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Worst band problem

Shitty soundman	3 votes - 75 %
Broken pedal	1 vote - 25 %
Shitty audiance	2 votes - 50 %
Shitty booking	1 vote - 25 %
Busted snare drum	2 votes - 50 %

4 Total Votes

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wow by coryking (2.00 / 0) #1 Sat Mar 04, 2006 at 02:37:10 PM EST

Adsense spidered this page right quick. I'm seeing ads for snare drums!
We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don't please.

digg you say? by rmg (4.00 / 1) #2 Sat Mar 04, 2006 at 04:37:12 PM EST

their comment system doesn't look too good to me. not being able to reply to replies is pretty wack. your ideas about flat comment displays intrigue me though, and i see how this might be seen as some kind of hybrid of the threaded and flat approaches. i have to say though, from what little i've seen of the place, it looks like free republic's flat threading system is pretty good.

if you want to get out the word on your site, you could try trackbacks to art people's blogs or something like that. or there's deviantart and places like that.

when it comes to the email to friend thing, why not just put emails through an approval queue?

[t]rolling retards conversation, period.

: Emails by coryking (4.00 / 1) #3 Sat Mar 04, 2006 at 04:42:22 PM EST

Here is the condensed version of what happened. I didn't limit or escape the message body's content lenght. Spammers will actually exploit that kind of system by injecting MIME fragements to get the mailer to send messages to a long list of email addresses. The solution is simple - limit & properly escape the content (whatever that means). I just need to do it.
I'll look into the trackbacks. I need to play with my toy flickr account and see what exactly it "auto posts" to your weblog.
I thought the hybrid system was interesting because most news stories like that don't promote a linear discussion; there are many things to talk about. The semi-threaded approach doesn't look as cluttered or hard to read as a fully threaded system. I think digg just needs some tweaks to the apperance of the system to give it a more polished look.
None of them would apply to my sites where there is only linear discussion. The hybrid thread system looks like it would apply quite nicely to Kos & slashdot type sites.
We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don't please.
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digg by cam (2.00 / 0) #4 Sat Mar 04, 2006 at 08:39:22 PM EST

I find that layout confusing. I am not sure who is replying to who. It is fine if there are only about ten comments, buit soon as there is any complexity to the conversation it needs stepped threading.

I also consider comment rating to be either encouragement, or the removal of repugnant comments with zeros. Rating is mainly to enable the community to censor the truly repugnant without the need for an editor to get involved.

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic

yup by coryking (4.00 / 1) #11 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 03:53:54 PM EST

The layout needs work.

I think having the one level nesting is perfect once they fix the layout. It prevents annoying cascades that nobody reads (besides the two people who are writing it) and it isn't like flat comments where you can't have different discussions at once.

I think you'll see more of it once the way to lay it out is more standardized. Fully threaded comment systems are too isolating and do not help promote a true community discussion. Right now, digg needs to improve the presentation layer - but that is a topical flaw, not a fundimental flaw in single level threading.

Numarical ratings sound great in theory, but in practice they go unused by the vast majority of readers.
We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don't please.
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: Rational Ignorance by cam (2.00 / 0) #16 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 07:05:49 PM EST

I dont think rating systems have to be used universally by every user to be effective. It is enough that those who care have that ability.
cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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breadboard??? by MillMan (2.00 / 0) #5 Sat Mar 04, 2006 at 08:57:46 PM EST

that's like using a clay body prototype as an actual car body.

I never really considered face-to-face contact a possible thing. -CRwM

no... by coryking (2.00 / 0) #8 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 01:26:31 PM EST

it wasn't a breadboard actually. I'm just not sure what you call it. There was solder involved, it just wasn't on a PCB.
We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don't please.
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: "protoboard" by MillMan (2.00 / 0) #10 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 02:42:56 PM EST

As long as things are soldered down, you can make them mechanically sound.
I never really considered face-to-face contact a possible thing. -CRwM
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FUCK TEH DIGG! by chuckles (2.00 / 0) #6 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 08:52:11 AM EST

NEWSVINE MOTHERFUCKER!

Skateboarding is a crime.

: wow by coryking (2.00 / 0) #12 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 04:01:43 PM EST

I never really looked at that website. Very, very, very nice looking. I really like their 3 column layout - very clean & sharp.
Thanks for the heads up!
We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don't please.
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On the GPL by yicky yacky (2.00 / 0) #7 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 10:13:01 AM EST

The GPL leaves me in a fairly non-specific mood these days:

The dedicated and zealous apostles of the GPL, who genuinely believe that all software should be GPL'd, irritate me because a.) Their concept of 'freedom' is philosophically dubious and b.) I don't think a one-size-fits-all solution is much better when dressed in source-is-available clothing than when in profit-oriented, closed-source livery.
The corporate whingers piss me off because it's become apparent that they do not believe in either a free market or a commons of any kind and, not content to improve their services and develop better products, are actively lobbying to stamp-out commons-oriented works through facile and destructive laws (software patents etc.).
The people who claim that GNU / the FSF / the GPL has done nothing worthwhile annoy me because, even if you use BSD-derived software (or even Windows!), it was almost certainly developed and build using some of the GNU tools and, even if not, a large chunk of the web and the server market is running on GPL'd software.
The people who confuse GPL'd software with 'open source' and then ascribe all of the GPLs gotchas to everything which has source available irritate me because it's a basic error of definition and ascribes to Apache, Mozilla, BSD etc. philosophical motivations which simply aren't apparent.
The people who whinge that they can't add a tiny layer of glue to myriad GPL'd libraries and then sell the resulting mass closed-source annoy me because, whatever you think about it, the GPL has been loudly and abrasively trumpeted for over fifteen years now and you'd think they'd have got someway towards "getting it" in that time. PLUS: There are equivalent BSD-licensed products for almost all GPL'd ones.
I like having source.
I dislike Stallman's tone.
I'm not sure that fundamental architecture should be in the hands of private corporations.
I'm slightly sick of the entire argument.

His occasional personal attacks aside, I think Torvaldez has been mostly reasonable on the issue: The GPL is generally a good thing, but not everything needs to be released under it etc.

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: i'm sick of it too by coryking (2.00 / 0) #9 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 01:28:56 PM EST

but I am glad that I finally saw a law guy regarding it.
We are Siamese if you please. We are Siamese if you don't please.
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: your third bulet point by joh3n (2.00 / 0) #13 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 04:46:53 PM EST

from the bottom sums it up for me perfectly
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artClick logo by fluffy (2.00 / 0) #14 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 05:08:15 PM EST

I've been kinda-sorta working on a logo, though at the rate I'm going it probably won't be done by the deadline. You probably wouldn't like it anyway, though.
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i like plaid

Here's my vote-- by ammoniacal (2.00 / 0) #15 Sun Mar 05, 2006 at 05:55:00 PM EST

Perhaps with the slogan running down the mouse cable?

Irony: ammo says it's time. Tom is blocked.

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