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Poll Question: Should Prog-Archives Forum reinstate e-mail notifications?
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    Posted: March 17 2006 at 20:13
I'm getting a little tired of trying to remember every topic I post on and see the responses. Ok, maybe I'm getting old and a victim of Alzeimers but it still comes in handy. A lot of forums use this to where you get a notification on every 3-4 responses instead of every single one like we used to. Is that so much to ask?

Hell, the reason this feature was probably discontinued was because of the overload from the Mariah Carey and Velvet Room threads. Basically just a couple of chat rooms when there isn't one on this forum. So just open up a chat room why don't you guys?

What say you?

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Why pick on the Velvet Room thread?I thought this was a question about email notifications?

Out of all the countless,pointless topics and posts that are made on this site,why are you complaining about ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????


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Points: 1695 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2006 at 21:35
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Why pick on the Velvet Room thread?I thought this was a question about email notifications?


Out of all the countless,pointless topics and posts that are made on this site,why are you complaining about ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????


Ever heard of practicality? A chat room uses less bandwidth thus allowing more features like e-mail notifications. I'm not an expert on servers but at least that's what a friend of mine who runs a server tells me.
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We already have a chat room, Mark!

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12136& amp;PN=1
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A chat room will require a permanent chat moderator. I'm not that expert in this matter but I believe that's the way it runs.
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Originally posted by Bj-1 Bj-1 wrote:

We already have a chat room, Mark!

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12136& amp; amp;PN=1

true

although nobody participates

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I also have a chat room on my website and nobody participates ...
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Text takes up very little bandwith,it's as simple as that.

The Streaming Media Player uses most bandwith.............
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Originally posted by marktheshark marktheshark wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Why pick on the Velvet Room thread?I thought this was a question about email notifications?


Out of all the countless,pointless topics and posts that are made on this site,why are you complaining about ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????


Ever heard of practicality? A chat room uses less bandwidth thus allowing more features like e-mail notifications. I'm not an expert on servers but at least that's what a friend of mine who runs a server tells me.

Please don't patronize me,I am a grown man.

A chat room on this site would be an absolute fiasco.

Me and my friends here already chat.Used to in the IRC now we all chat on MSN.

There's no need for a chat room here.


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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 14:16

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:


 ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????

I dunno... we do have those n00b wars.
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Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:


 ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????

I dunno... we do have those n00b wars.

And you're in a position of influence?

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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 15:39
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:


 ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????

I dunno... we do have those n00b wars.

And you're in a position of influence?

I like to think so.
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Points: 1864 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 15:46
Mark... what I do ever since they turned off email notifications is just a search, by my Username, in all Forums. They're already sorted by latest post. Now that I'm used to it, I actually don't mind not getting email notifications anymore, because I would be getting 100 a day in the "What are you listening to?" threads, etc. 
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 15:47
Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:


 ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????

I dunno... we do have those n00b wars.

And you're in a position of influence?

I like to think so.

You're title says "Special Collaborator at Large." Am I supposed to take it that you're Rothery-sized?

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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 15:51
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:


 ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????

I dunno... we do have those n00b wars.

And you're in a position of influence?

I like to think so.

You're title says "Special Collaborator at Large." Am I supposed to take it that you're Rothery-sized?

My title is in the works of being changed, mind you.
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Points: 28057 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 16:05
Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:


 ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????

I dunno... we do have those n00b wars.

And you're in a position of influence?

I like to think so.

You're title says "Special Collaborator at Large." Am I supposed to take it that you're Rothery-sized?

My title is in the works of being changed, mind you.

And you take pride in that?  Well, can I guess? I'll say Whippersnapper at Large.

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^Yeah, Whippersnapper.
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Points: 6699 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2006 at 16:08
Originally posted by TheProgtologist TheProgtologist wrote:

Why pick on the Velvet Room thread?I thought this was a question about email notifications?

Out of all the countless,pointless topics and posts that are made on this site,why are you complaining about ONE thread where people post and have fun(and never fight or argue with each other)????????

I thought the same thing when I read the first post.

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I'll never forget the time I posted one thing in the "Mariah Carey" thread, then checked my email ten minutes later to find like 1500 new messages: all email notifications.
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