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I think quality of posts is the most important thing, but how best to select for quality?
I think you are right.
Mommy, Mommy, can I be a sanctimonious consequencor when I grow up, pronouncing dark judgment on everybody else on the internet and pissing on them from a lofty perch as if I am above it all?
there's a lot of back and forth with the comments. A lot of it gets childish....
It appears you rather bitch about it instead of taking the easy step.
This is what I'm talking about. 6 threads/posts stared in 20 minutes. I think a few may even be repeats from freespeak/nyc and the idiot doesn't even know it even though he was those previous users and posters. I know the some crappy numbers guy said he wants to see what this is all about (although I think we're on the same page), but I think it's time to officially shut this down. I don't give a flip what's going on in Hong Kong.
I'm sure there are 3 more threads posted before I'm finished. We'll see.
It appears you rather bitch about it instead of taking the easy step.
I could block the Hong Kong toll by IP, but that's fairly easily circumvented as well.
I would like an "ignore anonymous" because it's clear some regular posters hide behind anonymous periodically.
Why get your knickers all twisted in knots?? Life is too short.
You can call me crazy, but if shit ain't working right, I'm going to call it out. And I'll do what I can to fix it. I'm not sure what the problem is with that?
I'm pointing it out because you started this thread, remember?
daily abuse, and crap posted by some long term members here.
No problem with that! Please do help me fix things.
me123 is definitely trolling all the time, just pushing buttons. That's what ignore is for.
HOW TO RESTORE PATNET TO ITS FORMER GLORY:
me123 saysIt appears you rather bitch about it instead of taking the easy step.
You have any suggestions for @Patrick ?
It's clear I'm just supposed to put spammers on ignore even though they're creating alt's left and right. I'm supposed to just be cool with that. Please enlighten us why a bot and/or user spamming the site makes it better?
I'll be waiting.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding. You’re responding to the biggest troll I’ve ever come across in all my history of Internet forums.
Lot's of people have bad opinions though.
It's points like this where many active users here just drag it down into the gutter.
But I like fact-finding, discovering truths that are not well publicized.
I don't think that allowing other people to edit other's posts will work. Too many trolls around here that would vandalize.
the main defining property of a Wiki is that it has only one article/thread/post per topic. Having if not exactly one, then at least fewer redundant articles per topic would be a huge improvement.
Me too, like the article about the Sackler family.
Or is that too confining, if someone just wants to make an observation?
I just had a look at http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/ . It was surprisingly interesting, but not sure whether it has any bearing on Patnet. Most significantly, politifact has no comment section :).
1. post limits
New users: 1 post/day, 2 posts/week, Established users, 2 posts/day, 5 posts/week. Weeks could be rolling 7-day periods. The quality and usefulness of patnet is inversely proportional to the number of posts per day. New users are people who have been registered less than 1 year. People who change their usernames should be considered new users, but changing username really should be forbidden.
To counteract propaganda, you need a counterthread, side by side. I really have no way of knowing whether it would work, but I have never seen it, and it might be worth a try.
4. up-and-down voting:
... Up/Down scores also need to be separated so that people can see activity level not just the final score. Just seeing N-N=0 does not tell me anything about a post, nor can it be used to rank the post for activity.
5. Ignore function should exist, and each user should have ignored-by-N-people showing. The latter is very important, because new users need to see who is being either a troll or just wildly partisan.
Now there is a number and an ignore icon by each user's comment.
11. threads should have yyyy/mm/dd in their URL, so that one can more easily search by date.
14. comment layout: please insert a space between the comment header and the first line/paragraph of comment. If there is only one paragraph, comment is too easy to overlook.
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