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Something Frank Kogan has mentioned a few times is the tendency for interesting qns on IL* to 'fade out' before the stuff that makes them interesting has been explored enough (or at all).

Does this happen, do you think? And if it does, is that to do with Internet debate, or the specifics of us, or the specifics of the questions, or the formal properties of LUSENET, or astrology or luck or something else? And also, if it does, does that matter? What kind of ideas would you like to see chased down more?

― Tom, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think one of the factors is the sheer number of threads started each day (this is #20 today) which leads to an a shortening of their lifes. Esp if you're away for a few days a relatively recent thread is 60 or 70 down the list and I don't have time to check them all out so no doubt miss a few interesting ones.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tom's question is good and so is Dods' answer.

― the pinefox, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

quite. i haven't read ILE properly for about a week and thus not only did i miss out on the big recipe swap but also have that left-out feeling that you get when you've not watched Eastenders for a month or so and don't know what's going on or who all these new people are.

― katie, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

gap in the market!! i shall supply to time- strapped ILE subscribers, for a surprisingly LOW cost, updates on who's threading who, troll o'the hour, and the happening rad linguistic innovationXoR...

― mark s, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you can still add your culinary contribution, boost it back to the top of the new answers page.

― Ed, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I kinda think too many topics are posted each day, but that's just me.

― Sean, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Especially Mr Easton who appears to have no life whatsoever. Poor boy.

― Lord God Almighty, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

erk can atsy rtactor!

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well i do not think i post that much. i do at night and during the morning . but i will psot less.

― anthony, Monday, 1 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hello, I just visited the Haight street down in San Francisco. Too much incense and Grateful Dead t-shirts.... I am all hippied out, folks.
I would like to focus on the question "Why does one mainly see dogs down at Haight street and nowhere else?"

― nathalie, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anthony, you brighten up my day, don't post less

― Ed, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was off all last week with no net access and didn't even realise there'd been a recipe swap, my favourite subject too. mmmmmm, food.

Funnily enough, ILE was the only thing I missed about work while I was off......

― chris, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Why does one mainly see dogs down at Haight street and nowhere else?"

Because that's where you mainly hang out. Arf arf.

― Trevor, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Has this thread faded out yet?

― Pete, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes I've been busy at college for a few days and I can barely see it. It's so hard to let go....

― Ronan, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do my part by never having any good thread ideas - I just post to the ones you guys start.

I've spent half my afternoon making those darned stor trooper things...

― Kim, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can see many dogs in San Francisco's parks, of which there are also many. Do you really expect to see them randomly on the streets of a major city?

btw, Haight St. is home to Amoeba Records, therefore = classic.

― Sean, Tuesday, 2 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You can see almost anything on Haight Street, usually not standing upright. (That is, what you see is usually not standing upright. But perhaps you or I are not standing upright either. Or standing up right. I'd hate this thread to fade out before this had been determined.) (Not sure what it is I was trying to determine in the previous parenthesis. Maybe "what it is I was trying to determine" also has to be determined.)

I've still got an earring I bought at the Haight Street Fair, 1986.

― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 3 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Personally, it's cause I'm too lazy to hammer my ideas into any kind of shape.

― Nick, Thursday, 4 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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