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`${userDetail.user.displayName}${userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode ? `#${standardizeBungieGlobalCode(userDetail.user.cachedBungieGlobalDisplayNameCode)}` : ""}`}}
{{getUserClans()}}
10/9/2012 5:29:43 AM
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Thread Summary Option
[ [b][u]Idea[/u][/b] ]: separate section below where you type the body of your thread for a thread summary; maximum of 140 characters (hey, it worked for Twitter); appears as you hover over a thread title; is viewable in smaller, grayer font above all OPs once you enter a thread*; it is optional, and thus not required to fill out before you make a thread; one *enter* counts as 100 characters since you shouldn't need it and it would reduce the annoyance of any possible spam people could create with it.
*the text within the summary is subject to the same forum rules as any other bit of text you choose to imprint onto these electronic pages.
Sorry about the lazy writing. I'm about to make this thread and go to bed so I'm not much for cleverly articulating my genius ideas.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] dazarobbo Just based on some predefined indexes. ie. given some text, take the characters between indexes 0 and 140 and use them as the summary text. If you look at the [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=bungie]search results[/url] for a search on Google, you can see they do the same thing (note how the ellipsis is used to show the summary is only a portion of the full text as well).[/quote]So does the author of the thread get to choose which 1-140 character excerpt is taken out? If it's somehow automated, how does the system know what to pull? What if the author goes off on a diatribe/metaphor about how BNet is about Clowns and the entire excerpt is about Clowns and therefore irrelevant to the rest of the piece? Undoubtedly something like that would be recognized as "unique" by whatever script (or whatever they're called when they're run by the sites administrator and not a user), and yet would be totally irrelevant to the overall post. Then, if you go the route of letting users pick, wouldn't they end up just writing their own summary and selecting that part of their post anyway, thus making it a convoluted version of what I'm suggesting?
