[birdcloud]

well okay, for you, bbp

numbers are back overnight get crazy
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boy, you are quick!

man, those numbers add like a whole new layer of ... something!

i never knew vision had this many fans, actually

and... whoa, yeah, this is interesting stuff!

gonna roam some more now with my heart goggles!

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[spinach]

psychocybernetics!
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

no, I mean, what is that bullshit you just posted

adjusting to new concepts through timeframe mentality is for things that you are doing to improve yourself, such as flossing.

this is just you telling us that you want to enact some new feature so much that, no matter how or why we object to it upon it's immediate arrival, you're convinced we should leave it until we get used to it. that's not how it fucking works! There is obvious and open challenge to the idea that this is a good thing, yet you're implying we should treat it like a good thing (or not a bad thing) in order to 'give it a chance'.

[spinach]

nah it's just habits, regardless of purpose

nature doesn't know the difference
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

what

I'm not saying it doesn't work for other things, I'm saying that it's wrong to apply it to other things in this particular instance!
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[Touran]

DAIS, I upvoted all your posts.

I'm all for a smoother front-end and some of these ideas are great, but rating posts and threads is a seriously terrible idea.

Having this place turn from some hole in the wall dive bar to a bar with actual tables and chairs is awesome - just don't turn it into a club or disco where the ambient noise and flashy lights make it harder to hold a conversation.
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Man, I'm sorry.

[| BLUE | BLACK | PURPLE |]

see, DAIS, that's more like it. express yourself, son.

i can rip your non-arguments to shreds thusly:

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

yeah, I'm not even going to fucking read that nonsense because I can see by skimming it that it/'s your usual useless crap. fuck you. you're a shit poster and I'm glad I missed whatever mess you made back at IC.
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[negativedge]

god bbp, are you really going to make me go into detail on why this is a really bad idea

because I'll fucking do it (tomorrow)

[| BLUE | BLACK | PURPLE |]

negz0r i will fight you to the death on this (the day after tomorrow)

[Toups]

yeah I'm not really into this rating idea but I guess it'll be fun to see how it goes for a few days
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[Tokyo Rude]

Making this a "hidden" number like post counts maybe?

Like a popup?

I don't know. I'm :/ to the idea.

[Tokyo Rude]

[Mr. Mechanical]

I'm actually kind of liking the potion thing now that it's doing something.

Though eventually we're going to start arguing about how we need another button to take away hearts for posts we don't like or whatever and by that point I'm going to be like well why don't we just add a diggbar type thing to the site and be done with it.

Actually I guess posts you don't like/don't find noteworthy you could just not potion and let them stand as they are. At least that way the positive/negative reinforcement social aspect is a bit more uhhh... fuzzy, I guess is the word I'm drawing right now at the moment and I think it's the right word for what I'm trying to express here.

That being that the potion thing is a neat idea for some kind of positive reinforcement of especially noteworthy posts, like what Post of the Week was originally intended to be once upon time when some of us (>.>) still cared about the general decorum of the place, but at the same time has the added benefit of not having a "digg down" button so all of the actual reinforcing will be positive/neutral. Depending on whether you decide to potion someone's post or not.
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[diplo]

can't we just replace the potion with flacid male genitalia

the more users click on it, the harder it gets

one-hundred up-votes and it shoots

it would be sort of like, "how fast can we jerk off X's post?"

[Drem]

Hey birdcloud, I think it would be nice if by every post was a small smiley face that when clicked would cycle through the smilies. It would help make this place a lot happier, since there will be a lot of smiles. It will also give me something to do while reading posts.

[birdcloud]

Crunched some numbers, ran some queries, TURNS OUT the highest heart post was TMKF saying NO to Potions. Runners up of note include

so excited

suck my dick

AND

can we make this a potion circle jerk thread where everyone who is posting has to click everyone else's potion

So: EXPERIMENT OVER. That was tough! In the middle there, didn't know if we would make it! But now we are here, potion free, ready for the future about to come.
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[Tokyo Rude]

Actual recommendations for the non-active mods (or axe mods I guess):

Ability to split threads.
Ability to flat out COPY POST (good for potential front page stuff and idea I have.)

Ability for someone to delete their own post at anytime maybe? I'm trying to think of the reprecussions of that.

[Drem]

I think you're just waiting for the withdrawal symptoms to kick in.

[spinach]

if we do that last thing there won't be any Troops posts left, i'm afraid
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[spinach]

birdcloud that was kind of hasty, it hadn't gotten past the new toy/diversion phase of its lifecycle

even quick reply had a breaking in period before its novelty wore off
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[birdcloud]

okay now they back

i dont know what to do?

hey what if you only got FIVE potions a day
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Yeah those two weeks sure went by pretty quick didn't they?

Oh hey they're back again.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

[spinach]

just sit back
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[birdcloud]

hey what if potions only had a TWO in THREE chance of working

what if potions sometimes land a CRITICAL HEART and up everyone in the thread

what if using potions slowly stains your avatar red so that everyone knows when you become a potion abuser
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Whoa those are all some pretty wild ideas man. I like where your head is!

But I'm still waiting for extralife's big Argument Against.
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[diplo]

each member has fifty hp allowed in a day; users can downrate their posts (poison potions) so that a poster's hp lowers; once a person's hp hits zero, it is impossible for them to post until the next day, or until users normal-portion them to raise their hp; any poster can co-op a post with up to five people for a combined total of 350 hp; if that collective hp of the original poster is reduced to zero, every poster involved in the group has their hp drop to zero

lol

[BotageL]

[Gironika]

wordfilter-request:
[sentence with "potion" and "hate"] -> Potions are totally GNARLY
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[Toups]

we can split threads, we just can't merge them. I would really like to see a merge thread function.
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[BotageL]

Yeah, actually, that's what I thought Rudie said. I'm sure it's what he meant. If not, well, it's what I meant.
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[birdcloud]

By merging threads A & B do you mean

1) append B in order to A and delete B

OR

2) interleave A & B into one thread by post time (so it might go A1 A2 B1 A3 B2 etc)

Either should be pretty easy.
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[secret character]

I like hearts/potions as a little throwaway way of saying something, practically meaningless. It would be cool if they had more of a game aspect to them ala what birdcloud said.
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[BotageL]

You know, Birdcloud, I actually haven't thought about which way would be more useful. Probably go with option 2, though, as it would make for more hilarious automated recontextualizations of posts. Although, Option 1 could be combined with clever thread splitting to create some fascinating conversations by a moderhater...

Flip a coin, man!
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[Toups]