[POLL] Posting results and medal tables

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

Everything else than the endless wall of results wa had before is okish to me. I still faill to see the point of it, but I'm ok with the results the way hckosice is posting them for instance.

 

Bottom line, having a very large database of results in the same place can be very valuable, but a forum is a very inefficient tool to achieve it.

Edited March 13, 2016 by De_Gambassi

[hukbrazil 18]

If we have the results here is because they have been published somewhere. I still think that direct links have the best "value for money" for us.

 

I am also a supporter of hiding in spoiler anything that might pollute the threads.

[Bearas 542]

BRING BACK RESULTS NOW, please... 

[Gianlu33 4,738]

Well, i vote for the old format.

[Malik 2]

I voted for 1 without even reading other alternatives.What made this forum so special was detailed results so let's not relinquish this privilege.

[heywoodu 15,351]

  On 3/13/2016 at 9:15 PM, Malik said:

I voted for 1 without even reading other alternatives.What made this forum so special was detailed results so let's not relinquish this privilege.

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But if you have them in a spoiler you still have the extremely detailed results, the only difference is that threads will remain readable because there won't be a million names and flags to scroll, wrestle and fight your way through  

[Malik 2]

  On 3/13/2016 at 1:05 PM, heywoodu said:

But in that case major events should have 2 threads: one in which only results are posted and nothing else, and one for discussion. Because threads of major events in which huge lists of results are posted become almost unreadable for some people (my browser often nearly exploded with the overload of results and moving flags and everything)

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Well to put results in spoilers that means results are no so important for us which is not the case.

But i do agree with you about the flags, tabels and big fonts that sadly the page goes down so i guess it is better to adopt more suitable formats in posting reslts in order to optimize it for smoother page loading.

[heywoodu 15,351]

  On 3/13/2016 at 9:50 PM, Malik said:

Well to put results in spoilers that means results are no so important for us which is not the case.

But i do agree with you about the flags, tabels and big fonts that sadly the page goes down so i guess it is better to adopt more suitable formats in posting reslts in order to optimize it for smoother page loading.

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It doesn't mean they are not so important, it only means it would be important to keep everything readable. 

Of course results are important, but without discussion a forum is no forum, so in my opinion the most important is to make space for discussion.

 

And that would absolutely not mean sacrificing results, it would just mean putting results in spoilers so you still have exactly the same data as you had before, with the difference being it takes up 1 line instead of dozens of lines.

 

 

[Malik 2]

  On 3/13/2016 at 1:42 PM, hukbrazil said:

If we have the results here is because they have been published somewhere. I still think that direct links have the best "value for money" for us.

 

I am also a supporter of hiding in spoiler anything that might pollute the threads.

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Except for Africa 

I used to spend so much time looking for results and the overall informations about venues and timning because most events without any official or reliable source!

Edited March 13, 2016 by Malik

[George_D 1,206]

My choices were

 

• Results: Medalists should be posted as before, all non-medalists should be posted in a "Spoiler" so they only appear when you click on the spoiler
• Medals: Full medal tables should be posted as before, after each and every event
  
  The full and analytical results of all heats/races are the boring aspect not the medal tables. The medal table is one post even after each competition day, isnt too much