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BarbaraGordon · 06-04-2007, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by YLife

being a cb regular, I'm confused on replies. Does each reply just get added to the bottom? or, is there a way to post back to a particular user's post?

You can select a threaded layout but it's kind of weird. It might be easier just to quote the person you want to reply to.

By the way, it has been suggested that we already have too many Ute attorneys here, so I hope you don't fall in that camp.

YLife · 06-04-2007, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by DrumNFeather

Just hit the quote button like so and you can reply to a particular post. It still goes to the bottom, but at least you know when you've been responded to.

better than cougarboard. The layout is a bit 90's-ish for cb, but I do like the organization to threads and posts better. Perhaps that is because I'm just trying this out for the first time...

MikeWaters · 06-04-2007, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by YLife

better than cougarboard. The layout is a bit 90's-ish for cb, but I do like the organization to threads and posts better. Perhaps that is because I'm just trying this out for the first time...

I had the same reaction. But over time I have come to find the cougarboard format flawed.

Because it encourages a very brief conversation that can't be easily updated over time.

30 minutes after you post, your post is on the 2nd page, never to be seen again.

The board becomes full of SGCs and reposts, and link-backs to other posts. Spammers dominate. Conversations are repeated over and over.

There are good things about the CB format, but it is also limiting in many ways.

jay santos · 06-04-2007, 02:54 PM

#1 reason CG is better than CB: I'm here.

Tex · 06-04-2007, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Conversations are repeated over and over.

This is different from here how?

bYuPride · 06-04-2007, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by YLife

better than cougarboard. The layout is a bit 90's-ish for cb, but I do like the organization to threads and posts better. Perhaps that is because I'm just trying this out for the first time...

I thought the same thing when I first came here... You get used to it really quickly. I actually prefer this format to CB in many ways.

TheSizzle36 · 06-04-2007, 03:06 PM

The biggest drawback here, besides all the Utes of course, is the fact that the traffic is less. So you may not get a reply to your thread for a few hours, but at least here well thought out posts usually stir discussion and it stays in one thread, instead of spawning off 13 other threads where the same arguments get made.

Definitely different than CB, but not different in a bad way.

YOhio · 06-04-2007, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by jay santos

#1 reason CG is better than CB: I'm here.

I'll add Barbara Gordon, Farrah Waters, Marsupial, Danimal, BigFatMeanie, Seattle Ute, uncensored-Goatnapper, Il Padrino and other non-CB posters.

MikeWaters · 06-04-2007, 03:25 PM

Danimal doesn't belong on that list. He was/is a longtime CB poster. That's how I originally came to help him in moving to Dallas.

Also, Farrah has a CB account. She is SilverBeaver.

YOhio · 06-04-2007, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Danimal doesn't belong on that list. He was/is a longtime CB poster. That's how I originally came to help him in moving to Dallas.

Also, Farrah has a CB account. She is SilverBeaver.

I included Danimal because he is regular contributor to CG and not CB.

06-04-2007, 02:54 PM	#14
jay santos Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,177	#1 reason CG is better than CB: I'm here.

06-04-2007, 03:06 PM	#17
TheSizzle36 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,786	The biggest drawback here, besides all the Utes of course, is the fact that the traffic is less. So you may not get a reply to your thread for a few hours, but at least here well thought out posts usually stir discussion and it stays in one thread, instead of spawning off 13 other threads where the same arguments get made. Definitely different than CB, but not different in a bad way.

06-04-2007, 03:25 PM	#19
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Danimal doesn't belong on that list. He was/is a longtime CB poster. That's how I originally came to help him in moving to Dallas. Also, Farrah has a CB account. She is SilverBeaver.