Let's Push Boards to their limits!

Hyrum Graff·7/14/2014, 5:40:09 PM·14 votes·4,062 views

As more people move over here from GD, we're going to see crazier things: much more conversation in a single thread, downvote fairies, circlejerks, spam posters and trolls, etc. It'll be some good, some bad, but most importantly, it'll be things that * Boards * ** hasn't dealt with before.* *

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help me push Boards to their limits. Think up crazy scenarios of things that might happen, and we'll enact them, then see if Boards handles it well, and where it can improve.

#Challenge #1

Testing out what happens when there's a really long back-and-forth between two people (or in this case, one person) - what happens when we stretch thread depth to its max? edit: finding: when you reply to the 8th (max depth) comment, it simply ceases to indent any more. I wonder if this will make it unclear who is replying to what if you have multiple long conversations?

#Challenge #2: I need your help for this one: Let's make a discussion (topic: Lee Sin and Balance), but try to make it really hard to follow with the strategic use of up and downvotes! I'm especially interested in seeing if we can mess up the order of posts once we reach the indent limit. Finding: You can make a parent post appear below its children by downvoting it and upvoting the children, making a conversation really hard to follow.

#Challenge #3: Downvotes The goal of this test is to see if we can create a scenario where there is a conversation with a single poster in it who is posting content that will be downvoted* (maybe it's troll content, maybe it's inflammatory, maybe it's just negative whatever. The point is, nobody wants to see it)*. The people around that person are producing good content. Our goal is to downvote the bad content, but upvote the good content in such a way that the bad content still gets lots of attention. Please start on my "This is positive content; upvote it!" comment.

Challenge #4: In general.... Let's try to make this equally hard to follow in chronological view as in nested view .

Challenge #5: [Yours] I need help thinking of more ways to break Boards! The general idea with a challenge is that you're coming up with a case that could happen under normal use. That means if you're making a post which is supposed to represent a constructive post, you act like the person making it would - you try to put it under the correct thread, etc. Note that you may also pretend to be a troll, and post whatever and wherever you like in an attempt to bring the discussion crashing down. But your challenge can't posters doing things they wouldn't do normally.

59 Comments

Hyrum Graff7/14/2014, 6:23:43 PM6 votes

Hey guys, I'm Hyrum Graff and I think that Lee Sin is a perfectly champ who doesn't need any changes because reasons. Agree with me?

Hyrum Graff7/15/2014, 12:48:15 AM6 votes

This is positive content; upvote it!

bzhen09157/14/2014, 8:04:52 PM5 votes

So you want to make it hard to follow...

Ok.

FREE RP!!! TOTALLY WORKS!

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IVE GOTTEN PLENTY OF GIFT CARDS COMPLETELY FREE DERP. THIS IS TOTALLY NOT A SCAM. I TOTALLY WONT GET DOWNVOTED!

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Edit: this is supposed to be a negative post, and idk why people are upvoting. O.o

Hyrum Graff7/14/2014, 5:40:33 PM3 votes

Comment 1

TouchMyZed7/14/2014, 7:09:24 PM3 votes

better nerf irelia

JsKingBoo7/14/2014, 11:59:03 PM2 votes

Well, you asked for it

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