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(...) Not entirely sure of what I am talking about here, but would not the delay be caused by more processor time, which is something that we want to get away from? Anyways, you can always choose to view the dots when they are suppressed. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) How about the following? (to be added to the TOS?) *Only members can start new threads in .debate, or .market. No new tech stuff required, just include your Lugnet member number in your sig. If you forget, someone will remind you. If you try (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I agree. I think it is possible to involve Christianity in the debates without the thread quickly heading for the gutter. But the reality is that the way threads go in .debate, the visibility of Christianity is what I'm complaining about. The (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, my post seems to have shut down some of the pointless shouting, and there seems to be some interesting debate starting to creep from under the rocks it dove for cover behind... I'm still going to let it chill for a while and see if this (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I assume you mean "informally" in that for example, Frank sends me a note telling me to cool it... or vice versa. (because if you mean formally we're back to a moderator/council/review thingie) I think that's a good idea. More... I think it (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Well, I just went through the 24 posts that make up this thread at the time that I noticed it. Hmmm. I've been disappointed with the debates of late too, and maybe I'm partly to blame, but I think it's really only the past couple months that (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) (nitpick) Some christians. I'm not preaching, and I can't be the only christian who's stearing clear. (...) I'm not sure if I'm one of the folks you're talking about, but I've certainly dropped .debate from my reading. It's gone way downhill (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) Hmm. Something that I've noticed for a while not, but not cared enough to mention before this is... The skip filter only works on the highest level, and goes away as soon as I drill down into a sup-group. (ie: I have .debate filtered out, but (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) Ya, the default is to omit .off-topic and .admin noise: (URL) and limiting .debate posts from showing in any search (except explicitly (...) That would be a bit trickier but might come almost for free since it already filters out groups not in (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Uselessness of .debate
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(...) Thanks for the restate. Yes, coughcough was just who I was referring to. Restated that way, I agree 100%. ++Lar (25 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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