'Out Of Gas'
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
Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.
I was responding to David, who addressed it specifically to me. Thanks for the update and can we move along now, since this is wasting bandwidth? I'd have put this in email, but your profile addy doesn't seem to list one. Mine does, however, so if you really have an issue about it, why not email me instead of taking up the bandwidth here?
Then it's not really relevant to any discussion of how to conserve bandwidth here, is it.
Actually, I don't see why posting habits at other boards are by definition irrelevant. Bronze posting has been brought up here too.
Now, if you want to debate each point on its own merit, that's something else. But the rest of the world can count.
I thought Deb was talking about a thread here, too, like a treehouse on Buffista Island. But this is the only community I can keep up with so I forget other people are more sociable.
Moving right along.
OK. So, refresh is set to zero. Page posts (for me, as an indulgence) is set to 25. I'm now only using "read new" and not hitting the refresh button. Posts are portmanteau, carrying several messages at once.
Is there anything else I can do, as an individual poster, that will immediately reduce the usage load?
But the rest of the world can count.
Sure, but we've been talking about other places in terms of what has worked there, and what hasn't, and what we can learn from those places. Hec was talking about reducing numberslutting *here*, so saying "I don't numberslut elsewhere" is irrelevant. Plus, as Nou points out, it wouldn't have been clear to someone not at PF that Deb was discussing PF in the first place.
ita, what about the 7-minute auto-refresh? Or can we set an attribute to the autorefresh that limits the number of times that it does it? I'm going to go research that second one right now...
so saying "I don't numberslut elsewhere" is irrelevant.
I think it was really just part of a conversation. It wasn't being offered up as anything else. And if we start busting people for not having every part of their post be on topic, even in this thread, we'll be very busy.
Sure, but we've been talking about other places in terms of what has worked there, and what hasn't, and what we can learn from those places. Hec was talking about reducing numberslutting *here*, so saying "I don't numberslut elsewhere" is irrelevant. Plus, as Nou points out, it wouldn't have been clear to someone not at PF that Deb was discussing PF in the first place.
I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't know deb had her own thread, and I still figured out what she was saying. What I can't figure out is why you're taking this much objection to it. I can understand the original confusion, but this is getting silly. All she was doing was telling a friend that she never numbersluts anywhere, only instead of saying "anywhere", she mentioned where her any is.
Or, to summarize Cindy's post: Let it go, Michele.
900 people have their refresh rates set at 5 minutes.
They are going to be startled.
I can bump it by changing one line of code and running one SQL statement.
What's the rationale behind 7 again? I was just going to go for 10.
I think you should make the default whatever you think is appropriate, ita.