tcm
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With dateslip on, all the recently-added-to posts are at the top. This is all v convenient, say the pro-dateslippies.
But, I am here to tell you that it is no good. The reason that it is a pile of rubbish for the very same reason.
Dateslip is like organising a supermarket with all the eggs, cornflakes, milk, pot noodles and whatever are the current most common purchases right next to the checkout. If there's some new stuff, of special interest to an individual or other, then that'll be somewhere else. Supermarkety peeps will tell you that this is not how to do it, but to make it a bit more spread out so that oho you find a few more new things. Worse, dateslip actually organsies the entire board in sequence of how popular a thread is. So, the further back in the shop you go, the more ho hum one realises that the thread/product is, and the more unlikely a shopper is to buy, or a new poster is likely to delve.
Net result of dateslip is that there less traffic across a wide number of threads- the "action" is inside just a handful of threads.
Before, the action was across all threads, and threads in between the "currently most popular" ones got more of a look-in. Art least, they stayed current for a whole day, instead of being hurled down to the bottom within an hour.
imho.
But, I am here to tell you that it is no good. The reason that it is a pile of rubbish for the very same reason.
Dateslip is like organising a supermarket with all the eggs, cornflakes, milk, pot noodles and whatever are the current most common purchases right next to the checkout. If there's some new stuff, of special interest to an individual or other, then that'll be somewhere else. Supermarkety peeps will tell you that this is not how to do it, but to make it a bit more spread out so that oho you find a few more new things. Worse, dateslip actually organsies the entire board in sequence of how popular a thread is. So, the further back in the shop you go, the more ho hum one realises that the thread/product is, and the more unlikely a shopper is to buy, or a new poster is likely to delve.
Net result of dateslip is that there less traffic across a wide number of threads- the "action" is inside just a handful of threads.
Before, the action was across all threads, and threads in between the "currently most popular" ones got more of a look-in. Art least, they stayed current for a whole day, instead of being hurled down to the bottom within an hour.
imho.
