How would you feel about a new forum: GDEO?

"E" stands for "Exit Only." In other words, it's not an entry point to threads. GDEO will show thread titles, but when you click on a thread title, nothing happens. You may ask "What purpose would it serve?"

Suppose that you want to begin a thread with a statement of purpose!

You don't want people to ignore the statement of purpose by simply scrolling down to see what comes next. You want to restrict the audience to people who are truly interested. So you begin your thread in GDEO. For example, you click on "Create thread" and type this title: "A policy that could help us avoid future economic crises." Then you type the body of your thread: a description and explanation of your policy idea. Nobody can read the body of your thread by visiting GDEO, so what's the point? That is the point! You don't want people to go directly to the policy idea. You want to have an opportunity to fully describe the purpose before anybody reads beyond your description of your purpose.

So you go to whatever forum you consider appropriate. For example, you might go to Economy or GD. You create a new thread that has exactly the same thread title that you used in GDEO. This time you voluntarily restrict yourself to an elaboration of your purpose. You don't say what the policy is. Within the thread, you include a link that is an entrance to the related thread that is in GDEO.

Lay off the crack. It rots your brain - so I'm told.

and add to that a "Guzzah?" and a "WTFBBQ?"

:shrug:

It's not a good idea, mind you, but it is an idea.

For example, the following participants seem to disagree:
anotheryellowdog
EOTE
QuestionAll
MazeRat7

The last time we talked, or at least the last time I posted to you, the question was whether a bear died if it ate a cookie made by someone's grandmother. I never did hear from you on that thread, so I'm still trying to puzzle that one out.

:shrug:

Body of Thread in an ordinary Forum---hyperlink---> Body of Thread in GDEO

A thread title in GDEO----no hyperlink---> (Nothing)

So, it's kind of like an all foyer mansion, am I getting this right here?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38734

And, I was told there would be cookies and juice, no?

The grandmother died, and they got lost somehow. Either that or the bear ate the grandmother and the cookies still got lost.

I'm sooooo confused, now....

Some people who dislike this or that policy may reserve the right to blame me, so presumably they would claim to have some justification for the allegation that I either directly made the policy or influenced others to make the policy.

Usually, only people in government write such unreadable gobbledegook.



:P

of the stench of catfood. I think the bear has the cookies.

I'm not sure if there's beer, but that'd be good. I like a nice pilsner with my snickerdoodles.

:shrug:

No stargate necessary.

:D

rather like that, where you can't read what I am writing by merely looking at the subject line? No description, just the whole thing?

Or do you mean that a person would have no clue, at all, even a topic, of what the subject was about until they clicked, opened the full thread and read the whole thing?

clicking on a subject line in GDEO wouldn't have any effect. It wouldn't open a thread. To read a GDEO thread, you would have to find the entry point to the body of the GDEO thread. The entry point would be a link in the body of a thread in some ordinary forum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4685099&mesg_id=4685425

No, I mean it is personal, when you join. That alone should make a good reason for enabling profiles. I mean the rest may or may not be accurate. I found if I hover my cursor over the icons (pm, profile, etc) that a link shows up at the bottom that has a number. On people with hidden profiles, I can get the number, then start comparing to other poster's numbers and get an approximate time of joining.

Two replies got DUzies, though, so I guess two kicks are OK.

I kicked a bear once, because it ate my cookies. My grandmother kicked it as well.