Board downtime

Postby zanev » Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:22 pm

May 6-7 im shutting down the board to work on it.

I need to update it, as well as clear out inactive members. If you have less than 4 posts and your account was made before February of this year then it will be deleted.

I don't expect anything to be deleted but in the past mistakes have happened. So if you have anything on this site you desperately need, save it to your computer.
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

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Postby HappyBoi » Sat Apr 30, 2016 9:13 pm

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Re: Board downtime

Postby cellofello » Sun May 01, 2016 1:47 pm

Zanev -

I strongly urge you to reconsider your definition of "inactive member". A lot of people read but don't post. Don't you have a way to see when their last login was? I would think that not having logged in for the last two years, even with 100 posts to one's credit, is more symptomatic of an inactive account than joining in January, posting just three times, but logging in every week to read. Yet by your definition the first account stays while the second one dies.

Re: Board downtime

Postby xtc » Sun May 01, 2016 2:01 pm

There is much in what cellofello says but one would think that, if members read stories, it might not be too much to expect them to support the writers whose work they are enjoying by commenting.
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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Re: Board downtime

Postby Plueschbabycd » Mon May 02, 2016 7:59 am

Hallo, was first reader, than author now again more reader again. Even I now give less feedback because I look for new stories so have mostly a look new, but if I don´t like than I keep silent. I must love story very much that I say want read more. Even the most authors like post her not any more or very less. I see that could happen RL take so much space that possible that only have time for a bedtime story on a.
Andrew
"Don´t dream it, be it." Dr. Frank N. Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show

Re: Board downtime

Postby Oohmynameisblue » Mon May 02, 2016 8:17 am

For once I'm on the same page as xtc. :) The vast majority of people have made more than 3 posts anyway. I've calculated that just over 140 people are going to be deleted, or about 2.5%. This may be slightly more because I only took an average from the very first 6 pages of members to sign up, so obviously there will be more new members who haven't made 4 posts. Also, I get people look at the site and don't comment but it doesn't take too much effort once in a while to make a post or even just a reply.

Re: Board downtime

Postby zanev » Mon May 02, 2016 9:19 pm

What you guys don't see is the extensive work our team has to do with bots and people who join just to spam the boar . Keeping inactive accounts puts the board at risk and throws off the dynamics of the board. I've done this every year for 6 years, I just never annouced it so openly til now. It works and people can rejoin if they need to.
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: Board downtime

Postby AlexUSA » Tue May 03, 2016 12:40 am

In short, people need to prove that they're real. The bot overload is a bit too much. 5-20 fake accounts are created daily.
I rite on a tabblit, so speling errurs will hap pin free quintly.

Re: Board downtime

Postby claus13 » Thu May 05, 2016 3:52 am

cellofello wrote:Zanev -

I strongly urge you to reconsider your definition of "inactive member". A lot of people read but don't post. Don't you have a way to see when their last login was? I would think that not having logged in for the last two years, even with 100 posts to one's credit, is more symptomatic of an inactive account than joining in January, posting just three times, but logging in every week to read. Yet by your definition the first account stays while the second one dies.


I support this opinion. I am reading many stories - some more than once - and enjoying them. I am regretting often when stories aren't finished. But I don't comment very often. For: a) I want write something substantial, not only thanks or good or... b) I'm not used to write in English, so a) is a bit difficult. I don't know about the possibilities of statistics of the board. But to see that stories are read is a recognition of the writer, also without comment. When I buy a book and read it I can't normally comment it.
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Re: Board downtime

Postby Jay Feely » Thu May 05, 2016 9:45 am

thanks for telling us. I'll go on fetlife or tklfrat or other sites during those 2 days.
You will have to subdue me to restrain me. I been a bad boy so make sure you torture me too with anything but pain.

Re: Board downtime

Postby Oohmynameisblue » Thu May 05, 2016 11:37 am

claus13 wrote:
cellofello wrote:Zanev -

I strongly urge you to reconsider your definition of "inactive member". A lot of people read but don't post. Don't you have a way to see when their last login was? I would think that not having logged in for the last two years, even with 100 posts to one's credit, is more symptomatic of an inactive account than joining in January, posting just three times, but logging in every week to read. Yet by your definition the first account stays while the second one dies.


I support this opinion. I am reading many stories - some more than once - and ejoying them. I am regretting often when stories aren't finished. But I don't comment very often. For: a) I want write something substantial, not only thanks or good or... b) I'm not used to write in English, so a) is a bit difficult. I don't know about the possibilities of statistics of the board. But to see that stories are read is a recognition of the writer, also without comment. When I buy a book and read it I can't normally comment it.

I get you, but it's very hard for them to tell who is real and who is fake. There are loads of 'lurkers' on this site which need getting rid of. As I said before, surely it isn't too hard just to say something...?

Re: Board downtime

Postby bearnaise » Fri May 06, 2016 2:14 am

I can live with this (and this is one of my posts :)

Re: Board downtime

Postby Jason Toddman » Fri May 06, 2016 4:27 am

claus13 wrote:
cellofello wrote:Zanev -

I strongly urge you to reconsider your definition of "inactive member". A lot of people read but don't post. Don't you have a way to see when their last login was? I would think that not having logged in for the last two years, even with 100 posts to one's credit, is more symptomatic of an inactive account than joining in January, posting just three times, but logging in every week to read. Yet by your definition the first account stays while the second one dies.


I support this opinion. I am reading many stories - some more than once - and enjoying them. I am regretting often when stories aren't finished. But I don't comment very often. For: a) I want write something substantial, not only thanks or good or... b) I'm not used to write in English, so a) is a bit difficult. I don't know about the possibilities of statistics of the board. But to see that stories are read is a recognition of the writer, also without comment. When I buy a book and read it I can't normally comment it.

But the writers of those books get paid; writers on this site get no acknowledgment at all other than comments. Think of it as a tip jar for wait staff at a restaurant you go to often.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

Re: Board downtime

Postby PizzaPieCafeLover1 » Fri May 06, 2016 1:43 pm

This may be awkward for lurkers like me... :shock:

Re: Board downtime

Postby xtc » Sat May 07, 2016 4:22 am

PizzaPieCafeLover1 wrote:This may be awkward for lurkers like me... :shock:

You have four posts to your credit. No probs.
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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Re: Board downtime

Postby xtc » Sat May 07, 2016 4:25 am

blahblahblah wrote:
Long-time listener, first-time caller. Regularly check the site but have nothing constructive to add besides a thanks etc, so just enjoy what I read without any expectations.


Just a simple "thanks" can often provide writers with welcome reassurance.
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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Re: Board downtime

Postby zanev » Sat May 07, 2016 6:34 pm

I Lied . I got busy with life. The downtime will be next weekend.
I close my eyes, Inis Mona
And reminisce of those palmy days
I moon o'er you, Inis Mona
As long as I breathe
I'll call you my home

Re: Board downtime

Postby xtc » Sun May 08, 2016 3:38 am

"Life? Don't talk to me about life."
- Marvin the Paranoid Android
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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Re: Board downtime

Postby Jason Toddman » Sun May 08, 2016 5:33 am

zanev wrote:I Lied . I got busy with life. The downtime will be next weekend.

The magazine, the cereal or the board game? :mrgreen:
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

Re: Board downtime

Postby AlexUSA » Sun May 08, 2016 8:28 am

Jason Toddman wrote:
zanev wrote:I Lied . I got busy with life. The downtime will be next weekend.

The magazine, the cereal or the board game? :mrgreen:


*smack!*
I rite on a tabblit, so speling errurs will hap pin free quintly.

Re: Board downtime

Postby AlexUSA » Wed May 18, 2016 3:09 am

zanev wrote:I Lied . I got busy with life. The downtime will be next weekend.


Before people jump down Zanev's throat... he's a busy beaver with a life just like the rest of us :D
I rite on a tabblit, so speling errurs will hap pin free quintly.

Re: Board downtime

Postby Jason Toddman » Wed May 18, 2016 11:46 am

Don't worry about making a further update, Zanev. when you're ready to do the update; just do it. Anyone who can't figure out what's going on after all this warning time can just lie awake at night wondering what happened.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...

Re: Board downtime

Postby xtc » Wed May 18, 2016 1:49 pm

But supposing I lie awake worrying about it until then?
(Attempted joke)
Boxer shorts are cool,
but little speedos rule!

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