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I do a lot of research, and often I'll read thousands and thousands of words just for a few sentences worth of valuable information. Over the years I've become quite good at skimming text and finding the relevant bits without really focusing on the "noise". I do the same thing here, so I guess I have an internal, real-time ignore function in my brain.
Edit: If the desire for an ignore function is driven for the ease of finding relevant information and not for some spiteful "idon'twannaseethatguy" reasons, I suggest we institute a non-wall of text function. Or at least force people to break their posts up into paragraphs and use punctuation, because that kinda thing slows me down more than anything when I'm trying to find useful information on the threads. :)
I'd like one too, frankly.+1. I'm with you.
tangenital; ergo spoilered....
Giant Veeeeery gint veeeeeery avansed.....stuff.
CELESTAL ginat veeeeeeery ginat veeeeeeerrry avanced....stuff.
fun.
Bella Sara Charter Superscriber
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Ya know, I rarely, if ever, play any type of seniority card because, well, it's pretty stupid and meaningless and there is no correlation between the value of what someone has to say and how long they've been posting here at Paizo....100% true.
Sorry I didn't read the rest of your post.
You ignored it! and without a button!
I'm so proud.
You are officially my new pal.
Or is it N00b pal?
Hmmm...
Yes. But....
if he had the button, he could ignore the fact that every time he breathes, one of the molecules of O2 he inhaled has been befouled by your lungs.
Back in the day, it was so nice when the arrows appeared and I could close the 4e section.
So nice.
Ya know, I rarely, if ever, play any type of seniority card because, well, it's pretty stupid and meaningless and there is no correlation between the value of what someone has to say and how long they've been posting here at Paizo....100% true.
Sorry I didn't read the rest of your post.
Actually, maybe 99% true.
Here's why.I've noticed that pretty much damn near most all the time, the guy you need the ingore function for?
He'll be gone in 6 months or less.
Hmmm......wonder why that is?
Brainy;......do YOUUUUUUUU have any idea why that is?
Reach for it.....make....that cognitive leap......fly little bird! fly! fly!
(except me. I'm here due to the fact that the server is sitting on a Hyperborean lich's burial site, and it pisses him off immeasurably).
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ThisYes. But....
if he had the button, he could ignore the fact that every time he breathes, one of the molecules of O2 he inhaled has been befouled by your lungs.
Back in the day, it was so nice when the arrows appeared and I could close the 4e section.
So nice.
You do know that Spanky is laughing at you, and not with you, right?
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Ok, first some one tell Mr. Fishy is Troll score...
Second if the people on the internet offend you you then maybe you shouldn't be here. Mr. Fishy is a CARTOON FISH that speaks in the third person, if he does some thimg to upset you you have two choices.
1. GET THE HELL OVER IT, you got your dander up over a cartoon fish. What are you three, GROW UP.
2. Ignore Mr. Fishy's post by...this is going to blow your mind...not reading it. If you read Mr. Fishy post you are pay him homage if you respond you are glorifing him.
If you hate some thing kill it or ignore it to do otherwise is to glorify it.
Mr. Fishy would prefer a summary feature for very long post. You know who you are. As for the silly post and Avatars Mr. Fishy can only say.
TIER FISHY AIR BREATHERS!!!
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You do know that Spanky is laughing at you, and not with you, right?ThisYes. But....
if he had the button, he could ignore the fact that every time he breathes, one of the molecules of O2 he inhaled has been befouled by your lungs.
Back in the day, it was so nice when the arrows appeared and I could close the 4e section.
So nice.
Yeah he's part of your set, its already been established that you have your camp and Teter does nothing to dissuade the derails you guys laugh about in FAWTL ....
But I don't care what Spanky is doing - what he said was true, hence the "this" part.
Keep up the insults though, I think it helps build a good rep for this company and how they run their boards.
ghosty posty!!!
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Yeah he's part of your set, its already been established that you have your camp and Teter does nothing to dissuade the derails you guys laugh about in FAWTL ....But I don't care what Spanky is doing - what he said was true, hence the "this" part.
Keep up the insults though, I think it helps build a good rep for this company and how they run their boards.
You're really bad at this ignore thing, aren't you? No wonder you want a button.
Look, it's cute that you've got a bad case of sour grapes about not being part of the in-crowd. Really, I like the bitterness, and think it adds a level of persuasiveness to posts that might otherwise come off as whiney and pathetic. But it's not like the in-crowd is an exclusive affair. Just get off your high horse and come have a virtual drink with us.
Or, you can keep crying about how there are people here who are friends and make jokes and they should stop that because you're not part of the group. I'm sure these forums would be a better place if only the Paizo staff would help you stomp all the fun out of us.
Why did I bail off of all those forums that didn't get me and my antics?
Why didn't I just....insist that they changed their ways? They all were wrong. Not me. I'm such a loser.
Look, it's cute that you've got a bad case of sour grapes about not being part of the in-crowd. Really, I like the bitterness, and think it adds a level of persuasiveness to posts that might otherwise come off as whiney and pathetic. But it's not like the in-crowd is an exclusive affair. Just get off your high horse and come have a virtual drink with us.
Or, you can keep crying about how there are people here who are friends and make jokes and they should stop that because you're not part of the group. I'm sure these forums would be a better place if only the Paizo staff would help you stomp all the fun out of us.
Emphasis bolded.
Yeah. We let Urizen in.
He's from the place Gummo was filmed.
Excuse me, I got to get a job done for the butcher.
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Ok, first some one tell Mr. Fishy (h)is Troll score...
Glorious Troll Nation has recorded a score of 437.6 Troll Points for Mr. Fishy. This score awards the rank of Demigod of Trolldom. Points break down as follows:
3 points = Content of posts
.6 points = Cartoon Fish Avatar
434 points = Unfailing reference to self in third person
Obvious Troll boasts a Troll Score of 250, and Obvious Troll is a freaking TROLL, to give Mr. Fishy some type of frame of reference.
Smurfing has never really made me unable to pick out useful information (although, at the point a thread is smurfed, there is likely no useful information) or the ongoing debate (often just two groups of people yelling at each other and not making any headway).
I would attribute part of this to the fact that a typical "smurfing" post is very brief while a "on-topic" post are many times larger, packed with words, and hard to read through. I might take a minute to read the ten smurf posts on a page, but two minutes to read the on topic post.
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As for an ignore function, it isn't really come as useful for myself. I have used ignore functions in the past. Whenever I did it, ignoring someone was less to not have to read their posts, because I could do that already by scrolling, and more to have some sort of irrefutable victory over them.
Posting incessant, insane complaining about a company's product? IGNORED! On several occasions describe some group of gamers as idiots/sheep/etc for following some company? IGNORED!
With an ignore fuction I felt like I was more in control of moderation of the forums rather than just flagging something and wondering why a moderator didn't do something about it.
But it was never a way to keep a thread clear of "junk," because that poster still was posting and other posters keep responding to him/her leaving me with the same problem as before, that I have to scroll past junk that I don't want to read. That, or I just ignore that poster and everyone that talks/argues with them, which I believe would be more likely to get rid of all the posts in a forum than it is to present you with just the good information and reasonable discussion.
I believe that, rather than ignoring, it is better to just learn how to scroll past posts that you know you don't want to read along with flagging posters that are being inappropriate instead of getting one's self drawn into an firey arguement with them.
I'm not sure if the fact that I just minimized the Off-Topic forum to remove a single thread* from my view hinders my argument or not.
*Although there are certainly more threads there that I don't care for.
Really, I like the bitterness, and think it adds a level of persuasiveness to posts that might otherwise come off as whiney and pathetic.
Not to mention that bitterness, when properly harvested, is an excellent ingredient in cooking. I like to put some in my milk at night - helps me sleep.
Edit: If the desire for an ignore function is driven for the ease of finding relevant information and not for some spiteful "idon'twannaseethatguy" reasons, I suggest we institute a non-wall of text function. Or at least force people to break their posts up into paragraphs and use punctuation, because that kinda thing slows me down more than anything when I'm trying to find useful information on the threads.
This. Would bad things happen if I started flagging posts for illegibility?
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Edit: If the desire for an ignore function is driven for the ease of finding relevant information and not for some spiteful "idon'twannaseethatguy" reasons, I suggest we institute a non-wall of text function. Or at least force people to break their posts up into paragraphs and use punctuation, because that kinda thing slows me down more than anything when I'm trying to find useful information on the threads.This. Would bad things happen if I started flagging posts for illegibility?
So aside from the fact that Paizo doesn't want to alienate the large number (not as a percentage mind you) of marginally literate folks who buy their product this is likely to alienate the English as a second language folks. I often find myself wondering "Is this guy a foreigner or just someone who is too lazy to post intelligently?" I love the fact that this is an international community and wouldn't want to see the folks who struggle with English driven off.
Then there is the fact that Paizo staffers likely get entirely too many posts flagged with my name on them already.
And I know your post was in jest...
Edit: If the desire for an ignore function is driven for the ease of finding relevant information and not for some spiteful "idon'twannaseethatguy" reasons, I suggest we institute a non-wall of text function. Or at least force people to break their posts up into paragraphs and use punctuation, because that kinda thing slows me down more than anything when I'm trying to find useful information on the threads.This. Would bad things happen if I started flagging posts for illegibility?So aside from the fact that Paizo doesn't want to alienate the large number (not as a percentage mind you) of marginally literate folks who buy their product this is likely to alienate the English as a second language folks. I often find myself wondering "Is this guy a foreigner or just someone who is too lazy to post intelligently?" I love the fact that this is an international community and wouldn't want to see the folks who struggle with English driven off.
Then there is the fact that Paizo staffers likely get entirely too many posts flagged with my name on them already.
And I know your post was in jest...
I find that the ESL (or ETL, EFL...) people here have no trouble with English.
It's the ones with it as their first language who do.... ;)
(In seriousness though, I don't think I've ever found a post from someone from a non-English speaking country to be unclear. And ESL speakers tend to avoid common "textspeak" and leetspeak abbreviations, which is what I find makes posts most illegible.)
PS/ETA: ESL="English as a Second Language"
dwarf elf gnome half-elf halfling half-orc human orc
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Sorry, just a test post.
This isn't the post you're looking for.
He can go about his business.
Move along.
dwarf elf gnome half-elf halfling half-orc human orc
** spoiler omitted **
Sorry, just a test post.
This isn't the post you're looking for.
He can go about his business.Move along.
I haven't installed it yet (will shortly) but I got your email and am looking forward to testing this!
@another_mage: I didn't know what you meant about the code lagging a page load or two behind but I get it now. Upon refresh it works :)
Great stuff, now to see about getting past that "bug". If it helps any, we have a few scripts in the collaborator forum on the site with similar functionality (and which may have clues to getting past the refresh/reload issue)
@another_mage: I didn't know what you meant about the code lagging a page load or two behind but I get it now. Upon refresh it works :)
Great stuff, now to see about getting past that "bug". If it helps any, we have a few scripts in the collaborator forum on the site with similar functionality (and which may have clues to getting past the refresh/reload issue)
I just generated a full blown topic map (1400+), and the browser comes back with the unresponsive script dialog.
Looks like I need to throw in an optimization or two. I think pre-qualifing the search terms on a per-post basis should work.
I just generated a full blown topic map (1400+), and the browser comes back with the unresponsive script dialog.
Looks like I need to throw in an optimization or two. I think pre-qualifing the search terms on a per-post basis should work.
Well, like I said, not sure if there's anything usable or not but we have a couple Greasemonkey scripts on the collab boards you could look at. Maybe there's something plunder-able, who knows?
Well, like I said, not sure if there's anything usable or not but we have a couple Greasemonkey scripts on the collab boards you could look at. Maybe there's something plunder-able, who knows?
Be sure to grab the updated version I've released tonight. It works better with large topic maps.
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizo/websiteFeedback/messageboardAuto Linking&page=1#0
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists.
(assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)
Link to that script please?
-- david
Papa.DRB
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists.(assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)
Is that wise to answer? Unless it's to discuss your reasons for ignoring them.
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists.(assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)
Since you will be on each others /Ignore list, he will never see your response.
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Is that wise to answer? Unless it's to discuss your reasons for ignoring them.
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists.(assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)
Since you will be on each others /Ignore list, he will never see your response.
I was thinking more of people you are ignoring that have no idea or are not using the ignore feature.
Link to that script please?
-- david
Papa.DRB
Here's the post with the instructions for using the script.
The ignore feature script is thus:
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~meade/greasemonkey/paizo_ignore.user.js
Is that wise to answer? Unless it's to discuss your reasons for ignoring them.
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists.(assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)
TriOmegaZero was on my ignore list.
But only for testing purposes, honest!
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Is that wise to answer? Unless it's to discuss your reasons for ignoring them.
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists.(assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)
TriOmegaZero was on my ignore list.
But only for testing purposes, honest!
How dare you, knave! I shall ignore you furiously for this!
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I suggest we institute a non-wall of text function. Or at least force people to break their posts up into paragraphs and use punctuation, because that kinda thing slows me down more than anything when I'm trying to find useful information on the threads. :)
Can we impose the use of capitalization as well?
Perhaps auto-spellcheck the word 'rogue.'
I don't know if I qualify as a grammar nazi, but I am darn tootin' a style nazi.
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists. (assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)
Even though I am now making extensive use of this wonderful ignore feature, I don't think it would be proper to discuss who is on each others lists. Just know by logic that you are not on mine :)
Just curious who you all have on your /Ignore lists. (assuming you are running the greasemonkey script)Even though I am now making extensive use of this wonderful ignore feature, I don't think it would be proper to discuss who is on each others lists. Just know by logic that you are not on mine :)
I"ve added all the paizo staff to my /ignore list.
And if you wonder why I no longer respond to you or Sebastian . . .