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Jessica - Aug 01, 2003 1:41:26 pm PDT #4471 of 10000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I have a back-burner kind of feature request -- it would make vote-counting infinitely easier if the responses could be put on the subject line of the email in addition to the body text.

(So, instead of "Buffista Ballot," the subject line could be "Buffista Ballot - Yes." Like that.)

(And I just realized that not every vote has a single answer, which could screw things up, so, hm. Maybe this isn't such a good idea.)

Jon B. - Aug 01, 2003 5:32:07 pm PDT #4472 of 10000

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

responses could be put on the subject line of the email

If someone reminds me the next time we have a single issue ballot, I'd be happy to do that. It's an easy change.

Gandalfe - Aug 01, 2003 5:42:07 pm PDT #4473 of 10000

The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

I think it would be easy enough to do for multi-issue ballots, too. Just seperate them with a semi-colon and a space, or something.

Jessica - Aug 01, 2003 5:47:24 pm PDT #4474 of 10000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

But with multi-ballots, it wouldn't make the counting any easier, because sorting by subject would only group the first vote together.

But for single ballots, it would make sorting and counting a snap.

Gandalfe - Aug 01, 2003 7:10:00 pm PDT #4475 of 10000

The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.

It would make it so you didn't have to open every email to find out what they voted, is all.

Sophia Brooks - Aug 01, 2003 7:51:20 pm PDT #4476 of 10000

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I was so scared I would miscount that I opened them up, replyed, made a spreadsheet with names and votes, etc. It was very labor intensive, but I make a lot of math mistakes.

Liese S. - Aug 01, 2003 8:10:54 pm PDT #4477 of 10000

"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hit me with whatever you think I need. But I don't mind wading through code. I kinda like it. It'd be pretty clear pretty quickly whether or not I'd be helpful, I think. Anyway, profile addy or point me when you're ready.

Jesse - Aug 02, 2003 4:48:00 am PDT #4478 of 10000

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Big ups to Fangeek and our coders. I don't know nothin from nothin, but the fact that our provider can tell us what the issue is, and then we have people who can start addressing it? Makes me happy.

Wolfram - Aug 02, 2003 6:34:20 pm PDT #4479 of 10000

Visilurking

Is there any recommendation for those of us who are techspeak challenged as to how to use the board to limit the pressure on the board? I.e. threadsuck more or less, use message center instead of refresh, change number of posts displayed per refresh etc. My programming knowledge is limited to basic BASIC (10 print hi, 20 goto 10, look mom it says hi lots of times...) but I'd love to do my part to lessen the load.

§ ita § - Aug 02, 2003 7:03:56 pm PDT #4480 of 10000

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Load lessening tips:

don't leave browser open with automatic refresh when you're not around
if you don't use automatic refresh, don't manually refresh too often
display more posts per page
threadsucking is less intensive than paging through that many posts, but the difference is reasonably small unless the # of pages to be read is more than 2x the number of posts displayed per page

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