We've got 4 threads with well over 100 recs on the Greatest Page

[Canuckistanian]

And one of them with over 200.

Just an observation.

[EFerrari]

1. Your momma.

:rofl:

[Canuckistanian]

6. ..

:hi:

[EFerrari]

7. LOL

:hi:

[shireen]

37. i LOVE that reply!

we should use it more often on DU. :D

[PretzelWarrior]

2. imagine how many they'd have without unrec!!!!

:)

[Canuckistanian]

3. The mind boggles n/t

[Hepburn]

4. I really truly hate this unR system....

...it is like something for children.

[EFerrari]

8. I just watched one of the nicest DUers get blasted

for asking a question.

Not just children, malicious children whose parents are at work.

[HughMoran]

12. Now you're calling people children

Tsk tsk!

[EFerrari]

14. Yes, and the difference is, I'll own it unlike yourself. n/t

[HughMoran]

23. Doh!

You can be a really bitter person at times - why are you so harsh?

[EFerrari]

34. I'm harsh because I own what I say and point out that you haven't?

That's "bitterness"? I prefer to think of it as not being a doormat. YMMV.

[HughMoran]

36. True or False - I called you a child?

Did I?

[EFerrari]

39. No, you didn't post that. You just supported it.

And, that's fine. I don't melt very easily. :)

[HughMoran]

40. But, but...

Never mind - you're such a bulldog it's not worth grappling with you.

[EFerrari]

43. You may be right, though, that my attitude about this thingy isn't great.

And that that isn't helping.

[HughMoran]

45. Well, never fear - I've commented on other comments you've made on this topic

I have a feeling we'll be doing this dance for a while, even if this is the end of the line for this thread ;)

[EFerrari]

47. LOL. Okay.

:)

[Political Heretic]

46. I'm somewhat amazed people can't see the slew of unintended negative consequences of unrec function

Really surprises me.

[HughMoran]

48. The intended positive consequences appear to be far outweighing any negative ones

I like it - hardly any stupid vanity posts on the GP - woohoo! :woohoo:

[Hepburn]

27. Yep....

...totally.

It is like the unR feature brings out the gang mentality. I really, really hate this thing and have been staying away from particupating like I usually do.

It really makes me sad to see just how nasty this place has become...

[EFerrari]

29. Being able to tank someone anonymously is not going to be a community builder,

let alone, contribute to our discussions. I hate it, too.

[HughMoran]

11. I think more people overall are voting now

So, probably the same based on previous several years observing the Greatest Page

[BlooInBloo]

5. Clearly unrec Nazism is undoing us all. Sigh.

[xultar]

9. +1

[TahitiNut]

13. Yup. Sapping our vital juices.

:shrug:

[Canuckistanian]

17. Branch water and pure grain alcohol

That's my secret.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. Thank goodness Orwell warned us all. Unlike you rubes, I prepared myself for the unrec Apocalypse

I have been secretly stockpiling recs since May of 2003 Someday soon I shall rule.

[BlooInBloo]

22. Teh UNRECALYPSE!!!!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

38. Contact the ACLU! Quick!

This injustice must not stand!

[Number23]

44. +10 And why is it that the most hateful people here are the mains ones crying over it?

[elocs]

10. Well we all know how important it is to get a lot of Recs

because the more Recs a thread gets directly correlates to how profound and important that thread is.

Just an observation.

[EFerrari]

15. And the flip side is that people who are new or who don't post much

or are posting about something that is unusual get blasted with negativity. Is that what we want?

I know I'm a big fat mom but it doesn't seem like a way to foster discussion. :shrug:

[CakeGrrl]

25. If people are being ignored for being newbies, that's a "cultural" issue with this community.

Not that I haven't seen it on other boards.

People who vote down a new poster without looking at post content have issues of their own. Hopefully those who make a fair judgement based on post content are in the majority if this forum is as sophisticated as it wants to believe it is.

[EFerrari]

32. Under the new system, none of that kind of "thinking through"

is necessary.

[Canuckistanian]

16. Naturally

I won't even OPEN a thread unless it's got more than 10 recs. 5 of those recs MIGHT be an attempt to "Hide Thread", which is right beside "Recommend".

I just can't take any chances.

[EFerrari]

18. But, you're thinking like a poster who has been here a long time

and who feels very comfortable surfing the board, someone who has a lot of friends.

Most posters to this board aren't you. Apart from all the other stuff, it's not really about all the recs but about the reception of ideas. Ideas not doing all that well at DU today.

Maybe everyone is just still riled up. The anthill will go back to normal but, this pre-emptive anonymous disapproval isn't going to keep DU on the cutting edge of anything but approval seeking.

[Canuckistanian]

26. I'm just kidding

Some of the best posts I've seen never even made the 5 recs needed for the Greatest.

[EFerrari]

28. Ain't it the truth?

:)

[Deja Q]

19. With one of the four based on supposition, but three out of four ain't bad...

[Gabi Hayes]

20. locking

[Laelth]

24. It's nice to see that we agree about some things.

Each of those threads (except for the one about the unrec function, itself) has about 50 responses, very little in the way of discussion, and hardly any sub-threads (responses to responses). It's a nice, happy, liberal news feed. Not what you expect to find on a "discussion board," but it's O.K. for what it is.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Canuckistanian]

30. That was Skinner's intent - consensus

We have thousands of posters - and less that a hundred of them with a similar opinion could have made a thread rise to the top of the Greatest. And those who disagreed had nothing to say about it.

I feel it's more representative now. Although others will disagree with that.

[EFerrari]

31. People more quickly unite against something than for something.

And they often do it without their frontal lobes.

That's a weakness of this new system. It's great to make everyone feel like they have a real vote. No so great when perfectly fine OPs are just mindlessly voted down before anyone can even read them.

You're voting out complexity, diversity and minority, and anonymously, too, so no one even has to write out a response.

That's not progressive discussion. That's something else.

[Laelth]

33. I agree that Skinner said, outright, that he wanted to keep divisive topics off the GP.

What I have seen is that divisive topics still make it, but the OP has to be written by someone who holds the majority view of active posters. That's certainly the case for the highly-ranked unrec thread. That's a very divisive topic, obviously. That thread's OP also espouses the majority view (we think). Equally busy OPs that espouse the minority view do not make it.

So, it doesn't keep divisive OPs off, per se, but it does allow greater exposure for majority opinion OPs on divisive topics.

Or, so it seems to me. I am not sure I would call that "representative," per se.

:dem:

-Laelth

[TexasObserver]

42. Well said. Great analysis. Accurate.

[johnaries]

35. OMFG! Censorship!

Wait.... what? :evilgrin:

[TexasObserver]

41. Yes, UNRECOMMEND has saved the Greatest Page!

It's worth reading, and without all those tacky, useless, vanity threads.