Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.

Anya ,'Get It Done'


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


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 8:55:06 am PDT #4591 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Noumenon - Aug 25, 2003 9:41:11 am PDT #4592 of 10005
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

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.


deborah grabien - Aug 25, 2003 9:49:32 am PDT #4593 of 10005
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

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?


Michele T. - Aug 25, 2003 10:17:08 am PDT #4594 of 10005
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

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...


Dana - Aug 25, 2003 10:20:18 am PDT #4595 of 10005
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

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.


Cindy - Aug 25, 2003 10:40:36 am PDT #4596 of 10005
Nobody

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.


Jon B. - Aug 25, 2003 10:47:57 am PDT #4597 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Or, to summarize Cindy's post: Let it go, Michele.


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 10:47:58 am PDT #4598 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Jon B. - Aug 25, 2003 10:49:31 am PDT #4599 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I think you should make the default whatever you think is appropriate, ita.


§ ita § - Aug 25, 2003 11:03:06 am PDT #4600 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The minimum reload time is now ten minutes.

And in terms of board usage, there have been 206 unique posters this month so far.