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    This is ridiculous —Terry Prosper
   Hello I just saw 4 posts from the same person in the Top Stories, all posts were 5 hours old and had receive 0 or 1 human recommendation. They all talk about pneumatics, which usually interests only a small percentage of the AFOLs, not because it's (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 
   
        Re: This is ridiculous —William R. Ward
     (...) Yeah, I saw that too. (...) Fat chance of that ever happening! When was the last time someone fixed anything in Lugnet's software? But I agree, the Top Stories thing is pretty messed up. I think it's probably a problem that could be fixed if (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)  
    
         Re: This is ridiculous —Terry Prosper
     (...) Maybe I'm way off-track here, but the proliferation of theme-oriented community websites is part of the problem to me. We had a much stronger castle and space community here a year ago, but thse themes, along with others, have moved to other (...) (19 years ago, 1-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: This is ridiculous —Dave Johann
      (...) Actually, I've thought both of these are major contributing factors to LUGNET's continuing decline as a community hub. Members don't vote as often as they should partly because some don't use the web interface and I know of no other way to (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: This is ridiculous —Mike Walsh
       "Dave Johann" <legomecha@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:IFu985.JpA@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) pirates (...) does can (...) resources (...) information. (...) [ ... snipped ... ] I don't believe trains has another forum. ILTCO has (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: This is ridiculous —Leonard Hoffman
      (...) For one, it is easier to sign up, read and follow threads. For old timers, it is also about opening up possibilities. At CSF and CC, what was just ".space" can be expanded into Space/General; Moonbase/Events; Space MOCs; Spacewerks/Inprocess; (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
     
          Re: This is ridiculous —John P. Henderson
      (...) (What tha? I walk away for a year and what happened, my favorite groups are "fading away" ?) ...Oh hey Lenny! Hendo here. I'm still in my Dim Age with all my ABS packed into a renta-cave and most of my time consumed with "real life". But I (...) (19 years ago, 18-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.space, FTX)
    
         Re: This is ridiculous —Mike Walsh
      "Terry Prosper" <terryprosper@videotron.ca> wrote in message news:IFtDGs.13qJ@lugnet.com... (...) vote (...) was cool, (...) Are there any statistics about the number of people who read LUGNET via NNTP versus via the web interface? I always read (...) (19 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: This is ridiculous —Kevin Wilson
     Mike Walsh wrote in message ... (...) but (...) You may not be typical, but you are certainly not alone. I'm another NNTP holdout. And let's not forget just *how much* the traffic drops on LUGNET when for some reason NNTP is down. Kevin ---...--- (...) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
    
         Re: This is ridiculous —Jan-Albert van Ree
     (...) NNTP here as well. Only used the web interface twice, from web cafe's, but prefer plain text (most of my computer time is spent in the linux console) (19 years ago, 4-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: This is ridiculous —Bruce Hietbrink
   (...) Hey Terry, I actually don't think this is a software issue. At some point this weekend my "Scenes from Los Angeles" post was the number one post, and it had only 3 votes.* The current top post (Tony's great ship) has only 5 votes (one of them (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: This is ridiculous —Dave Johann
   (...) I'm in! Where's the new Bellville post to spotlight? (...) You said it, brother. Still, if this occurs during a late night hour, I take it as a compliment that I am reaching other nations because I know no other US LUGNETters keep the wacky (...) (19 years ago, 2-May-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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