Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an intergral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on it's evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
-
Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
-
Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
-
Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
-
Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
-
Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
-
Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
-
If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
-
Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
What do you think about the daily deltas being posted here? If I post them in the thread they get lost, and some people like to look at them. You tell me what you would prefer.
One of the challenges here, (IMO), is finding a good balance between quality and quantity. Volumes of posts get posted each day, which is great (you have an active input vibration), but volume of posts does not always translate into quality of posts.
The upvote/downvote function is the primary mechanism for increasing quality by highlighting quality content and lifting it into prominence, but it's not always the case that quality is upvoted and mediocre quality is ignored.
However, once you begin creating threads to circumvent the volume / board sliding nature of the (new) board (which is what using GC for such a purpose would be), it creates a more convoluted post structure.
Some of our contributors have nice tags next to their handles which make them pop out.
I'd like to see a tag for the pede posting the daily deltas on a regular basis, to help make them stand out a bit. Flairs also help.
It's true, I began posting it there so it wouldn't get lost; but you're right;,it does circumvent the upvote downvote function, which is how the discussion should be driven. And then if there's any discussion on the deltas, that should be on the regular board. So I'll try it on the regular board. There used to be a mod who would post them and then sticky his own post and that was really the way to go.
Wins anon was a great contributor and made an excellent series. I don't pay too much attention to the deltas myself, but its a no-brainer that daily deltas, etc, deserve at minimum its own flair and perhaps an auto-sticky on a "Q research board".
I love the daily delta's!👏
I been meaning to tell you to post it as a separate post. If there is anything notable we can sticky it, otherwise we can just leave it as a normal post.
okay no problem, i can do that.