Recomendation for new forums policy
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Alsoa,
Posted on: 2009-08-01 23:03 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Is there a lot of tech issues on the penny-arcade forums?
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Most of their issues recently have been upstream ISP issues, actually.
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Originally Posted by FatherXmas
Is there a lot of tech issues on the penny-arcade forums?
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While that would help the servers, it would be awful harsh on the moderators who have to try and pick out the "important" bits from an old thread and answer the complaints of those who don't agree with their choices. I would say let the mods and Paragon Studios figure out how to balance server load against human load.
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The moderators don't have to be the ones to make the new thread. All they do is lock the thread at 100 pages and post that someone should make a new OP. Those who are interested in the topic can handle the hard parts.
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Originally Posted by Zloth
While that would help the servers, it would be awful harsh on the moderators who have to try and pick out the "important" bits from an old thread and answer the complaints of those who don't agree with their choices. I would say let the mods and Paragon Studios figure out how to balance server load against human load.
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Default forum view.
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Default is what? 15 posts per page? Many of us run at much higher page views, such as mine at 100 posts per page. So 100 pages in your estimation of where things should be locked would be 1-½ pages for me?|
Originally Posted by Alsoa
Default forum view.
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I can't agree with that, and I know of very few others that would agree with it either, especially considering how many people have been asking for a Show All button for each thread.
I'd wish you luck getting support for the idea, but that would be dishonest of me since I would be against it.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Learn to math.
I am talking about 1500 replies, which upon clicking the first thread I saw that was even close (over 1400 replies) shows that the thread was first created in March. For the purposes of keeping threads current with the issues they discuss, four to five months is plenty long for a single thread on a topic to run.
Compare that to Jay's costume request thread. That one clocks in at a hefty 11,000 replies, and it was started in June of 2006. There is no way you can tell me that the bulk of that thread is anything but dead weight. No one, including the devs, will read it all. New poeple won't go near it, except perhaps to toss another post on the pile, duplicating something that was asked for every 3 months for the past 3 years.
If you got your requested show all on that thread you would crash your PC.
What's an order of magnitude between friends?
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For that matter, my stance on it is pretty flexable. 100 pages is a nice round number, but there is nothing saying that number couldn't be 150 or 200. The key point of the matter is to keep the issues current. In persuit of that goal, there is nothing saying that the cutoff couldn't be 30, 60, or 90 days rather than a specific post count.
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Originally Posted by Alsoa
If you got your requested show all on that thread you would crash your PC.
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Yeah, I got the math wrong. It's been a long weekend and I was a bit distracted.
But, I'm not the one that has requested the Show All. Others have. I merely pointed out that others had requested it.
So, following your "Learn to Math" insult trend I could respond with Learn to Read, but I won't.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
It's worked well the way it is for some time now.
I see no need for a change.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Seeing as how people can choose their own cut-off date on 'threads to show' (one more way users can limit their own views) I'm with TJ and see no reason for limiting what I or anyone else can look through.
Can the threads that have been around for 100 pages get locked, with a new thread made collecting the important bits of its predecessor into the original post? This keeps threads current with the actual state of the issues they talk about, puts less stress on the forums servers, and it isn't so intimidating to people that haven't been following along the whole time.
It works too. This is a policy that is followed on the penny-arcade forums (surely the devs have heard of them), and there are no issues with the practice.