Closed Poll: "Likes" Thread - Since it's been asked (again)...
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Should the 'The Official "Likes" Thread' be moved to One Post so that all the Likes badges earned in that thread are nullified?
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- WTF? OMG! Nonononono... What about my e-peen?!?!‽‽
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- Yes
- Of course - why wasn't this done when this feature was implemented?!?!???!?‽‽‽
- Who cares?
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Not my idea, but since it was suggested...
Not sure of what criteria would actually disrupt the status quo however (I've personally no opinion on the matter.)
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We lurves our badges
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Not to One Post, but to another category. Something like the "Forum Games" category that the XKCD forum has.
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Perhaps wait until the mythical 10k is done before doing anything with it?
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"One Post" suggested/mentioned merely because that's the only category (at the moment) that has the 'No auto-Badges' flag set on it.
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That sounds like trolling so many people at once... so you defnitly have my vote for it!
Also autoclose after 60minutes adds to the trolling-flavour!
Filed Under: Only witchcraft can come up with such brilllant ideas!
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"One Post" suggested/mentioned merely because that's the only category (at the moment) that has the 'No auto-Badges' flag set on it.
I guess that the forum games type category would become a parent category of One Post.
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Also autoclose after 60minutes adds to the trolling-flavour!
Would be cool if you could set a time limit from the last post rather than the first one. It would essentially be a feature to close stale threads when people stop posting, but it could also add to the frantic nature of the likes thread if a short limit such as 60 minutes was set.
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and Bug would be the parent-category of those games because it's probably not how Jeff thinks forum discussions are supposed to work!
Filed Under: Meta->Bugs->ForumGames->OnePost ... sounds perfect
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Jeff thinks StackOverflow is a suitable example of how forum discussions are supposed to work.
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Now that I think about it, he probably already played the "#CLOSED" and "#WONTFIX" games with us and nobody even noticed! This whole thing was planned from the start
Filed Under: Why is this Topic not a OnePost-Topic? :D
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Also autoclose after 60minutes adds to the trolling-flavour!
Only applies to threads created there, not merely present.
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Makes post badges a a bit useless, so I'm fine with all those extra ones going away.
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I guess that the forum games type category would become a parent category of One Post.
Also move "Status" and "Yo!" over there, maybe? Maybe not.
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At the moment, the likes topic is the only one that really stands out as an abuse of the system which has any real negative consequences, specifically, diluting the legitimate badges awarded. Perhaps it should be primarily used for topics like that and the moderators can move topics to that category at their discretion.
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At the moment, the likes topic is the only one that really stands out as an abuse of the system which has any real negative consequences, specifically, diluting the legitimate badges awarded. Perhaps it should be primarily used for topics like that and the moderators can move topics to that category at their discretion.
It's only abuse to you because you're not in it.
Oh wait - you have one of the 2 Good Post badges from it don't you.... you stand to lose the most
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Oh wait - you have one of the 2 Good Post badges from it don't you.... you stand to lose the most
Indeed, my intentions are entirely honourable. ;)
Edit: There are three now, @Onyx also got one.
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Multiple, even, from what I see.
Also, I didn't see a single one outside of the "Likes" thread. Which is kinda sad.
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Likes thread is currently artificially inflating the value of a Like. People have their scripts shoving out likes in hundreds, leaving few for normal posts. That makes the likes given outside that thread so much more valuable.
With the Like thread going away, everyone will have more likes to give, which would bring their perceived value down. Once the Like bubble bursts, likes will become meaningless. Some will start throwing them everywhere, others will completely ignore them. There will be posters rioting, rage-quitting with long poignant goodbyes or angry diatribes, chaos everywhere.
But, if you buy my book, I can teach you how you can convert your likes into gold and save yourselves from the oncoming likepocalypse.
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With the Like thread going away, everyone will have more likes to give, which would bring their perceived value down.
Unless, at the same time, I reset the limit back down to 50...
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But, if you buy my book, I can teach you how you can convert your likes into gold and save yourselves from the oncoming likepocalypse.
Quick, take my money!
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+1 because I tried to like this and apparently my script hit today's limit just seconds before.
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Quick, take my money!
What?
Sorry, that was like minutes ago.
Too busy swapping bitcoins for auroracoins and dumping them for dogecoins.
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Not so much opposed to the loss of the badges as the time limit that would be imposed on the topic by moving it to one-post. The move would effectively kill the topic.
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Would be cool if you could set a time limit from the last post rather than the first one. It would essentially be a feature to close stale threads when people stop posting, but it could also add to the frantic nature of the likes thread if a short limit such as 60 minutes was set.
$Deity, that's evil.
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Not so much opposed to the loss of the badges as the time limit that would be imposed on the topic by moving it to one-post.
The time limit only applies to topics created in that category.
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The time limit only applies to topics created in that category.
Yeah, read that after I posted. Discourse style posting FTW!
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Not so much opposed to the loss of the badges as the time limit that would be imposed on the topic by moving it to one-post. The move would effectively kill the topic.
As stated above by @PJH:
Only applies to threads created there, not merely present.
EDIT: and @Keith pointed it out first, damn. I wish it weren't so though as killing that topic would be good.
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Hehehe.
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As stated above by @PJH:
Only applies to threads created there, not merely present.
And your post is a perfect example of my immediately preceding post.
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I'm pretty sure the likes situation will equalize shortly after the thread reaches 10k, since meaningful conversation died ages ago in there, and it's just padding. And no one is crazy enough to go for 100k.
Right? Right?
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And no one is crazy enough to go for 100k.
Right? Right?
I've held off on posting until I get caught up on likes so this will be tricky.
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I'm not that crazy, seeing how I haven't managed 61k posts yet on simplemachines.org but I'm working on it. They made a post count group that I was the only person in and I'm still going to be the only person in it for a while, since it activates at 50,000 posts and there's someone currently on 46,000...
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Then again, if bots are included... all bets are off.
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They made a post count group that I was the only person in and I'm still going to be the only person in it for a while, since it activates at 50,000 posts and there's someone currently on 46,000
You're not helping your case.
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I'm pretty sure the likes situation will equalize shortly after the thread reaches 10k, since meaningful conversation died ages ago in there, and it's just padding. And no one is crazy enough to go for 100k.
Right? Right?
Well this is TDWTF. We must see what effect topics with 100k posts have on the green bar and on the forum. FOR SCIENCE!
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I've held off on posting until I get caught up on likes so this will be tricky.
That'll take a while. We're posting faster than we can like now. Everyone who's a regular in that thread is already out of likes for today.
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You're not helping your case.
It took me 5 YEARS to get to my current 60k and change. It's doable but I want to actually not die of my major intestine climbing up my throat and throttling my brain in an attempt to save all lifekind.
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Well this is TDWTF. We must see what effect topics with 100k posts have on the green bar and on the forum. FOR SCIENCE!
You know we could just inject some clientside JS to make it believe there are more posts, right?
No, I haven't done it for 10k, kinda like those parents that don't want to know if their child is a boy or a girl, but 100k... yeah, I think JS is easier.
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+1. The thread we're discussing. Limits.
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You know we could just inject some clientside JS to make it believe there are more posts, right?
No, I haven't done it for 10k, kinda like those parents that don't want to know if their child is a boy or a girl, but 100k... yeah, I think JS is easier.
Well, that would work for the green bar. But what about the effect on the forum?
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Well, that would work for the green bar. But what about the effect on the forum?
On second thought, you're probably right. After all, keeping the drive to 100k going for 2 years (at our average rate over the past 2 months) would be pretty tough.
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Well, that would work for the green bar. But what about the effect on the forum?
We could ask @ben_lubar to merge all the old imports into one topic?
Speaking of, last I heard of that it seemed to be done processing... something or other. Hey, Ben, what gives?
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It's not just the number of posts which might test the software, it's also all the likes, mentions and reply chains from lots of different people.
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Exactly. You can't even simulate that especially meaningfully with a script hammering away because of all the really banal things that have happened, like quoting posts thousands of posts back (like I quoted one of mine today from about position 700)
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Exactly. You can't even simulate that especially meaningfully with a script hammering away because of all the really banal things that have happened, like quoting posts thousands of posts back (like I quoted one of mine today from about position 700)
If we really wanted to stress test, we should aim for 1M+. Then we could see what happens when you quote a post a million posts back.
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Yes but I have something of a life. It's not much but I'm not sacrificing what little I do have in honour of that.