- Xplode441
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Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-
Posted by: dazarobbo
As opposed to manually checking every single page? The technology running the website is there to make the experience here more enjoyable for its users. There is nothing enjoyable about clicking through every single page of a thread just to see if there are any new posts in it. The same applies for reply notifications.
Why are you clicking through every page of a thread? The newest replies are at the end. Unless you like re-reading the posts.
1. I dare say you're in a minority here if you don't care if people reply to you. In fact, you seem to care who replies to you in this thread.
Yes, because I actually have a discussion going on in here, if I were to make a post in a topic just saying: Yes, I eat food. I would just leave it at that, and not really care if people respond to me. If I have a discussion going on, I keep up with it. I don't have twelve discussions going on at the same time.
2. The number of posts someone makes in a day is completely irrelevant, as a reply notification could be sent from a reply you made yesterday, the day before, week before, etc... It's incredibly difficult (and in some cases impossible) to keep track of replies in those cases. Therefore having a notification of a reply would be useful.
Unless the thread is important, I don't see your reply being responded to more than a week from posting. If you post a lot in a day, you lose track of what threads you have posted in, especially in a fast moving forum, and I've said reply notifications would probably help them. How is that not relevant?
3. Why do you keep saying that having something like this promotes laziness or would make people lazy? Can you (or anyone else) honestly say that they enjoy clicking through every single page of a thread just to find out if someone replied to them? The whole point of using a computer and its technologies is that they make life easier and more enjoyable. Again, it's the convenience that's offered by a notification system that makes it so attractive and useful to want/use.
Laziness? Because, you can already keep up with it on your own. Why are you just going through a thread to see if someone replied to you? Take the time to actually read other people's responses and possibly respond to them.
Assuming you're referring to having to open up every thread and read every page at regular intervals just to check for a reply to a post, I have to disagree with it only being useful for someone who posts a lot, simply because of that very same overly-complex, inaccurate, and inefficient "method".
I've already said that it reply notifications could be useful for some people. Why do you keep going back to this argument? I still don't like the idea, however, I'm pretty much compromised that if it has to be turned on when added that it wouldn't affect me at all. In fact, it could spark longer conversations on b.net which wouldn't be all that bad.
Finally, I don't understand why you continue to refer to a notification system as being "unnecessary". Everything on this site is unnecessary. We don't need Private Messages. We don't need avatars. We don't need Private Groups. We don't need stat tracking. We don't even need this site. The fact that they exist means that someone at some time has thought they would be useful or enjoyable to use. Maybe Stepehen Fry can assist in explaining this phenomena.
PM's? I can see how they're pretty necessary in contacting people without derailing threads by asking how they're doing.
Avatars? That's just for personalization, which is unnecessary. I wouldn't really mind if avatars were gone.
Stat tracking? Necessary for us? No, but Bungie uses it to draw users to their site and increase their user count for this site.
Is this site necessary? Absolutely, if this site wasn't here then another fan site would be where we would be discussing this.
Notifications are not a social networking feature. They've existed on sites through the use of email well before sites like Facebook or MySpace existed. So please don't try that angle of argument.
Agreed, notifications aren't solely social networking features, however, they are used in social networking sites, so I can see how people are making connections.
Posted by: ankerd123
Posted by: Xplode441
Why are you so against this. By the ammount of positive ressonses in this thread don't you just think you should accept that it is a good idea instead of continually flaming.
I don't think flaming means what you think it means. I'm just disagreeing, and I don't think that just because everyone likes something that I should too. I have an opinion, and am not a robot that can be programmed to simply ignore or like something.
[Edited on 10.01.2011 12:42 PM PDT]