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    #32
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Ruu wrote: »
    /me dusts off bat with rusty nails sticking from end

    grit yer teeth, I'm coming in dry.......

    /winces


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    #33
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    SteveC wrote: »
    Is the recent cat culling by Gordon (which IMO was unwarranted) going to be typical of what happens when someone who starts a ridiculous thread is greeted with the respect that it deserves?
    Ridiculous threads will still be treated with the respect they deserve, it's just that the level of ridiculousness will have a few more pairs of eyes to judge what level of ridiculousness it is deemed to be.


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    #34
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Doctors differ and spoil the broth.

    Hey, it's Feedback, it was always a mishmash of opinion (and now metaphors, too ;) )

    Basically, it's evolved into Judge Judy meets Jerry Springer, where the final say still rests (generally) with the relevant mod, but with the baying of the ubiquitous mob thrown in for good measure.

    What I'm basically saying is, easy on the editing there, Harry.

    /end off the wall reference to Eighties Miracle Whip adverts


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    #35
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Gordon wrote: »
    Ridiculous threads will still be treated with the respect they deserve, it's just that the level of ridiculousness will have a few more pairs of eyes to judge what level of ridiculousness it is deemed to be.
    That's ridiculous.


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    #36
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,235 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I promise only to sue longcat in the most relevant of circumstances.

    and believe me ill think of something - and it will knock your socks on if and when it ever happens. For now though universal longcat is going into hiatus.


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    #37
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Overheal wrote: »
    I promise only to sue longcat in the most relevant of circumstances.

    and believe me ill think of something - and it will knock your socks on if and when it ever happens. For now though universal longcat is going into hiatus.

    Pussy.


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    #38
    hussey
    Registered Users Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    Gordon wrote: »
    Ridiculous threads will still be treated with the respect they deserve, it's just that the level of ridiculousness will have a few more pairs of eyes to judge what level of ridiculousness it is deemed to be.

    Then surely it should be locked than culled?


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    #39
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,235 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    RoundyMooney wrote: »
    Pussy.

    I said sue not use :p

    in fairness though a think 4 and 5 galactic longcats are part of the reason that lolcat thread has been deleted or whatever.


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    #40
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    and i suppose if someone has a problem with a mod in feedback, they have to take it to feedback? :p

    I personally think that this is a good step, and lolcats, etc. aren't looking like they're going to be banned altogether, but merely that will force people to be more responsible for what they post.

    seeing that this is feedback, i personally would like to complain about the SMods. they have been acting....... :p


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    #41
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    hussey wrote: »
    Then surely it should be locked than culled?
    What should be?


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    #42
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    This sounds good, tbh.

    IMO, Feedback works in its own slightly weird way. There have been times, however, when the gallery aspect has been a bit too much like the lions and the Christians, and in particular I have noticed that when the bloodlust was aroused by one idiotic rant, it has tended to spill over on more genuine / naive OPs, which is a pity.

    Similarly, some mods have ended up the victims of witchhunts, which is hardly fair to people who give up their time voluntarily to help out.

    A quicker resolution / input from experienced hands could also help in some cases which in my opinion have been allowed to drag out for far too long. We had one example very recently where a mammoth thread was created; whatever about the rights and wrongs, and personally I could see both sides of the argument, by the end of it the mods in particular must have been feeling exhausted and exposed, and wondering why they bothered.

    A few more hands on deck to help keep the place on track has the potential to greatly ameliorate all of these issues, without necessarily changing the basics of the forum in a major way. For example, I argued in the other threat for the retention of lolcats, in their proper place and at the proper time (note emphasis). As DeV said in that thread, when used properly, they often express an opinion in their own inimitable way, and, for example, I suspect a lot of people would end up being far more personally abusive to ridiculous fite-teh-powah OPs if they didn't have a cathartic lolcat to throw instead.

    Now if we could only find a way to persuade certain users that this is a discussion website and not the freakin' UN, and not to take it all so bloody srsly!!


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    #43
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Now if we could only find a way to persuade certain users that this is a discussion website and not the freakin' UN, and not to take it all so bloody srsly!!
    +1

    Sense you speak.


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    #44
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    witches, lions, talking cats.. When did this place turn into a C.S. Lewis novel?


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    #45
    Jordon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Jordon


    Hobbes wrote: »
    witches, lions, talking cats.. When did this place turn into a C.S. Lewis novel?

    :D:D:D:D:D:D: haha that was good :D:D:D:D


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    #46
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,235 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Now if we could only find a way to persuade certain users that this is a discussion website and not the freakin' UN, and not to take it all so bloody srsly!!

    Fie, I demand a Dublin Treaty :pac:


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    #47
    A-Trak
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    Overheal wrote: »
    For now though universal longcat is going into hiatus.
    RoundyMooney wrote: »
    Pussy.

    Pfft...you've been trumped is all.

    longcat_widedog_framed.jpg

    I think I can hear Snyper crying looking at his now defunct 5 gig folder of lolcats and meme images he was waiting to shoehorn in at any spurious chance when admitted back into feedback


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    #48
    RoundyMooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    CaptionDog.jpg


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    #49
    Nerin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    A-Trak wrote: »

    I think I can hear Snyper crying looking at his now defunct 5 gig folder of lolcats and meme images he was waiting to shoehorn in at any spurious chance when admitted back into feedback
    i must have that folder!!!
    :cool:


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    #50
    A-Trak
    Registered Users Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    RoundyMooney wrote: »
    CaptionDog.jpg

    I now regret using the word "Trumped," in my previous post.


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    #51
    justsomebloke
    Registered Users Posts: 10,407 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    seamus wrote: »
    I think our main aim is to keep the discussion remotely relevant for at least one page.

    How many posts per page do you see by the way


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    #52
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,396 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    jsb wrote: »
    How many posts per page do you see by the way
    40.

    There is no other way.


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    #53
    Gordon
    Registered Users Posts: 35,524 ✭✭✭✭Gordon


    30 here.


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    #54
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    kaimera wrote: »
    40.

    There is no other way.
    +1


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    #55
    justsomebloke
    Registered Users Posts: 10,407 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    kaimera wrote: »
    40.

    There is no other way.
    Gordon wrote: »
    30 here.

    seemingly there is


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    #56
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,097 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Wish it did 100.


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    #57
    Steve
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 22,584 CMod ✭✭✭✭Steve


    jsb wrote: »
    How many posts per page do you see by the way
    Smart.


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    #58
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    jsb wrote: »
    How many posts per page do you see by the way
    Touché.

    I would have it set at 200 if I could.


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