Site Confuses Me

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Re: Site Confuses Me by holli (Abbot) on Mar 24, 2006 at 09:07 UTC
Re^2:xxx means that the node is an answer to Re:xxx which is an answer to xxx. An answer to Re^2:xxx would be displayed as Re^3:xxx. You see the pattern? holli, /regexed monk/	[reply]
Re: Site Confuses Me by b10m (Vicar) on Mar 24, 2006 at 09:15 UTC
Unless you are a bastard like me (and a few others), who believe "Re(garding):" is enough information for each level of reply, and who consistantly takes away the annoying "`^\d`" patterns (as a silent protest to horrible MUAs that started the "Re: Re: Re:..." subject prefix drama) ;-) -- b10m All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.	[reply]
Re^2: Site Confuses Me by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 24, 2006 at 14:40 UTC
I have to say I dont really see the point in editing it out. It can be useful to see the depth of a node just by looking at its title. For instance 'Re^25:' is pretty suggestive of a thread that has gotten out of hand and might not be worth reading. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]
Re^2: Site Confuses Me by coolboarderguy (Acolyte) on Mar 24, 2006 at 09:37 UTC
Hi All, got it. Sorry for the annoying post. Cheers. coolboardegury...	[reply]
Re: Site Confuses Me by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 24, 2006 at 21:12 UTC
You find the site confusing? Wait till you meet some of the regulars here! CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re: Site Confuses Me by zentara (Archbishop) on Mar 24, 2006 at 12:30 UTC
I may be confused as to what you are asking, but maybe you are looking at the Notes Section on the Newest Nodes Page. That is just the "most realtime" unsorted responses that come in to the site. They are the various answers to posts in the Questions section. Normally you don't look at them. I guess they are there, so you can quickly scan for responses to certain questions, which may interest you, but you were not the original poster. For instance if "Bob" asks a question, and you respond, Bob get a notification message that you responded when he uses the site. Now if Bill responded to your response, you would get a notification, but not Bob. But if Bob glances thru the Notes, he may see his topic and realize someone else has inputed information. Basically, you want to read the "Questions" section, for an orderly view. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply]
Re: Site Confuses Me by moklevat (Priest) on Mar 24, 2006 at 16:54 UTC
Welcome coolboarderguy. If you haven't done so already, you probably want to take a look at the PerlMonks FAQ and the Perl Monks guide to the Monastery. To answer your question, the "nodes you wrote" gives a list of all nodes you have written in chronological order. If you go to any of the nodes you wrote, you will see that there are links at the upper-right corner for "in reply to" and/or "in thread". The "in thread" is what you seem to want. It will display the root node and all replies in a threaded format.	[reply]
Re: Site Confuses Me by liverpole (Monsignor) on Mar 29, 2006 at 14:03 UTC
Wait till you meet some of the regulars here! Yes, and if your initial reaction is "What kind of convoluted, twisted minds am I dealing with here?" ... just take a look at this section of the Monastery, and all will become clear. ;-) s''(q.S:$/9=(T1';s;(..)(..);$..=substr+crypt($1,$2),2,3;eg;print$..$/	[reply]
Re: Site Confuses Me by schrodycat (Sexton) on Apr 25, 2006 at 13:19 UTC
What confuses me is the fact the top level "n replies" link on a question (Perl Monks Discussion page, e.g) only shows the number of direct responses and not the replies of the replies. So if you're monitoring some questions from the top page you won't notice that someone has added a response-to-a-response until you drill down.	[reply]
Re^2: Site Confuses Me by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 25, 2006 at 14:56 UTC
Actually, that's configurable. Check "Show count of all replies"	[reply]


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