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Meta Discussion on K5, about K5. Eerie, huh? A Sad Day For Kuro5hin (Meta) By Tex Bigballs Wed Aug 6th, 2003 at 10:47:04 PM EST Link In case it gets deleted, evidently on the somethingawful forums there was a long four-page thread telling people to register accounts to vote up the SPEWS article to the front page. Full Story (322 comments, 401 words in story) Distributed Denial of Existence (Meta) By kitten Fri Aug 1st, 2003 at 09:02:54 AM EST One of the most frequent sights on kuro5hin is that of one user or group of users complaining, often loudly and viciously, about another. One need not look very hard in order to find scores upon scores of users who absolutely loathe each other. Thanks to this pre-existing community of people who hate each other passionately, I believe that we stand on a potentially lucrative and far-reaching social experiment: the Distributed Denial of Existence. Full Story (179 comments, 1970 words in story) The Adequacy Style Troll (AST): A Brief Refresher (Meta) By localroger Sat Jul 19th, 2003 at 09:38:13 AM EST Recently a few brave souls have been observed trying to revive the nearly lost art form of the Adequacy Style Troll, or AST. Below, find a convenient guide to recognizing this rare and unusually entertaining form of troll, as well as guidelines for those who would join in the effort to keep the AST alive. Full Story (197 comments, 2399 words in story) How did you come up with your user-name? (Meta) By Ta bu shi da yu Mon Jun 30th, 2003 at 09:43:17 AM EST There are many and varied user-names on K5. Lately I've been reflecting on how I got mine, and I would be interested in how others got theirs. Full Story (520 comments, 150 words in story) K5ism (Meta) By llimllib Tue Apr 22nd, 2003 at 11:43:01 AM EST Over the past 7 months as a Kuro5hin member, I've posted 1 unsuccessful story, 1 successful one, 5 diaries, 154 comments, read every word of nearly every posted article, and read quite a few diaries as well. Without realizing it, I've probably spent an average of 2 hours a day on the site, which comes out to a little over 2 whole weeks of my life. This morning, it became clear to me that Kuro5hin functions in my life as a church. Full Story (135 comments, 970 words in story) The 24 hour edit queue and the spam button (Meta) By Rogerborg Fri Mar 21st, 2003 at 12:32:25 PM EST We've had a 24 hour edit queue with a spam button for long enough to get a feel for it, perhaps long enough so that new members might not even know that the prior method had a fixed 2 hour time limit, and no spam button. There has been a smattering of opinion on it scattered among other articles, and I suggest that to help rusty out, it's time to collect some comprehensive feedback on whether we feel that this has improved K5, and whether it could be improved further. Full Story (155 comments, 207 words in story) The Blue-Themed Nightmare (Meta) By anaesthetica Tue Mar 18th, 2003 at 09:13:00 AM EST This is not another political polemic. The way that Kuro5hin, and virtually every other forum in the world, is 'discussing' politics has become more than tiresome. It is damaging, relentless, and all-too-often it is mindless. What follows is a quote from a Henry Miller novel, and some reflection. Full Story (148 comments, 833 words in story) Roll Call! (AKA Who are you? Part 5) (Meta) By tiamat Tue Mar 11th, 2003 at 06:01:05 AM EST The new year has rolled past once again, and the new faces are starting to outnumber the old. We started asking the "Who are you?" question back in March, 2000. Follow-ups: Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Looking for someone in particular? Try Carnage4Life's K5 Who Are You? user search engine. Full Story (542 comments, 190 words in story) Standards Too High? (Meta) By pediddle Sun Feb 2nd, 2003 at 05:20:23 AM EST Last night there were almost 10 stories at one stage or another in the queue. Some were interesting to me, some were not. I posted comments to some interesting ones. This morning, it appears that all but one of them have been voted down or otherwise deleted. The post threshold is 95, and the hide threshold is -20. In a community where users keep the standard so high -- which is a good thing -- the balance seems a little off. Full Story (241 comments, 661 words in story) Can a Community Based Web Site Scale? (Meta) By sethadam1 Tue Jan 28th, 2003 at 10:37:58 AM EST Can K5, as a community, scale? -- Scalability: An architecture is considered to be scalable if, unchanged, it can handle increasingly complex problems or strain that demand a greater amount of knowledge or resources. Scoop: Scoop is designed to enable your website to become a community. It empowers your visitors to be the producers of the site, contributing news and discussion, and making sure that the signal remains high.   Full Story (81 comments, 1139 words in story) Next 10 >>

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