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Subject: 
Re: Uselessness of .debate
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:49:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> I don't know if Todd already has this in place or not, but simply not
> showing the .debate posts on the Newest Posts list on the front of
> news.lugnet.com, [...]

Ya, the default is to omit .off-topic and .admin noise:

http://news.lugnet.com/news/filter/

http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5145
http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=5169


>  and limiting .debate posts from showing in any search (except explicitly
> choosing .debate as the search group) would do wonders to lowering the
> perceived traffic for people who could care less about .debate.

That would be a bit trickier but might come almost for free since it already
filters out groups not in the query.

--Todd



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  Re: Uselessness of .debate
 
(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Uselessness of .debate
 
(...) Only post via the web interface? NO THANKS. I've posted maybe a total of 5 times via the web interface (and only because I was in a training class, not on any of my computers). Broken. (...) Then people would just watch the branches to make (...) (26 years ago, 18-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)

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