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[brokenportal]

Who wants only, mostly only, topics about unlimited lifespans in their active topics?

Indicate your interest here and I will contact you individually, and I will help you filter out topics that aren’t most directly about unlimited lifespans advocacy, research, and news. I can go in and set it up with only the forums you want in your active topics. I could also guide you on how to do this yourself if your interested.

If you want this, then writing your name in here is very important. The more of us we can get who will be able to focus in more for these kinds of topics, then the more active these topics will be. This is so key to the success of this crucial pivotal cause.

For those that are mostly only here for other topics, that is great too. Thank you all for helping to make the Advocates & Researchers for Unlimited Lifespans a growing success.

Edited by brokenportal, 09 October 2009 - 07:35 PM.

[brokenportal]

No offense, I think that the vitamin polls that are filtering through the forum and active topics right now are awesome, but this is also a good time to keep this opportunity out in the open for people that may be interested.

[Lazarus Long]

I like how the recommended topics tab is working out and I suggest a split creating another tab such that all the nutrient, noots, lifestyle, global risks, other conversations, Society & Economics, and the Spirituality fora are posted there and the hard science, unlimited lifespan issues (including the politics and philosophy of such) and direct Imminst threads (projects, leadership, intros etc) are found under a second active topics tab.

Clearly a considerable amount of the interest many have in visiting us is generated by the first active topics tab and that popularity cannot, and should not be ignored but neither should it be allowed to bury access to the less popular but likely much more important issues with respect to the hard sciences and organizational concerns that the intent of an active topics button is meant to streamline.

I am not even opposed to making a third button and putting all social issues (except the lifestyle fora) under it, supps, noots and lifestyle under a second and all hard science and leadership under the 3rd with the member only fora divided as appropriate under all three.

In this scenario since leadership is also "social" in principle I could see it included there but since I am biased in favor of being made aware of the science issues for all in leadership as a "routine" my preference is to keep it posted with the sciences button. This is four tabs actually, since I think the recommended tab should remain and any topic from any area that is recommended by staff should go there as well.

[brokenportal]

I would love to see that tried out. If you could find an engineer with the time to try it out then I would propose it in the forum suggestions again and when/if approved then give that engineer a little direction on what to try out.

Ive been against taking away the active topics button, to let each individual sub forum act as these tabs, but the more I think about it the more I think it may be worth a try also.

Again, to anybody who may want some help filtering their active topics section, let me know and I can direct you on how to do it, or I can gather the info on what you want out of your active topics and I can do it for you.

[John Schloendorn]

Great call, it's about time to finally do this!

[lunarsolarpower]

I suggest a split creating another tab such that ....

Since active topics can be customized why not simply have a new button appear after you customize your active topics for the non-selected topics. Then between your active topics button and your non-selected topics button you'll have every thing and we'll avoid a spaghetti of new buttons in what is already quite a crowded bar.

[brokenportal]

Sometimes there isnt much chat about indefinite life extension orientated things around here. There are plenty of topics about indefinite life extension that can help progress along just about as fast as the discussions in those topics can go.

Those topics dont move very fast a lot of the times though, and I think, again, like many have said, that this is because the supplements topics are suffocating the indefinite life extension sections and all but squeezing the life right out of them. Now the supplements discussion is great and helps for a lot of reasons, but it seems to me that a solution to them suffocating the rest out is imperative. Im almost on my last leg here. A progressive indefinite life extension cause can not thrive with out active daily healthy amounts of communication about indefinite life extension.

I know this probably isnt a popular suggestion, but I think we should at least do a trial where we take the supplements sections out of the active topics section. Im not trying to upset anybody with this suggestion, and this isnt an "us and them" thing. I think that both sections may be able to thrive under those conditions and that its worth a trial.

We could also try taking away the active topics section, Im not very excited about that, but it could work. Caliban has suggested it before, he might be right.

I think this suggestion might actually be better than the split, two active topics sections, that has been discussed in the past, because a split might cause some supplements people to never see indefinite life extension topics, and we want to meme to them.

What do you all think?

[platypus]

Why not have both, i.e. two active topics lists?

[brokenportal]

We tried, and we cant figure out a way to do that. That has been the popular running suggestion.

However, if we did that, some people may never see indefinite life extension topics. If we didnt have our huge numbers of supplements people seeing topics about indefinite life extension then that would be a huge loss.

If we just take the supplements out of the active topics, people will still stumble in to the active topics section often, and they will see action topics when they are looking through the forums to find the supplements sections.

[niner]

We already have customizable filters; why don't the people who don't like supplements just filter it out? The fact that supplements is busy is telling us that a lot of people care about it. I don't think we should harm their experience by taking it out of active topics. If anyone is bothered by excess posts, they should use the filter tools that the engineering team labored to build.

[eternaltraveler]

We already have customizable filters; why don't the people who don't like supplements just filter it out? The fact that supplements is busy is telling us that a lot of people care about it. I don't think we should harm their experience by taking it out of active topics. If anyone is bothered by excess posts, they should use the filter tools that the engineering team labored to build.

i have the same thoughts regarding the FSF which I am not allowed to have on my custom active topics list. I do filter out most of the supplement forms (the exception presently being the imminst supplement design stuff). This solution works fine.

[brokenportal]

We already have customizable filters; why don't the people who don't like supplements just filter it out? The fact that supplements is busy is telling us that a lot of people care about it. I don't think we should harm their experience by taking it out of active topics. If anyone is bothered by excess posts, they should use the filter tools that the engineering team labored to build.

That would be nice, but they dont, and they leave, especially new members who dont have time to catch on to the filtering. Ive been trying to get more people to use the filter. I created a post offering to do this for them myself and it has not gotten one single hit after weeks of bumping it. I wish more people would just use the filter, and respond to action topics, but they dont, and its weighing down on the progress of this cause. I dont know what to do. I just wish more people would want to communicate about progress for this cause more.

[brokenportal]

Another thing that occurs to me is that we should probably consider fixing the filter so that certain sections, like the main imminst section, and the action section cant be filtered out.

[pamojja]

Another thing that occurs to me is that we should probably consider fixing the filter so that certain sections, like the main imminst section, and the action section cant be filtered out.

Hmm.., interesting discussion. I actually came to this forum because it contains very valuable informations about supplements - which I only got interested in because of a serious medical condition and the realization of having probably had sub optimal levels of most micro nutrients for whole my live.

On the other hand - and as a buddhist - I've no intention whatsoever to extent the duration of live for my body/mind, beyond allowing it to regain health. Don't know if I ever will change my mind about that, but at the moment I'm definitely not interested, haven't even read one of those threads though they constantly pop up. So, to generally block out supplement threads from the active topics wouldn't be so good from my perspective. Or that the main imminst section couldn't be filtered out anymore.

We already have customizable filters; why don't the people who don't like supplements just filter it out? The fact that supplements is busy is telling us that a lot of people care about it. I don't think we should harm their experience by taking it out of active topics. If anyone is bothered by excess posts, they should use the filter tools that the engineering team labored to build.

That would be nice, but they dont, and they leave, especially new members who dont have time to catch on to the filtering. Ive been trying to get more people to use the filter. I created a post offering to do this for them myself and it has not gotten one single hit after weeks of bumping it. I wish more people would just use the filter, and respond to action topics, but they dont, and its weighing down on the progress of this cause. I dont know what to do. I just wish more people would want to communicate about progress for this cause more.

Have to find out about how to filter as long as it is still possible..

kind regards

[JLL]

I don't think such artificial means are very effective. You can't force discussion on immortality if people are interested in supplements. Give them time to adjust. I know I got on the immortality wagon only after I discovered supplements.

[Blue]

I don't think such artificial means are very effective. You can't force discussion on immortality if people are interested in supplements. Give them time to adjust. I know I got on the immortality wagon only after I discovered supplements.

Agree. Making the forum difficult to use for those only/primarily interested in supplements or healthy lifestyle will make them go elsewhere. Like bodybuilding or CR forums/mailing lists for two very large groups with easily available alternatives. Which will cause a lose of advertising revenue and the possibility of conversion.

How about instead creating a separate supplement/lifestyle forum, if the unlimited lifespan part is swamped in one united forum. The supplement/lifestyle forum can then be used for advertising money and also have some advertisement for the separate unlimited lifespan forum.

[brokenportal]

The point is not to pinch out or harm the supplements section, the point is to get some sun light to the withering, but critical crucial indefinite life extension section.

Also, the point is not to force discussion on anybody, the point is to continue to inform the supplements people about the many aspects of the cause, while at the same time also creating a clear open path for the non supplements people to get through so they can keep the indefinite life extension chat going. The way it is now its like a lobby where there are 100 people talking about supplements, an indefinite life extension person has a hard time finding another to talk to about indefinite life extension in the crowd, and its so loud in there that they cant even really here what they are saying anyways. We have a lot of indefinite life extensionists who are waiting on the edges to get back in, but they wont, cant, participate effectively in these circumstances.

For people that come here for supplements, supplements will still be here, and still be thriving. Lets say that the supplements traffic went down by 20% if we took it out of the active topics, thats alright if the indefinite life extension chat goes up 80%, and they will both still continue to grow.

How about this, we test trial taking supplements out of the active topics, but then we add a tab on the tab bar that says "supplements".

[brokenportal]

Thats a good idea if somebody can get it to work.

I need a workable idea here on a way I can single out a list of people that are not here for supplements, that are just here for indefinite life extension. Does anybody know of such a way I can find, filter for a list like that? Im going to ask them one by one, few have responded here, but the few I contacted said they did want the filter and now its in place for them. 100 or more like this it seems would help treeemmmmeennnddddooouuussslllyyyy.

[brokenportal]

Also if you know of sombody that isnt here for supplements then let me know and Ill contact them. Especially people that want to be more active but dont like to surf through the lists of supplements topics to find what theyre looking for.

[31stCentury]

I would definitely appreciate any help to get rid of the supplements/nootropics/skin etc from my "Active Topics" results page.

[caliban]

click here

[brokenportal]

My god, the lack of indefinite life extension chat in the forums on many days is stifling, its a killer. If anybody wants this filter, it will help increase the indefinite life extension discussion if more of us do this.

Please let me know right away if you want me to help you with this, or go to the link above that Caliban posted and you will find instructions on how to do it yourself.

[bacopa]

YES! the filter idea is so easy I don't know why it wasn't thought of before. I'm sick of just noots, I want the real deal.

[timeline]

Who wants only, mostly only, topics about unlimited lifespans in their active topics?

Indicate your interest here and I will contact you individually, and I will help you filter out topics that aren’t most directly about unlimited lifespans advocacy, research, and news. I can go in and set it up with only the forums you want in your active topics. I could also guide you on how to do this yourself if your interested.

If you want this, then writing your name in here is very important. The more of us we can get who will be able to focus in more for these kinds of topics, then the more active these topics will be. This is so key to the success of this crucial pivotal cause.

For those that are mostly only here for other topics, that is great too. Thank you all for helping to make the Advocates & Researchers for Unlimited Lifespans a growing success.

THX. FOR THE SUGGESTION---IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE GENERAL TOPICS INCOMING ONCE PER WEEK IN A CONSOLIDATED FORMAT AND LONGEVITY COMMENTS INCOMING DAILY? THX. TIMELINE

[brokenportal]

I think so. I dont see the option while searching just now though. I beleive you can have certain forum topics with new posts sent to your in box.

Filtering your forums works well too. Do you have a specific request that you want filtered or do you want me to install a standard filter for you to check out? You can still then view all the forums individually as well, this just filters your active topics.