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The Bollox wrote: »what I did there was a serious workaround, the more common ones are replacing a vowel for an accented vowel like fúck, or swapping the letters around. all I'm saying is the swear filter does cut down on the swearing, in the same way a filter for yore ma would cut down on the use of it, even though there are work arounds
yea, i know what your saying bollox (lol sorry i had to
) i just dont see what all the fuss is about the whole "yore ma" thing? Its used so much now its hardly considered an insult any more.. so what its annoying to some or most people.. well, lifes a bitch and if a simple "yore ma" in a thread annoys other users, i would think people have little in life to be irritated about and i envy them.
Simply put, if someone uses a "yore ma" in a thread where there is a decent discussion going on, just make a mental note of the posters name and put them into the "that poster is a gobshoite" list.0 -
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Madame TogBog wrote: »Yes both mods do lock threads they deem unsuitable for whatever reasons so passin the buck like that isn't reasonable to be fair. Again i have no major issues with the majority of threads just some.
im not entirely sure who you are talking to.I'm not sure how the modding in AH works, if there are shifts or if AH mods just mod whenever they happen to be online?
Anyway, night and morning time often seems to be pretty modless (also quite poster-less as well) but often enough crap threads (aka JigsawGirl) don't seem to be fixed before mid-day. This could also be because a thread is discussed in the mod forum before action is taken.
Spreading mods geographically ensures someone will probably be online at any given time of day.
there are no shifts, and there is no set time for different mods to be on line.
we dont tend to discuss threads before action is taken by an individual mod for the simple reason taht we are only mods, not workers.
as for spreading mods geographically, im in australia. is tha geographically spread enough for you
im sure the world will not end if a thread you deem unacceptable is not dealt with immediately.
again, we dont police the intellectual content of threads.
if they are crap, you have only yourselves to blame.
it seems to me that still after all these years, the biggest complaint about AH is about the content of posts and threads.
unfortunately a stupidity filter has yet to be invented that i agree with, so youre stuck with each others thoughts.
unless someone has a good idea?0 -
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yea, i know what your saying bollox (lol sorry i had to) i just dont see what all the fuss is about the whole "yore ma" thing? Its used so much now its hardly considered an insult any more.. so what its annoying to some or most people.. well, lifes a bitch and if a simple "yore ma" in a thread annoys other users, i would think people have little in life to be irritated about and i envy them.
Simply put, if someone uses a "yore ma" in a thread where there is a decent discussion going on, just make a mental note of the posters name and put them into the "that poster is a gobshoite" list.
Also called your ignore list.
The only problem I have with AH is that seom "serious" threads pop up in there especially about big issues that really should be somewhere else. In the last month we had a load of lisbon threads which seemed to be started bceause you can have a poll in AH but not in politics, in fact there is still a Lisbon thread going on.
There was also one regarding the new driving laws that are coming in tomorrow, when there was already threads in the motors and learning to drive forums. I know alot of threads in AH could be suited to another forum but sometimes it seems like threads are started in AH just to get a bigger viewing, or so people can avoid the so called "stricter" forums.0 -
yea, i know what your saying bollox (lol sorry i had to) i just dont see what all the fuss is about the whole "yore ma" thing? Its used so much now its hardly considered an insult any more.. so what its annoying to some or most people.. well, lifes a bitch and if a simple "yore ma" in a thread annoys other users, i would think people have little in life to be irritated about and i envy them.
Simply put, if someone uses a "yore ma" in a thread where there is a decent discussion going on, just make a mental note of the posters name and put them into the "that poster is a gobshoite" list.
it's not that I find it offensive, I see it in the same light as Don't Stop Believin': I used to think it was brilliant, but now has far too much air time for me to appreciate it any more and I end up faceplanting every time I see/hear it0 -
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alanmurphy83 wrote: »Prob end up in such posts like
+100000000
lol lol lol lol
or
yore ma...
honestly, it'd very easy to get around for people with inane comments to make and will just make them more inane such as alan suggests with lol being repeated but it'll annoy people who might have legitimate replies that just happen to be short.
eg someone asked an either/or question the other day and i responded "the latter", which was the correct answer to his question. possibly a bad example because it's exactly 10 characters and would have been fine 0 -
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Yore ma!!!1!1Have a minimum of 10 characters per post, that would stop "+1" and "Yore Ma" posts.
C'mon, 6th, you've been around the intarweb long enough to know that the kind of approach you're advocating is like a red flag to a bull ... there will always be people who will see it as a challenge to find ways around it, and will flood the place with "clever" posts just to show they can. My guess is that it would exacerbate the problem, not reduce it.
For that matter, maybe I just haven't been around AH as much, but I thought it had died down a bit anyway?
EDIT: um, kind of repetitive, actually ... must remember to refresh!
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seriously, why not just stop using the phrases, and ignoring anyone who does?
anyway, im going to leave this thread open for a few weeks, and will check back every now and then to see whats turned up. as always, I will attempt to answer as best I can. if we do get something that i think is reasonable then we may even try to implement it.
so far, i hope people appreciate that i havent really seen anything yet that hasnt been mentioned before, or that some of what people are asking really isnt feasible (like asing mods to be in different geographies to allow for 24 hr coverage. its a web site people, not a call centre) 0 -
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I've only one suggestion and it's to crack down on people quoting long posts and then adding a one line comment.
I was going to agree with you until I noticed you cited one of my posts as an example
I used the quick reply so I didn't have a choice of what part of the post I quoted, and as it was in response to a certain post I decided to quote it. Most of the OP was relevant to quote anyway.
I don't know how popular this would be, but it would be possible to set a maximum height for quoted posts - e.g. 300 px. Anything over that would be truncated unless you choose to expand it with an icon. I don't know if I've explained that too well...
I hope I have achieved an acceptable quote to post ratio this time?0 -
I was going to agree with you until I noticed you cited one of my posts as an example
Was haven’t a go, yours was the only example I could find in this thread.
And I did mention it wasn’t a good example.
But you have to agree that there are mega long posts out there and posters quote the entire thing and post some one line comment like “I agree”.
Or they don’t know how to quote so they quote a mega long post and highlight some parts in bold. Not only is that ugly to read but it’s means everyone has to scroll for aaaaaaaaaages.
Banning offense tbh0 -
Was haven’t a go, yours was the only example I could find in this thread.
And I did mention it wasn’t a good example.
But you have to agree that there are mega long posts out there and posters quote the entire thing and post some one line comment like “I agree”.
Or they don’t know how to quote so they quote a mega long post and highlight some parts in bold. Not only is that ugly to read but it’s means everyone has to scroll for aaaaaaaaaages.
Banning offense tbh
I agree. Sorry, couldn't help myself0 -
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