Topics with more than 4000 posts closed

I basically agree with these limits as long as it does good for the site (and the timeout are a lot less happening since, yay) but I also support the thing of not hiding the appreciation threads.

Locking is fine, could you please not hide the on-topic ones? I don't want all of those RIO Room, Italian prog, etc. posts to disappear. :(

NaturalScience wrote: micky wrote:   I would eliminated the damn things long ago anyway.  But they're so good for containing spam in one place.  Whereas you spew yours all over the damn place.

I call it.... fertilizing Though sh*t works better than spam hahhahah.

Heaven forbid PA's younger members have a place to be kids...

But as long as you're consistent and would've banned The Grey Room, too, Micky, then I'm not quite as annoyed by your post.


Edited by Pnoom! - August 11 2008 at 18:03

cacho wrote: Is it me, or the site works much better now? Really, everytime I click on PA forum it ALWAYS appeared, the first time, Time Expired, etc... It's ok to me, if it's for the good of the site, I don't care

damn.. didn't notice until I read your post... but it sure has.

Good job M@X.

So that was the problem... the damned VR and threads like that.. figures...  I would eliminated the damn things long ago anyway.  That is what they make  MSN for.. chatting and bullsh*ting

MikeEnRegalia wrote: Of course most of these threads are no longer topic discussions, but general purpose chat rooms ... the *perfect* solution would be to automatically delete old posts, so that only the - for example - 2000 most current posts remain.

Could do what we did at anther site to conserve bandwidth and speed up the site, and to lessen the clutter of chat type posts/ threads that seemed to have a negative effect on more in-depth discussion, have chit-chat in a chat room.  Perhaps easy to see links to a chat room would be a good idea (we used fef.net) -- at least temporarily.  Can see why it wouldn't be considered a good idea here.  At some boards chat type threads and posts are discouraged, and off-topic posts like "Cool avatar" will get you a warning, and are considered spam.  Limits on posts per day, as well as less frequent intervals, is quite common -- an anti-spamming function.


Edited by Logan - August 11 2008 at 17:21

We'll be going through a Suede Room a week now. Epic :)

Aww... No more full-blown VR's

Easy Livin wrote: As a result, threads with more than 4000 responses have been closed and hidden.

Interesting, those who generate popular threads are now on notice, don't become too popular.  Now if we could just do something about those annoying multi-colored quote balloons.  I think they're the real problem here.