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I mean, I know it's a bug, but ... when people use it in a thread title, what the crap are they talking about?
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It means the thread's going to hang around for a bit, then get deleted. Usually when someone needs a quick answer about something.
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It's a thread that's not long for this world, usually because it contains sensitive material or was intended for a single person.
Hey Puppy, do you work with Shaba Games at all? I know they work with Activision in some way, and the name keeps popping up in my animation circles! Posts: 1681 | Registered: Jun 2004
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While people have given you the theoretical definition, it seems to me that real mayflies often last longer than serious threads, though they're even more prone to derailing.
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Depends on who starts them and why, IMO. Calling your thread a mayfly might be a very strong rhetorical statement.
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We had a firefly in our house a few nights ago. It was bright! It couldn't figure out how to get out again, which is sad, but I sure had fun watching it light up.
Second firefly I've ever seen.
(Presented for your derailing pleasure.)
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Here in Detroit we call them fishflies. Swarming day is pretty disgusting... a carpet of bugs on the streets.
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Puppy, I believe CT started the mayfky tradition here at Hatrack. She diidn't want people to be posting in threads she was goingto delete, since there had been some concern about that when she deleted her CT threads and switched screen names for a while, about a year back or so.
She figured that calling it a mayfly was a really cool way of letting people know that the thread wasn't going to stay around for more than a day or so...although SOME (a good number, probably about half) of them turned into regular threads upon request.
Still, when you post in a mayfly thread you have been warned that your posts might be deleted at any time.
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