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Posted by: AshWalker
It mans that until next week you you can make AND edit and TOTAL of 14 topic/posts in any 24 hour period.


My life is over.... jk but really, thats sad, on a slow average day i make roughly 30 posts.

[Edited on 9/2/2005]

  • 09.02.2005 8:59 PM PDT

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The spam filter is annoing.

  • 09.03.2005 8:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: chemical_flaw
Posted by: AshWalker
It mans that until next week you you can make AND edit and TOTAL of 14 topic/posts in any 24 hour period.


My life is over.... jk but really, thats sad, on a slow average day i make roughly 30 posts.

You just can't create 30 topics anymore. You can post all day long (well once a minute).

Right now you can either edit 14 of your posts or create 14 topics or any combination there of.

And, yes, it may be slightly annoying but this will but a huge brake on spamming. And no one really needs to create more than 7 topics in a day. Just make the ones you do post count.

  • 09.03.2005 9:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: Achronos
It appears that there is a small bug with the counter... edits are sometimes getting counted.

As it is late on Friday, we can't get a true fix out until next week (Tuesday, due to Labor day holiday), but I'll increase the limiter over the weekend to something higher (like 14) until it gets fixed.

I love it when Achronos talks shop.

  • 09.03.2005 10:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: Halifax
It's poopy that's what it is. But I suppose that it's neccessary.


Um....very well worded, Halifax.


The spam filter might help cut down on the number of spam, but it won't stop people from spamming, though.

  • 09.03.2005 11:26 AM PDT
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gurrrr i can't make another post *bangs head on keyboard*

  • 09.03.2005 11:52 AM PDT

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Thank god we have that filter, but I tried editing one of my posts more than once within a minute, and the filter popped up. Whats up with that?

  • 09.03.2005 2:41 PM PDT
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I'm glad we have the filter because of spam. But the 1 minute thing is kinda annoying. But, stupid people do stupid things that make it necessary.

  • 09.03.2005 2:53 PM PDT

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Alright, thanks Recon. Glad you cleared that up.

  • 09.03.2005 2:57 PM PDT
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Why doesn't it just delete the posts that haven't been replied to in 60 days? Wouldn't that free up space on your servers? I don't know.

  • 09.03.2005 5:22 PM PDT

Posted by: kd5shw
Why doesn't it just delete the posts that haven't been replied to in 60 days? Wouldn't that free up space on your servers? I don't know.

Noooo!!! We wouldn't want to delete that old Bungie.net goodness!

  • 09.03.2005 5:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: kd5shw
Why doesn't it just delete the posts that haven't been replied to in 60 days? Wouldn't that free up space on your servers? I don't know.


That's history, man. You can't just erase something that great.

  • 09.03.2005 5:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: kd5shw
Why doesn't it just delete the posts that haven't been replied to in 60 days? Wouldn't that free up space on your servers? I don't know.

I don't think that space is really the issue. Thousands of pages of text are not really that much disk space, even hundreds of thousands of pages.

The locking of old threads would however make them easier to index. Perhaps in preparation for a search that does not suck?

The locking also has a benefit of working along with the new spam-filter, but for me to spell it out could make that way of spamming more well known. I'm not inclined to do that.

Both of those notions are just my assumption though. They are not based on any inside knowledge as Achronos doesn't (to my knowledge) allow anyone inside of his head.


To be in the mind of Achronos. That would be one very interesting experience. It would be fun to see what goes on the mind of the bnet Overlord.

  • 09.03.2005 5:54 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

There is a limit to how many posts you can make in a day? I thought there was a limit on threads created, but not posts! I was editing a post, and it said that i exceeded the number of topics created! I know the error with edits, but i didn't think "topics" meant posts in a single thread.

  • 09.03.2005 6:51 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

Ahh I see. I thought I would be limited as to how many posts I can make. Thanks Recon.

  • 09.03.2005 7:01 PM PDT

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A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
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Ah, so that's it. I was coming in here to whine about the edits being blocked, but it's been covered.

I'm just glad that the edit blocking isn't intentional, it was the part that was becoming a major pain.

  • 09.03.2005 11:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: un gato
Ah, so that's it. I was coming in here to whine about the edits being blocked, but it's been covered.

I'm just glad that the edit blocking isn't intentional, it was the part that was becoming a major pain.

Lesson Learned: Get it right the first time.

  • 09.03.2005 11:23 PM PDT
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I hate it cause ive had to wait 2 hours to post in my group!!! grrrrr!!!!

  • 09.04.2005 1:17 AM PDT

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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."

Careful, there's some scary -blam!- in there... :)

Actually, the auto locking is a spam prevention tool. Space is not the issue, neither is performance. The issue is that certain jerks are spamming by replying to very old threads. The threads that used to be ontopic thus become offtopic spam for being so old, and I don't like having to delete good threads simply because of one spammer. This easily solves that problem. It also will help later when the search comes online and people don't randomly start replying to all the old threads that search will index for them.

Posted by: KilroyTo be in the mind of Achronos. That would be one very interesting experience. It would be fun to see what goes on the mind of the bnet Overlord.

  • 09.04.2005 1:47 AM PDT
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Well when ya put it that way Achronos!!! :)

  • 09.04.2005 2:02 AM PDT

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