Anyone knows what does the VIP checkbox do besides adding a "*" next to the post?
Howdy!
well let's try it out
I believe it is for "very important post". In other textboards I have seen special overview pages where only VIPs are shown.
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Sages.
Sages are posts which do not bump up the thread to the top of the frontpage. Kind of the opposite of "very important".
Testing sage
Ah, makes sense. Why not sticking to the traditional word though?
>>10
VIP quality.
In the old /prog/ quality posts were always saged. It wasn't used for posts deemed not worthy of a bump, quite the contrary.
There ought to be a term, for posting without bumping the thread, which is as elegant to the versed as "sage", but as obvious to the neophytes as "don't bump".
>>11 What was the reasoning for saging good posts? Wouldn't that raise bad threads, and bury good threads?
What was the reasoning for saging good posts? Wouldn't that raise bad threads, and bury good threads?
Then you prevented newbies from polluting your interesting. That wasn't really working on w4ch but they were emulating 2channel, where the posters would get mad if someone accidentally bumped a good, buried, live thread.
>>12
``VIP'' was an attempt to convey the elegance and the good manners for neophytes. It's purposefully not a Japanese word but still has some connexion with anonymous users of 2channel who would sometimes use that signature collectively.
I agree that there ought to be a better word. If you're interested in a discussion (and given that there are enough users overall), you would just bookmark the thread and continue the discussion with others without risking to have the thread derailed by newcomers from the front page.
