Author: Robert Pope
Date: 07:17:22 01/18/99
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On January 17, 1999 at 20:28:14, Steve Timson wrote: >On January 17, 1999 at 10:50:37, syed wrote: > >>I regularly frequent this club. However, since I am a beginner programmer, >>moving into C/C++ programming and chess programming, I browse here mainly for >>getting some general programming information from Prof. Hyatt and the other >>programmers. Since most of the posts here are dedicated to 'CM 6k being crap' >>and 'CM 6k being the best' and tournament info, I find this a tedious job. >> >>I personally suggest splitting this group into a programming and non-programming >>section. This might even prompt more people to post in the programming section. >>Given the fewer programming posts, it might be possible to archive them only >>once in a few months. >> >>syed > > >I would love to see posts that deal with programming archived into a separate >section that covers a lot more time - if we truly only see a handful of >programming posts in a week, there is no reason that a much longer time period >could not be archived. I was recently speaking to another programmer about the >dangers of null move at small search depths and I tried to direct him to a post >made here, of course it was not still in the archive. I think that an archive >of the programming posts here could be a lasting valuable resource, whereas an >archive of "CM6000 sucks!" serves little to no purpose at all, IMO. > >I don't really care how this comes about - it could be through placing >programming posts in a separate board, or by marking posts as programming >related through a check box when making them. In the worst case, a human could >even go through and categorize them for archiving, perhaps a moderator (as if >they don't already have enough to do... but they should be looking at each post >already in order to do their job). I like to read both the programming and the >non programming posts, so I don't care if the posts are separated. I'd just >like to be able to go back to programming posts from the previous months for >reference. > > -- Steve Agreed. An example I can think of was the discussion of CountBits() a couple weeks ago. I wanted to check back on one of the messages, but of course it had scrolled off days before. I can't just look in the archive because I don't know what day it was posted. :( I will give that new CCC viewer a try, but at best it will be very inconvenient. A separate board or archive would have been perfect in this case. It is also hard to follow a thread for more than a week because of the volume of other threads. Rob Pope
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