January 15, 20196 yr Author haha I've been chatting with the invision people as virtually all the requests being made don't have built in ways to deal with it. If I don't get any good answers I'll resort to writing plugins to address some of the issues here.
January 15, 20196 yr If you could get the read threads to disappear, I’d live with the reverting to one forum glitch.
January 19, 20196 yr @immamac score-stream looks like it's listing games out of order. not sure if it's worth a fix or out of your control or not but it has basketball games in Feb listed before games in Jan. Nvm just realized it's listing baseball over basketball. Given the point in the season - it would make sense for basketball to be at the top though, right? Baseball doesn't start until Feb. Edited January 19, 20196 yr by ztejas
January 19, 20196 yr You should consider deleting the Politics board. There are sports fan communities that don't have forums for any kind of political talk. It actually works a lot better.
January 19, 20196 yr Author 2 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said: You should consider deleting the Politics board. There are sports fan communities that don't have forums for any kind of political talk. It actually works a lot better. Cant
January 20, 20196 yr How about taking down the sticky kansas vs texas game thread from the football forum.
January 20, 20196 yr On 1/19/2019 at 8:49 AM, SwanderedTalent said: You should consider deleting the Politics board. There are sports fan communities that don't have forums for any kind of political talk. It actually works a lot better. That idea has popped up every year since the beginning of HornFans-the problem with getting rid of it is that political discussion will leak over to every other board. It’s a place of quarantine, not for reasonable debate.
January 20, 20196 yr On 1/19/2019 at 8:49 AM, SwanderedTalent said: You should consider deleting the Politics board. There are sports fan communities that don't have forums for any kind of political talk. It actually works a lot better. Why you trying to censor me, bro? I'm saying important things in there. Important. Things.
January 20, 20196 yr On 1/19/2019 at 11:00 AM, immamac said: Cant how about a poster's electronic device they use to post in there shocks the fucking hell out of them?
January 20, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, LCHorn said: That idea has popped up every year since the beginning of HornFans-the problem with getting rid of it is that political discussion will leak over to every other board. It’s a place of quarantine, not for reasonable debate. That's the theory, and I have certainly seen that play out in practice, but I have also (to my everlasting surprise) seen the opposite play out as well, where politics is just not allowed at all and the community gets along fine (better, in my opinion, because instead of those disagreements leaking out to other boards, you don't even know who thinks what politically). I don't go in CR and don't really care, but thought I would point out that it's not a foregone conclusion that you "have" to have a politics board.
January 21, 20196 yr The "floating" arrow to take you to the top of the page, the one that was I think in the bottom right corner once upon a time, can we have that back? All this scrolling is harshing my buzz.
January 21, 20196 yr 19 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said: That's the theory, and I have certainly seen that play out in practice, but I have also (to my everlasting surprise) seen the opposite play out as well, where politics is just not allowed at all and the community gets along fine (better, in my opinion, because instead of those disagreements leaking out to other boards, you don't even know who thinks what politically). I don't go in CR and don't really care, but thought I would point out that it's not a foregone conclusion that you "have" to have a politics board. One of the things I like about posting here is the lack of arbitrary censorship. Aside from being a troll or espousing extremely hateful views it seems like you can discuss just about anything you damn please here. I've never posted in the CR but I lurk there sometimes when I see a thread that piques my interest. Yeah there's a lot of horseshit in there - there's also a lot of pretty level-headed, informed discourse. Like others have said, the fact that the CR exists works wonders to filter out politics from the rest, because you can point the discussion to a separate forum. "Not allowing it at all" gets messy. So "politics isn't allowed" what does that mean? Can I make a tongue in cheek joke with political overtones? Can we talk about the government shutdown in passing on a different forum? Can we still make fun of aggy? Slippery slope.
January 21, 20196 yr On 1/7/2019 at 12:42 PM, NameAlreadyInUse said: I'll second coming up with funnier names for the different areas. Its a lot more fun to go to RC Didn't Offer than it is to go to Recruiting. I'm unfortunately not bright enough to come up with better names, but surely someone here is. "I'm in hydraulics"
January 21, 20196 yr 31 minutes ago, ztejas said: Like others have said, the fact that the CR exists works wonders to filter out politics from the rest, because you can point the discussion to a separate forum. "Not allowing it at all" gets messy. So "politics isn't allowed" what does that mean? Can I make a tongue in cheek joke with political overtones? Can we talk about the government shutdown in passing on a different forum? Can we still make fun of aggy? Slippery slope. I have heard all this before. It is not necessarily the case. It is an assumption people make about message boards but there is (anecdotal) evidence to the contrary. By the standard of your second paragraph, does Surly need a Racism forum? Isn't it a slippery slope to say "racism isn't allowed"...?
January 21, 20196 yr 13 minutes ago, SwanderedTalent said: I have heard all this before. It is not necessarily the case. It is an assumption people make about message boards but there is (anecdotal) evidence to the contrary. By the standard of your second paragraph, does Surly need a Racism forum? Isn't it a slippery slope to say "racism isn't allowed"...? You can PM me if you want to discuss further. I laid out my thoughts pretty plainly and I'm not changing my stance.
January 21, 20196 yr Likewise. Besides, the suggestion has already been thoughtfully weighed and replied to
January 21, 20196 yr dude...it is the second most popular board by more than 120,000 posts. advertisers don't give a fuck if it's poo-flinging. it will likely re-pass the football board before kick off labor day weekend.
January 22, 20196 yr 13 hours ago, sidis said: advertisers don't give a fuck if it's poo-flinging. Thus, the response I got. I get it, I mean I'm only a little stupid. I wasn't giving business advice. Although, thinking about it, pretty sure the no-politics sports sites I'm thinking of are a lot bigger than this one. Again, I'm not particularly interested in changing hearts or minds. I just thought it was an interesting contradiction of "well everyone knows" conventional wisdom that you don't actually have to have a Special Ed classroom on your sportsball website.
January 22, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said: Thus, the response I got. I get it, I mean I'm only a little stupid. I wasn't giving business advice. Although, thinking about it, pretty sure the no-politics sports sites I'm thinking of are a lot bigger than this one. Again, I'm not particularly interested in changing hearts or minds. I just thought it was an interesting contradiction of "well everyone knows" conventional wisdom that you don't actually have to have a Special Ed classroom on your sportsball website. If this was a brand new website and community that'd be one thing, but surly is just the latest in a decade plus long lineage of Texas themed shitposting. Most of the memes and in jokes are from the old site, and the structure is very similar in terms of board organization and moderation
January 22, 20196 yr 3 hours ago, SwanderedTalent said: .. I just thought it was an interesting contradiction of "well everyone knows" conventional wisdom that you don't actually have to have a Special Ed classroom on your sportsball website. Most sports talk websites ARE special ed classrooms.
January 24, 20196 yr On 1/19/2019 at 8:49 AM, SwanderedTalent said: You should consider deleting the Politics board. There are sports fan communities that don't have forums for any kind of political talk. It actually works a lot better. Why? Let them have at it in there. It doesn't harm the forum at all. As long as it's contained in there.
January 24, 20196 yr Especially so he can reply to posts from days ago with the EXACT same shit that has already been posted.
January 24, 20196 yr On 1/3/2019 at 2:31 AM, immamac said: Hey guys, with the new year I wanted to spend more time on the site improving it from a usability perspective. Main things I'm thinking now are better twitter integrations and possibly a new way to interact with the game thread that feels more like "chat" but keeps the same layout/format Direct WebM embedding, please, similar to the previous board... [webm]Kevin_Morgan_drinks_out_of_toilet.webm[/webm]. Gfycat embedding isn't the most elegant provisional solution and giant GIFs slow down the site considerably on slower connections. Automatic size limit, especially for vertical video behemoths.
January 25, 20196 yr While we're at it, did yall ever figure out why linking from imgur is so fucky? I get that if you link the album url it'll be fucked, but using the direct image url (i.imgur.com/*) causes posts to shit themselves
January 26, 20196 yr Especially so he can reply to posts from days ago with the EXACT same shit that has already been posted. You poor thing. It must be hard to skim over my posts. Bless your heart hunny.
January 26, 20196 yr You should consider having a board reserved for Vic.Why you so you can reply to every post bitching and complaining like you always do on here? Bless your heart.
January 26, 20196 yr Read threads before posting, it’s not difficult. I reply as I see a comment and hit post. I don't care how long ago the post was or what subsequent conversation took place after. Thanks for your suggestion though.
January 26, 20196 yr Imma: Thanks for all the hard work man... It's such a great place for the surly to hang out. I've been having a Tapa issue lately on multiple Android devices. Whenever I try to go to Timeline or Unread in Tapa, I get a memory allocation error. I also get the same error when I try to search the board for posts on this...searched "memory error" and got a memory error. Brilliant troll!I'll reply to this with a screen grab...device hopping. Yeah I've been getting the same problem for a while too.
January 28, 20196 yr I have a quick and easy fix for all the teeth gnashing over the politics forum. Don't click on it. Ta da!
January 30, 20196 yr Author I'll look into the tapa thing tomorrow. Should we rate limit new posters to 5/day?
January 30, 20196 yr Get rid of the stupid fucking "mark this forum as read" button. I've accidentally clicked on it several times and it's stupid (as am I apparently).
January 31, 20196 yr On 1/20/2019 at 1:00 AM, markstanco said: How about taking down the sticky kansas vs texas game thread from the football forum. What a terrible request you dipshit. IT STAYS!
February 19, 20196 yr On 1/21/2019 at 10:17 AM, ztejas said: One of the things I like about posting here is the lack of arbitrary censorship. Aside from being a troll or espousing extremely hateful views it seems like you can discuss just about anything you damn please here. I've never posted in the CR but I lurk there sometimes when I see a thread that piques my interest. Yeah there's a lot of horseshit in there - there's also a lot of pretty level-headed, informed discourse. Like others have said, the fact that the CR exists works wonders to filter out politics from the rest, because you can point the discussion to a separate forum. "Not allowing it at all" gets messy. So "politics isn't allowed" what does that mean? Can I make a tongue in cheek joke with political overtones? Can we talk about the government shutdown in passing on a different forum? Can we still make fun of aggy? Slippery slope. Just like to echo this take. What makes this place unique is almost no topic is off limits. That’s an asset and not a liability in today’s world of safe spaces. I was on another forum that has a political talk forum but one day just arbitrarily decided to ban discussions on religion. The forum has since been more and more restrictive on topics of discussion and the board is now dogshit outside of the sports team they’re dedicated to. Going down the censorship road seems antithetical to the spirit of how this community of posters got started. Edited February 19, 20196 yr by Hugo Stiglitz
February 22, 20196 yr Random thought for the Help forum: how about stickies at the top for contractor recommendations for the major metro areas like the food forums? Could even put in sponsored lists for each area for long time friends, e.g. ROFL Edited February 22, 20196 yr by Grippe
February 27, 20196 yr Can we get baseball games added to the scorestream on the home page? Thought I'd seen em there before, but it's only showing tonight's basketball game right now @immamac
February 27, 20196 yr Author 42 minutes ago, SquishMitten said: Can we get baseball games added to the scorestream on the home page? Thought I'd seen em there before, but it's only showing tonight's basketball game right now @immamac I just check and for some reason they just aren't showing up till April in Scorestream. I let them know.
February 28, 20196 yr Scorestream shows 4 qtrs for a NCAA game. At first i was like, "Holy fuck, Texas scored 40 pts in 1 QTR... No you dumbass, this isn't the NBA"
March 4, 20196 yr On 1/21/2019 at 10:17 AM, ztejas said: I've never posted in the CR but I lurk there sometimes when I see a thread that piques my interest. Yeah there's a lot of horseshit in there - there's also a lot of pretty level-headed, informed discourse. That's like adding some filet medallions to a big steaming pile of baby diarrhea and calling it edible. I pray that the CR isn't representative of political thought by the majority of the country. There is no middle ground in the CR. Conservative trolls, a complete circle jerk from the left, pot stirrers and angry women from other states.
March 4, 20196 yr Author 16 minutes ago, Newdoc said: That's like adding some filet medallions to a big steaming pile of baby diarrhea and calling it edible. I pray that the CR isn't representative of political thought by the majority of the country. There is no middle ground in the CR. Conservative trolls, a complete circle jerk from the left, pot stirrers and angry women from other states. It's sadly representative of the rest of the country when it comes to the conversation. Extremists on either side sucking all the air out of the room for the "normies" to have a conversation about policy. If you banned party talk CR would die and then would bleed out into the main board, it's just going to remain what it is unfortunately.
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