I'm gettin booted!

@Makalakalane

not sure how it works here but you need 3 upvotes at triplea to. I boosted you one so you’re at two now : ) maybe @djensen can clarify ?

Search was causing the DB to crash sometimes. So instead of getting an alert in the middle of the night, I’ve set it up so that the servers should restart on their own.

Actually, the primary reason is spam. In some situations, IL is correct but yes somebody’s first post could be a link to a map so that you could talk about strategy.

10 posts is either very hard or very easy but I think if you dive in and respond to a few posts in a constructive manner, you’ll find it’s quite easy. One idea is to revive a really old conversation with your ideas on it.

@Imperious:

Because we don’t want spam. Your first post and you want a link usually means you could care less about this site and just want a shout out.

Just post about the game in some meaningful way, sharing your ideas, strategy.

That does not require a link

Exactly, And im following what he told me with regard to house rules popping up in every forum, and people latter complaining about the volume of these threads….everywhere

Ultimately it’s up to David Jensen to chime in and outline how he wishes that the forums be organized… I will support his policies, but his policies need to be known. Perhaps the discussion of bids can be immune from the label of house rules to prevent these problems in the future… but it’s up to David, it’s his website.

Yes i suggest they need to contact a moderator first before the first post…just to make sure these are humans and not spamming machines, then we access their account and toggle “enable” so they can post.

@ncscswitch:

As of just before this post…
7961 from Games (all Games areas)
2579 Revised topic area
1379 General discussion
400 Classic
390 Moderator forum
342 Find Players
335 Website Discussion
79 House Rules

and then some additional smaller numbers of posts in Software, Announcements, Article Submission, Europe, etc.

Call it 13,500 excluding the old PD posts.

Still would be a loss of 4 to 5 thousand posts.

In my case, it’s closer to 5 thousand then 4 thousand.

Check your cookie settings.

Yeah, I got cookies. Double Stuf Oreos and Walmart chocolate chip :P .

I was logged in, entered a note on one forum, hit the Forum Index button at the bottom of the page, picked another forum, made an entry and when I looked it was credited to Guest.
It only happened the one time and only on this site/forum.