[QUOTE=Johnny Hildo]
No, cunt snot. When I pay for a fuckin service, I expect a fuckin service. All of you quisling fucktards seem to think that ten timeouts a day is ok. When this website finally gets fuckin sued as they should, my dick will sprout a massive erection. They don’t fuckin give a shit about any goddamn thing other than their subscription numbers. Make me cum, lawyers. Sue this piece of shit website.
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I don’t think ten timeouts a day is good, but I do think you’re being a fucking knobstick. Just go away. Your stupid lawsuit idea would make that happen anyway, by destroying the board, so why don’t you just go and save the rest of us all the bother?
Say you click 50 links on this site in a row with no timeouts, then one click gives you a 30 second timeout. A few impatient fools will just remember that one click and forget about the 50 before. The rest of us will remember that it worked just fine 98% of the time, and when these threads come up, will say so.
Well, how old is this purported donut? Is it, say, very fresh and recently fallen, or old and having been trodden on previously? Ah, who am I kidding? A free donut’s a free donut.
[QUOTE=xnylder]
The Chicago Reader is a free weekly newspaper. This site probably brings in more revenue than ads and out-of-town subscriptions combined. I get the feeling we’re being treated like a neglected cash cow: throw it just enough feed to keep it alive and keep milking.
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Now THAT would be a delicious irony indeed! A board saturated with hand-wringers, tree-huggers, and knee-gnawers turns out to be run by bottom-line capitalists. The ultimate practical joke.
[QUOTE=carterba]
Say you click 50 links on this site in a row with no timeouts, then one click gives you a 30 second timeout. A few impatient fools will just remember that one click and forget about the 50 before. The rest of us will remember that it worked just fine 98% of the time, and when these threads come up, will say so.
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Good thing the board isn’t an airport then.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Good thing the board isn’t an airport then.
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Yes - it isn’t an airport, or an ambulance, or an iron lung - because of that, a lower threshold of reliability might be tolerable. Of course perfection is always desirable.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
Yes - it isn’t an airport, or an ambulance, or an iron lung - because of that, a lower threshold of reliability might be tolerable. Of course perfection is always desirable.
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But it’s MY iron lung. Don’t you get it? Without the Dope, there is no me. These 30 second timeouts are like 30 seconds of life just… wasted.
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
Yes - it isn’t an airport, or an ambulance, or an iron lung - because of that, a lower threshold of reliability might be tolerable. Of course perfection is always desirable.
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Sure, but it must be one of the least reliable message boards out there on the internet.
There are other message boards on the internet? Why?
Seriously. No, it’s not by any means the least reliable - I know of several that periodically just don’t work, or disappear completely, for days at a time, then come back with a bunch of recent posts missing. They’re not anything like as big as the SDMB though, and they don’t charge a subscription.
I thought I just experienced a timeout. Turns out my internet connection had dropped - presumably some glitch in the router, or its power supply, or the line, or something at the other end. There are thunderstorms in the area today, so it might be related to bad weather. Fortunately I survived the incident, but I’m looking for a good lawyer, so I can sue the forces of nature, or perhaps the laws of physics.
It’s been pretty bad lately, compared to usual. But the thing that ticks people off, I think, is how this site compares to almost any other site one visits multiple times during the day. I can’t think of any that I go to regularly that has a timeout even once per month. And yet this one seems often to timeout multiple times a day.
[QUOTE=John Mace]
It’s been pretty bad lately, compared to usual. But the thing that ticks people off, I think, is how this site compares to almost any other site one visits multiple times during the day. I can’t think of any that I go to regularly that has a timeout even once per month. And yet this one seems often to timeout multiple times a day.
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Other sites, or other boards? I don’t know that much about the technology involved, but it seems to me that message boards and their like are inherently far, far less stable that other websites, because of their fluid nature. A boards is constantly in flux, changing every second. How could you compare that to a “static” webpage?
[QUOTE=Alessan]
Other sites, or other boards? I don’t know that much about the technology involved, but it seems to me that message boards and their like are inherently far, far less stable that other websites, because of their fluid nature. A boards is constantly in flux, changing every second. How could you compare that to a “static” webpage?
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I think Fark.com and SomethingAwful.com are usually the sites used for comparison. SomethingAwful forums seem to pop up pretty quick, and they appear to have about ten times the posters. From the front page: “3,700 Users Logged In -
3,272 registered users logged in.” Heh, also from the front page “13 users banned today. 6,482 total users bans.”
