Close threads at 500 posts...

Sam Shaw said:

...if you don't want your servers taxed.

Does anyone know anything about this?  Is it "taxed" as in "overworked" or "taxed" as in "Obama is after your money"?

Kevin Becker said:

It's very rare when a thread gets that long. In fact the only one I can think of is the Hijack thread. Even the flamiest (is that a word?) of threads tend to peter out well before 500 posts. Most don't make it over 10 only the select few make it over 50.

I think this is a cheap shot at the Hijack thread. I'm absolutely certain it's the only one that has gone beyond 500, and only just. Sam, maybe you just want that thread to stop showing up in your Unread topics list. Skip over it if you're getting tired of it. It gives those of us who post there a bit of a release when there are things to be frustrated about, like this weekend when SR-2 seems to be causing problems. Some of us have already requested that there be a feature added to the forum where we could mark a particular thread as "Ignore" and it would never show up as Unread for us again. I don't see that coming in the near future, though.

I seriously don't think that the number of posts on one thread taxes the servers any more than the sheer volume of posts that the whole set of Forums has been getting lately, which is tremendous. Hard for anyone to keep up with. That would be more my concern than taxing the servers, unless by servers you are referring to those Logos servant-employees who have been bending over backwards for us.

Incidentally, I think the servers probably are buckling under the weight of so much activity -- forum posting and downloading updates and all (I've seen a couple of blips when I got an error message just trying to access the forum today). From my understanding, there have been a lot of new customers since Logos 4 was released; that's good news for the company, but of course it will mean they'll have to stay on top of scaling up their server capacity to be able to handle all the additional load.

Rosie Perera said:

Hijack thread

On that thread, I'd be fine if it all but the last few pages got deleted... I'm just sayin'...

Sam Shaw said:

Really, it's not because of the content of that topic. It's just that, after seeing how far it's gone, it reminded me that most message board setups have a limit for a good reason. Logos should follow suit and mature their message boards by this next step.

So your position is that everyone else is doing it so Logos should do the same?  I'll simply remind you of my mother's question when I said, "But everyone else is doing it !" which was "If everyone else jumped of a bridge, would you also?"

Sam Shaw said:

Really, it's not because of the content of that topic. It's just that, after seeing how far it's gone, it reminded me that most message board setups have a limit for a good reason. Logos should follow suit and mature their message boards by this next step.

Funny...

I've participated in several very busy forums the United Devices forums (whatever they were called under IBM before they became UD) come immediately to mind.  They never limited the threads and dozens of pages per post never hampered anything.  They aren't the only such forum with no limits I've been on, but they are the first to come to mind.

I don't think it taxes the server any more than having fifteen posts each titled "the new hijack thread #7".  It's a series of database searches equivalent to "find  thread #x starting at post #y and ending at post #z".