all,
I was thinking it might be a good idea to reduce the number of automated postings here?
It's easy to see which echoes have automated postings of web news
articles and which ones don't. It makes it hard, IMO, to sort out the conversations from the automated posts (that lead you off of the echoes and less likely to reply)
Tech Discussions is an echo where I'd like to see some conversations
going on, but any human replies would be drowned out by the automated postings.
all,
I was thinking it might be a good idea to reduce the number of automated postings here?
It's easy to see which echoes have automated postings of web news
articles and which ones don't. It makes it hard, IMO, to sort out the conversations from the automated posts (that lead you off of the echoes and less likely to reply)
Tech Discussions is an echo where I'd like to see some conversations
going on, but any human replies would be drowned out by the automated postings.
Just a thought...
Thanks for the feedback, the "Tech Discussions" message base is actually called "General Tech News", there's also one called "General Science News" that is set up the same way, and their entire reason for existing _was_ to share tech (and science) news scraped from all over into one place for me an others to be able to see.
all,
I was thinking it might be a good idea to reduce the number of automated postings here?
I actually know what you mean about replies and discussion would be
lost amongst the automated posts, when I made that base the sole
intention of it was to provide news about tech automatically to anyone wanting to read it, and discussions coming from a post would be
seen/read the same as any other post in other bases.
The frequency of posts is based on the RSS feeds that are being
scraped, so if there isn't much tech news one day, then posts would be fewer.
I'll have a think about ways to make it less aggressive or frequent, I could poll the RSS feeds less frequently but it'd still pull the same amount of news, just would mean there would be more unread messages
each time it polls.
I forget the fidonet terminolgy, (it's been a long day) but isn't there still a way to reply/quote in a differnet echo?
So the great articles still keep coming in, but discussions around them take place in another echo?
We don't really see that kinda thing active anymore but it used to work well on some "announement" echos that I used to frequent.
Actually Mystic has this functionality which people may have overlooked with their muscle memory.
When you hit R to reply to a message you get this show up (in mystic)
Reply area (ENTER) Current, (B)ase, (E)mail, (Q)uit?
Hi all, I am new to tqwnet, first I would like to say hi!.
Actually Mystic has this functionality which people may have overlook with their muscle memory.
When you hit R to reply to a message you get this show up (in mystic)
Reply area (ENTER) Current, (B)ase, (E)mail, (Q)uit?
When I read the first post I was thinking of the same thing, however I
am not sure how all the other BBS's work, and if the can reply to to another base.
I like the idea of the tech bases posting news from the net, however yes filtering discussions, if any would be a task.
I don't know how an echo hub works per say, but is there a way to set up the hub that if any replies to that base happens, could the hub move it
to another base like "Tech (discussions)". Which would allow someone to reply to a post with comment about the post, and still be able to use features like quoting.
I hope that makes sense.
I like the idea of the tech bases posting news from the net, however yes filtering discussions, if any would be a task.³
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³ Meanwhile, I'm sick of news posts spamming up the various echoes/bases with ³ no engagement. >w<
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