A National ID Card

Yeah yeah, I know. But what to call it? "Movies"? Then what do we write in there? Notable movies we've seen? I already tried this with "favorite movies" and it got a couple responses but that was it. Can we trust it to be updated enough? I dunno

When's IotD gonna be up?

[lisa]

...and if we talk about GATTACA on the entertainment section/thread, we're likely to get into a discussion about how this reminds us of the National ID idea and how we feel about that!

Just reminds me of the proverbial "I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out" joke. Not that I'd tell one that bad, or anything.

Never heard it. Please enlighten.

As for a Movies thread, I'd more enjoy just reading a person's views on a single movie. Maybe make a post, each one being about a single movie. Your thoughts on it, etc. I think it'd be neat. Firstly, because I enjoy movies. Secondly, because I enjoy seeing what people think and feel. I think we definitely need to get a "movies" thread started - I'm just not sure exactly -how- it should be started.

[Undertoad]

It's more up to us to stay on topic, and start a new thread if we want to discuss something off-topic. And that's something we oughta just get in the habit of doing, if just for the sake of the newbies.

I'll get right on top of that, G-man.

Back on topic - uh. Like. National ID card. Uh. Or something.

Know what else? We need a "Joke of the Day" area. Where someone posts something funny every day. That'd be cool.

[jaguar]

*slaps dham* very offtopic
should be under
cellar comments and suggestions | joke of the day?

[lisa]

Well, I'd say that the concept of a national ID system that won't be abused becuase it's unhackable qualifies as a pretty good joke of the day.

(Ooooo... I can just forsee the flames that this will provoke)

[jaguar]

You're one of those people who pour kero on smouldering fires aren't you
Just don't post a full rebuttal of anyhting - you'll never get a response

[tw]

Originally posted by jaguar
Just don't post a full rebuttal of anyhting - you'll never get a response

Boy, can I appreciate that:

Originally posted by tw on 1 Dec 2001 at 8:02PM
As for that other question, I don't know what it was.

I'm still waiting, for two weeks, for jaguar to post the question he says was never answered.

[jaguar]

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[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Undertoad
It's more up to us to stay on topic, and start a new thread if we want to discuss something off-topic. And that's something we oughta just get in the habit of doing, if just for the sake of the newbies.

The whole area of quoting, thread-spawning and cross-reference on th ecurrent incarnation of the Cellar is ripe for further development. It's a PITA to do an ordinary interlinear quote-and-reposte such as was common in the heyday of the Cellar a-la-Waffle. And with all the Cellar content server based, a cross-reference to another post or thread should be an easy thing to do...at *least* as easy as a reference to a page at external site. Poor Jag is reduced to "nine posts down on page three". That sux.

So now I'm going to spawn this thread to the "Cellar comments" forum....let's see how hard that is....

Well, I I spawned a new thread, and was able to link it from here. But I couldn't backlink to this specific post, even though I know the postid. So we have enough granularity to point to another thread, but not to a specific post.

[jaguar]

Ut could you mod the sitecode enoug hto add a flag type thing to the postid of each post?
as in you link ot the post http://www.cellar.org/XXX#13243

[Undertoad]

Well, now we're say into the esoteric and way off topic. But one might try putting

showthread.php?postid=XXX#postXXX

...on the end of cellar.org to see whether that gets one directly to a specific post.

I don't know for sure that this is the right format though.

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Undertoad
Well, now we're say into the esoteric and way off topic.

Hey, I *started* a new thread for this topic. You can lead a force to order but you can't make it think. That's one problem with thread spawning; posters are afraid of losing their audience when spawning a new thread.

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Undertoad

I don't know for sure that this is the right format though.

It is. It works. So the semantics of that would be display the thread containing postXXX and position the browser to that post.

Hadn't realized there were post-level anchor tags....very cool.