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Re: Longest Thread! (Re: Does God have a monopoly on gods?)
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Date: 
Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:34:55 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
Sproaticus wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Erik Olson writes:
It's gotten quiet here, and we're off the lugnet.homepage. I'm going to see if
anything runs out of the bushes when I do this...
Hmmm.  The Longest Thread on LUGNET (1) (which will soon be usurped by this
thread) was started when Chris Weeks remarked on how quiet .debate was...
Hey, you started it.  ;)  The most interesting part is that you started it by
simply venting very reasonable and specific frustration--but it got general and
took on a life of its own.  What timing!

The thing I absolutely love about LUGNET is the threading goodies Todd has
worked into the news server.  That makes the Web interface more powerful than
most news readers in many ways.  And this help threads to *sustain* a life of
their own, rather than be constrained to a single topic of discussion.  It
makes for a more "real" discussion.

I *think* that's a Good Thing.  :-,

Hmm, I missed that last .debate's eventual path.  Rather amazing, really, how
threads are so unpredictable.  Is there some utility on LUGNET that lets you see
record-holders for longest post, longest thread, most respondents, etc etc?

There was discussion on this earlier, but it was dismissed by Todd (and I
agreed with his reasoning) due to the probability of abuse.  For example,
getting the deepest thread is simply be a function of how many times you can
reply to your own message.  And stuff like that.

Cheers,
- jsproat

--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Card-carrying member of the Star-Bellied Sneech Preservation Society



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(...) Hey, you started it. ;) The most interesting part is that you started it by simply venting very reasonable and specific frustration--but it got general and took on a life of its own. What timing! Hmm, I missed that last .debate's eventual (...) (25 years ago, 14-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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