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Due to the death of a perfectly fine thread with 2 posts from a Luser in them I have decided to start it again!!!
The old post was at:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...985#post547985
Anyway So what is it for? What are your thoughts ?? We still havent had a reply from JP but oh well maybe he will reply to this one!!
Hmm - No, I think the basic idea is sound. We've gone over the reasoning behind and implications of the recent changes in these treads:
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=229911
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=231102
But like any new feature Auto thread closing will take a while to bed down and there will be, as there always are, some teething troubles. I have noticed in my time here however that these sorts of issues tend to get resolved quite quickly. =]
My tuppence? Maybe we need to have suicidal posts rather than suicidal threads. And only close the entire thread if the first post 'commits suicide'. Suicidal posts in a good thread could then be hidden (the same way as spoiler posts or posts by banned users) from the main thread.
Alternatively all it might need if for JP to tweak a couple of algorithms - you'd have to ask him, 'cos after all - it's his site :)
NTSA you have good remarks on the suicidal thread thing but Redgore is talking about a funny thing on the site: the member spotlight. No one seems to know what it is for.
Or do I understood you completly wrong ntsa?
VK>> Im on about both!!! The last thread was killed because of one idiot!! That isnt fair IMO! We are also discussing the Member Spotlight again if it gets back in the swing!
This some sort of double discussion thing. The member spotlight part 1 got closed due to the suicidal thing therefor member spotlight part 2 is discussing member spotlight and suicidal threads? ;)
Yep thats it in short :P
But we still do not know what the "member spotlight" means
the following suggestions were already mentioned:
- member birthday
- a special member
- member with highest antipoints
- JP playing with our minds with useless features
- a random / default thing from JP
- JP is working on it
Wow - I'm confused.
But I s'pose that if you're not confused you're misinformed. :)
Like suggested before...
Why not make it so 1 user giving more then 1 person negs does not count twords the thread being more negative... that way its not just 1 user screwing up the thread
i think its a wonderfull suggestion
A thread should only be dropped if the first post is on the extreme negative end, the other parts to it shouldn't be suicided cause somebodys a jackhole, if someone is an ass their part of the thread should be deleted and they should be muted for n amount of hours.
Can we stick more to the Member Spotlight thing pls. The dying thread stuff should be thought secondary!! Cause its discussed elsewhere!
I agree Redgore, let's stick to the "member spotlight", more fun.
I'm guessing that the Auto-kill-thread thingy will be sorted out, as soon as JP wake's up (He's either up all the time, or he's sleeping all the thime, kinda funny)
The Spotlight thingy; well, I havn't got the foggyest idea, but I guess it will all be shown in due course :)
- Noia
A "double discussion" thread? Wow, what a time saver~!
I guess we will all have to wait and see what JP plans to do with the member spotlight feature. ;)
Im far too intrigued to wait !!! Comeon JP pls answer this thread!!
(Close threads based on total AVERAGE points assigned through all posts within that thread.)
I really don't know what it will be, I think it will probably list a name and a link to... oh... maybe 3 to 5 random accounts a day, all of which were carefully vetted by the system to make sure that they at least have some sort of photo or comment or something like that. (Wouldn't want to give links to 'dead' profiles.)
Even if those dead profiles are in the top 10 viewed profiles?......*hint* Free0n *cough*
Anyways I thought it was amusing.
I realize that I am new here, but, I have seen some suicidal threads that have had some real good points to be made and closure of that thread left me wondering what the discussion outcome would have been.
Also, I think it can be quite informative, even amusing to see the negative poster flamed.:firedevilQuote:
Due to the death of a perfectly fine thread with 2 posts from a Luser in them I have decided to start it again!!!
The old post was at:
http://www.antionline.com/showthrea...7985#post547985
YAY JP has done something with it!! Look at MsMittens lovely Mug shot :P Congrats MsMittens
Greetings All:
Since I now think it's pretty apparent what the member spotlight is, I'm going to close this thread.
thanks!
But JP, we also wanted to know how the selection was done?
Do you simply choose who...
Does it matter on recent points, treads and posts, or so on...?
We're just curious to how the selection process works...
Greetings All:
The member spotlight is probably the one area of the site that isn't driven by some algo. or statistic. It's reserved for people that I feel, at my sole discretion, help make AntiOnline what it is.
thread closed.