Discussion of "Count from X to X"

Hello fellow Cafe SETIzens!

In spirit of a true democratic republic, I'm looking for feedback on how all of you feel about comments with the pictures in the Count from X to X threads here in the SETI Cafe.

Please keep the discussion limited to this topic, but feel free to express how you feel. I will keep the voting open for one week and tally the votes on Monday, November 5th. If all of you decide that you're OK with people leaving comments, please place your vote. If you feel that you would rather keep the same theme going in that thread, please place your vote.

Currently, the rule to not allow comments is not listed in that thread, but there seems to be some belief that this used to be a rule for that series which has been left off as the threads progressed.

As always, I hope that whatever you guys and gals decide, that you have fun in all of the SETI@Home Cafe threads!

-Fred
SETI Forums Admin

I say No Comments.....otherwise it gets diluted into pure spam.
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Comments are usually more fun.
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BOINC WIKI

I enjoy reading comments.

No comments, as we have the Discussion thread curtesy of Gary C.
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Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Cash Donation Specialist

It is a picture thread, the idea being to post a picture, without needing comments. There are plenty of other threads you can post pictures and comments in.

I am totally stunned that anyone would complain about this.

Please no comments in the count to thread.
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Comments, no. Captions, perhaps.

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Please include my comments vote to also include no unrelated hyperlinks
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Good point Gary. For clarification, this is about leaving comments with the images and not about captions built into the image, such as some comic strips posted.

If this changes any of your votes, go ahead and re-cast if necessary.

No comments or captions (unless they are actually part of the picture).
Its about the finding the number, not being able to find a so called witty comment about (yet another) 1950s sewing pattern......
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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

OK if they add something to the image.

The tally so far.

No - 4

Bernie Vine
Blurf
rob smith
uli

Yes - 3

Angela
John McLeod VII
Steven Meyer

Ambiguous - 1

Gary Charpentier -- Who is to say that something is a comment vs a caption?

Ok, so by my count, we have:

No - 5

Blurf
Rob Smith
Uli
Celt Tooth (I assume "Everything is in order" means don't change it.)
Gary Charpentier ("Comments, no.")

Yes - 6

Angela
John McLeod VII
Steven Meyer
Shannock9
Bob DeWoody (notwithstanding judgment on whether it adds something or not.)
Bernie Vine

Based upon this feedback from all of you, it seems that by a narrow margin it has been voted to allow comments in the thread, and hopefully it adds something to the image.

I'd like everyone to be cognizant of the fact that I usually allow the thread owner to set their own rules (within reason). If the thread owner of the "Count from X to X" series of threads explicitly disallows comments, then this may change for future variations of that series.

I want to thank everyone for speaking up and voting! I will leave this thread stickied for a few days so that everyone can see the outcome of the results.

-Fred
SETI Forums Admin