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Originally Posted by Handers
I believe that each threadmark should delimitate a chapter, with any post coming after without a threadmark simply added to the chapter in progress.
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And threads with no threadmarks at all? Or semi-random threadmarks?
Take for example, the
current Harry and the Shipgirls thread--something I wish I could download myself:
- The original poster(OP) hasn't added a new threadmark in over a year. Can't use threadmarks for chapter beginnings.
- There are multiple posting 'authors'. Some posts are considered 'canon', some side story but canon, and some 'omake'. Can't collect OP posts only.
- The OP posts non-story comments. Can't collect all OP posts.
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Originally Posted by Handers
Do you think that an option to download all the post made by the author would be a viable strategy to mitigate any abuse?
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Not really. Because it wouldn't actually reduce the number of HTTP requests--we'd still need to download every page, then scan every post and discard non-OP posts.
Anything that could work for more than a few specific cases would end up being 'download the entire thread' in some form. Which I don't want to do because of server load--the potential for abuse is really just 'more server load', not a separate issue.