Issue: Interaction of Suicide threads and AP dumps
Awful lot of AP threads out there... I think they're indicative of something... symptom, rather than cause. Anyway... Please read this out before making a judgement based solely on the fact that the thread relates to antipoints.
I think it's one of the more insidious practices going on here... A user will choose a bunch of people in a thread, none of whom they particularly like, and a few who they may want to get at. They then assign as many points as they can within the posts of that thread. The thread will often reach suicide, and after that point the assignments made in the thread cannot be reversed because AP assigning is prevented. It becomes inconvenient for other users to give positives, and the negative points assigned are more 'effective' from a sadistic point of view.
I would like to suggest that suicidal threads be allowed to accept POSITIVE antipoints. Thus, if there is enough community support, a thread may be 'resurrected' out of a 'suicide' attempt. Personally, I feel that many of the threads that are suicidal now are actually good, they simply sank to a low AP level and were stuck. If they had not been closed, the eventual AP levels would have evened out over time.
suicide threads............resolved?
i just put this in its own thread, but since something similar was discussed already i have moved it here. i have now read this thread to find out that it wasn't fully discussed or resolved. the thread just ends. is this it with this topic? has there not been enough member intrest? or is it just that hard to implement? please do feel free to comment on my dual thread view although i suspect that this would be impossible to implement by comparison to the other problem, which seems easier to integrate from the point of view of a person who has not a clue how the site is organised.....
based on the premise, no single member should have the power to close a thread and multiple members should have the power to reopen a thread i bring you this:
firstly, by no single member, i refer to members who give OR receive ap's negatively, in a single discussion thread. that is to say that the ap system monitors a discussion based on the quality of its subject matter by input from the members on a single discussion viewpoint entry basis, based on their opinions. so what if a discussion is perfectly legitimate, not of biblical quality, a normal conversation - enjoyed and contributed to by multiple members and a single user abuses the system? well either the thread will become extremely positive or sucidal. the extremely positive abuse case generally means that it is the ap giver but the thread is open and can still be rectified, but i digress, it is not in the scope of this thread header. with the sucidal case it could be the author of a post or the ap contributer, since i am talking about abuse, the post's content or the reviewers opinion is irrelevant. of course to resolve this, the sucidal thread would have to be reopened, by moderators(?assumption) or perhaps multiple members. in my opinion, if it were possible to donate ap's to a thread (that is discussion - the flow of thoughts based on the subject matter) perhaps only sucidal threads, and certain conditions were met (number of members who contributed, ap's contributed) the thread could be reopened. of course this may lead to other forms of abuse (of course of course). and the amount of legitimate threads that are closed due to a single member are probably minute. so it may not be worth altering the system. i do think the sucidal threads are a great feature, normally only the weak ones top themselves, like the one post wonders.
instead of opening another thread with a different subject matter:
however, there would be the problem of merging threads of the same topic that were spawned due to the closing of the parent. append the threads? no of course not. thats when i thought along of the related topics feature, and i wondered about dual-thread viewing. first off, i don't know if this would be practical to code or maintain. but i am viewing 1280x1024 pixels on a 19" and i think that it would work visually. navigate with a next_page1 or next_page2 or next_page1&2. for lower resolutions and smaller screens perhaps an 'optimised' view without the extra member info under avatar, or perhaps an avatarless view mode, to create more horizontal space and speed.
this thought process was brought to you in association with
http://www.antionline.com/showthrea...threadid=237619
& (i haven't read the first one yet, which i have listed second)
http://www.antionline.com/showthrea...threadid=237579
Quote:
dont respond to old threads, this thread has long been dead look at the flashing date
you ass, do you even know how illogical a thing this is to say? firstly you make a statement, an order to me to not respond to old threads, and if this wasn't bad enough, you then justify it by saying that because the date is flashing the thread is long dead. for messages | the date is flashing -> thread is dead & don't respond. even if you aren't a complete ass, and this was supposed to be sarchastic, fyi, the thread is ▒▓▒▓▒░not closed░▓▒▓▒▓
