# vote up/down comments

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-up-down-comments/658983>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 22, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-up-down-comments/658983 "2013-05-22T03:01:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-up-down-comments/658983/41 "2013-05-25T03:54:47Z")

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> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> […]we want to save as much bandwidth as we can so that the largest number of people can do that. It’s making the best use of the resources that we have.

We have limited bandwidth here? How much bandwidth is this server allotted, and how much do we use up (per month)?

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**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-up-down-comments/658983/42 "2013-05-25T14:35:03Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Obviously not. 😉

I love it when somebody takes one of my setups.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-up-down-comments/658983/43 "2013-05-25T15:30:50Z")

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> [@Anonymous User](#):
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> We have limited bandwidth here? How much bandwidth is this server allotted, and how much do we use up (per month)?

No, not throttled.

We have had less to operate with in the past, we’ve never had more. What happens is that demand rises over time. For a website this is not a bad thing, to be popular and have more page views, that’s what you want.

So we’ve always taken the view that being able to read postings, write postings, those were priority concerns for us, more so than cosmetic stuff, fancy effects, pretty pictures, etc. People being able to read and write to the board will always be the most important things here because if you can’t read and you can’t write, you’re not going to be here.

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-up-down-comments/658983/44 "2013-05-25T19:29:11Z")

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> [@Inner\_Stickler](#):
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> I’d be totally in favor of it if I were the only one to have it as I can’t trust any of you yahoos not to abuse it.

+1

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