I think that there are also a lot of people like me-- I used to post a lot and read a lot. (was often one of the top two posters at WX). Now I have been forced to cut back on posting, but I don't actually read any less.
Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.
'Potential'
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
Sophia Brooks - Aug 20, 2003 3:39:03 pm PDT #4377 of 10005
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Allyson - Aug 20, 2003 3:46:37 pm PDT #4378 of 10005
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
All sorts of options available. The Bronze dealt with server load by dumping data after 7 days, and Bronzers posted in a style like meara,
Polgara: I think Riley is such a tool, yo.
Leather Jacket: That may be true, but the thing is, Angel is totally gay.
Narrator: I'd like you if you weren't a stinkin' lawyer.
And so on, responding to several messages at once, with a self imposed flood control of four posts per hour. Works in linear, not so much in threaded.
Allyson - Aug 20, 2003 3:47:26 pm PDT #4379 of 10005
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
Also, let's research who the chattiest people are and just ban them.
Lyra Jane - Aug 20, 2003 3:56:56 pm PDT #4380 of 10005
Up with the sun
The Bronze dealt with server load by dumping data after 7 days
This actually opens a question for me.
On Table Talk (and a couple of other fora that work on the WX model), you have a 30-minute window to edit posts. Here, you can edit indefinitely -- I just went back to the start of this thread to check, and in theory I could edit posts from April 15.
Is there any database benefit to only allowing people to edit their posts for X amount of time? Or does that not make a difference with our software?
Consuela - Aug 20, 2003 3:59:18 pm PDT #4381 of 10005
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Quotas! it's all about quotas!
Kat - Aug 20, 2003 4:02:25 pm PDT #4382 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Also, let's research who the chattiest people are and just ban them.
Um. Sitting right here.
Allyson - Aug 20, 2003 4:11:28 pm PDT #4383 of 10005
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
Kat, you're banned. Also, I don't like how I always have to double back and make sure I spelled, "Consuela" correctly. Consuela, you too, you're banned.
Also, since the Bitches cannot shut up, I propose we move them off the server and onto a geocities guestbook page until they can learn the value of silence.
In addition to these changes, we should also implement a "no talking about anything that doesn't interest Allyson" plan.
Well. That was easy.
Kristen - Aug 20, 2003 4:13:01 pm PDT #4384 of 10005
180 posted in the first 10 days of August
Okay, that's higher than I expected. Is there anyway of figuring out the largest number of posters we had at once?
Kat - Aug 20, 2003 4:14:01 pm PDT #4385 of 10005
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
The World According to Allyson is an ugly, ugly cilantro free place.
Jon B. - Aug 20, 2003 4:22:39 pm PDT #4386 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Is there any database benefit to only allowing people to edit their posts for X amount of time? Or does that not make a difference with our software?
There's no inherent benefit to having a time limit on editing.