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Razors Edge Flahute

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3 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

There is a ton of stuff to reindex.  I hear it can take anywhere from a few hours (already past that) to a couple of days.

While the index is important for my typing, I'm far more worried if the middle needs time to be remiddled.  We've seen, with @goldendesign, that the thumb is essentially unnecessary (similar to the pinkie), so that leaves ring as the remaining spot of potential worry.

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I think you can save some space if you get rid of comments by some people. 

It's funny. On another forum I am on, I was getting admonished for wasting space by using quotes, etc.  I'm sitting here thinking, Are you crazy? It's a forum, most of the space is wasted.

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4 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

After the last bunch of updates, it seems as though they are mostly trouble-free these days.  Yay!

It took a while for me to unlearn from the LF that upgrades and updates don't really mean downgrades and hellishness.

Neural plasticity.  Folks without it struggled at the LF.  Square does a good job keeping folks here from dealing with tough changes :D

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Just now, Kzoo said:
21 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:
35 minutes ago, donkpow said:

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Uh oh!!! A flaw with the system when short posts are deleted!!!!  We need an update to the update!  Any post shorter than 14 characters is not replaced! Or, a simpler message is used! :frantics:  Leave it to Kzoo to ruin a seemingly good update.

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1 hour ago, Square Wheels said:

There is a ton of stuff to reindex.  I hear it can take anywhere from a few hours (already past that) to a couple of days.

It does not take anytime at all if you close the doors, douse the place in gas, light a match and walk away.  Just saying.

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5 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

Neural plasticity.  Folks without it struggled at the LF.  Square does a good job keeping folks here from dealing with tough changes :D

Good friend of mine researches neural plasticity.   Eagle Scout.  Great guy.  He went on the canoe glamping trip with the boys.

https://bbs.utdallas.edu/faculty/detail.php?i=311

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6 hours ago, Kirby said:

I have no idea what reindexing means

I think it means putting reindeer in the proper order, like Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, etc.

 

6 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

Looks like the search will not be as effective as in the past for a while, possibly days.

No worries. I'm sure if anybody can't locate some particular piece of drivel, then they can certainly make another equally good piece of drivel to use in its place, 'cause we're really good at drivel.

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31 minutes ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said:

I think it means putting reindeer in the proper order, like Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, etc.

 

No worries. I'm sure if anybody can't locate some particular piece of drivel, then they can certainly make another equally good piece of drivel to use in its place, 'cause we're really good at drivel.

I use a dreivel to help.  image.png.6f692e7fb7f7b651cb7026be804445a4.png

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13 hours ago, Philander Seabury said:

Thank you, Razor’s Edge-bic! 

That was a fun time, eh!  I wonder how the Bicycling mag FB page is doing?  I can't say I have ever visited, but I occasionally get their e-mails with Best Way to Burn Fat and Climb Faster! sort of headlines. 

In pretty much all ways @Square Wheels is a FAR FAR superior forum leader.  The only weakness (if it is one to you) is the lack of a name/brand to pull in the new folks.  It ain't easy building a following without that to get folks involved.  The magazine had that presence and could funnel some n00bs in fairly regularly.

Maybe we can convince SW to become a famous athlete, actor, or politician and use that fame to #SWCF in all his media???

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4 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

search should be back to normal.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Do we have a list of what the badges are and the different thresholds are?  Can you change the thresholds?  If so, I'd argue that Grand Master ought to be way higher than it is currently.

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57 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

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These are all editable.

I think the titles are fine (we could make them funnier or more apropos to this place), but I would just jack up the point to much higher levels. The folks here who have hit that 50k mark or more, they could be at the Grand Master level, but 79 or us???  We're definitely more "veterans". 

So, I'd say make a GM something like 50k pts or even more.  Maybe 75k so folks like jsharr or kzoo or PHIL! have something to aim for.

Other category names with cycling themes:

n00b
Fred
recreational
poseur
cat 6
coureur  - a cyclist
pack fodder
baroudeur  - a tough rider
domestique - a worker bee
rouleur - the flat diesel
grimpeur - mountain goat
flahute - one tough rider
maillot jaune - yellow jersey
world champ

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1 hour ago, Razors Edge said:

I think the titles are fine (we could make them funnier or more apropos to this place), but I would just jack up the point to much higher levels. The folks here who have hit that 50k mark or more, they could be at the Grand Master level, but 79 or us???  We're definitely more "veterans". 

So, I'd say make a GM something like 50k pts or even more.  Maybe 75k so folks like jsharr or kzoo or PHIL! have something to aim for.

Other category names with cycling themes:

n00b
Fred
recreational
poseur
cat 6
coureur  - a cyclist
pack fodder
baroudeur  - a tough rider
domestique - a worker bee
rouleur - the flat diesel
grimpeur - mountain goat
flahute - one tough rider
maillot jaune - yellow jersey
world champ

Thanks, I can consider these.  Anyone opposed?  It will take most of a day for the rebuild to happen.

"Points" are complicated.  This is how you get points.

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30 minutes ago, Square Wheels said:

Thanks, I can consider these.  Anyone opposed?  It will take most of a day for the rebuild to happen.

"Points" are complicated.  This is how you get points.

One - NO RUSH! Take your own sweet time.  I think others - the more creative ones here - may have far funnier or punnier ideas.

Two - points are complicated (in a vague way), but I'd just pick an arbitrarily high value that few if any already exceed and call it done.  There are a few "big hitters here" who are regular posters with long track records and elicit "likes" and such - jsharr, LJ, sometimes wilbur.  If it is too many GMs, the rest of us have no "goal", but if it isn't something jsharr can hit presently or in the near future, it's likely way too high.

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6 hours ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said:

I looked around the site after the upgrade and couldn't find where we trade in our points for valuable prizes. 

Barri Mark Collins is in charge of points redemption. You can reach him at barrimarkc@gmail.com or
Phone 042 348 280, but be careful about the time difference. He’s stationed in Western Australia.
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