If you try to look for a closed thread in your message center, a virus slags your hard drive and blows out all the chips on your motherboard.
I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.
Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Sean K - Aug 20, 2003 7:00:06 pm PDT #3085 of 10289
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Jessica - Aug 20, 2003 7:00:27 pm PDT #3086 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Will it cause any probs when people are still subscribed and message center is looking for a thread that's not there anymore?
I'm just guessing, but I think that when a thread is deleted from the database, it's also deleted from the subscriptions table. So no, because the deleted thread should just disappear from anyone's subscriptions list.
esse - Aug 20, 2003 7:00:28 pm PDT #3087 of 10289
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Allyson, are you talking about closed threads or already-archived threads?
Allyson - Aug 20, 2003 7:02:25 pm PDT #3088 of 10289
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Closed threads. Get rid o' dem. It's 15 threads taking "click through" space on the board. They're not active. Archive them.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2003 7:02:43 pm PDT #3089 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Dunno. If it wouldn't cause a problem, then one week or two seems fine. If it will cause a problem (for the board, not the slacker) then would someone (ita) have to manually unsub people before moving the thread off-site?
Ah, question answered. I say we go for it then. One week? Two?
Consuela - Aug 20, 2003 7:08:47 pm PDT #3090 of 10289
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't have any problem with relocating closed threads. And I've said I can live with cutting the Farscape thread (and any other non-ME-verse thread, although the fic thread would be painful), particularly if it can be shown that it would actually help the situation.
I'm not being difficult; but at this point it's unclear what particular actions we could take that would make an appreciable difference, given that, as I understand it, there's a problem with the code not closing connections.
Kristen - Aug 20, 2003 7:11:18 pm PDT #3091 of 10289
No, we think [hope] that it's just a coding problem. But it may not be. If we had 180 users active at this board, it is entirely possible that the problem is just too many users, too many threads, too many posts.
Sean K - Aug 20, 2003 7:16:01 pm PDT #3092 of 10289
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm dead serious about ditching Natter. I doubt it will ever pass a vote, but that's what needs to go.
Losing the Farscape thread will have the net effect of a hamster fart in a hurricane. Loosing Natter or Bitches will make a difference.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2003 7:16:14 pm PDT #3093 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Would it be a good idea then (and I generally hate this thought, but what the hell) to close the board to new memberships just until we get this figured out? It won't affect unregistered readers, but might at least forestall an influx of new posters when Angel comes back on or if there's a big FF announcement or something.
Kat - Aug 20, 2003 7:17:10 pm PDT #3094 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
If we had 180 users active at this board, it is entirely possible that the problem is just too many users, too many threads, too many posts.
In which case I think we should consider voting people off.
Cause, dude, total good use of voting. Think of it as a daily recall election.
Or not.
If we want to eliminate bloat, then by all means lets toss Natter and Bitches. Cause those are the majorly high traffic resource hogs. With the death matches, quotables has been so much fun, but often filled with one liner posts. Or maybe we could have a yea or nay on all threads and only the most popular win.
But each of these has a much larger effect on the nature of the board then the cleanup we are doing.
So, it comes back to who are we? What do we want to be?