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Post of the day issue..

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  • 21-10-2010 1:19pm
    #1
    Grindylow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,919 ✭✭✭


    Just pointing it out, and hoping I'm not the only one, but the "You laugh you lose" thread is constantly taking over the post of the day segment of boards. It can get really annoying because if I really wanted to see funny pictures I could google it. I dunno if I'm the only one it annoys, but sure said I'd point it out there anyway! :P
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    #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,508 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    done on thanks and people thank the posts cos they're funny. whats wrong with that?


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    #3
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Have a read here Noel. Would appear we're the only people who realise this is annoying.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056038709


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    #4
    Ross
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭Ross


    Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »
    Have a read here Noel. Would appear we're the only people who realise this is annoying.

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056038709
    But, how do you know that it's annoying? Is there a way you can have absolute knowledge that it is annoying? No.

    You can use empirical evidence by matching thanks to images and deduce a probability, but at base you are relying on a set of assumptions about the universe.

    Therefore, Post of the Day exists.


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    #5
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Fair enough. We're the only ones who regard it as annoying.

    Though we're right;)


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    #6
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Is the thanks filter that was on the old front page available anywhere now?


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    #7
    javaboy
    Registered Users Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Lawrence Easy Berry wrote: »
    Is the thanks filter that was on the old front page available anywhere now?

    http://www.boards.ie/?filter=thanks

    You just select the filter you want from the right most tab on top of the thread list on the home page.


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    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    javaboy wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/?filter=thanks

    You just select the filter you want from the right most tab on top of the thread list on the home page.

    Ah sure it was right under my nose! Cheers


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    #9
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    While it wont change, I completely agree with Noel.

    POTD was something you used to look forward to, A good contribution/well thought out post, or a funny homegrown slice of comedy from AH.

    These days it's just a repost of something that appeared on reddit a few days ago. :(


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    #10
    Konata
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,164 ✭✭✭Konata


    The vast majority of those images winning POTD aren't even that funny! I used to love POTD - some clever remark, witty insight or hilarious ancedote - but now I rarely even check it.


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    #11
    Fago!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,647 ✭✭✭✭Fago!


    Couldn't agree more. POTD used to be something I'd look forward to, for a bit of funny reading.

    I'm sick of seeing post of the day being:

    A) A picture from You Laugh You Lose

    B) A photo from the Random Photo Thread in the Photography forum

    Although the photography one annoys me, it'd be harsh to ask a thanks ban on the photography thread, because that's actually amateur photographers' work and thanking their pic means their work is appreciated. But I'm all up for a thanks ban on Laugh You lose please. PLEASE!!!? please?


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    #12
    IITYWYBMAD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    Post of the Day, garnered by "most thanked post" is probably one of the most inaccurate ways of doing it. It does not take into account the thanks versus views of the particular forum, nor does it rate the quality of the post, as one-sided as that may be.

    Can I suggest that the post of the day, should be chosen by some random user, as opposed to the amount of thanks (at least for a while) as it would probably be as accurate. Failing that, you could lock a whole lot of monkeys in a room, and who knows, the entire works of Shakespeare could be churned out!!


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    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    If you post just before midnight, and your post gets one thousand thanks the next day, you still won't get post of the day, not sure why that was changed - think a post should be able to get 'post of the day' - no matter which day it was posted.

    Anyway, I think that 'You Laugh You Lose' should remain in the running, unfair to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

    How about, if someone posts something in the YLYL thread, that had been posted before, they get banned from posting in that thread for a month. Could make a game of it, users could join in and expose the reposters when they spot a repost of something that was posted already, within the last six months or so.


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    #14
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    I don't check post of the day that often. The reason I stopped checking it, back in the days before the YLYL thread, was because every time I checked it it was just some post from the photography forum of a leaf shot in sepia meant to symbolise the fragility of nature or a black and white photo of a knocked over street cone which reflected the encroachment of urban sprawl on man kinds naturalistic spirit.

    Won't that just happen again or was I just unlucky that the 50 or so times I checked it 48 of those times resulted in the above.

    So what do we do? Ban YLYL posts from getting POTD? Then ban the photography posts from getting it? Then when people complain it's always some smart arse remark in AH that get's it, ban AH posts from getting it? Where do you stop?


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    #15
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Ross wrote: »
    But, how do you know that it's annoying? Is there a way you can have absolute knowledge that it is annoying? No.

    You can use empirical evidence by matching thanks to images and deduce a probability, but at base you are relying on a set of assumptions about the universe.

    Therefore, Post of the Day exists.

    :D Best thread ever.


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    #16
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Ross wrote: »
    You can use empirical evidence by matching thanks to images and deduce a probability, but at base you are relying on a set of assumptions about the universe.

    Therefore, Post of the Day exists.

    I Thank therefore I am. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #17
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    strobe wrote: »
    .. because every time I checked it it was just some post from the photography forum of a leaf shot in sepia meant to symbolise the fragility of nature or a black and white photo of a knocked over street cone which reflected the encroachment of urban sprawl on man kinds naturalistic spirit.

    Ah, that's why I said last time this question came up, but you put it better that ever could :p

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68127149&postcount=9


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    IITYWYBMAD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Ah, that's why I said last time this question came up, but you put it better that ever could :p

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68127149&postcount=9

    Indeed, but it appears to matter to you more.....
    OutlawPete wrote:
    I have lost out on post of the day twice thanks to that thread just piping me by one or two thanks, not a happy bunny was I


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    #19
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    IITYWYBMAD wrote: »
    Indeed, but it appears to matter to you more.....

    I was joking :rolleyes:

    I also said I printed out the statistics and had them laminated.


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    #20
    IITYWYBMAD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    I was joking :rolleyes:

    I also said I printed out the statistics and had them laminated.

    Of course you were, as was I......

    /Edit/ {_: as per smiley


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    #21
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    IITYWYBMAD wrote: »
    Of course you were, as was I......

    /Edit/ {_: as per smiley

    You didn't use a smiley.


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    #22
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    I've got POTD 2 or 3 times since I started posting in that thread so i'm not complaining :p


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    #23
    IITYWYBMAD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭IITYWYBMAD


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    You didn't use a smiley.

    I did. You didn't recognise it.


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    #24
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    IITYWYBMAD wrote: »
    I did. You didn't recognise it.

    Let me see ..
    IITYWYBMAD wrote: »
    Indeed, but it appears to matter to you more.....

    Oh I see it now, you used an invisible smiley - didn't notice at first, apologies.


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    #25
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    If you post just before midnight, and your post gets one thousand thanks the next day, you still won't get post of the day, not sure why that was changed - think a post should be able to get 'post of the day' - no matter which day it was posted.

    It's not that way...:confused: Look at today's POTD, posted on 27/10 after 4pm. today's the 29/10, so it is based on most thanks, though i'd say on a thanks per day basis

    jaysus pete, get your facts right :P


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    #26
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    It's not that way...:confused: Look at today's POTD, posted on 27/10 after 4pm.

    That got post of the for the 27th, the day it was posted.

    This got post of the day yesterday ..

    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68730363

    .. and it was posted yesterday.

    today's the 29/10, so it is based on most thanks, though i'd say on a thanks per day basis
    whiteman19 wrote: »
    ..jaysus pete, get your facts right :P

    :cool:

    Maybe I'm wrong, but the chances of me being wrong twice in one decade, are highly unlikely to be fair :p


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    #27
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Just on this how is thread of the day selected?

    The current selection is to with FÁS training course.
    It's informative though not exactly memorable

    What's the process for thread of the day?
    Thanks


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    #28
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Just on this how is thread of the day selected?

    The current selection is to with FÁS training course.
    It's informative though not exactly memorable

    What's the process for thread of the day?
    Thanks
    Random. At least that's been the answer every other time that question was asked.


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    #29
    RolandIRL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    has the time at which POTD changed changed? it changed today after 4pm iirc. used to be at midnight.


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    #30
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    whiteman19 wrote: »
    has the time at which POTD changed changed? it changed today after 4pm iirc. used to be at midnight.

    I was going to say, I checked at 2am and it was still the same as yesterday


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    #31
    ibarelycare
    Registered Users Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    POTD is from 31st October :confused: Has it not changed in a couple of days?


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