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Top Reasons FFForums are better than nwapolitics.com
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:27 pm
by Savonarola
So I set out to make a "Top Ten" list, and I came up with more than ten. Imagine that...
Top Twenty reasons FFForums are better than nwapolitics:
- Cool emoticons
- Links take you to exactly where you want to go
- Private messages
- Avatars can be fun
- Friendly online assistance
- Handy
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[*]Polls
[*]A (vastly underused) chat room...
[*]Posts are not sorted by political wing, resulting in some views to be hidden far down a page
[*]Search function!
[*]Signatures
[*]Ability to preview posts before submitting
[*]The "
latest posts" search includes both replies and original posts
[*]Ability to edit one's own posts after submission
[*]Multiple posts by one user do not push other posts into obscurity
[*]Thread originators are not gods over their thread, able to delete or edit posts therein or delete the thread entirely
[*]Anyone can post images... which will not be deleted merely because a moderator dislikes the implications of the content
[*]Anyone can start threads
[*]FFForums isn't dead as a doornail
[*]Unlike nwapolitics.com, FFForums doesn't constantly have notices like this:
MySQL error!
Got error 28 from table handler(Errno=1030)
Your query:
SELECT DISTINCT evo_comments.*
FROM ((evo_comments INNER JOIN evo_posts ON comment_post_ID = ID) ) WHERE comment_post_ID = 1178 AND comment_type IN ('comment') AND ( post_status IN ('published') ) ORDER BY comment_date ASC
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Feel free to add your own.
Another Good Reason
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:58 pm
by Doug
DOUG
How about:
Fewer conservative morons who make mere assertions that they can't support with evidence, and then run away.
Re: Another Good Reason
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 10:46 pm
by Savonarola
Doug wrote:How about:
Fewer conservative morons who make mere assertions that they can't support with evidence, and then run away.
While certainly worthy of the list, I tried to stick to things that were unlikely to change. I find a part of me hoping that some of those morons will come around so we can unleash some good fundy roasting here on our own turf.
Perhaps I'm too much of a roast glutton...
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 12:43 am
by Dardedar
DAR
What and excellent and detailed list. Exactly right. Might be an idea to post it to NWA, if they ever get it working again...
SAV
I find a part of me hoping that some of those morons will come around so we can unleash some good fundy roasting here on our own turf.
DAR
I have never seen such a pack of cowards. They run from just a hint of detailed rebuttal on their very own site. And they are going to have the courage to come into a skeptics den? We may get a fundie or two trickle in here someday but I doubt it will be any of the dismal intellectual eunuchs on NWApolitics.com.
D.
ps Finally found a picture of L.V. Ash:
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:20 am
by Savonarola
Darrel wrote:Might be an idea to post it to NWA, if they ever get it working again...
Haven't you seen their censorship policy-- er.. their rules, Dar? Any posts that speak unfavorably of the site are deleted.
Darrel wrote:ps Finally found a picture of L.V. Ash:
I guess no one will be suggesting that we add "we don't stoop to their level" to our list.
At least here you can bash the forums as well as our website all you want. However,
"Denigrating or otherwise abusive content will be either edited or removed entirely." We specifically wanted a medium where this would not be an issue.
I mean, really Darrel.. It's very unkind to that lady for you to liken her to Ash.
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:38 am
by Dardedar
Savonarola wrote:Any posts that speak unfavorably of the site are deleted.
DAR
But it wouldn't be denegrating to their site just to mention the postitives of this one would it?
I was just funnin about that picture of Ash, that's probably not him. However, here is a genuine and candid picture of him caught on his back porch showing what he does in between making posts to NWApolitics:
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Found a baby picture too:
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:11 pm
by Hogeye
• Better spam control.
Speaking of "images... which will not be deleted merely because a moderator dislikes the implications of the content," that's exactly what happened when I posted some images of Iraq casualties. Propaganda movies showing GIs playing ball with kids was okay, but photos of wounded and maimed kids got deleted.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:36 am
by Savonarola
Hogeye wrote:• Better spam control.
At the time of that post, we were spam free. Unfortunately, the coders are getting better, and they've infiltrated phpBB to some extent. I would very,
very much like to prevent needing to make this a must-sign-up-to-post board.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 11:34 am
by Hogeye
I haven't noticed a spam problem here. I was adding to the list, saying that FFForum has better spam control than NWAPolitics forum.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:04 pm
by Savonarola
Hogeye wrote:I haven't noticed a spam problem here. I was adding to the list, saying that FFForum has better spam control than NWAPolitics forum.
I should have been more clear: I wasn't objecting to or denying your observation. I appreciate your pointing it out, even. I'm just disappointed that the bots finally got good enough to make me have to go through and manually delete spam posts. (And now, even registered-user bots! argh!)