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WBraun
climber
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Mar 14, 2006 - 02:32am PT
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"......that would probably solve the problem."
So you are the whiner? And the whole thing is Juans fault?
One of the main reasons I never wanted to go back to Mammoth was because there were to many people there like you.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Mar 14, 2006 - 03:32am PT
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Ding! Ding! Ding!
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a whiner!
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426
Sport climber
Something's Always Wrong, FF, TN
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Mar 14, 2006 - 07:42am PT
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Mar 14, 2006 - 08:41am PT
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TradIsGood's post has caused me to have a rethink about reversing the order, with the most recent posts first. It would kind of suck to read a new post that may refer to an earlier one (or some specific item or statement in an earlier one) and then have to scroll (or do a find/search for key word).
I wonder, I am not a techie, so is the technology there to where you can choose the order? You know, like in an Outlook Express (just for an example), where you can sort your e-mails by the date received (chronologically - older ones first or newer ones first).
And I can't believe it but Rajmit actually makes a good point...
Climber's forum v Climbing forum.
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Mar 14, 2006 - 09:20am PT
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Perhaps a better solution to get to last post would be to put button or link at the top. It would jump to the bottom of the thread. Should be just two changes to the HTML generation...
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Chaz
Trad climber
So. Cal.
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Mar 14, 2006 - 09:30am PT
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My keyboard has a button that says "End" on it. When I press that button, the last post is right there. The next to last post is the next one up. To get to that one , I press a button with a mark on it that looks like this: ^
I don't know if it would work for you guys though.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Mar 14, 2006 - 09:44am PT
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climber's are not divorced from their culture, a culture which manifests itself in lots of different ways in climbing... where did all those climb names come from? after getting past the "north-east-buttress-of-higher-bumphuck-bluff" we get stuff like "Escape from Tora Bora"...
...while I am not a huge fan of some of the rants that kick off here, I'm impressed by how much of the forum is about climbing. It could be so much worse. On the other hand, I don't think that every climbing topic should be addressed. If I want to see what the general opinion is regarding, say: "is there a safe way to arrange the gates on your clips in squence as you climb a sport route in Ceylon?" I can go to rc.com... some of the bandwidth that gets wasted on really far out, totally unaswerable climbing question can be amazing. In either case, I usually don't read that stuff.
When climbing mixes in with the personalities of the posters, that's great. Some of the stuff gets dangerously close to literature... and probably better than most current climbing-literature in the rags.
I'd say that it is a really terrible job to be an online, realtime editor... who knows what is good and what is bad?
But, as I said in the past, it's Chris' thing... he can do what he wants... hey, but didn't Funkadelic say it all?
I got a thing
You got a thing
Everybody's got a thing
When we get together, doin' our thing
In order to help each other
In order to help your brother
You don't drink what I drink
You don't smoke what I smoke
You don't think like I think
You don't joke like I joke
I got a thing
You got a thing
Everybody's got a thing
When we get together, doin' our thing
In order to help each other
In order to help your brother
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 14, 2006 - 10:10am PT
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If you want to see what will happen to this forum if it gets restricted to "climbing only", check out rec.climbing. RIP.
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Mar 14, 2006 - 10:44am PT
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Chaz, that 'end' button is brilliant! Thanks.
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TC
Social climber
No matter where you go, there you are.
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Mar 14, 2006 - 10:46am PT
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Chris might want to consider setting up this forum with RSS.
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Mar 14, 2006 - 10:51am PT
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Yup. And Page Down and Page Up keys work pretty nicely too.
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Brutus of Wyde
climber
Old Climbers' Home, Oakland CA
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Mar 14, 2006 - 12:46pm PT
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...So Dingus an' Nurse Ratchet an' I did this way rad climb that comes straight up out of the water...
All the other routes on that wall are Grade IV, but we called ours Grade V because we climb so slow. All the other climbs go free, but ours uses aid because we got tired of scrubbing the lichen, and just wanted to be done with the darn thing.
Jaybro, there's a pitch for you on the thing. Takes a couple Valley Giants. Called it C2. As in, "See too much lichen"
I'd post a topo, but my internet skills are only matched by my climbing skills.
Maybe Ding can dig up some photos.
End Spray.
Brutus
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Spinmaster K-Rove
Trad climber
Stuck Under the Kor Roof
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Mar 14, 2006 - 12:52pm PT
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"You boys shoulda seen the usenet U/I's available, oh, 10-12 years ago. Why you could sort by topic, see all the headers at once, sort by date (ascending or descending), poster, time, topic and filter out annoying topics or people, look at the oldest post first, or the newest, or something in the middle. You could 'watch' interesting threads and be notified if a new post showed up. And the only download time was when you actually opened the post!
In other words, you basic news reader.
Someday the WWW will achieve these basic forum features... but not yet....
I'd give it another 5 years.
DMT "
Any basic forum has all these options. I suggested this a long time ago and got sh#t down. why they decided to code their own I'm not sure since there are already prepackaged forums available for pretty cheap with an insane number of features.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 14, 2006 - 01:44pm PT
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Damnit! I meant to vote for GEORGE Clinton, not that other guy.
mmmm, lichen.
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Rhodo-Router
Trad climber
Otto, NC
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Mar 14, 2006 - 01:54pm PT
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shit! goddamn! get off your ass and JAM!
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Mar 14, 2006 - 01:54pm PT
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The George Clinton/Bootsy Collins ticket would have my vote.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Mar 14, 2006 - 02:01pm PT
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What cabinet post would Bootsy's nephew, snoop, hold?
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Mar 14, 2006 - 02:29pm PT
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Hey wasn't there a pretty steamy photo of a young guy and gal, climbers, well sprayed down with water droplets on their nubile bodies, posted on this thread last nite?
My Boss needs to see it.
Deleted?
...Hopelessly crossthreaded in Cyberville.
Please advise.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 14, 2006 - 02:31pm PT
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Since this forum is unmoderated, it's up for us, the community to tune it up a little of that makes more people happy. That means somebody (or bodies) will have to put effort where their mouth is.
So how about this. It is true that climbing topics get bumped off the front page fast. That goes double for when I post photo threads too. Somebody who cares about focusing on climbing could keep track of interesting on topic threads and regularly post links to them and keep that link "index" bumped to the front page. Everybody who wants to focus on climbing could check out the linked climbing threads and, if they contribute, those threads will bump back to the front page.
Here's your chance to be a self appointed public servant without replacing any bolts.
I'd also encourage us to remind (or flame) those who post off-topic threads with ambiguous titles without including at least (ot) in the subject line.
Peace
Karl
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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Mar 14, 2006 - 02:41pm PT
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Karl,
The answer to that [climbing sub-forum] seemed resoundingly no.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=115504#msg115504
It would be relatively easy to do as long as a west coastie and east coastie collaborated a bit to keep it up to date.
Though there was the interesting suggestion at the bottom of the thread that a boobie forum might be interesting.
Do climbers prefer climbing threads or boobie threads? Or does it depend...?
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