Not a single "Recommend this if you agree with me" post on the Greatest Page.

[BurtWorm]

:o

[scheming daemons]

1. #1 reason that the unrec feature will be here to stay.... this ALONE makes it worth it

[BurtWorm]

5. Someone was trying to tell me unrec would make them more common.

I don't see how. It's getting so people will unrecommend a thread if either "recommend" or "unrecommend" appears in the title.

[BlooInBloo]

6. I was told that unrec would eat my baby.

[BurtWorm]

18. A baby ate my dingo.

[BlooInBloo]

20. Stupid baby.

[BurtWorm]

23. Stupid dingo.

Got itself eaten by a harmless baby.

[omega minimo]

2. So Fucking What?

[masuki bance]

3. What is this "Greatest Page" thing? What purpose does it serve? nt

*edit because I am incapable of writing a proper sentence.

[PretzelWarrior]

10. FOR ME, the reason I now enjoy it is I see really cool threads that MEAN something

and are full of the nuggets of news people at DU are likely to care about the most. Today's offering is plenty of proof for me. But it will be fun to see how it proceeds from here.

Definitely liking that the "Obama is a Satan Worshipping Drag Queen 10 times worse than Bush ever was" threads aren't sniffing the light of day on Greatest.

[BurtWorm]

13. It might actually become useful as an indicator of which threads DUers think others should read

which might mean threads of actual quality--threads actually worth READING--will dominate the list, rather than threads that merely grandstand to a populous faction.

[TexasObserver]

21. Agreed. It has already vastly improved the quality there.

This allows the DU membership to knock those unworthy topics down.



Now, if they can find a way to get rid of posters using the forum as their Private Message center.

[WillyT]

4. Well... Not Now, But...

This one was there last night and for most of this morning.

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6035865

:shrug:

[WillyT]

7. And This One...

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6037225

:shrug:

[BurtWorm]

9. Neither one is there now.

I think that bug of DU's has been cured.

:applause:

[WillyT]

11. And This One...

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6036121

:shrug:

[WillyT]

12. And YOURS, LOL !!!

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6031553

:evilgrin:

[BurtWorm]

14. That never made it to the Greatest Page!

Did it? :wtf:

[BlooInBloo]

8. Biggest reason I wish we could see the rec/unrec counts: To know what WOULD be on the Greatest...

I wish we could compare.

[EFerrari]

15. I never knew those went to the Greatest Page.

I miss everything. lol

[TexasObserver]

16. It works if you work it!

Just as the admins thought, the result is a suppression of all the nonsensical threads whose only reason for being on the Greatest page was having five posters who thought it belonged there.

This one change has done great good, not just for the Greatest page, but for this forum. It has already created more threads, while suppressing the rapid fire thread starters significantly. The delusion has ended with balance brought to the process.

[BlooInBloo]

19. "The delusion has ended with balance brought to the process." - I dunno what that means exactly...

But I think it's kinda sexy.

[TexasObserver]

27. It's the delusion that a handful of fellow travelers meant broad based acceptance.

That sound you hear is the wailing and gnashing of teeth by those most sorely injured by the cold, hard truth that their threads are not the resounding success they always imagined.

[EFerrari]

22. The delusion that five votes got you anywhere but at the unvisible bottom

of the Greatest Page with thirty other threads seems to be doing fine.

[SpookyCat]

17. Love it! Did my part on a couple of those today. :-)

[beam me up scottie]

24. Tragic.

[Richard Steele]

25. The new "UnRec feature" has shone some light on our massive TROLL problem.

We have shitloads of registered 'members' who have
never posted, and they're all using the 'UnRec' button
on every single GD thread.

I guess they're too damned STUPID to realize that the Admins
anticipated this, and have been keeping an eye out for just such
patterns of behavior.

Trolls are STUPID; Skinner & Co. are frickin BRILLIANT.

The "Day of a Thousand Tombstones" draws near.
It's gonna be LEGENDARY.

[PretzelWarrior]

26. possibly. But an unrec does little to disrupt. so I doubt it.

[Richard Steele]

28. YES, it certainly does little to DISRUPT. What part of "Trolls are STUPID" did you -NOT- understand?

SHEESH! :eyes:nm