June 2 Board Maintenance done...

[Dee Dreslough]

Let me know if you see any problems! (Icons or sig images not loading, files not downloading correctly, inability to post where you should be able to post...)

BTW post count dropping does not count as a bug, unless it drops to 0 and you know you have posts. The boards are in a constant state of being pruned and cleaned up so post counts will be dropping as those posts are removed from the bloated, sickly, crashing database. The board is on Weight Watchers now.

-Dee

[Reade]

The pages are loading faster than anytime before(since I've been coming here).

[BINGLEBOP]

Would it be possible to link to outside organizations to help those who are unable to cope in their daily lives due to severe post count losses? There are quite a few of them on the forums here.

[Dee Dreslough]

LOL!

There's BUMP-anon: Begin Undoing Manic Posting... ;)

[RickD]

Can we get a discount for that? :D

[Rongar]

In the event of one's posts being scrubbed for general viewing, can that one still read his own, eliminated, posts?

[Dee Dreslough]

In the event of one's posts being scrubbed for general viewing, can that one still read his own, eliminated, posts?
Nope..they disappear. The idea is to reduce the amount of data in the board database...if we just hid the posts from view, it wouldn't have as profound an effect. I don't even really know how we'd just hide 'em...

The posts that are going away today are in forums for leagues that no longer exist. All other posts are staying. So, if you have gems in the forums for leagues that have disbanded, today's the day to find 'em and save 'em. :)

-Dee(leting)

[Rongar]

Nope..they disappear. The idea is to reduce the amount of data in the board database...if we just hid the posts from view, it wouldn't have as profound an effect. I don't even really know how we'd just hide 'em...

The posts that are going away today are in forums for leagues that no longer exist. All other posts are staying. So, if you have gems in the forums for leagues that have disbanded, today's the day to find 'em and save 'em. :)

-Dee(leting)

Thank you , Dee...guess that I'd better cut & paste my gems to a time-capsule, then....

[ohms_law]

The pages are loading faster than anytime before(since I've been coming here).

Yea they are. Nice!
:D


Thank you , Dee...guess that I'd better cut & paste my gems to a time-capsule, then....

I really doubt that you have anything to worry about, Rongar. Nothing from the "regular" forums is going to disappear.

[RickD]

I really doubt that you have anything to worry about, Rongar. Nothing from the "regular" forums is going to disappear.

I thought you were going to end that with you don't really have any gems! :D:p

[ohms_law]

lol

[TheNamelessPoet]

I really doubt that you have anything to worry about, Rongar. Nothing from the "regular" forums is going to disappear.

uea... i thopught the same thing and lost nearly 1000 posts :( that makes me sad :( not that I really pay THAT much attentuin but i KNOW i didnt post 1000 tiimes in BMO

[Rongar]

I thought you were going to end that with you don't really have any gems! :D:p

It's all in the eye of the beholder, Rick...them's my babies, and I write 'em to read, later on, in my old age (if that single eye will allow it)

[boomboom]

BTW post count dropping does not count as a bug, unless it drops to 0 and you know you have posts.
-Dee


I don't know if you know this, but when you delete a BMO users posts. What happens is that they are concidered less active. There reputation goes down. It went years without any such deletion.

If you are having problems with memory issues, then I suggest upgrading hardware. It is 2008.

[RickD]

:eek:

[TheNamelessPoet]

I don't know if you know this, but when you delete a BMO users posts. What happens is that they are concidered less active. There reputation goes down. It went years without any such deletion.

If you are having problems with memory issues, then I suggest upgrading hardware. It is 2008.

yea...i agree but ouch lol

[ohms_law]

A) Bull****, but whatever...

B) Posting real content helps.

C) The longer this goes on the more I wish that the BMO forums would be moved to their own separate board space. I think that's a great idea regardless, but this **** makes it that much more important.

D) http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showthread.php?t=77199
Steiney is right.
lol

[Dee Dreslough]

It's not a simple matter of "just get better hardware" -- we have great hardware and I think it's maxxed out at this point in terms of RAM anyway.

But, that is a thought:

Now, if someone wants to send me oh, about $7000 or so for hardware and my time to set it up, and then pay a $50 monthly membership fee, I will HAPPILY, GLEEFULLY make a machine that JUST hosts a vBulletin so they can sit in a corner and post "poop poop poop" over and over in a thread to get their post count up.

I await the check. If it does not bounce, I will start Post Count Mogul.

-Dee

[ohms_law]

lol

By the way, in terms of BMO forums... You ought to think about phpBB. It's open source (and free for commercial use). Heck, you could make each league owner one of the administrators of their own forum that way.

[Dee Dreslough]

C) The longer this goes on the more I wish that the BMO forums would be moved to their own separate board space. I think that's a great idea regardless, but this **** makes it that much more important.

Ohms: I totally agree. Splitting the board into 2 boards is something I think we should definitely attempt this summer...probably in July. I just have to do some hardware groundwork for that before it can happen.

Re: phpBB. My issue with phpBB is hackability. It was a while ago, and things have probably improved now, but when I was subscribed to Bugtraq, there was a post a week about major security issues with phpBB. And, splitting the board into two vBs is (theoretically) less complicated than splitting it into a vB and a phpBB.

-Dee

[ohms_law]

Well, I've heard claims about phpBB3 security being better than vB's recently, but that's mostly marketing speak probably. You're probably right though that it would be a big headache supporting two separate software packages.

[RickD]

Now, if someone wants to send me oh, about $7000 or so for hardware and my time to set it up, and then pay a $50 monthly membership fee, I will HAPPILY, GLEEFULLY make a machine that JUST hosts a vBulletin so they can sit in a corner and post "poop poop poop" over and over in a thread to get their post count up.
I await the check. If it does not bounce, I will start Post Count Mogul.

-Dee

ROFL....now that was funny! Probably someone will start a thread like that this week too!

[BINGLEBOP]

If your "reputation" is based upon how many posts you have online, then you deserve to have it reduced to zero.

Dee, can I pay you $5 to reset peoples' post counts? :D

[RickD]

My offer for a life saving post transplant still stands.

[BINGLEBOP]

Rick... I read about how certain people try to sell their kidneys on eBay since there are people out there in need of them that would purchase it. I bet if they approved something like post count transplants and you offered a certain number of your posts on eBay, boomboom would pay whatever price you offered for them.

[RickD]

Sounds like more fodder for AS THE POSTS TURN

[Reade]

AS THE POSTS TURN

Can't wait for the next episode

[RickD]

Now with it's own thread.

As the post turns (http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showthread.php?t=178906)

[BINGLEBOP]

The New York Times hails "As The Post Turns" as the "most in depth look of the addiction of post counts on our impressionable youth of today."

Roger Ebert says: "I was glued to my computer screen reading this masterpiece. I might not even get up to use the bathroom later. I'll just pee my pants."

Forum regular RickD: "Yankees, Yankees! Go go go!"

Jim Bob Jones from the Piedmont North Dakota Pioneer says: "What in tarnations is the internet? I dun get it."

[RickD]

Lol

[rockiesfan4ever]

comeone I just lost 800 posts!

[BINGLEBOP]

Excellent! I see my offers of bribery worked.