Eric

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I wish you the best! Good luck!

Goosee

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Second.. woohoo

Angelblade

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Third, hopes it works out.

TJanell

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I will do my part to help. I humbly promise never to waste site/server space by posting the number I posted again. Well, after this:

FOURTH!!!!

There, I'm done.

Jk

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You'r a dedicated sort of man Graeme and its much appreciated- working on this site - full time job and keeping your girl happy in the USA - how do you do it?

Murtaugh

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reverse timeline of comments - sounds like a good online mystery :D.

but the idea is good Graeme. Thumbs up.
m

Liggsy

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Maybe people could help with limiting posts by not posting "First", "Second....."...... :-)

Think~Pink

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Graeme, have you implemented some kind of spam filter?

It's just that, I have tried leaving a comment in the Izzy K thread and it won't let me post, due to this spam filter.

Thing is, I don't know what the criteria are so I can edit the post accordingly, and tbh, I don't consider what I was going to post any kind of spam.

Just curious as to what the criteria are.

Think~Pink

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BTW, Liggsy..unfortunately...that's never going to happen ><

Murtaugh

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maybe posts with -less than 3 words should be erased automatically. ;)
m

Think~Pink

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lol, I like your thinking Murtaugh ;o)

Jb

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Graeme,
While I also think that it makes sense to show the posts in the reverse order, we are going to run into a problem:

We are going to read the answers before the questions.
We are going to read the hints for the higher levels before reading the hints for the lower levels...

What I mean is that I liked the way it was because we were "accompanied" throughout the progression of the game with the comments... Now, the first one to show will be for a later step, which will be meaningless to the player at first and may spoil the game.

Just playing Devil's advocate here.

JB

Think~Pink

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Jb, I think Graeme has mentioned that he intends to page the earlier posts, so making it, that we can still access them via a link.
If this is implemented, we can just go to the link directly, before reading the more recent posts :o)

Stig

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When I click to a comments page it always jumps to the
bottom of the page anyway, and I have to scroll up to the
first comments,

maybe they should appear in a random order, creating a
"mini-game" of "match the answer to the question" :)

Proxy

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Graeme, why not just delete all the posts that waste space?
E.g., the comments claiming "First!" or "Second!" and so on.
Usually, the first half dozen comments have nothing to
contribute to the game, anyway.

Stranger

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You could also delete the posts that are repeats of themselves. EG: two people answer or ask the same question. It might take a little work at first, but later on you could get it to where you don't do as much work.

I've noticed about 50 repeated posts per 150 total posts.

Tafkam

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ooh, Think~Pink is posting spam! right, civilisation has broken down completely. the only answer is Fiercer Filters!

Murtagh's idea is great -- no short posts. also, the words "first," "second," etc. should be blocked. also filter out 1337-sp34k, and posts by people with hideously ugly colours in their user-name, or references to narcissistic American musicians, or in-jokes that no-one gets. limit the number of posts by any one person. allow users to eliminate each other's posts if they don't like them, and block each other from the site, and change each other's user-names to rude words. walkthroughs without spoiler tags should be filtered out, and anyone asking for help when a walkthrough has just been posted, or commenting on a different game than the thread is about, or disagreeing with me, or complaining that they don't get the humour in the linked site, or that the game is too easy, or too hard, or has badly drawn graphics, or that the way to beat the game is to right-click "Play," or bringing up irrelevant topics like their cat or the weather or the discovery of the integral calculus, or complaining that Graeme should do this that or the other to "improve" his site, or wondering what ever happened to anything from before 2005, or bragging about their computer "skilz," or asking "ASL," or posting with someone else's name, or using emoticons or acronyms like "g2g" or "cul8r" or making spelling or grammar errors or complaining that a Japanese game shouldn't be in Japanese or making fun of people who post "first!" or starting flame wars or trying to get other people to start flame wars or enjoying flame wars or saying anything rude or being too colonial or prosaic or drug-addled or perky or cynical or misanthropic or dense.

finally, excessively prolix posts should definitely be

Proxy

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Graeme, delete posts that have used the word 'or' over
thirty times to get their point across!

Think~Pink

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LOL @ Tafkam... Proxy..did you count them?

Jk

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Tafkam - you are such a spoil sport - oops sorry is this sort of message not acceptable under your guidelines?

Helanren

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@ Tafkam: sorry, but that sentence in post #17 was too long for me to read and understand at the same time. Could you help me out and split it into, say, 5 or 10 posts for me?

On a more serious note: Graeme, I agree with Jb in # 12: I prefer to have a thread starting at post #1 rather than the latest added. You cannot always play in real time, so often you start when there are already 50 comments or so. Scrolling up in stead of down is terrible (I don't know if you ever tried doing that at Nitro59's site, as the comments are all in Durch, but it sort of spoils the fun; he of course he has to do it as that is the way his (free blogging) site is structured and he has no influence on this point).

If you have to do it to keep the site "on air" then of course do it, but if at all possible please keep it temporary...
Paging may be a solution, as Pink says, but even then please try and find a way to do it such that on each page the comments scroll down from old to new!

Tia

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Ok I dont think that's the 'real' Tafkam there...but I may be wrong! (I didnt read it all)

Definately dont filter the words 'first' or 'second' out because we may need those words in hints/spoilers etc...
Are we still going to get an 'edit' function so we can edit our mistakes in our posts...or has that been discussed already?

Nonetheless GREAT job Graeme, thanks for all the hard work!

Jorjannw

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I agree with the posts staying in the correct order if it wouldnt be too much trouble. If you implement paging, I would think it could page either way. The only problem I forsee for poor Graeme would be ... where the heck would the post box be? (Could be the first think you see after the intro to the game??) I dont claim to be any kind of expert at the making of the sites, but sure do love playing them. And for that I must tell you, Graeme, I really appreciate all of your effort to keep it going! If there is any way I can help, I would be happy to lend my time.

Tafkam

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Tia m'love, yes that's the "real" Tafkam. who else would suggest that posts with improper grammar should be blocked? or use the word "prolix"? let alone use the word "or" over thirty times? i mean, really.

but thanks for looking out for me sweetie!

Think~Pink

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Perish the thought there is more than one Tafkam ;o)

Deneve

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i just have to say... im sorry for all the problems... i visit the site each day and it brings me much amusement.... also... ty!

Yes it is me, not it

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What about cutting back on the vault pages?

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Sera

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You've got a popular blog here! Sorry for posting so much the other day about oceangram. It's just a fun timewaster. It's cool to see who posts. I've had posts from Russia, Netherlands, Germany, UK and USA.

Well, you can send some Oceangram comments my way now. I made a blog just for that!

oceangramstories.blogspot.com

I hope you see you there!

Sera : )

Ingunn

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Can't you use forums like the one they have on gamershood? they work perfedtly... don't be offended, just trying to help.. don't know that much about these things..

great site by the way! i'm in here everyday! it's my favorite!