You can tell the most important and meaningful topics on GD by the number of replies they get..
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Mon Aug-23-10 06:41 PM
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You can tell the most important and meaningful topics on GD by the number of replies they get.. |
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Recs and unrecs don't mean anything, the number of replies is the final arbiter of the quality and relevance of an OP..
Just look at the first page of GD right now, clearly the heaviest replying is happening on the highest quality and most meaningful OPs.
Right?
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Mon Aug-23-10 06:42 PM
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Mon Aug-23-10 06:42 PM
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2. Well, my neighbor is an un-rec troll. What should I do? |
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Edited on Mon Aug-23-10 06:46 PM by Kurt_and_Hunter
Sorry for the hijack!
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Mon Aug-23-10 06:43 PM
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3. I always thought it was the subject line and all the text typed in the message boxes |
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But perhaps I don't have a clear understanding of "most important and meaningful"... :shrug:
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Mon Aug-23-10 06:47 PM
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5. The weightiest subjects, those with the most impact on your life.. |
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And the lives of your loved ones..
Things like war and peace, taxes and benefits, unemployment and jobs, health care and medical insurance.
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Mon Aug-23-10 07:07 PM
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that's an issue that's important to me
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Mon Aug-23-10 06:46 PM
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4. Generally, this is right. But sometimes I have to question |
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the quality and relevance of some of the posts with flames. Some things just seem to be the most controversial, but not really that important. I am thinking about whether toilet seats are up or down as an example.
But for the record, I pay more attention to number of replies than I do recs.
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Mon Aug-23-10 07:34 PM
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9. Smoking, Olive Garden, Purity Ceremonies... |
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Ah yeah...
Flames make me curious.
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Mon Aug-23-10 07:10 PM
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7. That's my general thought as well. |
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The number of recs a thread has has little or no bearing on its value.
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Mon Aug-23-10 07:32 PM
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8. Sometimes the stupidest of OPs gets the most comments... |
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Condescension and the opportunity for same seems to bring 'em out of the woodwork... or the mattress.
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Mon Aug-23-10 07:54 PM
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10. I'd love to have a few screen shots of GD from the week that Michael Jackson died. |
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I spent so much time trying to keep up with hiding all MJ threads I hardly had any time left to actually read anything useful.
Meta-threads about DU and threads where people can work up a good froth of self-righteousness tend to gather the most replies.
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Mon Aug-23-10 08:55 PM
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11. My OP was largely ironic in nature.. |
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Prompted by a thread I was involved in yesterday I think where someone said exactly what I did in my OP but they said it in all seriousness.
Indeed I used the MJ example myself on that thread, that week was truly bizarre here on DU.
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Mon Aug-23-10 09:02 PM
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12. Yes, I understood that you were being ironic. I just wanted to support the point you were making. |
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Not very skillfully, I guess. :P
I was probably on the same thread from yesterday that you were -- I know I posted on at least 3 or 4 of yesterday's unrec debate threads.
Anyway, your point is well taken by me, at least.
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Mon Aug-23-10 09:55 PM
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13. I appreciate the support and knew that's what you were doing.. |
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That post was for all the people that took me seriously.
:hi:
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Mon Aug-23-10 10:01 PM
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14. It's all good, man. We're cool. |
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