zero thread suggestion

Its just a wild idea, not expecting you to do it ok?

How about closing off posts that are (say) a link to somewhere and have closed posts not come up under zero REPLIES.

I know some of us may want to reply to a link (say) like eg you find it does not work.

just an idea falling asleep n

sorry, i don't undestand a word of that... care to clarify it a little more?

umm, I am getting my baby brother to translate into earthspeak now ok.

I was alluding to scrolling the zero reply posts.

This site has a link to allow entities of human origin to see posts from mortals seeking further gratification index beyond one standard deviatiion.

to wit if I see a zero reply merely saying here is a site for doing x or y I would prefer that such a post is not in ze list, comprendre?

And in case I am still lost in the electrical ether, I do not expect a result , it is me meekly seeking a wish.

Dang (or other words to that effect). I was about to ask if it would be possible to exclude certain types of post from the "0 replies" list. It occured to me that the Introductions posts, by their nature, are unlikely to generate too many responses - unless of course the intro says "Hi I am <insert current hot celebrity here>" and we don't see too many of those. I have taken to browsing the 0 replies posts in the vain hope that I may be able to help and I have to resist the urge to post to the Introductions just to move them off.

Oh, and another thing, I may just be imagining this but it seems that more and more people are double posting. Is there a script that can be run to track down double posts and automatically close or delete whichever of them is the latest? Or is that a bit too heavy for what is really a fairly relaxed board?

do you speak aussie too? heh heh

Nah - as a Brit I know of many curse words but even the milder ones tend to be a little too strong. Dang will do for now.

Originally posted by XavierP Oh, and another thing, I may just be imagining this but it seems that more and more people are double posting. Is there a script that can be run to track down double posts and automatically close or delete whichever of them is the latest? Or is that a bit too heavy for what is really a fairly relaxed board?

If you see a double post, feel free to point it out and maybe redirect others to their original thread, or the one that is in the most appropiate forum already.

At this time, the mods have to close them manually but as far as I know, it would be impossible to really write a script that runs to try and find double posts, it can just get too complicated at times, etc.

But if you all, the members help us out and even report the double posts, but clicking on the link to report to a moderator, it helps us out tremendously.

Thanks.

XavierP,

Thanks for the suggestions. We do have some measures in place that try to reduce double posting. One more will hopefully be on it's way soon. If people think certain forums should be excluded from the 0 replies search we can do that (for the intro forum a "welcome to LQ" should suffice in the mean time).

--jeremy