Automatic Message Removal

Miszou

Does anyone else find "Message Automatically Removed" to be quite irritating? I mean, I sort of understand the reasoning behind it, but when you're late to the party the entire thread becomes a big teaser. It's like a game of 20 questions, trying to piece together the original text from all the comments, quoted text and references to other threads. Just my 2c. And yes, I'm grouchy this morning, because I came in to work 2 hours early to make changes to the database and publish a new version of the internal application and it isn't working properly, so now I'm going to have to stay late and get it done after hours instead. It's going to be a long day... :sigh:

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MidwestLimey

Don't worry, I couldn't understand the message when it was there, seriously.

I'm largely language agnostic

After a while they all bug me :doh:

toxcct

wanna see it ? really ???

the other guy wrote:

winlogon runs with all the system privilages, why nt my application can run with all privilages?????????????? checking done asked a simpe ? n look wht kind of answer ppl giving..............

so, 1) it's totally irrelevant with the lounge policies. 2) it's quite unreadable, and went worst in the rest of the thread. 3) it's been removed because it was abusing the forum. at least, it could have been totally deleted, without even letting you know it was. what would you have prefered ?

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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

I think the thread is controlled now.

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realJSOP

In this case, you're only missing a message with its only connection to "English" being what your operating system is setup to display. It's a mere mishmash of characters that form random words, joined together by disassociated coagulations of consonants and vowels. As far as we could tell, he was mad because nobody answered his equally cryptic messages in a programming forum. I recommended to him that he take up a different profession.

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Chris Losinger

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

I recommended to him that he take up a different profession.

he seems to be pretty good at trolling. maybe there's a career in that ?

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realJSOP

I suggested "lab animal".

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Miszou

Thanks for the answer :P However, I'm not just referring to the thread below this one, but all of them. Due to the time zone I'm in (California), by the time I get to work and read the Lounge, most everyone else (except Hawaii!) has already been hard at work for a few hours - or reading the Lounge, which is more likely ;) I guess ignoring such threads will just encourage more nonsense, and deleting the entire thread wouldn't appear very democratic... Hmm, stuck between a rock and a hard place indeed.

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toxcct

Miszou wrote:

and deleting the entire thread wouldn't appear very democratic

the loungers voted that post as abusive. it was not a decision of a single administrator...

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Miszou

toxcct wrote:

the loungers voted that post as abusive. it was not a decision of a single administrator...

Right, I know. But deleting the entire thread (including all responses) might be seen as a little draconian, especially since people only voted down the offending post. To remove the whole post would be too reminiscent of 1984. Nothing to see here, move along... However, deleting only the offending message body leaves an empty space, which makes it hard to extract meaning from the replies. It's not terribly important, but occasionally I'll be wondering what the hell the guy said!

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El Corazon

Miszou wrote:

However, deleting only the offending message body leaves an empty space, which makes it hard to extract meaning from the replies. It's not terribly important, but occasionally I'll be wondering what the hell the guy said!

curiosity where it matters most.... now see, you are curious about the original message contents, I saw enough replies to realize I was not. Now the Corr sisters, that caught my curiosity. You should be more frugal with your curiosity. :laugh:

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swarup

great work indeed, praise yourself dude

swarup

need a teaching class????????????????????????/

swarup

dude are u a ********* or what, man i feel you dont have any work, do you work or is it your job to comment on all the post

toxcct

what the F*ck are you still talking about ? I was even not talking to you, TROLL !

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John M Drescher

I believe John's first post (in this thread) was very accurate. The problem is that when someone posts a message that is totally incomprehensible it will either get ignored or the poster will get backlash. We realize that not everyone is a native English speaker. Some of us will work hard to try to figure out what the poster meant but as a poster you need to at least try to form reasonable sentences. And also DO NOT post programming questions in the lounge.

John

realJSOP

El Corazon wrote:

You should be more frugal with your curiosity.

Or he needs to get up earlier in the morning so he can see the crap that's about to be deleted.

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realJSOP

I may be an asshole, but I'm a well-spoken asshole, and I think I've got the respect of most of the people here. These are two things which will probably never happen for you.

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Dan Neely

Crash test dummy.

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realJSOP

If you use bigger words than he does, it makes him feel like an idiot, and he is compelled to respond as one.

"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001