Length of Thread and Signal to Noise?

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maddie fitz x3

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Is it just me or does any one else perceive a parallel between the
number of replies to an initial post, the 'length of thread' and the
degradation of that thread into null content verbiage and the
gratuitously vituperative?
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JL
 
On Apr 16, 1:32?am, "M. JL Esq." wrote:


I find that the longer a thread runs, the less likely new posters are
to have read it from the beginning. Therefore, the further down you
go, the less relevant replies become to the original question. I
imagine a certain amount of "thread drift" is unavoidable. The
pointless nastiness and spam still amaze me, after more than ten years
playing and learning on the internet.
 
On 16/04/2011 9:41 PM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:

Killfiles save me time and effort. Will admit that posters need to be
really bad before they get KF'd by me. Killfiling threads in which one
has no interest definitely has merit. If you've no interest in a topic,
why clutter the newsreader with it. Do it quite often on some other
forums where I have specific interests and minimal time to sift through.
I also maintain a retention policy which deletes posts older than x
days. This group, RFC, was on 90 days but I just now reduced it to 60 as
my usenet client (Thunderbird) was struggling with the weight of
retained posts. Should be able to scroll through the posts a little more
snappily now.

Krypsis
 
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:41:51 -0400, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:

Let's just say that those who advocate "self control" either don't
have a kill file or don't know how to write a proper filter.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
In article ,
Serene Vannoy wrote:




I didn't understand John's comment at all. Then again, he was in my
killfile for some time. He and Bryan had personal conversations on this
group. They've been friends forever, they live in the same city, they
have Email and they probably have telephones. Why did they choose to
have purely personal conversations here?

I chose which newsgroups to subscribe to. I choose which threads to
read. I choose which posters to read posts from. That's all
self-control.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
[email protected]
 
On 4/16/2011 12:32 AM, M. JL Esq. wrote:

If the thread is lengthy and into it's third day, it's a pretty safe bet
the thread has degraded and can be ignored.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Apr 16, 2:31?pm, Janet Wilder wrote:

...


Although that's often true,I wouldn't ignore a thread just because it
seems stale. Things tend to get out of hand more quickly here in RFC
than in alt.cooking-chat, but especially there, some threads remain
productive for weeks.

Jerry
--
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can
get.
 
"M. JL Esq." wrote


Yes, and the non-trimmers destroy the readability as well. Once I hit 15 or
20 messages where the top isnt trimmed at all, I don't bother to read any
more in the thread. There may be a nugget in there, but it's too well
buried to bother to find.
 
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:05:20 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:


Killfiles make for better signal/noise ratio. Why should I have to
fast forward over a couple dozen people who never have anything to
offer?

-sw
 
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