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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2006, 01:06:11 PM »
now hold on there billy! Are you sure PLA has a "Search" button? 
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2006, 01:42:44 PM »
Ya, Arbie, what ever happened to that?

I can't think of how many times I've wanted to search for stuff on the site and googlebot doesn't do a good job at it.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2006, 06:43:28 AM »
 It would take forever to do all that stuff before you post! Barely anybody would do it.

 I don't think it would help much.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2006, 07:36:24 AM »
I personally think that Flash is awesome. If there were a way to prevent anyone from posting without first seeing that or the rules (if they were put on a splash page when one first registers for the forums...?) there may be people who would read them and heed them. Hopefully, at least.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2006, 10:24:24 AM »
Quote from: Raptor on October 27, 2006, 01:06:11 PM
now hold on there billy! Are you sure PLA has a "Search" button? 

I don't think it's a good idea to have a search box, because I have the feeling that some people wouldn't look at the date of the last reply.  And we would end up with a ton of old threads renewed.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #20 on: October 28, 2006, 11:21:04 AM »
Quote from: nb7899 on October 28, 2006, 10:24:24 AM
Quote from: Raptor on October 27, 2006, 01:06:11 PM
now hold on there billy! Are you sure PLA has a "Search" button? 

I don't think it's a good idea to have a search box, because I have the feeling that some people wouldn't look at the date of the last reply.  And we would end up with a ton of old threads renewed.

It's a lot better to update ancient threads with good, new material than to keep repeating over and over what has been said before.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #21 on: October 28, 2006, 11:42:24 AM »
Quote from: I-baLL on October 28, 2006, 11:21:04 AM
It's a lot better to update ancient threads with good, new material than to keep repeating over and over what has been said before.

The problem is that we don't usually get good, new material.  We get me too! posts.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #22 on: October 28, 2006, 11:44:40 AM »
Quote from: I-baLL on October 28, 2006, 11:21:04 AM
Quote from: nb7899 on October 28, 2006, 10:24:24 AM
Quote from: Raptor on October 27, 2006, 01:06:11 PM
now hold on there billy! Are you sure PLA has a "Search" button? 

I don't think it's a good idea to have a search box, because I have the feeling that some people wouldn't look at the date of the last reply.  And we would end up with a ton of old threads renewed.


I'm not saying it's a bad thing to bring back an old thread, infact I encourage it if you have something interesting to say on the topic.  The only problem is there often isn't something interesting said, and I end up wasting my time reading a whole thread because someone thought it would be cool to say, me too, LOLZ.

It's a lot better to update ancient threads with good, new material than to keep repeating over and over what has been said before.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #23 on: October 28, 2006, 12:00:30 PM »
Yeah, on threads that I know are old I instantly go to the last message to make sure it's not a "Me Too" post. Unfortunatly 95% of the time it is one. Heh, this can be constrrued as a "me too" post as well. Oh, well.

Me too.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #24 on: October 28, 2006, 02:48:06 PM »
Quote from: I-baLL on October 28, 2006, 12:00:30 PM
Heh, this can be constrrued as a "me too" post as well. Oh, well.

Me too.

At least this isn't an old thread.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #25 on: October 29, 2006, 05:41:20 PM »
No, it isn't.

I think it would almost be more feasible to have a probationary period for new members, where they would have only a certain amount of posts until they couldn't post any more unless granted full forum status by the mods or something. If someone knows they only have 10 posts and they'd better make them count, there's a higher chance that they would.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #26 on: October 29, 2006, 05:48:05 PM »
Quote from: mattgsx on October 29, 2006, 05:41:20 PM
No, it isn't.

I think it would almost be more feasible to have a probationary period for new members, where they would have only a certain amount of posts until they couldn't post any more unless granted full forum status by the mods or something. If someone knows they only have 10 posts and they'd better make them count, there's a higher chance that they would.

The problem for me isn't stemming from new people but from existing members. Most of them don't contribute much if at all.
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #27 on: October 30, 2006, 02:45:57 AM »
Guys:

I was reading this and I just managed myself two questions:

1-   Why my previous post was the only one deleted on this thread, seriously it wasn’t’ that bad.
2-   Why most of the threads here finish with a topic that it has nothing to do with the post’s subject?


PS: the flash was awesome
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Re: Questions about building phreak boxes.
« Reply #28 on: October 30, 2006, 10:06:21 AM »
Quote from: FB on October 30, 2006, 02:45:57 AM
Guys:

I was reading this and I just managed myself two questions:

1-   Why my previous post was the only one deleted on this thread, seriously it wasn’t’ that bad.
2-   Why most of the threads here finish with a topic that it has nothing to do with the post’s subject?


PS: the flash was awesome


Me too.
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