This message is really starting to get annoying. I personally think that people with post counts greater then 1000 should be able to bypass the limit, reason for that is because these people actually help and prove their loyalty by posting lots.

Thats just my suggestion and I think it should be considered. And its not like most of the board has 1000+ posts there is <40 with 1000+ posts.

That would be a good idea but then, what if the new people who come here for help don't get threw the bypass...Sorta a gift for the uper classmen  lol

what about people that have just joined tho and give alot of help ??

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if u they where going to do something like this, wouldn't it be better to involve the posts per day rather than total posts. e.g. have it so that people with more than 5 posts per day are able to bypass it.  This would be a better reflection of who gives a lot of help

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Originally posted by toddy
what about people that have just joined tho and give alot of help ??

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if u they where going to do something like this, wouldn't it be better to involve the posts per day rather than total posts. e.g. have it so that people with more than 5 posts per day are able to bypass it.  This would be a better reflection of who gives a lot of help

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I'd give it to people with 1-5 posts as well...due to the fact that they most likely want help...however I'm not sure how possible it is with myBB coding...if it is implemented I'll be on 1000 posts by then anyway so I don't care

well suppose some of them would be people who spam, but so could people with over 1000 posts.

Do i not help? Do i spam?
I do help out lots, and i do not spam (that's why my postcount isnt that high).

I would be cut off too then, unfair isnt it? How are the ppl wanting help be able ta post, ever think of that?

at that idea

Has anyone suggested a mirror yet? Surely theres a server that could mirror the forums temporarily?

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Originally posted by tomfletcherman
Has anyone suggested a mirror yet? Surely theres a server that could mirror the forums temporarily?

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Yeah but then the ppl that needed help wouldn't be able to get on cuz ur filling up the server

How about this, the forums are moving to a bigger and better server at the end of the month, so why bother changing anything

Agreed,

wj

hmmm... i dont see anyway around it really tho.  it's gonna be like this for a few weeks... only way i know is change the forum images from jpg to gif... so it reduces some bandwith limits

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Originally posted by Matty.
This message is really starting to get annoying. I personally think that people with post counts greater then 1000 should be able to bypass the limit, reason for that is because these people actually help and prove their loyalty by posting lots.

Thats just my suggestion and I think it should be considered. And its not like most of the board has 1000+ posts there is <40 with 1000+ posts.

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So.. the only solution is.. tchanan.. get a bigger capacity server.

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Originally posted by lylesback2
hmmm... i dont see anyway around it really tho.  it's gonna be like this for a few weeks... only way i know is change the forum images from jpg to gif... so it reduces some bandwith limits

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1. the problem is not bandwidth, it's server load.
   
2. images are cached once per person, they are not loaded anymore once the person has visited this site.
   
3. the images that are used here would be either much bigger or much uglier in jpg. Only those who really are better in size are saved in that format, which is only suitable for big photos with not much detail, not for web graphics like the ones here.[/list]

New server woot woot

<suggestion>
As a temporary fix why not allow limit the amount of simultaneous connections so that you can only view one thread at a time and when that thread has finished loading you can open the next and so on
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Originally posted by Guido
the problem is not bandwidth, it's server load.

images are cached once per person, they are not loaded anymore once the person has visited this site.

the images that are used here would be either much bigger or much uglier in jpg. Only those who really are better in size are saved in that format, which is only suitable for big photos with not much detail, not for web graphics like the ones here.

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