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#126 2007-09-13 1:17 pm
- DukeofNuke
- Free Radical
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
And you rant about the changes in the forum in Forum Feedback...
At least until the Mods get tired of defending themselves and close the topic
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#127 2007-09-13 1:29 pm
#128 2007-09-13 1:34 pm
- DukeofNuke
- Free Radical
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
Enjoying this a little too much, are we?
"If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you better have a plan for dealing with his teeth."
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#129 2007-09-13 1:39 pm
#130 2007-09-13 1:42 pm
- DukeofNuke
- Free Radical
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
OK, I get what the changes are doing. It's just that I liked Unplugged the way it was, full of movie reviews and cooking tips and lolkitties, you know, all warm and fuzzy.
Now, you go there and deal with:"UNFAIR! I got a ticket, and all I did was run a stop sign!" when that kinda thing was, you know, in it's own space, as it were.
Now, it's like all the Jedi and Sith are all in the same room.
"If you want to kick a tiger in the ass, you better have a plan for dealing with his teeth."
- Tom Clancy
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#131 2007-09-13 1:46 pm
#132 2007-09-13 2:56 pm
Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
ukimalefu wrote:
Jasoco wrote:
Oh, now I'm just disoriented.
This is the anti-Mac way of life. Changing something just to confuse people. Remember the OS X Beta?You mean 10.0?
No, 10.0 was Apple's way of getting close enough to what they used to have to satisfy the people who complained about the Beta being so drastically different.
The OS X we have now is a lot closer to OS 9 than what the Beta was shaping up to be.
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#133 2007-09-13 3:12 pm
- mahakali
- anti-razor
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
These changes are meant for confusing only some people.
1. Instill fear.
2. ???????? (use your imagination)
3. Profit!
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#134 2007-09-13 6:40 pm
- Pariah
- James Carville Fan..
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
I find the new categories to be completely unconfusing. My only quibble, and it's a small one, is that the new titles come off as being awfully bland. But 
whatareyagonnado?
"and it's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
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#135 2007-09-13 7:02 pm
- Orion
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
Pariah wrote:
the new titles come off as being awfully bland
Kinda like the new magazine title? 
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Don't curse the farmer with your mouth full.
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#136 2007-09-13 10:53 pm
#137 2007-09-13 11:22 pm
- mtpalms
- plz stand by
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
It's true! And we had a whole day to come up with something!
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#138 2007-09-13 11:30 pm
Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
The change was made what, September 10?
This topic was posted September 5. 
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#139 2007-09-13 11:31 pm
- NAG
- A witch!
- Royal Wombat
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
You might want to look at the start date of this thread and when the changes went through.
Start: 9-4-07
Changes: 9-10-07
Okay that means the equation to solve our problem is 10 - 4.
10 - 4 = 6
By your math 6 = 1. Okay, you obviously forgot to carry the 5 somewhere or something.
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#140 2007-09-14 12:20 am
#141 2007-09-14 2:34 am
- rufio
- Let the funeral start, hear the casket close...
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
Things seem to make sense. I realized that habitually, just as I still type macaddict.com/forums into the url page, I still scroll down the page the same amount to get to the forums that I frequent, so the names didn't make a big difference.
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everything is second after first."
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#142 2007-09-14 3:54 am
- Mymac4ever
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
The problem with people posting questions in the wrong forum is however still at large. Maybee you should add a line in the Mac|Life Readers section that that isn't the correct place to post support-questions.
Also I've noticed that the number of missplaced post, mostly BH/ET(Everyday Tech)-questions that ended up in the Mac|Life Readers section more than doubled since Apple released the Intel Macs. That could however be a good thing in a way since it shows that more new readers has found theire way to M|LF/MAF. I guess that it however creates a lot of unnessesary work for the moderators with moving the posts to the correct sections.
Now, where in the name of... did I put that thing that I forgot what it was and why I was looking for it?
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#143 2007-09-14 9:36 am
- mtpalms
- plz stand by
- From: Telstar
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
Yesterday:
Pariah wrote:
I find the new categories to be completely unconfusing. My only quibble, and it's a small one, is that the new titles come off as being awfully bland. But
ScifiterX wrote:
I challenged you all to do better but there were no takers so it's too late now.
mtpalms wrote:
It's true! And we had a whole day to come up with something!
matt wrote:
The change was made what, September 10?
This topic was posted September 5.
On 09/04:
NAG wrote:
Anyway, lets just keep this to the reorganization here, since it is what we can do.
Oh, and these changes won't happen before the weekend.
I posted this on 09/08 (Saturday), the first time the subject of bland names was mentioned:
mtpalms wrote:
I'm not so keen on the uncreative names for the forums either in the Digital Life Catagory.
Scifiter replied on the same day:
ScifiterX wrote:
Admittedly those titles are a bit bland but if you think you can do better, don't bitch about it and actually suggest alternatives. We only ask that they somewhat suggest the purpose of the given forum. Also please hurry we're implementing tonight.
(emboldening mine)
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#144 2007-09-14 10:07 am
- NAG
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- Royal Wombat
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
So you're saying you had to wait until someone told you to post alternatives? That certainly didn't stop you from uselessly complaining.
Really, if you want to be taken seriously you have to stop just complaining and start giving useful advise.
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#145 2007-09-14 4:40 pm
- Pariah
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
I wasn't complaining, I was quibbling which is quite another matter altogether.
"and it's not surprising that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
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#146 2007-09-14 4:45 pm
Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
Besides we were held up a whole day on top of that implemented tonight thing. You need someone else's permission to use that extra time too? Your excuses are a little on the weak side.
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#147 2007-09-14 10:49 pm
- mtpalms
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
Whoa. Sorry. I thought putting this in my last post: meant I was just kidding around.
I didn't actually see this thread until the morning I posted about the bland titles, besides a couple other things. Believe it or don't, I did try to think of something on Saturday, but I came up empty. Spent Sunday morning, until 1:30 pm or so, out of the house. I was surprised that the new format wasn't implemented by then, but I'm too technically retarded to know that meant it wasn't too late to come up with something. Not that I could have anyway. If that makes my posts simply useless complaining and my excuses weak, so be it.
Once the transition happened, isn't a little joking around and sarcasm expected? It isn't like we can change anything now.
I don't understand why you guys are being so humorless about this; enough to chastise forum members for making weak excuses and useless posting, like that's a new development.
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#148 2007-09-15 12:34 am
#149 2007-09-15 8:25 am
- mtpalms
- plz stand by
- From: Telstar
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Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
ScifiterX wrote:
My sense of humor is a joke in and of itself when I'm at the top of my game. Today I feel like utter and totally complete crap. Do the math.
:: Does math ::
Here, have a cookie. It's an Oatmeal cookie.
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#150 2007-09-15 9:52 am
Re: Proposed forum changes: Autumn 2007
Thank you. Sorry I was snappy. As you can doubtless see, it was hard enough work to come up with the current crappy boring titles and descriptions. We really would like stuff with a bit more oomph but we wanted them to be relatively descriptive as well. That was the best we could in about as long a time as you said you spent.
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