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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yikes who wrote (36958)	11/22/1997 1:56:00 PM
From: FuzzFace	Respond to of 58324

OT re thread wheat and chaff It is one thing to start a new thread and invite people to join, and quite another to start one and tell people to leave here and go there. The problem of having to wade through the chaff to get to the wheat is not really solvable unless someone is willing (ala MF's Iomega in Fooldom Today) to distill it down every day, or start a new thread and only repost what HE OR SHE thinks is the good stuff. Obviously, given the number of posts here, this would be a labor of love on someone's part, and the distillate would be biased towards the altruist's tastes. The only other mechanism I can think of that would have a chance to work, would be if SI could implement a 2-button "Next" option. Each button would get you to the next post, but one would be a vote that the current post was worthwhile to you, the other button a vote that it was not. Then if you could set a threshold for % worthwhile and how many votes it takes to reach a quorum, below which you would not see a post as you "Next" through them, you could skip what other people thought was not worthwhile or hadn't read yet. The more options added the this facility, the more you could tune your viewing. But I have a feeling we'd all soon grow tired of missing posts because others think they are not worthwhile, and set the thresholds too low to really solve the problem. So my vote is to keep with the spirit of SI, and welcome all posts that are on topic, and occasionally remind those who post off-topic to put OT in the title line.