topic will suddenly spring up in the middle of a thread. > >I tend to look for particular posters and read what they said first. Then for >the others I pick and choose by thread, by poster or by whatever grabs me. I sort them manually in a similar way, there's people who's posts I read and other's who I don't read, and then there's my manual killfile, which is basically a post-it note stuck to my monitor with names I don't reply to. Then there's certain subjects that I never read, either because they don't interest me, or because I know the subject will be too far over my head (happens all the time), and some things I just don't give a (crap) about. But there's probably limits to how an html page can be filtered, unless the filters are located on your own computer. I doubt if CCC could hold on to customized filters for each member, and it would be difficult (slow) to edit your filters if they were here instead of at your own computer. I don't know if _that's_ posible. Pete
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