I sent Govtcheez a PM or email (don't remember which) a little while back ago asking where he had been, and he responded on instant messenger one day. That was like a month ago. I don't remember what his reasons were though, haha All I remember is he said, "You're right, I haven't been around much."
I will just look for people with the name brewbuck01, brewbuck02, brewbuck03, brewbuck04, brewbuck05, brewbuck06, brewbuck07, and a few other variantsMy post count on Slashdot is barely breaking 4000 and I've been a member there for almost ten years. Still, I sometimes feel like I post excessively there. No, I won't tell you what my username is there (it's not brewbuck)
You guys' rules suck. If you had a good idea it would have been implemented at some point in time already. Don't make suggestions, please. I know you think it helps but the forum is well established. I don't know if all of you who come up with this jargon feel like you're not a part of the community or whatever, but I can only say "lurk more."
It's nettiquette you know. The place isn't going to change so you feel better about yourself. Just acclimate.
Banned people don't become moderators.
All the buzzt!
CornedBee
"There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code."
- Flon's Law
Awww... I liked him. Not.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
You still haven't answered the question. Until recently I was an admin on a board with over 100k members and I'd say about 90% were inactive (support forums tend not to have a high % of active members) and it caused very little problems.
Once you have 4,294,967,295 members on a 32bit machine with SQL then you can get worried.
But at the rate new members are signing up (~12 a day), that won't happen until another ~980,586 years. And I hope by then we all still won't be on 32bit
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
I have to admit I thought they slowed down the system more than I see they do.
> But deleting accounts won't help as none of the forum systems I've seen reclaim the account ids.
It'd have to be done manually, but it doesn't matter. Almost a million years before you have to be worried
No worries there... now if we were talking tens of millions... maybe. Would depend on the machine. Although an index made for fast retrieval would still give good results. It would be adding records that would slow down considerably.
Originally Posted by brewbuck:
Reimplementing a large system in another language to get a 25% performance boost is nonsense. It would be cheaper to just get a computer which is 25% faster.
Will he be unbanned if enough votes say Yes?