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# Relaxing...

Just reading the paper, putting my feet up.
(I helped save b3ta! jonas is not my name, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:31, archived)
# wooooooooo
page 50 feb issue in FRONT rathergood.com is mentioned 4 times. woooooo
(rik, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:29, archived)
# The woman
from the cover of "B3ta Format" is really annoyed because someone stole her earsocks!

Woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:27, archived)
# Hmmm...
Spooky!
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:26, archived)
# ooooooooooooooooh!
(I helped save b3ta! Fat Boab of dailyreckless.com fame, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:18, archived)
# Handbags at dawn
(I helped save b3ta! E.S.Blofeld, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:35, archived)
# Groovy flash games
to coin a phrase,
Clicky
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:18, archived)
# I like
Bum Bum Koala

Lovely calm music. Maybe this should have been the soundtrack to kill your friends. Much scarier.
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:31, archived)
# Fries with that Luv?
(I helped save b3ta! grinfish redux I can remember when all this were eels, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:09, archived)
# Yummy!
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:46, archived)
# Lobster stick to magnet, apparently
According to this.

You can tell I'm not at work today, can't you?
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:03, archived)
# Whoops!
That didn't work, try it again. I want to see proof that lobsters can stick to the fridge / make your telly go funny etc...
(I helped save b3ta! vulga is a foul mouthed cunt, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:08, archived)
# OOOPS!!
bad pasting technique... forgive me and blame it on the mucus.

Try this.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:15, archived)
# If anybody wants to contact me
... the email us form is now working, but don't send mail to [email protected] directly as it will bounce.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:55, archived)
# The b3ta version of Craig David vs Bagpuss
(I helped save b3ta! thorpe www.voodootrombonequartet.com, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:53, archived)
# The reason I'm tired
is because my cat woke me up this morning at 5am by breakdancing on my head
(I helped save b3ta! PeterSeychelles, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:45, archived)
# Maybe I'm way behind with this...
but did everyone see the banned" Kylie Agent Provocateur ad?

Very nicely done... wait for the punchline.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:45, archived)
# banned? pah!
... it was a skillfully executed campaign to get AP a a fuck load of media coverage.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:51, archived)
# old but gold
(chimpy's girl, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:42, archived)
# has any one got the original ?
without the balloons ?
(I helped save b3ta! breel, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:43, archived)
# you know they
use real stuffed kittens for that stuff in China? they make whole series and parodies. Ick.
(I helped save b3ta! Jay, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:47, archived)
# Pep!
I can't find the original message, but did you have any ideas where I might start looking for that G3 300 upgrade card? Any leads most appreciated :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jay, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:41, archived)
# strange cow game
check it out.
www.miniclip.com/cits/cow.htm

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(I helped save b3ta! breel, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:37, archived)
# Someone just mailed me this:

and I laughed
(I helped save b3ta! Jay, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:30, archived)
# Thats so cool!
Someone should do a mini-series following the exploits of mini David Hasselhoff!
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:32, archived)
# best picture ever
-- because god is in the details -- now with matching hands!


(blunt, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 8:38, archived)
# boardex
Ideas:

1. People need to be able to add their board, and these should do to a manual approval list.

2. Need to set link depth, as some boards are open flat threaded (popbitch, rathergood) and others are clicky (popex)

3. Possibly you should think about setting WHEN the poll is done. Some boards may need polling every couple of hours, whilst others move more slowly.

Boards to poll to start with

www.b3ta.com/board/
www.popbitch.com/board17.html
www.urban75.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?forumid=6
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:16, archived)
# Of course
most message board content isn't so much links to things as general discussion of a topic.

That said, discussions often start, or are soon followed up with, a link to some other material. In this case, the link is probably to old stuff, but the discussion is more new/interesting.

You will need to record the parent of any link you find, ie the route you took from the main board to the page with the link, so you can tell when that has dropped off the front page. This will give you a measure of how often the board updates.

Link depth can probably be determined by seeing if all the links (well *most* of em)on the page point to deeper down the same branch of the site. Or something.

This is fun. Wish I had the time to experiment... but I've got to finish my automated Win2K install script.
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:38, archived)
# boards do have plenty of links in them though ...
... b3ta/popbitch gets lots of links. And b3ta gets most of it's clickthrus to the viral blobs via other message board traffic. I'm interested to monitor link popularity via message boards, as the barrier to entry is lower than to blogs, I think the links might be more representative of what people actually are looking at.

You could do some really funky stuff with google groups... with these ideas.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:46, archived)
# I shudder to think
What you'd link to via usenet
(I helped save b3ta! chimpy, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:09, archived)
# no.
not talking about porn.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:36, archived)
# Was thinking
more on lines of the loons in the self help groups (amonst many others)
(I helped save b3ta! chimpy, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:48, archived)
# Cool
cool and thrice cool.....
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 8:18, archived)
# OK,
Now flat boards are relatively easy. just take the current page and update it in the index.

Proper threaded ones are going to be a little harder - not so much the indexing of the content, but
deciding what content to index.

To get the most "current" board topics we need to index the "most current" threads, which theoretically
are those which have the most recent posts.

The question is do we want to index the current content of a thread
1. - (i.e. the newest posts to the most recently updated threads)
or just the original content of a thread
2. - (i.e. the original content of the most recently updated threads)

I guess point 2 will give a better idea of the context of a thread (maybe), but point 1 is a lot
fresher....but with a risk of indexing posts that just say "yeah, I agree".

Also, is the primary aim of the service:-
- To provide a searchable index of several bb's
or
- To provide a list of most current discussion subjects across all bb's

Planning to do both, but back-end data will be structured differently according to what we want it
to do.....

BTW, If this post is getting in the way of the usual ramblings we can always move it to an email
discussion...although that's less fun (and generates less ideas)

[email protected]
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:08, archived)
# I don't care about discussion/threads
I was interested in polling for links. I think there is value there.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 7:28, archived)
# Links
is a fairly quick hit I think - and doesn't require too much storage, so I'll do that first.

The question is do we want link and link text or link & sample of target url....

[The more complicated, storage instensive, thread archivy thing may offer a
more detailed take on current discussions tho (so I might build that later...)]
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 8:21, archived)
# Laid up at home with the mother of all colds...
...but also with a fresh copy of Flash! ideal learning opportunity...
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 6:04, archived)
# tut tut
pissingpoliceman
(james, Fri 8 Feb 2002, 5:35, archived)

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