Agreed, but I think we can make the posts by Optimus trousers easier to scan. (I’m sorry papster, but I edited OT’s name so that the Trousers was in lower case. Anal? Moi?). I also couldn’t resist giving him a location text.
If the content was folded away, but the headline and the link were visible, it would allow everyone, but specifically mobile/tablet visitors to expand the articles they want to read, and skip past those they don’t.
Hey that would make a good storyline: heartbroken, grieving daughter turns to the murky services of Tony Stark and uses her inherited billions to resurrect her father. Iron Marcus becomes the new chairman of Saints and leads them to Champions League glory whilst clashing with former best friend Oddjob Cortese.
I have visited that thread. It’s full of shit stories that I can’t be arsed to read. It’s basically like looking at Newsnow and instead of selecting the stories you want to read (usually about 1 or 2 at most) you are confronted with all of the stories and it’s overwhelming and slightly tedious because many of the stories are just repeats of what has already been said.
now, before anyone gets all moody, I shan’t be visiting that thread, I’m just sharing my thoughts about it. If others like it, then lovely, but if everyone else thinks it’s shit and pointless then maybe it should be deleted. Sotonians should have a vote after a week or two.
Problem you’ve got is i.e. Daily Mail does a story that i.e. Toby is going to Spurs, and then in the next hour you have 20 articles from 20 different new leaches, rehashing the same ‘story’, in an ‘According to Daily Mail…’ fashion.
Dunno if you can do anything bout that tho.
Edit: Soz I see beltch is On Top Of That Situation
Anyone else picking up tensions in the Bearsy/Tokyo/Fatso love triangle?
Yep, I’m watching The Affair at the moment and Bear is Noah, Fatso is Alison - Noah’s muse and current infatuation, and Toke is Helen - Noah’s wife stuck at home with the 4 kids whilst Noah and Alison romp like bunnies in front of us all.
i should start by blacklisting all bros except for i.e. bbc and i.e. OS and i.e. some of the better papers, cos everything else is just clickbait bollocks & rehashed plagiarism imo. It would be easier to add a credible news source, if we ever find one, than try and figure out which of i.e. Tribalfootball & Metro & Talksport & goal.com & squawka & Give Me Sport & whatever else spouts the highest percentage of utter bollocks.
Thanks for your thoughts, Bear. That’s exactly the sort of feedback I’m looking for.
Yep, it is an option to limit the sources to a subset of trusted publishers, but things will get better generally in a number of ways…
I am going to stop articles that contain exactly the same content from appearing which should reduce the amount of syndicated articles
By default, pap is going to make the text from all of the articles hidden unless you click a button to read it. This should make it easier to scan the headlines, and stop the feeling of drowning in lots of text - especially on a mobile device.
Optimus trousers is going to look for articles that contain sotonians.com tags. tl;dr I am going to look for any sotonians tags that appear in the text of the articles, and if I find one, pap will highlight the fact at the top of the article. So for example, if a Daily Mail article contains the headline “Tokyoamhomosex!” I will pick up on this because we have a tag for that. A more interesting example might be that as Optimus trousers reported earlier today, we appear to be interested in a Dutch right-back called Cuco Martina. We could create a sotonians.com tag for MARTINA after which Optimus trousers will start to look for mentions of that tag in articles. The result should mean that you will be able to scan the headlines for tags that you’re interested in reading about, and ignore those that you aren’t.