Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:02:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Forums Message-ID: <87skpqvkyv.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <49211D66.9030606@infracaninophile.co.uk> (Matthew Seaman's message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 %2B0000") References: <20081116160428.GD79046@valentine.liquidneon.com> <20081116195718.F26015@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <87r65a98gm.fsf@kobe.laptop> <49211D66.9030606@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:29:42 +0000, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> * Having five gazillion posts that say "me too", is not exactly a >> productive answer to a problem. Alas, this is often what you get >> when you gather hundreds of _very_ inexperienced people and you >> hand them a web interface to freely post short, often >> unintelligible snippets that are more suitable for Twitter than a >> FAQ page. > > There's a Thanks button feature in vBulletin that can be enabled to > help catch the 'me too' type postings. Heh, yes. It may take a while to catch on, but it's nice to have it :D >> I've been posting to forums with the mozex Firefox extension and GNU >> Emacs for more than a couple of years now. Here's how a typical ``post >> to a forum'' session looks like for me now: >> >> http://flickr.com/photos/74808312@N00/2961070181/ > > Oh, wow. That's perfect. Or it would be if it was compatible with > firefox-3.0.4 ... It is. I'm using it with Firefox 3.0.4, after installing the plugin from this page: http://mozex.mozdev.org/
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