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Nick
07/16/09

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pfft, this is just another example of a shameless plug from giz. you job is to review, Giz, not plug everything and whore yourself out for a dollar.

/sarcasm
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spazztastic
07/16/09

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How do you prevent this from being overloaded?
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Xeno
07/16/09

@spazztastic: That is an interesting question. It is quite possible that you could put far to many devices on the 'skirt'. Worst case though would be that you pop the breaker.
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trotskysghost
07/16/09

@spazztastic: Exactly what I was thinking. You really shouldn't have more than like 10 total receptacles (so 5 standard duplex receptacles in the US) on more than one circuit. With this system, how does one split the tapped receptacles onto seperate circuit breakers. Also, what about rooms with multiple doors?

In a typical house or office, you can just add a new homerun circuit back to an available spare breaker on the panel if you can get to the outlet box and the panel without destroying all of the walls and ceilings in between them.

That does remind me of one of my favorite electrician's apprentice moments where I got paid to make a giant channel across a 40 foot plaster wall in a multi-millon dollar home (owned by total assholes), with a hammer. We needed to run wires in an existing wall for new wall sconce lights and there was no attic or crawlspace for this room. Pretty easy to get out one's anger about one's station in life when you get to hit the dinning room walls of rich people's mansions with a hammer over and over again.
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pevans34
07/16/09

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Cool concept.

Dunno how I feel about non star users getting the shaft in this new system though
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LastAndLeast
07/16/09

@pevans34: It kinda raises the barrier to becoming a star commenter as well since fewer people will be able to see your comments.
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Curves
07/16/09

@pevans34: I sort of feel the same way, thats its weighted toward the star commenters (and just casue we have a star doesnt mean we know our ass from a hole in the ground), but I change the view to read everyones comment, cause I like to see what everyone has to say. Dont let it stop you from commenting, please.
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ninjamurf
07/16/09

@LastAndLeast: I don't think getting a star has ever been determined by the masses. The same people who "star" you are still able to see your posts if they want. And that's kind of what they do around here anyway.
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notnotnotnotnotanaccount
07/16/09

@pevans34: I'm still somewhat confused though, do you still need to be "approved" to comment at all? In that case, there's 3 tiers of people trying to comment, which makes the system quite complicated.
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d3c509b aka Steve
07/16/09

@ninjamurf: I agree, I feel like I've made some valuable additions to conversations, but they never get seen because no one sifts through they grey comments.

Oh well, I'll keep trying for my star
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Sticks Calhoun
07/16/09

@notnotnotnotnotanaccount: You have just been approved! And yeah, you have to be approved to be seen by other people, but theoretically you just have to be approved once. I was kind of bummed about the new system as well, but I managed to get a star within a day of the new system. They made it much easier to get one.
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Sticks Calhoun
07/16/09

@d3c509b aka Steve: We read! we swear!
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92BuickLeSabre
07/16/09

@Sticks Calhoun: When a "star" approves a "red comment" he or she only approves that single comment, changing it from red to gray and making it viewable to the rest of the world. (Once approved, it can also be promoted from gray to black.)
It does not actually approve the commenter.
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tok3ninja
07/16/09

@pevans34: At first I felt just as uncomfortable with the weighted system. But I come to find out quite a few star commenters still love me, star or no star.
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Sticks Calhoun
07/16/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Really? I was not aware of this. Hopefully some mechanism is in place to promote them after a certain number of approvals. It'd be kind of silly to have to keep re-approving the same people.
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Nick
07/16/09

@tok3ninja; is the best non-star commenter: i love ya
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ninjagin
07/16/09

@tok3ninja; is the best non-star commenter: Heart click 4 U, bro
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