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Forum Post: Implement a SORT FEATURE, please!

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 15, 2011, 12:22 p.m. EST by Drewk (0)
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How are you going to get organized with a forum like this? It smells like political diarrhea up in here.

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[-] 2 points by GypsyKing (8708) 13 years ago

Yeah, I don't understand this. The whole world is watching here. Like I said before, all you have to do is put out the word and you have the whole CUNY computer department down here in half an hour. The success of the movement is outpacing it's infrastructure. This shouldn't happen. Somebody needs to look at the polls. 70% of Americans support us. If something is needed, put out the word and people will respond. That's how this thing will work.

[-] 1 points by sudoname (1001) from Berkeley, CA 13 years ago

70%, that's amazing, what's your source?

There are in fact alternate forums sprouting up, but none are as well supported as this one to my knowledge (with the exception of Facebook and Reddit).

[-] 1 points by thebeastchasingitstail (1912) 13 years ago

Yea, really, on the off chance they're too busy & couldn't get enough help they should shut this down until they can improve it.

it is really a sad representation and shouldn't be taken seriously

[-] 1 points by sudoname (1001) from Berkeley, CA 13 years ago

There is now a sorta sort feature: http://occupywallst.org/forum/older-posts-here/

[-] 1 points by ChristopherABrown (550) from Santa Barbara, CA 13 years ago

A curious technical effect has occured with the forum software in my exchange with TechJunkie, who is only being evasive and manipulative. I've been using logic to expose infiltrators here and I've seen his behavior qualifies. The reply button disappeared from his last post. Here is a screen shot.

http://i56.tinypic.com/2rhphqq.jpg

Anyone have an explanation for this? Can you show another such on the forum?

[-] 1 points by sudoname (1001) from Berkeley, CA 13 years ago

Bumpbumpbumpbumpbump.... At first, it was sorted by post date, now it's sorted by comment date. Some other sort features would be nice!!!

By the way, the source code for the site is available to anyone who wants to do this. https://github.com/jart/occupywallst/

[-] 1 points by RichardGates (1529) 13 years ago

this forum is just fine as it is. if you need more structure, get involved here http://www.plainsite.org and share the link :)

[-] 1 points by dankpoet (425) 13 years ago

There are other unaffiliated sites, better designed to facilitate discussion www.themultitude.org and www.occupyr.com.

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

Isn't every voice supposed to be equal? The other sites represent elitism and imposing a value system on other people. Those who don't conform are rejected.

[-] 1 points by dankpoet (425) 13 years ago

If you think that's true then don't go, I was just making the information public. They're not my sites, and do you have any evidence that this has happened?

[-] 1 points by ChristopherABrown (550) from Santa Barbara, CA 13 years ago

Hard to imagine your efforts to use your right to free speech is so easily fouled isn't it? A large portion of the traffic is artificial, it's "cognitive infiltration".-------- http://algoxy.com/poly/nwo_cognitive_infiltration.html

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

You posted an actual Iserbyt quote! Awesome!

[-] 1 points by ChristopherABrown (550) from Santa Barbara, CA 13 years ago

I have no idea who Iserbyt is. Please post some links:) Explain what you mean.

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

The lady you quoted on your cognitive infiltration page. You really should read her work. She was the inspiration for the Iserbyt Award that I gave you.

[-] 1 points by ChristopherABrown (550) from Santa Barbara, CA 13 years ago

I quote no one. If that is not true post my quote and her original. Explain what she is about.

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

This quote is from your page:

Iserbyt Note: This comment by the AJC in N.Y. reflects clearly what Norman Dodd, the Research Director of the Reece Committee to Investigate the Tax Exempt Foundations was told in 1953 by Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation: "Mr. Dodd, all of us here at the policy making level of the foundation have at one time or another served in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, CIA (forerunner) or the European Economic Administration, operating under directives from the White House. We operate under those same directives...The substance under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to so alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union."  (p 46-47), the deliberate dumbing down of america... A Chronological Paper Trail, Iserbyt.

[-] 1 points by ChristopherABrown (550) from Santa Barbara, CA 13 years ago

Hmmmmm, I forgot about that supportive quote. My bad.--- What is important, is "Do you understand how cognitive infiltration works and uses the "dumbing down"?

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

Haha you really need to read her book. You and this lady are birds of a feather. Even funnier is that your mere existence could be construed as evidence of her premise.

[-] 1 points by entrepreneur99 (114) from Los Angeles, CA 13 years ago

I agree these forums are pretty bad. But I think we should stay away from traditional forum layouts. There are better online discussion paradigms now. Stackoverflow and Reddit are good examples. Let good questions float to the top, and let the good answers float to the top too, while repetitive and bad ones vanish at the bottom. There should also be aggressive elimination of duplicate posts. Otherwise we are just going to keep running around in circles asking the same questions and have the same answers. Waste of time.

[-] 1 points by thebeastchasingitstail (1912) 13 years ago

haha you ain't shittin, pun not intended

[-] 1 points by schnitzlefritz (225) 13 years ago

How about something to make it easy to find the new replies to a post. Now they're buried and almost impossible to find.

[-] 1 points by malikov (443) from Pasadena, CA 13 years ago

I put up Google's custom search, but it only has what Google's indexed so far. at http://ows.superunion.org

[-] 1 points by tr289 (916) from Chicago, IL 13 years ago

As annoying as these forums are at times, they are almost like the OWS movement itself. Go to one of the protests and talk to people, you never know what you will get and most likely never see that person again.

In a weird kind of way, I kind of like the random and un moderated nature of this forum. lol =)

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

Agreed, this forum is very well representative of the ideal of just accepting everybody and giving everybody an equal voice.

It also demonstrates quite well how that leads to utter chaos, and accomplishes nothing.

[-] 1 points by efschumacher (74) from Gaithersburg, MD 13 years ago

Implement a proper bulletin board please. Here is an example of how it's done: http://pelotoneast.com

[-] 1 points by malikov (443) from Pasadena, CA 13 years ago

vBulletin costs money. However there are plenty of others, free and good (like the one below), but they won't listen.

[-] 1 points by thebeastchasingitstail (1912) 13 years ago

They can afford Vbulletin, it is not that expensive

[-] 1 points by malikov (443) from Pasadena, CA 13 years ago

How do you know? Who are they?

[-] 1 points by malikov (443) from Pasadena, CA 13 years ago

Custom Search: http://ows.superunion.org