Help me
I have a pet project at the moment. Tracking down and weeding out nodes with URLs as titles. I've already roasted (well, more like
submitted-for-roasting) a great many URL nodeshells, which are even less useful. Please help me in this task by /msging me with nodes you find which have URLs as titles.
See Please stop noding websites and why you shouldn't use a URL as a node title for why I'm keen to do this. Thanks.
Nodeshells:
On with the show.
I am tallroo (hi tallroo) and I am an E2 Editor. I won't list kills requested by the user (e.g. nuke requests). All were killed mercifully unless explicitly stated.
Tue May 1, 2001
Some /msgs only. Bah! I work too hard.
Wed May 2, 2001
Came in this morning to find a troll. The first two on the following list were already at -5 (at the very top of New Writeups!), and the last couple I got before they even got on the list. Eventually,
the troll was killed.
Teamwork.
So. On with the day...
Tue 8th May, 2001
After a long weekend, I'm back. It's enormously sunny and there's a spring in my step. Oh yes.
Lots of /msgs today, a few nuke requests and several additions to the URL project. Cheers for the /msgs everyone. Hunting some more...
Wed 9th May, 2001
Worked upwards through the Other Users nodelet, messaging anyone who seemed not to have read
Everything University. Also...
- Stephen King (thing) by g_force - time-expired mention of a King book released electronically on Amazon for $2.50. Perhaps it's still true, but Noding for the Ages it was not. -6. Msged.
Thu 10th May, 2001
Will remove some of the URL nodes today. I've added the nodeshells I had detroyed last month for reference.
As usual, some nuke requests and /msgs. Plus...
- amps (thing) by Travis Bickle - 'More than one Amp(lifier). Example: "Gee, look at all his amps."' Also messaged.
- making love (thing) by dclatfel
- user never logged on. Rep of -16. Summed up by last line, "Essentially, it takes good sex and ruins it.".
- making love (idea) by Sverre
- a response to the above killed writeup. Msged.
- scurvy (thing) by tbodea - because other writueps covered it far better. User never logged in.
- what makes me beautiful - GTKY. Killed writeups by:
Messaged
all of them. A mixed reaction. Some were apologetic to have noded GTKY - others bit back.
Fri May 11, 2001
- * Norwegia (thing) by ugle - redundant. Asked user before the kill.
Mon May 14, 2001
Tue May 15, 2001
Firstly, I refused a couple of
Nuke Requests. For gods sake people, be cool. Read the stuff the gods have written at the top. Feel free to /msg me (or other editors) if you'd like us to consider killing another users writeups, but dumping a link in a nuke request is not cool. It encourages downvote dumping and generally looks a bit rude. It's even worse when the requests are totally unjustified, as in todays cases.
Anyway.
/msged all.
Also, 20 or so URL nodes. I'm moving them from the list above down into the Nodeshell list. Everyone is getting a message, which looks like:
Re <URL>, URL node titles are not good, so I've removed it. See Please stop noding websites and why you shouldn't use a URL as a node title. You can always get the content back out of Node Heaven repost it as <ALTERNATIVE_NAME>
This is actually quite easy, thanks to
N-Wing's
Macro messages.
Wed May 16, 2001
I did 16 (!) nuke requests today. Then killed another 12 URL nodes. It feels like I keep stumbling across them as fast as I get rid of them. In other news... (cue news-studio-style morse code sounds) ...I've been helping to organize the daily news logs in
gangstaFeelsGood's absence. It was my turn to trawl up
today's news and digest it for the E2 community.
Thu May 17, 2001
E2 dead
Fri May 18, 2001
Mon May 21, 2001
Mon May 28, 2001
Hi. I'm in Vienna all of this week. If you see me around, it's because I can't keep away. Feel pity.
* =
nodeshell destruction request too.