PLEASE Cliff!! (Page 1/4)
fierofetish OCT 22, 04:31 AM
Can we have a new 'Section' dedicated to 'copy and paste' threads? T/OT seems to be more and more links to Media 'News' items which , if we are interested in them, we can find them for ourselves , should we feel the need. . I know we don't have to click on them...but the numbers of these threads have swelled enormously over the past year .
I always enjoyed reading threads that were 'personal' from PFF Members, about their own 'News' and mishaps and joyful events, and even being able to share in the sad and heartbreaking ones, because we can post supporting messages and send our best wishes and congratulations etc.
Just seems to me that there is enough gloom and doom in the World, without reading about it here
Now, it becomes a labour of love trying to sift through the threads which, really,IMHO, belong on the TV or Newspapers
Yep, it is common knowledge here that I neither like, nor trust, most Media outlets, because the truth is invariably 'spiced-up' to become 'sensationalised' to the point of being nonsense
Ah well...just a little mini-rant from me...but I wonder how many poeople here agree?
Nick.
'Flamesuit hanging on the back of my chair ready to don if needed
cliffw OCT 22, 06:05 AM
Heh it's not just cut and pastes, it hot links also. Such as ...

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Thread title
Oh My Gosh, How Cool Is This ?


Opening text of thread ...

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"Look at this"

followed by some link. No narrative, many times nothing which would attract at all.
I'll tell you Nick, just like I have told James, just like I do myself. Hit the back button. Also, we can see the thread starter next to the thread title. It is easy to figure out which threads to not even need the back button on as I don't even click on them.
FieroRumor OCT 22, 07:41 AM
I know what you are saying (there sre days I see several stories on Drudge, and then I come here and see it again, I've posted some myself, sometimes) but you can just NOT read them... But I know, there are days it's not much 'fun' to read through OT...

I've done less 'newspasting' especially if its negative stuff...
Boondawg OCT 22, 07:52 AM

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Originally posted by fierofetish:

Can we have a new 'Section' dedicated to 'copy and paste' threads? T/OT seems to be more and more links to Media 'News' items which , if we are interested in them, we can find them for ourselves , should we feel the need. . I know we don't have to click on them...but the numbers of these threads have swelled enormously over the past year.



I would like to see how well an "ignore this member" button would work.
That way, if you didn't like someones constant "picking" at everything you post, you could just make them invisable in your threads.
And they you, which SHOULD solve THIER problem with you...
fierofetish OCT 22, 08:48 AM

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Originally posted by cliffw:

Heh it's not just cut and pastes, it hot links also. Such as ...
Opening text of thread ...
[QUOTE]
"Look at this"

followed by some link. No narrative, many times nothing which would attract at all.
I'll tell you Nick, just like I have told James, just like I do myself. Hit the back button. Also, we can see the thread starter next to the thread title. It is easy to figure out which threads to not even need the back button on as I don't even click on them.[/QUOTE]
Yes that is true Cliffw...but the point I DIDN'T mak, and should have, is that these threads bump to page 2 stuff that IS really interesting And I have become accustomed to just keeping up with page 1 THAT is the problem I have with them. Nothing to do with selective options such as the back button I very rarely read threads that don't interest me much, except when I have nothing to do and have no work to get on with! THEN the thread titles on the T/OT turn to a sea of...whetever colour they are when they have been clicked on And if a thread I want to follow has dropped off page 1, I invariably have a link to it in my 'favourites' or 'recent posts' list down the LHS of the screen.
Nick
JazzMan OCT 22, 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by Boondawg:


I would like to see how well an "ignore this member" button would work.
That way, if you didn't like someones constant "picking" at everything you post, you could just make them invisable in your threads.
And they you, which SHOULD solve THIER problem with you...



Yeah, this is a feature that I've seem implemented on other boards that seems to work out well. Even in threads not started by someone who you don't want to see, you'll be scanning along through the thread and bam, step right in something that person left in a thread, like a doggie bomb. On my PC I have enough resolution on the screen to see the name of the poster off to the left of the article, and I can skip based on that, but on my phone my screen is small enough that I have to zoom in on the article text fully in order for these old eyes to read, which means the author's name is off to the left off-screen. Sploop. Damn, now it's in my toes, figuratively speaking.

The request for this feature has come up before with no results, but if I hazarded a guess I'd say Cliff was way too busy doing the day work that pays his mortgage and puts food on his family's table to be able to code that feature in. That, IMHO, is a far higher priority than this forum.
avengador1 OCT 22, 12:29 PM
http://www.phrases.org.uk/m...-of-the-kitchen.html

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If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen

Meaning

Don't persist with a task if the pressure of it is too much for you. The implication being that, if you can't cope, you should leave the work to someone who can.

Origin

This is widely reported as being coined by US President Harry S. Truman. That's almost correct, but in fact Truman was known to have used it at least as early as 1942 - before becoming president. Here's a citation from an Idaho newspaper The Soda Springs Sun, from July that year:


"Favorite rejoinder of Senator Harry S. Truman, when a member of his war contracts investigating committee objects to his strenuous pace: 'If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen'."

He used a version slightly nearer the one most often used nowadays, in 1949, after becoming president, when warning his staff not to concern themselves over criticism about their appointments:


"I'll stand by [you] but if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."
twofatguys OCT 22, 12:39 PM

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Originally posted by JazzMan:


Yeah, this is a feature that I've seem implemented on other boards that seems to work out well. Even in threads not started by someone who you don't want to see, you'll be scanning along through the thread and bam, step right in something that person left in a thread, like a doggie bomb. On my PC I have enough resolution on the screen to see the name of the poster off to the left of the article, and I can skip based on that, but on my phone my screen is small enough that I have to zoom in on the article text fully in order for these old eyes to read, which means the author's name is off to the left off-screen. Sploop. Damn, now it's in my toes, figuratively speaking.

The request for this feature has come up before with no results, but if I hazarded a guess I'd say Cliff was way too busy doing the day work that pays his mortgage and puts food on his family's table to be able to code that feature in. That, IMHO, is a far higher priority than this forum.



I'd go hang out on those forums then, obviously no reason for you to be here since it sucks so bad.

Brad
blackrams OCT 22, 01:08 PM
There are lots of threads I open due to whatever reason, when I don't get what I expect or it turns out to be a topic that I choose to not post in, I hit the back button. There are also threads that I would not put my stamp of approval on but, that's my problem, not the community's. Again, it's my option to hit the back button and ignore it or let my personal feelings be known. That is always my option. With communications at the zenith of capability and improving, I would have to suggest that there are many options for those not wishing to participate besides just hitting the back button. I would fully support an ignore button for individual posters but that has been discussed previously and Cliff has chosen to not implement for whatever reason. So, I exercise my options again and ignore the poster. Cliff house, Cliff's rules. Seems to work for most of us.

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Ron
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tbone42 OCT 22, 01:30 PM
I'm all for an "ignore" button. For example, I would like to read and participate in some political threads, just not those spewed out at a rate of a dozen a day or so by some members who apparently have no life or job. . If I "uncheck" politics, I miss what others who are not addicted to flood-posting politics are saying.. if I leave it checked, I have to sort through all sorts of garbage to find something worth reading. Just my opinion.

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