# This is nuts. Half of you go away. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073 "2001-03-30T04:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/1 "2001-03-30T04:36:21Z")
10:30 PM CT Two minutes between clicking on a thread and its appearance. You’d think it was noon. Since I don’t REALLY want any of you to go away, is there any way to speed the board up short of that? I know the mods etc are working on it, but what can be done? ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/2 "2001-03-30T04:58:19Z")
Well, we could go to a “ration” system. People who’s names begin with vowels get the even hours, consenants get the odd hours. Or, and this is just crazy enough to work, we could all pitch in a buck and buy the Reader a new server, just for us. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/3 "2001-03-30T05:15:49Z")
Reader doesn’t WANT us to chip in for a server, for whatever reason. Ed? Tuba? Mods? ANYONE? Is there ANY WAY we could help? I mean…I’ve heard 5 people offer spontaneously to give money tonight. Someone offered you a server in an ATMB thread recently. Please! Let us help! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/4 "2001-03-30T06:37:32Z")
I heartily agree. As I don’t have the internet at work, and my evening coincides with the American afternoon, and Ireland is the land that High-Speed Connections forgot - I’m pretty much reduced to checking the board before I go to work in the morning, which means I hardly get to read it at all these days. There’s got to be **something** we can do about this, isn’t there? ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/5 "2001-03-30T11:31:03Z")
I thought the special edition t-shirts as a fundraiser was an outstanding idea. I’d be all over that and I don’t even wear t-shirts. **t-shirts** is probably very happy about that. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/6 "2001-03-30T13:23:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ruadh \* > **…and Ireland is the land that High-Speed Connections forgot** HA! Connection speed had very little to do with it; I have a T1 at work and the SDMB is STILL unusable much of the time. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/7 "2001-03-30T16:12:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > [BConnection speed had very little to do with it; I have a T1 at work and the SDMB is STILL unusable much of the time. \*\* Same here, and the board crawls so slow after about 10:00 a.m. that I usually time out before I even get the thread open. ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/8 "2001-03-30T16:19:27Z")
I started a thread here talking about the same things, and asked Tuba and Ed if the issue was server hardware or a bandwidth issue. The thread was moved to “About this board”… I think it is the server hardware, i.e. amount of RAM and disk capacity. I have offered to build a server for them, and have not heard from Ed yet on it. O ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/9 "2001-03-30T17:21:55Z")
Its been mentioned many times that pruning of old threads increases the speed also. I would be willing to get rid of ALL the old threads if it sped up the board! ---
**Author:** ![Oicu812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f475e1/32.png) [@Oicu812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oicu812)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/10 "2001-03-30T18:29:07Z")
Well, I have a server that I could build into a decent SQL machine, since this BBS software uses MySQL, on an NT platform for the database backend. If it could be set up with 5 or 6 drives, I would software RAID 5 it, mirrored and striping with parity. Reads are BLAZING fast on this type of setup, since your data is spread out over several drives, and each one can be read simultaneously (or near enough). I set up an Informix server this very way for a client, and they have sometimes tens of thousands of read/writes an hour, with no performance lag. O ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/11 "2001-03-30T18:58:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Whammo \* > **Its been mentioned many times that pruning of old threads increases the speed also.** Although, or perhaps because, I spend most of my posting in MPSIMS and the Pit, the threads there are by definition the most ephemeral. To be honest, almost all could vanish after a week without anybody noticing, much less caring. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/12 "2001-03-30T19:40:49Z")
For shame, **drop** , that is simply not true at all! Where would you be without:[ul][li][Monkeys](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37864)[_][Penguins](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=5604)[_][Goats](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=33909)[_][Gerbils](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=24442)[_][Bitches](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=50607)[_][Funny things people’ve said](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=24960)[_][People in the personal entertainment distribution business](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30135)[_][Sticking things in surprising places](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=15773)[_][Simply WAY TMI](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=44749)[/ul][/li] Huh? Where would you be then? Man, you’d be missing out. Don’t take away our past! ---
**Author:** ![flyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@flyboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flyboy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/13 "2001-03-30T21:03:09Z")
This thing is running too slow right now to do a search on why, exactly, they won’t accept equipment and/or donations. I’d love it if they could figure out what they need to speed things up, then attach a dollar value to it, so I know how much money we’re talking about. I’d be happy to chip in, but I’d really like to know if we’re talking a buck each, five each, twenty each, or what. And I agree with **thinksnow**. I’d rather pay a one-time amount and keep the old threads than not pay at all and have them deleted. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-nuts-half-of-you-go-away/60073/14 "2001-03-30T23:08:24Z")
I like the original idea. Let’s ban half the members!! To be fair, let’s make it the half with the fewest posts. That’s right, you’re not allowed to post until you have 500 posts. 😃