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.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
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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
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
Cindy - Aug 03, 2003 3:14:20 am PDT #4481 of 10000
Nobody
if you don't use automatic refresh, don't manually refresh too often
When I'm trying to catch up in the threads I've missed, I usually read one, hit message center, and choose the next one I want to read. I don't use "read new" very often, because I subscribe to some threads that are slow moving, and wait to read them 'til they have a good number of posts.
Would it be better if after reading a thread (I'm set up for 30 posts per page), I hit my browser's back button to get to message center and choose the next thread, than hitting our in-thread "message center" link?
Jon B. - Aug 03, 2003 6:01:46 am PDT #4482 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Would it be better if after reading a thread (I'm set up for 30 posts per page), I hit my browser's back button to get to message center and choose the next thread, than hitting our in-thread "message center" link?
When you hit "back" is the page refreshed anyway? It is for me. If so, then it doesn't make a difference. If it is somehow cached, and the page looks identical to when you viewed it last (e.g. same number of unread messages, same quote, etc.), then it would be helpful to hit "back".
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2003 6:33:39 am PDT #4483 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When you hit "back" is the page refreshed anyway? It is for me
Depends on the browser. For IE on Windows, it seems to always be. For Opera on Windows, nope.