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Thanks for a clear case of formalism, please add something constructive next time.
Here's why that's just plain lame unconstructive narrowminded medieval BS, that Herve Caen would love you for: "
Flags is a "By Users - For Users" concept. It's about having fun and be respectful to each other. Not mutually exclusive. It's about adding readability for whatever read you desire. If you prefer BS then you can use the BS filter, if you prefer the thread filtered with any other flag then use that. Thanks to these Flags devs will find it a lot easier to read thru ideas and finish K3 faster. And because you would like to see that too you'll be happy to use those flags.
On-topic isn't whatever discussion someone decides to pull at any point in a thread, but the general idea of the thread starter. PM exist for any other purpose. Exceptions do exist where it's allowed to go off topic and enter social chat mode, but it's still off-topic and should be marked as such and any amount of such futile crap can be added with flags in place.
Flags mean you can can cut the bs, ontopic, spam or whicever if you so desire, it doesn't exclude reading the bs since that's just another flag. Each flag equals a filter if used, and if you don't use them, you just get the chunky pages.
Flags will make catching up with the pointers of any thread a lot faster, anyone that feels like adding constructive thought and ideas shouldn't suffer from brain overload of any other kind than what he chose to see.
anything that was made prior to incept date will simply return no results used with any filter...just like that empy result, a thread with nothing but ontopic posts will display, with a show bs only filter.
Well if users can bash at redundant threads and quote each other obviously they are not totally inept as you'd like to believe. But to keep flags simple, simply put a Must read on flags in Forum Policy and keep them simple and self-explaing otherwise and let regular users correct newcomers out of the kindness of their hearts.
mods? You are really desperate to mention that...we manage quite well on our own and have no need for police - mostly.
Why don't you extend your horizon, what's that? Too hard? Yes.
Thanks for the feedback, I guess.