Because we cannot stop growth.
Nobody is saying let's stop growing. The only thing that I have been asking for the past two is to please put off talk of new threads until we figure out the technical side and get things under control. That's all.
If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.
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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Kristen - Aug 20, 2003 10:51:11 am PDT #4332 of 10005
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2003 10:51:38 am PDT #4333 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fred, we don't traditionally look for bullshit consensuses on technical issues. For instance, the default display of posts for unregistered folk is already 20 (since yesterday), and will be for the newly registered too.
Once I've worked out the mechanics of QotD, that was going live too.
I am very willing to be draconian on code stuff.
Jesse - Aug 20, 2003 10:53:00 am PDT #4334 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hooray for ita.
Fred Pete - Aug 20, 2003 10:53:45 am PDT #4335 of 10005
Ann, that's a ferret.
OK, ita.
I hadn't noticed the new default because mine is already set at 30.
Lyra Jane - Aug 20, 2003 10:54:43 am PDT #4336 of 10005
Up with the sun
Nobody is saying let's stop growing.
I understand that. But if we're already violating our contract, and this is August, how much worse will it be in October?
I guess I don't understand how you can say "we could get thrown off by our host tomorrow" on the one hand and NOT see it as a situation requiring emergency measures. Has all of this been explained elsewhere?
Kristen - Aug 20, 2003 10:56:17 am PDT #4337 of 10005
Have you been following along in Board?
Lyra Jane - Aug 20, 2003 10:58:38 am PDT #4338 of 10005
Up with the sun
Have you been following along in Board?
Sorry, but no. Is there a specific post or series of posts you could point me to?
Susan W. - Aug 20, 2003 11:03:30 am PDT #4339 of 10005
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
This is probably a really stupid question, but are there things we can be doing as users to decrease the load, sort of the posting board equivalent of setting the thermostat to 68 in the winter? IOW, should I set my posts per page higher, and/or wait until there's a dozen new posts in Natter or Bitches before I read instead of just one or two?
Jessica - Aug 20, 2003 11:04:12 am PDT #4340 of 10005
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The most recent discussion of how to optimize the board starts here.
Cindy - Aug 20, 2003 11:09:14 am PDT #4341 of 10005
Nobody
Should we just get rid of the random quote generator until bobita can code a quote of the day? I love the quotes. I could totally do without them forever and ever, in any form. It seems if we're already in violation, and we know that's a hit on the server, we ought to kill it now.