Creating GDPimaries was a good first step .... but we need more

[Stinky The Clown]

The Greatest Page is full of the crap that passes for discourse in GDPrimaries. Every piece of babble that someone shouts gets five "Amens" before anyone can say "enough, already!"

I used to go to the Greatest Page when I was short of time, just to get a sample of what was up. But now ....... I find two or three things I want to read, but only after wading through what seems like fifty of the same thing ...... inane campaign shouting.

Yeah ... I know ...... I'm inane, too.

[Droopy]

1. Amen. K&R!

[sueh]

2. Here's a kick and a recommend.

Thanks, Husb2Sparkly. I agree with you about the greatest page. :thumbsup:

[zorahopkins]

3. Amen!

I agree!

Amen!

[DesertRat]

4. I love the feature that lets us hide the GD:P posts from the Latest page

I wish we had the same ability for the Greatest Page. Skinner?

[kevsand]

5. That's an excellent suggestion.

Just in general, I've always thought that it should take more than 5 votes to make the Greatest Page. Maybe 10.

[DesertRat]

6. 10 votes sounds better to me too. n/t

[Laurab]

9. I think 10 votes - at least through the primaries

is a great idea. I normally only look at the Greatest Page, and I KNOW I'm missing a lot of decent stuff, but I don't have the time to go looking for it.

[Turn CO Blue]

15. I'm thinking 25 votes needed out of GD:Primaries

at least right now, so that the little cliques won't be able to get the asinine posts up on the Greatest. I'd like to see a much larger consensus of what's constitutes "greatest" content during the primary season.

[Mythsaje]

19. With the speed that some threads drop off

an awful lot of good stuff will fall by the wayside too. I think that's a shitty idea, myself.

[smoogatz]

7. Yep.

Lock 'em in the dungeon. No "greatest" votes for GD primaries threads.

[greeneyedboy]

8. AMEN, i am so sick of seeing "vanity" posts on the Greatest page n/t

[Laurab]

10. K&R n/t

[MonkeyFunk]

11. People shouldn't be allowed to start more than one thread

every two hours. That would help a lot.

[angstlessk]

12. AGREED! I go to the greatest page about twice per week cause I want to be surprised

firt thing I do now is see if it comes from the 'primary ooze' and there are so few left I just go back to latest.

[LeftCoast]

13. I suspect the Greatest Page will be obsolete in the new version of DU

This version was pretty good, but I think its limitations have really started to show. From the messages I've read from the Admins, it looks like they are working very hard to address a lot of these issues.

[Occam Bandage]

17. It already is.

[troubleinwinter]

14. YES. I am so with you! Scrolling through dozens of the same old crap

posts is miserable. If The Lounge can be removed from Greatest page, one would think that the ugly nonsense on GD:primaries could be, also.

There's precious little of informative value there, just scrabbling, spitting and smearing.

It makes the Greatest page completely useless.

[Hekate]

16. KnR Let the GDPrimary devotees have their own Free Speech Zone about a mile from the rest of us

:argh:

Hekate

[Occam Bandage]

18. Yeah, pretty much. The Greatest is little but:

1. "Edwards is cool!"
2. Generic flamebait.
3. Anti-Obama flamebait.
4. Anti-Hillary flamebait.
5. A list of talking points from that day's emails.

[allalone]

20. amen, brother