rec if new msg board format sucks a

Message ID: 385749
Posted By: heimdal31
Posted On: 2006-07-02 00:28:00
Subject: Re: rec if new msg board format sucks a

Not sure how long it will be available, but you can still get the old format by using:

http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=topics&board=1600684464&sid=1600684464&type =r

If they ever kill that, then I suspect that Yahoeuvre is dead.

Message ID: 385754
Posted By: alan_the_eagle_2006
Posted On: 2006-07-02 02:54:00
Subject: Re: rec if new msg board format sucks a

"Please rec if YHOO's new msg board format sucks"

What new format? I don't see any changes.

Message ID: 385756
Posted By: boyle_m_owl
Posted On: 2006-07-02 02:56:00
Subject: Re: rec if new msg board format sucks a

Go to the "Try the new Stock Message Boards"
link.

It's entirely teh sux0r

--
BMO

Message ID: 385794
Posted By: phandsvrta
Posted On: 2006-07-02 09:37:00
Subject: Re: rec if new msg board format sucks a

I hate it.

I don't like how the minimum rating still hides a lot of posts.

I also note that it says there are 68050 messages when there are 385792 or so on the old board. Maybe that's the effect of the hiding of posts whether you like it or not.

Message ID: 385810
Posted By: phandsvrta
Posted On: 2006-07-02 10:31:00
Subject: Re: rec if new msg board format sucks a

Actually, what I thought was hiding posts was just the fact that it presents things as topics and threads, as opposed to the old, sequentially numbered posts way. My bad. I don't hate it *quite* so much now. I guess the 68055 number is the topic count, not the post count.

Message ID: 385998
Posted By: chad_hangingus
Posted On: 2006-07-02 18:48:00
Subject: New format easier to ignore trolls

The threaded discussions take some getting used to, but it's a lot easier just to skip the troll threads. Okay, responding keeps bumping them up to the top, but who cares? Just keep ignoring them.

To disrupt the board the trolls will have to devise a new strategy. Even if they spawn multiple new threads it's still pretty easy to scroll past them.

Message ID: 386001
Posted By: infosecgroupie
Posted On: 2006-07-02 19:13:00
Subject: Re: New format easier to ignore trolls

>> Okay, responding keeps bumping them up to the top, but who cares? <<

This absolutely fucking sucks.

I just managed to bump a thread buried several pages down right up to the top by posting a reply.

The implications of that for trolls and troll-feeders is pretty overwhelming.

The new Y! message board suck the big one, and hard...

i_s_g

Message ID: 386007
Posted By: crunchie812
Posted On: 2006-07-02 19:43:00
Subject: Re: New format easier to ignore trolls

I just gave the posts in this thread and the "SCOX LOST 187 CLAIMS" 5 stars. Looks like if only one person rates posts in a thread, his rating is the average rating, unrated doesn't count. You have to go to the trouble to low rate a troll thread if the trolls are giving each other high points.

Message ID: 386010
Posted By: infosecgroupie
Posted On: 2006-07-02 19:51:00
Subject: Re: New format easier to ignore trolls

uh..

But I don't want to bother getting into a rating war with trolls.

When someone replies to a troll thread, the top post reappears, and [if] you look at the thread, you see the original post first, and all the replies are nested below it.

I just want to *plonk* the trolls, never see anything by them again, and also *plonk* the idiots who keep consistenly replying to the trolls.

That way, I see hardly anything of the troll threads at all...

i_s_g

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