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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Oct 20, 2014 - 02:52pm PT
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Forum topics would never work. I can't think of very many threads that stay on one topic.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Oct 20, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
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HOW ABOUT
a thread-bare doomsday device that automatically archives (never delete anything, because NSA has it anyway) those threads which are marignal or barely worthwhile according to an unspecified worthiness algorithm and/or less than an uncertain number of posts within an uncertain time period.
Certainly works for me. I just happen to have a (patented) algorithm that could be made available.
-.- Werner (not kidding here) Heisenberg
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ncrockclimber
climber
The Desert Oven
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Oct 20, 2014 - 03:40pm PT
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This is exactly right. Just do what you feel is correct. Since you are not fattrad you should be good to go.
As you were!
DMT
LOL!
Next you will be calling me LEB, and those would be fighting words!
Cheers!
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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Oct 20, 2014 - 04:03pm PT
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Here's a radical idea.
Why not use more than one forum. One could be ( gasp) climbing.
Maybe add dogs, cats, and Birds. They bring traffic.
The other one could be the "all the other crap" forum. OK, they aren't climbing, but they are irresistible.
There would be no mysteries about what you were going to see.
If Cris M thinks this hampers his guidebook business he can just load up ads on the other crap forum and become a millionaire.
The folks on the climbing forum will figure out where to buy the topos.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 20, 2014 - 04:49pm PT
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so now
are all of you happy
vented your spleens
ranted
made bad puns and
not so Cryptic messages
For G.O.D's Sake men .,.,.,.,.,.said in a stern british accent
Now from the Looks Of it we lost our muse
Mouse
yes I am crying into fart wind.,. CRY wha wha wha
but really it is very foolish what some of you wish for
You wo' not understand 'cause you were, most likely,
not there but a lot of us who passed through knew it,
this site is a little bit like the valley in '72 and by '90 it was OVER.
and it was good times and bad times and life with and without
But it was yours, mine and hers and even the LEOs' Respected,
shoes and a chalk bag some webbing
wide eyes was all that you needed to enter,
like the last errant leaf, spinning to earth, it comes to rest
ignored, indiscernible from the rest undetected.
your welcome back any time MOUSE OF MERCED!!
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TripleS_in_EBs
climber
Poulsbo, WA
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Oct 23, 2014 - 10:19pm PT
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How about a "hide thread" button, Chris?
I second that. Would love a "hide thread" button.
I also wish for a "hide threads authored by 'nickname' " feature.
I've visited ST a lot less in the last year or so because of the proliferation of chaff and the time it takes to sort through it to find the content that I originally appreciated from ST.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Oct 24, 2014 - 05:39am PT
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Mister E, I was just throneing out an idea.
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couchmaster
climber
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Superbowl in 2 hours, raining outside. 2 interesting things to note.
Rolfr posted on the Bruce Kay is banned WTF thread 1/1/2015 after Bruce had allegedly repatedly attacked another poster who disagreed with him @ 20 times: "I posted the last message I received from Bruce after asking him about being banned. My apologizes to Bruce for posting it with out his permission. I have removed it . But a final quintessential Bruce quote " Forums are a bit like acid. A little is OK, a lot will send you into loonie land." "
CMAC said regarding deleting the Ferguson thread much earlier: "The thread was devolving into personal attacks. While we constantly wrestle with our comfort of having a climbing forum be occasionally overrun with heated political debate, we are very clear that we never want the forum to become a platform for personal attacks."
For myself, I appreciate a spirited debate with the disagreements intellectually parsed by each opposing side. We all learn a lot from them. However, personal attacks are needless, turn most normal folks off and the normal multitudes will go elsewhere.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 10, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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could we kill off the political threads?
probably not, this place really sucks at the moment. No interest at all to contribute even climbing.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Oct 10, 2016 - 06:43pm PT
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Come on Ed, give it another month and it will all be over.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 10, 2016 - 06:44pm PT
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I'm with you Ed.....just back from seven weeks in the Karakorum and I have no interest at all in doing a TR that will instantly slip beneath the waves in a sea where egregious threads like "When Trump Wins" sail on ad nauseum.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Oct 10, 2016 - 06:45pm PT
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OK, I won't post for a month...
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 10, 2016 - 06:48pm PT
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I'm with you 100%....it's Oct. 10th. No posts from me until Nov. 10th....at the earliest.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Oct 10, 2016 - 07:04pm PT
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Jim, I'd love to see a TR of your trip.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Oct 10, 2016 - 07:15pm PT
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Two of my favorites. I'll look forward to your return(s).
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mtnyoung
Trad climber
Twain Harte, California
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Oct 10, 2016 - 07:18pm PT
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I really enjoy political threads. I enjoy being able to read them and consider the arguments at my leisure. I rarely post to them though, that's more of a commitment than I want to make.
From my perspective, right now, the "Trump" thread is the most interesting one on Supertopo.
Trip reports are great, but John is right, there are only so many way to post "nice report," and so they tend to get read more often than posted to.
And BTW Ed, if you're still reading this: I just bought the in-Reach communications device that you mentioned in your JMT trip report. I'd been looking for something of this nature but hadn't ever heard of that one. I checked it out, and it fit what I needed perfectly :)
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Oct 10, 2016 - 07:22pm PT
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I get you, John. Mostly.
It's all about balance, and the polititard stuff can get stoooopidly out of balance sometimes. (Not sure this is point in time is the best example, though.)
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Oct 10, 2016 - 07:28pm PT
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too bad this is a climber's forum rather than a climbing forum.
but yeah, those few threads really do stain things brown around here. not in a good way.
life in an echo chamber (or is it a ketamine-ride in sensory isolation?) must suck.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 10, 2016 - 07:48pm PT
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I don't want to be melodramatic. The seven weeks in the Karakorum were such a joy with absolutely NO election garbage news. I'll take my 30 day break with Ed and see if people want to talk about c.l.i.m.b.i.n.g AFTER the election.....ciao!.
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