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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:13 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape I needed another way to procrastinate during exam period: http://xoxoreader.blogspot.com This has been on my mind for a while (partly because of zxcvzxcv's constant trolling for it) but I'm not sure how it's going to shape out yet. We'll see over the course of the next month or so. Feel free to post some feedback in the meantime. |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:23 PM Author: Fragrant queen of the night garrison GTO needs to figure out how to generate custom RSS feeds. For example, you could get notified about any threads that break 100 posts, any threads with "Cravath" in the title, etc.
Also, maybe a Digg-style threat rating system? People could '180' threads they really liked. |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:27 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Ratings/moderation would be cool. That led to the Comedy Goldmine at SA, which is still pretty fun to read: http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=21 It would be a good way to keep track of all the "classic" threads that people keep asking for (although that was partly the idea behind my starting this blog too). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203092) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:28 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Also it will be interesting if GTO goes into biglaw and this board gets a Blackberry-friendly mode. (Classic mode is good, but I couldn't make it stick there on my Blackberry.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203101) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:46 PM Author: stimulating demanding library Working on that too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203230) |
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Date: June 1st, 2008 1:48 AM Author: silver puppy ROFL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#9847621) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:42 PM Author: topaz alcoholic candlestick maker stock car Haha, I find it amusing that my taking questions is listed in the middle of all the firm talk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203200) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:46 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape I was trying to make it not all about bonuses while starting up so I could test some other labels and such, but the board is slow this morning.
Somebody just told me he saw your name opposite one of his colleagues on a project. I thought it'd be great if he started asking questions about your deal in your thread. |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:07 PM Author: topaz alcoholic candlestick maker stock car Oh, how odd. Hopefully not anything I've been slacking on! :) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7206916) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 10:58 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone quadroon milk I endorse this endeavor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7206853) |
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Date: June 1st, 2008 5:29 AM Author: Slippery Vibrant Chapel Where'd it go? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#9847964) |
Date: December 12th, 2006 2:39 PM Author: stimulating demanding library This reminds me to go bug rachmiel about blog integration... again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203173) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:42 PM Author: Fragrant queen of the night garrison what sort of intergration? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203197) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:45 PM Author: stimulating demanding library To briefly summarize, blog software is going to be integrated with the boards so that an individual can automatically create a blog by clicking on one button.
After that, the individual will be able to make board posts and then have those posts appear on his or her blog *and* on the board simply by checking off a button on the thread creation page.
Basically, the first post in the thread would be the main blog post, and then any replies to the blog post on the board will be posted as comments on the blog (people would be able to also post comments directly into the blog that would not show up on the board, and blog owners would be able to make posts directly into a blog that would not show up on the board).
We'd probably have other options available too, like not having board comments show up as blog comments, or the ability to delete/moderate post replies before they show up on the blog as comments (but not delete/moderate posts from the thread version). |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:56 PM Author: Fragrant queen of the night garrison any army of xoxo bloggers? pretty frightening. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203302) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 2:50 PM Author: pearl heady house the blog looks good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7203258) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:19 PM Author: Motley Gaped Den I think you're putting too many irrelevant posts on the blog. Ideally I think you should only cover the top 3-5 major developments of the day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207007) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:22 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Yeah, it's going to take a while for me to get the hang of this. Part of today has been trying to guess at what should go up and also playing with labels and the like. I suspect for each person that wants fewer posts, there's somebody else who finds it useless because their favorite thread didn't get posted. Keep up the feedback and we'll see how it goes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207035) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:22 PM Author: sick stubborn stag film (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207038) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:21 PM Author: Charismatic cruel-hearted location sound barrier When KIRKLAND & ELLIS officially announces exactly what I've posted, will you remove the "flame" tag from my post? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207031) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:24 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape There's a fine distinction between flame and trolls and comedy and I haven't quite figured out how to deal with that yet.
But to your question, no. |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:27 PM Author: Charismatic cruel-hearted location sound barrier I have to give you credit for at least recognizing KIRKLAND & ELLIS's superiority and not burying your head in the sand like some of the uninformed people on here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207088) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:37 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape I've said it before, but basically it's in all of our self-interest to spotlight firms that pay well so that our own firms will have some pressure to match. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207191) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:23 PM Author: lake hospital halford i like this (plus its more respectable to read at work). i also love the 'petro is not a rapist' link. hilarious (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207044) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:30 PM Author: stimulating demanding library If the entire board was available in a "respectable" format like that, would you prefer it to the current interface (for work at least)? Or is the only benefit to this that it's in digest format? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207111) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:44 PM Author: Motley Gaped Den No, the actual board is perfect the way it is. The blog should be a cliff notes version of the real board were you can access quick info about board related matters at work or school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207268) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:46 PM Author: stimulating demanding library How should one decide what ends up on the blog? An editor, or would a Digg-type voting system work?
Does it have to be in blog format, or could it be some other format? |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:57 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape I liked the voting idea because posters love rating stuff and you could also auto-generate a list of the top topics currently, yesterday, last month, etc.
Plus if you linked it to certain posters such that they were themselves rated for posting high-rated threads, you'd incentivize interesting contributions. |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:28 AM Author: Motley Gaped Den this is a great idea. rating posts on a scale of 120-180 would be ideal of course. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207775) |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:30 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Truly retarded posts could be rated on an MPRE scale. Maybe even designations like "sub-Louisiana." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207803) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:34 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape I may try to include more of the thread content in the post if people don't want to click the links at work. I'm a little reluctant though, because threads and blog entry formats are not really suited for each other. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207165) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:43 PM Author: stimulating demanding library Why is it that people wouldn't want to click on the links at work but would be okay with reading the content of the links in a blog entry? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207246) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:50 PM Author: topaz alcoholic candlestick maker stock car Hmm, there are some threads with normal titles with lots of racial slurs on the inside. Maybe that's it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207328) |
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Date: December 12th, 2006 11:52 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Two possibilities I think: either they don't want to access the board from work, or they don't want to access the particular thread from work.
Somebody might not want to access the board because there's a lot of not work-appropriate thread titles that come up, even if you don't click them. You have to assume it's pretty trivial (and not entirely paranoid) for your IT dept to log your web pages and send an alert if you're constantly loading pages with racial epithets and sex references in the text.
Somebody might not want to access a particular thread because the thread or some of the content in it might not be appropriate. Presumably then in my blog I would filter out some of that stuff while still presenting the "good" stuff. This wasn't really what I was thinking of doing though, so I'll have to think a little about that one. Mostly I would prefer to post the parts that would make somebody want to click the link. |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:07 AM Author: stimulating demanding library Hmm so maybe offer three versions
1) board in a completely different format that makes it look like a regular blog
2) board w/ selected threads, chosen with a Digg-like voting system
3) board w/ selected threads, chosen by intermediaries who screen out the racist garbage and highlight quality |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:12 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone quadroon milk Sounds promising.
I wish there was a law-digg out there. Those damn digg nerds are into computers and science, and not the law. There are a lot of legal bloggers out there, it would be nice to have a way of seeing the most popular stories/blog posts in a digg-like way. Digg.com doesn't even have a law category. |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:14 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape If you have #2 you probably don't need #3. Seriously I don't know who else would have as much free time and lack of motivation to do something else to try to do what I'm doing with the blog (which I may very well just stop doing after a month or so if it stops being interesting/fun to me). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207612) |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:16 AM Author: stimulating demanding library Well presumably there'd be a large number of people involved acting as intermediaries.
But I guess you're right that it might not be necessary, unless there are large numbers of people who would deliberately vote for the most obnoxious threads. |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:25 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape It would probably depend on your idea of "obnoxious." There are really racist posts that are also really funny that would probably be highly rated. But for the truly worthless posts, I'm pretty sure xoxo posters are more than happy to punish the deserving. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207723) |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:26 AM Author: blue wagecucks multi-billionaire "1) board in a completely different format that makes it look like a regular blog"
you mean like the princeton review! genius! |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:36 AM Author: stimulating demanding library The board itself wouldn't change. We're not idiots. This would be an alternate site. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207874) |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:30 AM Author: Awkward Brindle Gaming Laptop Boiling Water Let people submit threads through a public email, or at least bring on a couple more addicts with good taste to post on your blog. You need more people to cover the board unless you have a Drudge-like ability to stay on XOXO all the time and pull up the most awesome threads. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207805) |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 12:34 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Yeah I thought about that, but this is where my original disclaimer came in that this is basically only going to be about what I find interesting. This is mostly because I thought about the blog as a way to keep track of my favorite threads. I know this hampers the interest in the blog somewhat because I'm not the most interesting or drama-prone poster here, but that's what you have to deal with when there's an editor. Definitely something I'll keep it in mind though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7207855) |
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Date: December 13th, 2006 9:10 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Now starting Day 2. We'll see how this goes. I've temporarily re-enabled comments to make it easier to give feedback, but they're moderated, so stick with this thread if you want to make public comments. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7209662) |
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Date: December 14th, 2006 9:48 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Kicking off Day 3. Somebody suggested in a comment that I enable RSS. As far as I can tell, I've turned on all the RSS stuff that Blogger offers, but I'm not really an RSS junkie so I don't know if I'm missing something. Give me a heads up if you have a suggestion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7217772) |
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Date: December 15th, 2006 7:29 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Post-exam bump. Blogging Ishmael is hard, but I'll see if I can give it a try.
EDIT: Actually I'm not really sure how to do it. Maybe I'll think it over a few days. |
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Date: December 18th, 2006 10:40 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Big changes coming in the next few days. Well, not really, but I'm going to try to add some kind of simple anonymous submission form to the blog and dress it up all AJAX-style or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7249630) |
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Date: January 8th, 2007 9:41 AM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape Back on campus and back to blogging. (Not that I stopped, but the board was pretty boring/depressing over the holidays.) I added a link to a submission/feedback form at the top of the page. It's not pretty but it's functional and anonymous, so give it a try.
Also I'll start announcing in each blogged thread that I've blogged it. Gives you a heads up in case you need to find the thread later, and I get to spam the blog some more. |
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Date: March 25th, 2007 2:53 PM Author: crawly crackhouse trump supporter Are you limiting this blog to just threads on xo or will you start your own? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7814493) |
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Date: March 25th, 2007 10:26 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape What do you mean? All my blog posts are threads on Xoxo, so basically you won't see anything on the blog that isn't on Xoxo. (Occasionally I'll write a line or two of commentary in the blog entry that I don't post on the board, but I'd rather let the thread speak for itself.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#7817129) |
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Date: March 25th, 2007 11:11 PM Author: crawly crackhouse trump supporter I didn't know if your blog was going to just be threads on xoxo or if you would write ne content. Some people like having their own specific work on their blog.
Sorry for the confusion--I'm new at this.
I did check out your site and I like the fact that you narrow down the threads on xoxo. Most of the threads on xo seem to be just clutter. |
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Date: March 25th, 2007 11:20 PM Author: Aphrodisiac Ape I think too many blogs are just for the sake of the bloggers stoking their egos. It is very rare that I am actually interested in their preaching, ranting, or gender-confused and mentally unstable literary stylings. Anyway, I hope to avoid that.
Glad you enjoyed the blog. |
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Date: March 25th, 2007 11:27 PM Author: crawly crackhouse trump supporter "preaching, ranting, or gender-confused and mentally unstable literary stylings."
Hmm...I take it that you've read my work. :-) |
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Date: January 5th, 2008 1:42 PM Author: idiotic submissive sweet tailpipe A new chapter in XO history
http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=735470&forum_id=2#9115811 |
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Date: January 5th, 2008 2:01 PM Author: Olive insane psychic http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=737876&mc=3&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#9116272) |
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Date: January 5th, 2008 2:03 PM Author: Misanthropic dun persian Great! I look forward to the next update. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#9116276) |
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Date: May 2nd, 2008 1:37 AM Author: Carnelian sex offender it's closed now :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#9720757) |
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Date: June 1st, 2008 1:51 AM Author: electric self-absorbed home nigGER (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=544518&forum_id=2#9847626) |