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TK3600

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Here's what I mean; which is more semantically rich (never mind convenient)?

"Forum-Top-Level > Members Only > Miscellaneous News == One Yuuuge Thousands-of-Pages-Long-Multiyear-Thread for A, B, C...X, Y, Z"

Or, as is common practice practically everywhere else online:

"Forum-Top-Level > Miscellaneous News > Thread A, Thread B, Thread C...Thread X, Thread Y, Thread Z"
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DavidChou

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PDF refugee detected.
lol wut it's literally how forums are organized (on the English-speaking web, anyway)...like, by default -- you buy VM Forum or something and that's how it's set up outta the box. You have to go out of your way to do otherwise!
 

TK3600

Colonel
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What?? You mean you're actually advocating for China to do Westoid-style shenanigans such as color revolutions or outright "protectorate" or "mandate" type colonialism????
China should work with whoever is currently in charge, but safeguard against coups like these. All negative disruption to status quo should be prevented.

Whether China should disrupt status quo to install favorable government is debatable, but personally I am not against that either. At least for neighbouring countries which China has keen interest to.
 

DavidChou

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China should work with whoever is currently in charge, but safeguard against coups like these. All negative disruption to status quo should be prevented.
So how exactly, specifically could China have guarded against unwelcome developments? In general and here in this case.
Whether China should disrupt status quo to install favorable government is debatable, but personally I am not against that either. At least for neighbouring countries which China has keen interest to.
Ayo!! But that severely undercuts China's claims of peaceful rise, which is its only saving grace in the eyes of an otherwise suspicious and even seethingly hostile world (always love seeing BRI "partners" having to force themselves to smile for the cameras -- and in the case of someone like Viktor Orban, he looks like he can barely unclench his jaws LOL)....
 

daifo

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Here's what I mean; which is more semantically rich (never mind convenient)?

"Forum-Top-Level > Members Only > Miscellaneous News == One Yuuuge Thousands-of-Pages-Long-Multiyear-Thread for A, B, C...X, Y, Z"

Or, as is common practice practically everywhere else online:

"Forum-Top-Level > Miscellaneous News > Thread A, Thread B, Thread C...Thread X, Thread Y, Thread Z"

I think it sorta works okay here is because people tend to post many random links/news item and people often just "thumbs up/smile" rather than having many replies to a post. Maybe better categorization of threads would help like Asia News, Europe News, US News but i think people still tend to dump into misc because it gets more views and topics cross borders.
 

DavidChou

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I think it sorta works okay here is because people tend to post many random links/news item and people often just "thumbs up/smile" rather than having many replies to a post. Maybe better categorization of threads would help like Asia News, Europe News, US News but i think people still tend to dump into misc because it gets more views and topics cross borders.
LOL "Dump" is right -- reminds me a bit of "garbage collection" and "memory dumps" in C or C++ LOL

That's not actually meant as an insult or something, BTW.

Maybe this is just a generational thing -- seems like the "endless scroll" mentality is what younger people like. Or maybe it's somehow more convenient to moderate??

Certainly less practical for checking to see if a topic's already under discussion.
 
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