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5 months ago ::
Jan 05, 2013 - 9:22AM
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Probably broken. They have all been the same forever and all of their titles contain at least one question mark. Coincidence???
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5 months ago ::
Jan 05, 2013 - 5:25PM
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It's not the feature itself that's broken--it's the threads. For some reason, all of those threads have been inexplicably endowed with massive view counts. Why, I have no idea.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real.
--Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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5 months ago ::
Jan 07, 2013 - 7:49PM
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It's not the feature itself that's broken--it's the threads. For some reason, all of those threads have been inexplicably endowed with massive view counts. Why, I have no idea.
Cause they are awesome!!
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5 months ago ::
Jan 07, 2013 - 8:05PM
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Date Joined:
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It's not the feature itself that's broken--it's the threads. For some reason, all of those threads have been inexplicably endowed with massive view counts. Why, I have no idea.
they have huge view counts because they're in the most-viewed topics list and people click them to see what they are.
anyway can we now discuss the purpose of that feature? I remember asking about this when it was first made a thing, and now that it's been demonstrably proven to be worthless beyond being a permanent front-page link to that "what do you think my character looks like?" D&D thread, can we get rid of it?
120.6. Some effects replace card draws.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 07, 2013 - 11:53PM
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they have huge view counts because they're in the most-viewed topics list and people click them to see what they are.
I'm fairly certain those same threads have been on the most-viewed list since we first moved to this software.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real.
--Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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5 months ago ::
Jan 08, 2013 - 4:42AM
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Shouldn't there be some sort of function that "degrades" their view count over time? Even if they have a tonload of views, the topics should still have a requirement of being somewhat recent.
Everything Mown does is elegant.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 08, 2013 - 6:11AM
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A trending function would be most ideal. That way an old thread that happens to spike in popularity isn't artificially decayed due to its age.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 12, 2013 - 12:33PM
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they have huge view counts because they're in the most-viewed topics list and people click them to see what they are.
I'm fairly certain those same threads have been on the most-viewed list since we first moved to this software.
That's not quite true. One of those threads popped up there within the last year. I know because I used to (when terribly bored) visit a thread that was legitimatly most viewed. Then, that thread dissappeared, being replaced by one of the ????? threads. So, at least one of those threads 'gliched out' and obtained a huge post count a good time after the switchover.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 12, 2013 - 3:21PM
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It seems likely that the glitch is caused by the threads having only question marks in their titles. Those four threads should just be deleted.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 13, 2013 - 12:37AM
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It seems likely that the glitch is caused by the threads having only question marks in their titles. Those four threads should just be deleted.
I find it hard to believe those are the only four threads that have only question marks in their names, but let's test the theory!
120.6. Some effects replace card draws.
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