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Re: New Display Types

by Abigail-II (Bishop)
on Jul 12, 2002 at 15:06 UTC ( [id://181297]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to (wil) Re: Re: Re: New Display Types
in thread New Display Types

I understand your concern about the ads, but I don't get the "community" problem. Why would you disrupt the whole idea of a "community" if you don't see nodelets? One can already turn them off in the usersettings, there's even a button to turn them all off, IIRC.

Or do you consider me not part of the "community" because I don't bother with the chatterbox? I consider myself part of the "Perl community", and that something I find scary enough already - too small, too self centered. I really don't like to subdivide that into yet smaller communities, should I be a member of the "communities" of #perl, perlmonks, perladvocates, perlporters, philly-pms, nyc-pms, amsterdam-pms, fun-with-perlers, usenetperlers, etc, just because I communicate on a certain forum? There are only 3 dinners at a YAPC! Furthermore, the chatterbox has the most awkward interface possible, just a 10 character text box, and you need to pull to see a what others say. In fact, it's so awful that many people use a special client for the chatterbox - but if people do, they would participate without needing the nodelet.

Oh well, not a biggy. The print view gives a nice clean page, but it looks like you always have to download the "regular" page first anyway, so I probably will mostly use the regular pages.

Abigail

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(wil) Re: Re: Re: Re: New Display Types
by wil (Priest) on Jul 12, 2002 at 15:32 UTC
    Not once in this thread have I suggested that one monk is less of a community-contributor than another -- where did you get that idea from? I was making a generic example and voicing my concerns.

    The nodelets that some choose to turn off contain more than just the chatterbox. I don't think many frequent chatterbox~ers use the chatterbox client on this website, I agree, and rightly so. But there are other nodelets there such as polls and best/worst nodes and other users that do add something that makes this (yet another) community unique. And I, for one, like it that way.

    - wil

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