While I completely agree about the lack of merit found in many threads, I guess my approach is different in that my process does not involved finding the threads I *don't* want to read but those I actually do want to read ( a far small number )
And in the useless threads I still like to scan who posted, since sometimes I'll just read a message (or ignore it ) based on who wrote it rather than the topic. Sort of an assessment on both a poster and thread basis of the signal to noise ratio <s>
>Have you see the number of entries in the "Was Mike Beane Banned" thread? I don't understand the number of posts caused every time someone is banned. I'm tired of the entire thread and don't want to see dozens of entries.
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>>Okay, this is probably a stupid question, but since the threads are named and you have to actually go to the thread to read it, why would one want to "filter" a thread ? I must have a different UT interface or something but I find it incredibly not difficult to not read things I have no interest in <s>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
