BS: Brilliant idea

Subject: BS: Brilliant idea
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 12:53 PM

Close all threads that reach 200 posts. By then it has all been said, over and over and over ad nauseum.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 12:57 PM

I'd recommend closing this at 2 for the same reason.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: gnu
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 01:03 PM

I agree, Jerry. Ain't gonna get a better arguement than that. Hehehehe!

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 02:45 PM

Cutting out GUEST threads and posts would also cut down on usage.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 03:15 PM

You will get your peepee slapped for saying that.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: number 6
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 03:42 PM

Won't work ... they'll just be reopened as a copycat thread.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 03:51 PM

You mean I should start a thread titled "Stupid Idea", Number 6? I'd rather not, if it's alright with you... :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: number 6
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 03:58 PM

jerry .... please don't reopen with "Stupid Idea"

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: kendall
Date: 01 Apr 06 - 04:36 PM

Why the paranoia about doing away with the title "Guest"? It does not cost anything to become a member, no one knows your real name unless you choose to use it, as many of us do. I don't get it.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: paddymac
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 07:02 AM

I agree with Jerry's first post.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: *daylia*
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 11:22 AM

Some folks need and value their privacy much more than others, kendall. Others are independant spirits, reluctant to join groups of any kind. Still others are total newbies to the internet with big privacy concerns.

I, for one, understand all this very well. Little Hawk told me aobut this site just a couple weeks after I bought my first computer, when I had absolutely no experience online. Mudcat was the first website I'd ever been on for more than a minute or two. And I would never have joined, were it not for a few months of encouragement and constant prodding from certain long-term and well-meaning 'Catters (probably intended to save me the suspicion / cold-shoulder treatment often directed at anonymous GUEST posters here)

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 12:23 PM

Although it's just a rumor, I've been given (or maybe just assumed) the understanding that there may be one or more persons who have been "disruptive" enough to be barred from being a member. This is of course despite their occasional positive contributions.

Allowing GUEST postings permits them still to contribute, and perhaps serves as a reminder to be more participative and (a little) less abusive(?). (Sometimes it appears perhaps not.)

It should be noted that anyone posting as GUEST may be assumed to be one of them (or that one) so without other identification the self-standing "GUEST" has an inherited reputation most "accidental Guests" probably would not care for.

Please don't tell me the rumor isn't true, or even debate about it. I think it serves a purpose even if it is just an urban legend. It forces me, at least, to consider whether a GUEST is "that one" or just "someone who doesn't know" so it's a "trigger" for my closer attention to whether it's one to be considered or just one to be ignored.

Occasionally (but too rarely?) I find a posting that I assume "probably is him/her" that is quite positive, and I find it encouraging to assume (even if wrongly) that even "THE GUEST" sometimes tries. And I can ignore most of the others.

I'll also admit that some registered persons are so predictable that sometimes I don't read as carefullly as I should. I'm trying to pay more attention, but that ^%#$@! (deleted) always says ...

John

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Ron Davies
Date: 02 Apr 06 - 12:34 PM

Won't somebody stop pointing that gun at the ""Guest"s head--which is obviously forcing said "Guest" to read postings it does not want to read?

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 10:41 AM

I come on as a guest when at work, I really don't want my cookie to be on my works computer

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 02:36 PM

I've been a Mudcatter for a long time - bought the CD's, made contributions, can receive PM's. I still get labelled Guest when I post.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Apr 06 - 03:25 PM

Who needs a cookie? Don't you just enter your membername and password from any computer you are working at? That's what I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Schantieman
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 06:08 AM

Our system at work deletes all cookies when you log off.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:29 AM

How about entrusting some posters with edit buttons by which they can impose their personal tastes upon their fellow posters. And even better - have some of these operate anonymously?

Or is that a stoopid idea?

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: kendall
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:35 AM

One thing the "private membership" as Shambles likes to call it, would do is to eliminate certain guests who like to stalk women. More than a few have been driven away by these gutless rat bastards. Requiring all hands to be members would drag the creeps out into the sunlight where such cowards can't operate.
Furthermore, if everyone was a member, it wouldn't be a private club, would it?

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: GUEST,Raggytash
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:39 AM

I'm not a techie, but I thought it was possible to trace each and every contributor to the Mudcat, if this is the case, it is then not possible to notify the Police of any individual causing problems so they can drop in and "visit" them

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Once Famous
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 07:56 AM

Many Guests are cowardly regulars.

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: kendall
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:40 AM

How do you know that?

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: The Shambles
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 01:20 PM

One thing the "private membership" as Shambles likes to call it, would do is to eliminate certain guests who like to stalk women.

Eliminate has a sinister sound and of course what is proposed by the Chief of the Mudcat Editing Team will not eliminate anything.

For as this members only idea would not affect the music section - those who Kendall wishes to eliminate would simply post there....

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 12:13 PM

As this is a thread for brilliant ideas - why also not turn the the music section into members only?

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Wolfgang
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:01 PM

Because in the music sections GUESTs make 99% positive contributions.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: The Shambles
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 05:03 PM

Do you really think that will still be the case when Joe Offer's proposal to make posting to the BS section members only is accepted?

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 02:23 PM

On the TV weather forcast - they should show the photo from space showing us tomorrow's weather?

Subject: RE: BS: Brilliant idea
From: Wolfgang
Date: 07 Apr 06 - 05:21 PM

Why would you think that not to be the case?

Wolfgang