Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:03:30 +0000 From: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Brad Davis <brd@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Forums Message-ID: <86bpwerd7x.fsf@nowhere.org> 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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Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > 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. > >> 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 ... Well, yes, but "Its All Text" does the same trick for text boxes and it is compatible. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 Wouldn't be without it! atb Glyn
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