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[rpgsearcherz]

Baniboy, on 21 June 2010 - 11:22 AM, said:

Okay this isn't much to complain about really, but a small thing that has been bugging me, I don't know why. Anyway, there are a lot of people who register here and never post anything. Yet they do connect their twitter account with you-know-what.
And their status messages are shown here, on ks (why the hell there is an extra k there, btw?) among the regular posters' and users' status updates. And I feel like they're flooding the homepage with a lot of nonsense. Some post in foreign languages, some post about random things which we (I) don't know of, and some post whatever they're doing every second of the day. While I'm posting this, there are 6 updates from twitter shown in the index. None of them make sense (at least on the same level of the regular users' ones), and there are 4 updates by users. I have managed to make a small statistics thing here:


6 updates through twitter: none were actually directed to anyone here (I know it's not a good way of interpreting it but anyway..), 5 were from users with no posts at all.
4 status updates made through ks: 3 were what I would call "status updates", 1 was some random guy posting his own username(?). 1 was from a user who had no posts at all (yea, the same guy who had a status update consisting his own username, surprise surprise).

I don't mind that much actually, but since "my idea might just inspire a wick..." as is said in the forum description, I tried. Although you want to modernize a site, doesn't mean you have to connect to something as useless as twitter in ways of automatically updating status messages syncing with the forums here. I'm not saying twitter is useless, but used in this sense, it kind of is.

I've just been ignoring that box of updates. I thought it was site-only though, didn't notice until your post that it also has Facebook/Twitter as well.

I don't think it really hurts anything to have it there.

[deadmad7]

rpgsearcherz, on 06 July 2010 - 10:35 PM, said:

I've just been ignoring that box of updates. I thought it was site-only though, didn't notice until your post that it also has Facebook/Twitter as well.

I don't think it really hurts anything to have it there.

I agree with rpg... its not like you have to read them or anything... if you don't want them do what Simpleton said and - them away. It's actually a kind of good thing to have... if you post in your twitter about your updates you don't have to update again in KnowledgeSutra.

[DodgyPhil]

The thing is though Deadmad7, I actually enjoy reading the updates from real members. Since the destruction of our beloved shoutbox, I really feel the update block acts as a glue in our community. In some ways, it's even better than the shoutbox because important messages can be left active for a long time and people can reply to specific statuses without having to hi-jack the shoutbox (it was always awkward when a new member was begging for help on a subject I knew nothing about, and all I wanted to do was say ‘hi').
But now it feels like members with zero posts and no consideration for our community are flooding our only real source of global communication with their pathetic attempts to make their IRL buddies chortle.

[rpgsearcherz]

DodgyPhil, on 08 July 2010 - 06:15 PM, said:

The thing is though Deadmad7, I actually enjoy reading the updates from real members. Since the destruction of our beloved shoutbox, I really feel the update block acts as a glue in our community. In some ways, it's even better than the shoutbox because important messages can be left active for a long time and people can reply to specific statuses without having to hi-jack the shoutbox (it was always awkward when a new member was begging for help on a subject I knew nothing about, and all I wanted to do was say ‘hi').
But now it feels like members with zero posts and no consideration for our community are flooding our only real source of global communication with their pathetic attempts to make their IRL buddies chortle.

I see where you're coming from with that. I never really viewed the updates as being like a shoutbox (I felt the chatroom would be better for that), but I get what you mean.

Maybe a good solution for you would be to block the Updates from being shown until X posts have been made? That would ensure only legitimate users get their updates shown.