Member's Vigil for Posts Button

Not the John Lear Forum, there are many other threads that would serve better.

So this is the fourth thread over the same issue, this time started by me, so when it is closed down without my question(s) being answered I will be able to document staff incompetency, to wit follows the question thusly:

Every other forum I have seen uses an outline by subject, or date, or author. Even if it is older, it still works like a post button feature. Why can't we agree on using this method?

Is technology suddenly unable to deliver what it used to?

The progress of this was explained here, yesterday.

I'm unclear as to why our repeated explanations regarding needed infrastructure upgrades on this wildly-busy free-access website are unsatisfactory to you.

reply to post by SkepticOverlord


They are not unsatisfactory, I simply had no clue you posted your answer in another thread.

Unless you are addressing the crowd, which has different standards of judgment.

It looked as if the last thread was closed after a short tiff between the mods and some members, completely ignoring MY inquiry.

Perhaps from now on I should read all the threads in Board Business and Questions for an answer whenever I post a question, even if the title is misleading?

edit to add: I still don't know why you don't use the mass U2U feature to avoid my coming here and making myself look like an ass, other than phishing for responses.

Yes, that is all I have to say on the matter for the moment.


[edit on 3/1/2008 by Matyas]

Originally posted by Matyas
Perhaps from now on I should read all the threads in Board Business and Questions

Or... maybe it'd just make more sense to believe the reasons and answers I gave when the questions about the "all posts" button/link were first raised?

Originally posted by Matyas

It looked as if the last thread was closed after a short tiff between the mods and some members, completely ignoring MY inquiry.

[edit on 3/1/2008 by Matyas]

Originally posted by Matyas
So this is the fourth thread over the same issue, this time started by me.

I smell a rat, although perhaps it's a mouse.

The two are very similar i find.


[edit on 1-3-2008 by Throbber]

This is a great example of my pet peeve:

Please ATS - for the love of Mike - use the Search Function!

Thank you and no offence directed to the OP.

[edit on 1/3/08 by kosmicjack]

Originally posted by Throbber
I smell a rat, although perhaps it's a mouse.

Rats have unfair treatment. They are given the bad rap in spite of the fact they are the most sociable critters.

If its a mouse then I hope there is some grease in his future.

Now, about MY inquiry, as I have emphasized for your benefit, every other forum I have been on lists the posts in a truncated outline fashion by subject, author, date, and so on.

They don't need a posts button, or a search feature, although many have some kind of search feature. So why not here? What is it that makes it so hard to get a straight answer?

If you don't know what I am talking about, I will post a screenshot.

-squeak! squeak!

[edit on 3/1/2008 by Matyas]

Originally posted by Matyas
as I have emphasized for your benefit, every other forum I have been on lists the posts in a truncated outline fashion by subject, author, date, and so on.

And as I have indicated in a few responses on the subject, few other forums have a 4+ million record database of full-text-indexed records totaling more than 6 gigabytes of data... with an average of over 2,000 queries a second on that data.

No off-the-shelf forum software could handle our size and activity level with a reasonable amount of hardware. You'll find that as activity/size increases, many ultra-large forums completely disable such features.

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord...6 gigabytes of data... with an average of over 2,000 queries a second on that data.

Thank you, thank you, SO, I had no idea there were that many queries per second on that amount.

That's the kinda answers I am looking for, straight to the point. It'll do fine for now.

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I understand you had a question, but there's no need to talk to him like you're his boss.

Originally posted by Matyas
[That's the kinda answers I am looking for, straight to the point. It'll do fine for now.

It'll do fine if he thinks so. Do you think the owners/staff answer to you?

reply to post by Sublime620


Justifiably I expected to catch hell from this. In changing my tone I got the results I needed as opposed to being submissive thereto, or descend again to bread and water replies.

In similar vein neither is SO my boss. We share a common interest, the welfare of the forum. His investment is time and capital. Ours, as in the members as well as my own, is time. Ideally we are supposed to work together as illustrated here.

It occurs to me staff is in burnout, or good portions of it. In my own experience turning up the fire a notch temporarily remedies some symptoms. But then again I am a mouse, or at worse, a rat, so what harm can I be?