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PingBad
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Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 2064
Location: New Zealand
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 Posted: Nov 02, 2006 4:19pm Post subject: What happened? |
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Just going thru the forums, and hey plenty of unread posts - as I go thru, I'm reading posts that I've read before and at the same time, I think "hey wait, didn't I reply to this?"
Did the DB get rolled back to its last backup or something? |
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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1197
Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Nov 02, 2006 4:54pm Post subject: |
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| did a software upgrade this afternoon, and the database was magically corrupted, with missing MYD files. Had to restore from last night. |
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PingBad
Guru
Joined: 05 Feb 2005
Posts: 2064
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Nov 02, 2006 7:54pm Post subject: |
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| aaah, that explains it... |
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Kuja
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Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 18
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| Posted: Nov 17, 2006 11:31am Post subject: |
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Not being able to post topics with less than five total posts in discussion forum = valid idea.
Not being able to post topics with less than five total posts in a low-traffic speciality forum, where developers might want to announce their projects (ircds/services comes to mind) = bad idea. ditto locking threads older than 31 days - in some of those less trodden forums, more than 3/4 of the posts on page 1 are older than 31 days.
I couldn't post this as a new topic due to the above restriction. I appreciate your problem with spammers, but you're hurting the valid users too much. |
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PingBad
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Joined: 05 Feb 2005
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Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Nov 17, 2006 7:43pm Post subject: |
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Kuja, as an admin (I refer to being an admin in general, I am not an admin for SearchIRC), one has to make some rather tough decisions and with every decision, there's always pros and cons. | Quote: | | Not being able to post topics with less than five total posts in a low-traffic speciality forum, where developers might want to announce their projects (ircds/services comes to mind) = bad idea. |
Spammers make no distinction between a high volume forum, and a specialty forum - they'll spam it all anyway | Quote: | | ditto locking threads older than 31 days - in some of those less trodden forums, more than 3/4 of the posts on page 1 are older than 31 days. |
So what topic age limit do you propose? (and I highly doubt no limit would be an option) Again, this was a pros vs cons decision. Some people who want to post to older topics may have something perfectly valid and relevent to say while most who dredge up the topics from the graveyard just want somewhere to get their first few posts, or want to spam. |
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Kuja
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Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 18
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| Posted: Feb 24, 2007 11:49pm Post subject: |
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I'll continue this to make a point.
"Sorry, new users are not allowed to post comments that contain urls in order to prevent spamming."
Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 12
What part of that profile quantifies me as "new"? |
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InsaneJuggaloNinja
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Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 235
Location: root
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| Posted: Feb 25, 2007 2:38am Post subject: |
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| another oops |
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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1197
Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Feb 25, 2007 6:58am Post subject: |
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| Kuja wrote: | I'll continue this to make a point.
"Sorry, new users are not allowed to post comments that contain urls in order to prevent spamming."
Joined: 04 Mar 2004
Posts: 12
What part of that profile quantifies me as "new"? |
less than 15 posts is new.
you'll note we don't see spam on here anymore, and I haven't been deleting any either.
Just for you, I've changed it to go based on account age, instead of post count. 7 days, in case you're wondering. |
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