Recommending your own threads

[Boojatta]

For example, the software could be modified to allow you to recommend one tenth of all threads that you create after September 1st, 2008. For example, if between September 1st and September 21st you create 10 threads, then you would be able to recommend one of them. Note that this means that there would be an exception to the 24-hours limit for the thread creator.

If I could recommend one of my recent threads, I would recommend this one:

Should refugees be a basis for taking territory to compensate the international community?

Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that I will ever be able to recommend it and it hasn't received any recommendations.

Here's a thread that I wouldn't recommend:

Why accept students or immigrants from China if ...

It has received 5 recommendations. Well, as people say, there's no accounting for taste.

[MrCoffee]

1. Off to the greatest page with you

oh, wait....never mind.

[Boojatta]

2. Well, I could try again and create something like the Original Post in GD.

The Original Post as written seems to focus too much on me and my recent threads to be GD material.

[cabbage08]

3. K&R

Sorry, couldn't help me self

:)

[DS1]

4. creating threads is a meaningless measurement

posting "My cat just farted" shouldn't deserve any rewards. Perhaps instead, for each 10 recommends your thread gets from others, you can recommend one of your own.

Or simply, write better threads and let the recommendations fall where they may.

[Boojatta]

5. "posting 'My cat just farted' shouldn't deserve any rewards"

If it's your thread then you're the one person who is in no position to judge whether or not "My cat just farted" deserves a recommendation. Everybody else decides. If "My cat just farted" is posted in GD and receives five recommendations, then it receives the reward of appearing on the Greatest Page unless or until a moderator moves it to the Lounge.

[Midlodemocrat]

8. I totally disagree. EVERYTHING DS1 posts should go straight

to the greatest page.

:rofl:

[DS1]

13. If I read eleventybillion threads, I should be allowed to rec two and a half of my own

[Boojatta]

14. If you alert on a post and the moderators take action

then in the opinion of the moderators your alert was legitimate. Perhaps that deserves a reward.

[Boojatta]

6. Is the opportunity to provide what amounts to one-tenth of a recommendation

an excessive reward for creating one new thread?

[DS1]

7. In some cases, absolutely

[Boojatta]

9. You could spend the next one thousand days posting nothing

(i.e., no replies to anything and no new threads) and during those thousand days you could recommend forty threads per day. Are you aware of any DU rule that you would be breaking by doing that? What would you be doing to earn the privilege of making forty recommendations per day?

[DS1]

10. I'm arguing against rewarding simple numbers

[Boojatta]

11. Isn't zero a simple number?

For posting nothing (no replies and no new threads) you can already recommend forty threads per day. The only thing you cannot recommend is a thread that you created.

[DS1]

12. We've obviously gone off track here

[Sanity Claws]

15. Have you ever thought that you are not the best person to judge

your own work?
Sorry, got to go. My cat farted.

[Boojatta]

17. Have you ever thought that a trial court judge...

is not the best person to judge a case that might eventually go to the Supreme Court? Now, suppose that a particular case can be recognized as a potential Supreme Court case. Would you like there to be a legal requirement such a case must be tried by a higher court (i.e. by an appeal court)?

[Sanity Claws]

18. Huh?

I am an attorney. A trial judge has no role in deciding whether an appellate court hears a case.
Cases cannot skip the trial level. A trial court actually tries the case; witnesses are called, documents admitted in evidence, and then a decision reached. An appellate court reviews questions of law regarding mistakes made at the trial level. No, I would not want the trial level skipped because then there would be nothing for the appellate court to review.

I do not understand your second sentence. It is written in the passive voice and does not state who does the recognizing.

Oh no! Now, my other cat farted. Gotta go.

[DS1]

19. Time to consider changing their food

otherwise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKLdGACVE_s

[TZ]

20. .....

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[Boojatta]

21. "Cases cannot skip the trial level."

I agree that there needs to be a trial before there can be an appeal, but why must the people who are currently trial court judges be the ones to preside over every case when it is first considered by a court?

[MrCoffee]

22. Because they are trial court judges...it's sort of incumbent in the position

A trial court judge presides over a trial court.

[Boojatta]

23. Tell me what a litigation lawyer does.

Large international corporations could save a lot of money by hiring the least expensive lawyer available who is licensed to practice in the given jurisdiction. However, I doubt that people who manage large international corporations are convinced that all people licensed to practice law are equally good. Similarly, one might identify some cases for which it is not appropriate for an arbitrarily chosen trial court judge to preside over them.

[Sanity Claws]

16. Have you ever thought that you are not the best person to judge

your own work?
Sorry, got to go. My cat farted.