Why is UKRM more active than Reeky?
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From: ogden on 17 Nov 2009 13:41 darsy wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:47:53 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > > >On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:10:42 -0800 (PST), turby <keensurf(a)hotmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >>On Nov 16, 2:44 pm, Sean_Q_ <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote: > >>> The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland population > >>> is about 60 million. And yet UKRM has a significantly higher posting > >>> volume than Reeky, which represents at least 400 million people > >>> (United States + Canada + UK + New Zealand), those being the only > >>> nationalities I personally know to be contributing, although I'm sure > >>> there are lots more). > > > >>C'mon. It's Usenet. Brits have always been more comfortable using > >>archaic technology. > > > >heh. > > > >But if web forums are the future, I don't want any part of it. > > the maddest bit is, they could be done properly if someone with 1/2 a > clue about UX had a go at doing one. Every single one I've tried looks > to have been "designed" by some open source LAMP-muppet, using the > appropriately named Gimp for the badly formatted graphics (and don't > even get me started on the ones that have anim-GIFs instead of > smileys...) If only you knew an unemployed developer. -- ogden
From: Leszek Karlik on 17 Nov 2009 13:56 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:34:32 +0100, darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: [...] >> But if web forums are the future, I don't want any part of it. > the maddest bit is, they could be done properly if someone with 1/2 a > clue about UX had a go at doing one. Nah, no amount of UX will change the fact that web forums are a single point of failure waiting to happen and are easily retromoderated by the administrators and/or users. Usenet is failure- and censorship-resistant, which is it's best point and most significant flaw at the same time. -- Leszek 'Leslie' Karlik NTV 60
From: Salad Dodger on 17 Nov 2009 14:17 On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:23:12 +0000, YTC#1 <bdp(a)ytc1-spambin.co.uk> wrote: >turby wrote: >> C'mon. It's Usenet. Brits have always been more comfortable using >> archaic technology. >> > >At that would be different from HDs.... how ? There was one of those monstrosities parked in front of our office today. Black, with white-wall tyres, one of those SoftFatHeritageSpringBobtail things. Fair enough, but this had fringed leather saddle and saddlebags, together with leather tassles on the bars, and leather fringes on the foot boards. Truly hideous. Not very practiclal in the UK in November, either.
From: Twibil on 17 Nov 2009 14:35 On Nov 17, 3:31 am, Switters <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > <sigh> It's a cliche that yanks don't get irony, but thanks for helping > out with that one. And it's another cliche' that Brits invariably act condesending, even when they're making it all up as they go along. (He's Canadian.) BTW: rumor to the contrary; "Canadian" isn't a synonym for "North Dakotan". Canadians have their very own little country up there; even if it *is* mostly composed of snow, beer, hosers, and pine trees. I hear they're even going to install a traffic light in Toronto real soon now!
From: Twibil on 17 Nov 2009 14:37
On Nov 17, 8:30 am, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: > > > So you ride around acquiring culture ? Yes, but rarely anything that a good antibiotic can't handle. |