What a horribly passive attitude.
I like this place. I’ve been a member for 8 years. I’d rather get the place fixed that watch it die. I’d rather tell them that they are at risk of losing my business and at least give them a chance to fix it. Or at the very least just have a bit of a rant about the shit service.
I don’t think anyone thinks that this is a major problem in the big scheme of things but in the context of this board it’s quite a big problem.
I’m damaged now? What do you base that on?
As I get older it’s one I’m finding to be the best policy. I’m learning that complaining gets you nowhere. It’s far less stressful to just stop paying and put the bad experience behind you.
Even if you heat it up first with those torches you got there, you can’t eat pie with those pitchforks, they’re too big. So what are the pitchforks for . . . . , oh, wait.
There he is, get 'im!
That you can’t seem to grasp a very simple concept.
You mean the one where some people derive different things out of using a message board? What’s not to grasp?
edit: I’d like to know why you felt it necesary to hit below the belt and imply that I am damaged. I happen to be able to grasp many varied and complex concepts.
Enhanced interrogation techniques.
I’m not one of the people complaining. But it seems to me, upon reflection, that the reason behind the compliants is that when our personal computers underperform, we are told to spend money to upgrade. And when we do shell out the bucks, eventually things work again. I think the people complaining feel, rightly or wrongly, that no comparable effort has so far been made to spend the board’s way out of this trouble, and they resent that.
Sailboat
Please see my thread in ATMB.
Y’know…
I only recently started posting here. I’m not married to the place, but… it fills the gaps in my day. It gives me a place for, hopefully, a more educated and adult discourse than I get in a day otherwise.
Not that my best friend, lover, and girlfriend (hi, honey!) isn’t astoundingly smart, it’s just that we agree so often! LOL.
And that I paid for this, does bother me. It wasn’t a king’s ransom so I have no illusion of it being a Mercedes Benz experience. Even so, other boards and services are more stable. That does bother me.
But what bothers me most is the silence on the topic from those in the know - or even a more concrete answer or time-line.
Stick around; “this too shall pass”. We periodically go through this whole “board performance” convulsion, it’s all part of the Straight Dope Experience.
Eventually a band-aid and a handful of amphetamines will be supplied to the ailing hamster, Search will be re-enabled, and it’ll be business as usual.
Until the next time.
If you leave now, you’ll miss some good stuff.
Only from memory as I cannot search, but I tend to have a good memory for these things. Only TubaDiva ** gets a small stipend and that is not for being a SDMB admin but for do the maintenance of the Straight Dope front page. I don’t have any details, but that was roughly how Ed explained it in one thread.
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To the Op:
Dear Op: Thhhippp!
Jim
No one would slam anyone for complaining if their cable or phone internet was out as often as the board is, and its no different than those- an entertainment service you pay money for and expect to function normally the majority of the time.
The thing that gets me, and this was brought up earlier, is that I participate in a few other MBs and they never have problems. Ever. And they use the same vBulletin software. In fact, I don’t know of any other web site that goes down or timesout even a fraction as much as this one does.
It’s frustrating, to say the least.
I’m a member of other MBs, and they do go down occasionally… though admittedly nowhere near as often as this one.
Wee Bairn your cable or phone internet is likely about two thousand times more expensive than your SDMB membership. At two thousand times the expense - too right I’d complain!
But I am with sky so I have to put up with something a thousand times more annoying than board outages (synchronised frequent high-length high-content-repitition advertising)
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Damn. 15 x 2000 / 12 = 2,500/month. That’s a hell of a lot of pay for porn movies.
That is -
The adverts all begin at the same time (so surfing during adverts is virtually pointless)
The adverts last an inordinate length of time.
There are very few and very infrequently NEW adverts. (If I’ve been given an annoying spiel about some product I particularly don’t want to be given the exact same spiel twenty seven thousand more times)
The range of things that are advertised is small (mainly financial institutions, insurance companies)
OK then… revise my maths to about twenty (take two noughts off) Point is the board is significantly cheaper.
Some of us stand dangerously close to the edge all the time, and should not be surprised to find ourselves treading air with disturbing frequency.
I already got my $15 out of this board when I was instructed how to fix my garage door opener without calling a serviceperson. Anything more is just gravy.
$15 = £7.50 = around sixty pence a month, or two pence a day.