Prolific forum contributors
19 Nov 06 Filed in:Websites
There is nothing wrong with being helpful, and nothing wrong with frequenting a forum, but do Apple, Digg and Wondir contributors have no life outside the computer room?
Dr Smoke is the guy to ask for any technical advice related to Mac problems. What! You thought nothing ever went wrong with Powerbooks and iMacs? Well, they do and the doc and an army of fanatics help out with sage words, like ,
"My Mac has never gone wrong ever, but I once heard of a user who lost a preference file in their least used application, and what they did was press this one button and the Mac was perfect again."
This is the tip of the iceberg!
You might read an iTunes for Windows user who writes in yealling that iTunes is crap and hosed his system and he can't print anymore and the drivers for his camera and iPod and extra virus protection have all gone fubar. The community jumps in and explains,
"Just press the Time Machine button, select 10 seconds before the crash and all will be fine. By the way, while you are stressing over finding that button in your Dock, I am listening to Django Rheinhardt on my 4th iPod. Isn't he so cool on MP4, and I took this lovely photo, now residing in iPhoto, of this sunset over the Golden Gate Bridge, and I am just pressing the button "Make files into a lovely video email now, sweetie". Oh, lovely, my 93 year-old tech illiterate Aunt mavis will be so pleased to open it on her 24" iMac. I just noticed, you said you have problems with Windows. Sorry, your mileage may vary with YOUR version of Time Machine. "
Dr Smoke may be the most famous and precise Maccer there, but he sure isn't the biggest contributor on the forum of Mac woe. Those numbers are related to points per useful snippet of informationbtw, but that still amounts to thousands of posts.
Digg is a social news aggregator, or in simple terms, a site where teenage tech freaks send in links to news stories so the 500,000 users can check through and vote or "Digg" them to the front page - or consign them for burial. Supposedly the ultimate in democratic news rating systems, the owners, including 60 million dollar man, Kevin Rose, recently changed an algorithm, ooh, and upset the main contributors. According to this Digg-related article in Techcrunch, the top researchers and many enthusiastic underlings were getting banned then reinstated then confused all in the same day.
As a contributor with the most miserable record on Digg, I don't care what they do. When a really clever Vdcard microformat article falls through the holes of their voting system, while a misleading and discredited article on slow Windows startups gets 4400 diggs, why worry at all about the new algo - man? I guess we should worry, though, because ultimately we want Digg to do well and to break us out the straight jacket where the establishment tells us what is and isn't newsworthy. Obviously the current trend of goofy teens guiding us all needs addressing, hence the revisions, but one day, it will come right.
This homo/robotic service provides answers to questions on anything. If the robots don't find and create a legible answer, humans step into the breach. Some of these people make AskJeeves seem like a real lazy bastard.
Who is the most prolific contributor on your forum?
Apple forum
Dr Smoke is the guy to ask for any technical advice related to Mac problems. What! You thought nothing ever went wrong with Powerbooks and iMacs? Well, they do and the doc and an army of fanatics help out with sage words, like ,
"My Mac has never gone wrong ever, but I once heard of a user who lost a preference file in their least used application, and what they did was press this one button and the Mac was perfect again."
This is the tip of the iceberg!
You might read an iTunes for Windows user who writes in yealling that iTunes is crap and hosed his system and he can't print anymore and the drivers for his camera and iPod and extra virus protection have all gone fubar. The community jumps in and explains,
"Just press the Time Machine button, select 10 seconds before the crash and all will be fine. By the way, while you are stressing over finding that button in your Dock, I am listening to Django Rheinhardt on my 4th iPod. Isn't he so cool on MP4, and I took this lovely photo, now residing in iPhoto, of this sunset over the Golden Gate Bridge, and I am just pressing the button "Make files into a lovely video email now, sweetie". Oh, lovely, my 93 year-old tech illiterate Aunt mavis will be so pleased to open it on her 24" iMac. I just noticed, you said you have problems with Windows. Sorry, your mileage may vary with YOUR version of Time Machine. "
Dr Smoke may be the most famous and precise Maccer there, but he sure isn't the biggest contributor on the forum of Mac woe. Those numbers are related to points per useful snippet of informationbtw, but that still amounts to thousands of posts.
Digg contributions
Digg is a social news aggregator, or in simple terms, a site where teenage tech freaks send in links to news stories so the 500,000 users can check through and vote or "Digg" them to the front page - or consign them for burial. Supposedly the ultimate in democratic news rating systems, the owners, including 60 million dollar man, Kevin Rose, recently changed an algorithm, ooh, and upset the main contributors. According to this Digg-related article in Techcrunch, the top researchers and many enthusiastic underlings were getting banned then reinstated then confused all in the same day.
As a contributor with the most miserable record on Digg, I don't care what they do. When a really clever Vdcard microformat article falls through the holes of their voting system, while a misleading and discredited article on slow Windows startups gets 4400 diggs, why worry at all about the new algo - man? I guess we should worry, though, because ultimately we want Digg to do well and to break us out the straight jacket where the establishment tells us what is and isn't newsworthy. Obviously the current trend of goofy teens guiding us all needs addressing, hence the revisions, but one day, it will come right.
Wondir
This homo/robotic service provides answers to questions on anything. If the robots don't find and create a legible answer, humans step into the breach. Some of these people make AskJeeves seem like a real lazy bastard.
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