CaptainObvious.Alright. I've literally spent like 30 minutes absorbed in this thread and I have tons of thoughts swimming around in my head, so buckle up sweetcakes, shit's about to get crazy.
First off, for the love of god, jesus tittyfucking christ, and the bowl smoking trinity, don't ever ever ever reorder the posts based on popularity. Reddit is the biggest piece of shit in the world and that's what they thrive off of. I would never come back. Ever.
Second, I'm pretty sure the underlying goal here is to take all the kids pissing and moaning on this thread and either turn them into grown ups or drive them away. Because on the whole, they don't do anything for this site except perpetuate the NS reputation of a bunch of 12-year-olds. I'm on board and I like this goal.
Third, on more than one occasion I went to upvote posts on this thread. Ironically they were often the posts that were in support of the up/downvote removal.
Fourth, I came into this thread of the opinion that we need to bring them back and that was going to be my post from the get-go. But as a result of reading the actual discussion I was swayed and now vehemently disagree with myself from 30 minutes ago.
Fifth, Mr. Bishop, can I make a request? As I went through this multi-page thread there were a couple posts I wanted to quote when I responded. I clicked the handy-dandy checkbox on all of them, but since there was one on pages 1 & 2, but I had to get to page three before I could respond, I lost my quotes. Can we fix that?
If you stuck through that whole paragraph, thank you.
The goal isn't to just drive away the young folk, its to decide upon a workable strategy for the future of the Newschoolers forums. This issue seems to be massively split down the center, with no clear vote on either side.
What I will say is that I'm now pretty set that I refuse to bring back up/down voting on posts without at least optional re-ordering of threads. The voting becoming a popularity contest, or a way to silently agree/disagree with something was never its intention and how much I've seen people saying they used it for that goes completely against the whole idea.
As a matter of fact, this thread is a perfect place where those who would have stayed silent are now forced to give their opinion - and for once we actually have both sides debating vs. one side being super loud and the other just silently voting.
I'll add the multiple page quote thing to our list of tweaks to the forums. I don't know how complicated it is, but I need this too so we'll look into it.
CaptainObvious.Ah god damn it I forgot point six (because I lost my quote :))
Sixth, this experiment may have been better performed during the winter when attendance and participation is both more predictable and higher?
But I'm sure you thought of that and had your reasons.
Summer is actually better for something like this:
1) The people still here are very passionate about Newschoolers. So they care enough to really dig into the issue and give huge amounts of feedback.
2) If an experiment turns out to be a horrible idea or an awesome idea we have time to fully implement the changes we found before winter traffic hits. Lots of new people come by in the winter as well as older members who might have gone inactive. If they like the product, they will stay.
3) We're busy as fuck during the winter. Its a bad time to do anything other than keep the business running. :)
DANNY.Hthe 2004? pretty much the one before the current one stopped being a beta.
The tiled layout you mean?
That was launched in something like 2011. The current homepage is actually much closer to what the Real OG homepage was from 1999-2010.
