It might be fun to have small icons under the locations for the winners, i.e. best spammer for the year gets a can of spam (until next years awards). Hmmm, OTOH that might encourage spamming.
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It might be fun to have small icons under the locations for the winners, i.e. best spammer for the year gets a can of spam (until next years awards). Hmmm, OTOH that might encourage spamming.
Yes, and encouraging spam is not, I beleive, the goal. Maybe you could call the award, "most despicable spammer of the year," and include with it a higher flood control count (more seconds of waiting), to make the award somewhat of a "dubious honor."Quote:
Originally Posted by SpencerH
My favourite awards:
Hof 2003
Screenshot
Writer
How can you get these?( apart from HoF)
BTW,
I have seen Historical Member... Any info on this?!
That's exactly what I meant, Beirut. ~:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dutch_guy
My nose was clearly in a bad mood. The conspiracy isn't there at all. GAH! I was wrong!
btw Dutch_guy: ik ga die ballon van jou niet quoten, die haal ik er uit! ~:) ~;)
tenslotte is er maar een ballon (ab)user :bow:
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Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
Custom user title. ~:)
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Well, if you asked, you could be made a Patrician, having been a Civitates for just a wee bit longer than two months. Nobody ever seems to read that part of the Syntagma. ~;p I'm not sure if it gets you a bigger PM box, but it might.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Wizard
Uh . . . damn. I agree, TWC moderation is often too harsh, alas. But I'm just one in twelve staff, and it's Sulla who has all the power right now. You just wait until tBP and I are the Consuls, then TWC will be perfect! ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Quietus
Why do unused PMs inhibit performance? They have to be copied during backup, true, but isn't that a relatively minor thing? If no one reads them, they just sit there. (Also, I'm guessing that for some reason TWC has much better servers, because it has full search enabled and PM box limits in the hundreds while still running smoothly. Presumably they have more ads or something.)Quote:
Originally Posted by TosaInu
-Simetrical
Where?Quote:
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
Kraxis....
Historical member.....
Simple answer is that unused PM space does not affect performance. The problem obviously comes when it is used. The size of a database inherently affects forum performance, usually in a non-linear way. FYI, the other base factor in terms of server load is the number of users online at any given time - from what I've seen, this can reach 300+ with the Org (with a 15 minute timeout). Even with some fairly serious hardware, vBulletin boards can get bogged down once they have 7 figure post totals, and can require some involved database management and forum tweaks to keep them running smoothly. Some of the larger boards out there use more than one server to handle the load. The Org has 630,000 posts right now, and that's with some serious pruning over the years, most recently of the Backroom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
Anyway, say every member has a PM storage limit of 200. That, in terms of the database, is essentially 200 posts. There are at least 1000 active members of these forums. That's a potential 200,000 "posts" stored as PMs, adding nothing to the visible content of the forums, but seriously padding the size of the database, therefore adding to possible complications to the running of the forums. For most members there is really very little reason for them to have a large number of PMs, especially as older PMs can very easily be downloaded for local storage.
Is TosaInu perhaps a little conservative in setting limits? Yes, I guess he is. But I'd much rather that than a gung-ho admin who promises more than the Org's server can deliver, and then is forced to pare back things when the forums start going awry.
The Org has the board search enabled for all forums except the Backroom, which is over 90% of the board in terms of posts. On the PM thing, members at TWC get 25 PMs in their box, as compared to 20 here, so it's not so much of a difference methinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
I am not aware of the current setup of either TWC, or the Org for that matter, only that they have different hosts, who appear to take different approaches to hosting game sites. Ogre's Net, TWC's host, seems to take much more of an active interest in the setup and day-to-day running of their sites. OTOH Telefragged, the Org's host, seems not to be so directly involved, beyond setting some basic terms and conditions of service and managing the server. I guess this may well be due to the different circumstances of each board: TWC seems to be, in some respects, run by Ogre's Net, whereas the Org has a greater degree of independence from Telefragged, and is run by TosaInu and barocca. Which setup is better is a matter of opinion, I guess, as both have advantages and disadvantages.
Thought so. No problems with a limited PM box, just inquiring (and fooling around ~;)).Quote:
Originally Posted by TosaInu
~Wiz
Oh, really? It didn't used to, did it?Quote:
Originally Posted by therother
That's strange. When I joined up, they got 100, and Civitates (akin to Senior Members) 200, and Urbanis Legio (akin to Assistant Moderators) 300. Now all moderators get 400, and new members get 25. Possibly Ogre's Net decided 100 PMs for basic users was too much of a performance hog. I'll ask Sulla—I know there was confusion with PMs during the move to vB (Urbanis Legio getting more PMs than Quaestors).Quote:
Originally Posted by therother
I only wish Ogre's Net would allow us the freedom Telefragged allows the Guild. Half the changes I suggest seem to be shot down by Mithras, even easy and safe things. And changing code in even the most basic fashion, forget about it, only he gets to do it, and he's too busy most of the time. He even removed the damn attachments, one of the best things about TWC as compared to the Guild or other boards.Quote:
Originally Posted by therother
-Simetrical (quite certain Mithras doesn't come here)
See why it's better .Org than TWC?! ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
I love this forum.....
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Originally Posted by therother
we did, and then we didn't and now we can again,Quote:
Originally Posted by Simetrical
we have had a dedicated forum server for some time,
but getting SQL to run correctly on the new server took quite a while
the last forum software we used, the search function used to soak up the CPU very quickly,
the software before that the search database used to soak up the HDD space,
it took some time, in each case, to identify the cause of the "unidentified errors",
finally we have a software package (which we have had to modify a fair bit) that allows a search function without soaking the CPU or the HDD.
the search facilty was under test for an extended period, during which time, unfortunately, we could not enable it for everyone until we were certain the Soak issues had been "modded" out
Search is now enabled and humming along quite nicely
:-)
B.
Ah, but the .org still doesn't have attachments, and we now have limited attachments, and a few staff members are pushing for more and better attachments. You just wait, we'll beat you in the end! ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
-Simetrical
Ah, attachments. They do indeed add much to a forum, especially in the modding forums. Sadly, this is one of those cases where it's good to have a host that's actively involved with the site. Although other Telefragged sites are permitted attachments...
I still haven't figured out why I got made a senior member...I just hung around in the tavern, cracked jokes and posted in the OWS.
Speaking of PM boxes, is it weird that mine kept on getting bigger? It used to be 8, now I think its at 20 or something...
My PM box is also "limited" to 20, I guess it's a membership privilage expanded.
It used to be one. Now that was annoying.
Its called kissing a$$ ~DQuote:
I still haven't figured out why I got made a senior member...I just hung around in the tavern, cracked jokes and posted in the OWS.
Was it Tosa or Telefragged who decided no attachments?Quote:
Originally Posted by therother
-Simetrical
Only Tosa (or the host) can answer that definitively, as there are many good reasons why Administrators do not allow attachments, from inappropriate content to bandwidth considerations. It may also not be an intentional policy from the host, just a configuration issue with the server. Although the fact that Tosa chose to hack in a custom avatar system that does not require uploads to the board, rather than use the native system which does, is somewhat suggestive.
I like it the way it is here. I am a senior member at a forum.... but they give it to almost any one who has posted 50 times. It takes all the staus that comes with it.