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Well, he made it - a victory for sheer bloodymindedness over some pretty long odds.
I don't know what it is about this country, but we seem to have the knack of producing that special breed of people who just won't take 'no' for an answer.
I don't know what it is about this country, but we seem to have the knack of producing that special breed of people who just won't take 'no' for an answer.
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Isn't innocence wonderful..?
It's sad to think the little sweetpea will be as cynical as us in a few short years. :-(
R
It's sad to think the little sweetpea will be as cynical as us in a few short years. :-(
R
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I wish our town council meetings were as much fun as that... I really do!
The fact that the current chair of our council is a giggler would just be the icing on the cake. :-)
The fact that the current chair of our council is a giggler would just be the icing on the cake. :-)
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The site has been both helped and hindered by the queuebot.
We've seen a lot of neat stuff that might have been missed otherwise, but we've also suffered a certain percentage of dross and repeats.
I'm not one of the naysayers who's going to say 'dump it' because I think it does have a use - but I don't think automagically raising posts that gather votes to the front page is that use - we've already seen it being abused by other communities gathering mass votes to greenlight stuff that doesn't belong there.
Maybe a constructive way forward is to retain the queue, but 'not' on the front page or in the main RSS feed... let the votes raise stuff in the 'league' to bring them to human attention, but retain the human touch that's made Neatorama as neat as it is to actually make the decisions... no algorithm yet written is a substitute for good taste. :-)
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We've seen a lot of neat stuff that might have been missed otherwise, but we've also suffered a certain percentage of dross and repeats.
I'm not one of the naysayers who's going to say 'dump it' because I think it does have a use - but I don't think automagically raising posts that gather votes to the front page is that use - we've already seen it being abused by other communities gathering mass votes to greenlight stuff that doesn't belong there.
Maybe a constructive way forward is to retain the queue, but 'not' on the front page or in the main RSS feed... let the votes raise stuff in the 'league' to bring them to human attention, but retain the human touch that's made Neatorama as neat as it is to actually make the decisions... no algorithm yet written is a substitute for good taste. :-)
R
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@ hithere - that's scarily plausible... a bigger version would give you a fighting chance against almost any Tetrapack. ;-)
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A real cute idea with a potentially fatal flaw.
Here in the UK, hedgehogs can eat slugs and snails - and as we're having quite a mild winter not all of them are hibernating quite as well as they should. They're cute, but sometimes not very bright.
I can't imagine the (admittedly rather smart)little bonnet would be especially helpful to a hungry hedgehog's digestion...
Here in the UK, hedgehogs can eat slugs and snails - and as we're having quite a mild winter not all of them are hibernating quite as well as they should. They're cute, but sometimes not very bright.
I can't imagine the (admittedly rather smart)little bonnet would be especially helpful to a hungry hedgehog's digestion...
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Hehehe - I wonder if I'm still banned from Fubar in Leicester?
(Beer - rugby-club pubcrawl - beer - misbehavoiur - don't ask...)
(Beer - rugby-club pubcrawl - beer - misbehavoiur - don't ask...)
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The Hudson - Powell domain appears to have expired - the link goes to a holding-page. :-(
Richard
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