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[silverbear]

Originally Posted by Reality

I have everything covered

#reality

I certainly hope so, I'm just not ready to handle naked Reality... don't know if I ever will be...

[Reality]

Originally Posted by silverbear

What you really need is an application that allows you to slow the board WAY down, but only for the troublemakers... make it even more difficult, even annoying for them to post in here...

I thought that's what you were installing when the board was so slow for me... LOL...

My style would be more along the lines of pushing the page down one pixel row every pageview while escaping the user's notice during the first phase. The second phase would be where the user notices something not right but would likely write off the blank space as a broken advertisement.

The third phase would be where the user starts to question what they are seeing only to fight an internal battle with themselves on whether or not to ask the forum about the empty space knowing that they risk being the focal point of warped humor from the deviant minds of fellow Cowboys' fans with way too much time on their hands.

Eventually they would post about it, I would quickly remove it leaving the poor user at the mercy of the other users as he (or she) becomes a running joke in the history of CowboysZone.

That or I replace all of the e's with o's and all of the a's with e's and all of the i's with u's on each page.

#reality

[tupperware]

That's so subtle and so evil. I'll be sure to question everything out of the ordinary now.

[silverbear]

Originally Posted by Reality

My style would be more along the lines of pushing the page down one pixel row every pageview while escaping the user's notice during the first phase. The second phase would be where the user notices something not right but would likely write off the blank space as a broken advertisement.

The third phase would be where the user starts to question what they are seeing only to fight an internal battle with themselves on whether or not to ask the forum about the empty space knowing that they risk being the focal point of warped humor from the deviant minds of fellow Cowboys' fans with way too much time on their hands.

Eventually they would post about it, I would quickly remove it leaving the poor user at the mercy of the other users as he (or she) becomes a running joke in the history of CowboysZone.

[View Full Quote]That or I replace all of the e's with o's and all of the a's with e's and all of the i's with u's on each page.

#reality

I never suspected you had such a sadistic streak...

I like it... it comforts me to know the board is in such devious, capable hands...

[WoodysGirl]

Originally Posted by tupperware

That's so subtle and so evil. I'll be sure to question everything out of the ordinary now.

Originally Posted by silverbear

I never suspected you had such a sadistic streak...

I like it... it comforts me to know the board is in such devious, capable hands...

You guys have no idea what this guy thinks up.

#evilreality

[Hostile]

Originally Posted by WoodysGirl

You guys have no idea what this guy thinks up.

#evilreality

The sad thing is, I can never talk him into doing these devious things to anyone. He keeps threatening to turn only my browser into a 24/7 Christmas theme. I dread every day that he will follow through on his joke.

[Yeagermeister]

Originally Posted by Hostile

The sad thing is, I can never talk him into doing these devious things to anyone. He keeps threatening to turn only my browser into a 24/7 Christmas theme. I dread every day that he will follow through on his joke.

Sounds more like a promise than a joke

[jimnabby]

Originally Posted by Reality

CowboysZone should now be faster than ever!

Can you quantify that for us, perhaps in "Garrett-sux-posts-per-minute"?

[Reality]

Originally Posted by jimnabby

Can you quantify that for us, perhaps in "Garrett-sux-posts-per-minute"?

What I need to do is create a system where each negative post adds an additional one second delay between posting times. So posting 30 negative posts would lead to an additional 30 second delay between new posts. And of course to balance that out, every positive Cowboys post would reduce the posting delay by one second.

Of course by saying this, every time a negative nancy's internet connection slows down, the conspiracy theories will run rampant .. though .. *laughs* .. at a slower rate

#reality

[Yeagermeister]

Originally Posted by Reality

What I need to do is create a system where each negative post adds an additional one second delay between posting times. So posting 30 negative posts would lead to an additional 30 second delay between new posts. And of course to balance that out, every positive Cowboys post would reduce the posting delay by one second.

[View Full Quote]Of course by saying this, every time a negative nancy's internet connection slows down, the conspiracy theories will run rampant .. though .. *laughs* .. at a slower rate

#reality

Yeah but who gets to determine bad posts and why has my browser slowed down so much?

[Reality]

Originally Posted by Yeagermeister

Yeah but who gets to determine bad posts and why has my browser slowed down so much?

*looks around innocently* I have no idea what you are referring to but I am sure WoodysGirl is involved.

#reality

[Yeagermeister]

Originally Posted by Reality

*looks around innocently* I have no idea what you are referring to but I am sure WoodysGirl is involved.

#reality

I think we need a poll.....sorry Juke

[Meat-O-Rama]

Originally Posted by Hostile

I hope no one takes this the wrong way. I love this post. It really shows appreciation for something way too often overlooked about this site.

Some people hate our Guidelines, but this site is really the best out there. Reality has this site on the absolute best servers, best software, and safest stuff there is.

Nothing will ever get added here infests your computers.

Performance of this site is so important to him that he will miss sleep and put money making projects on hold to handle an issue here.

This site has never been hacked the way some have. It has never crashed the way some do. We have huge user loads during the games and it barely slows down at all, and that happens without having to turn off the users sig pics and avatars.

Spammers and their ilk are dealt with swiftly so that users here don't have to put up with it.

[View Full Quote]I for one find it refreshing that you appreciate the effort and hours that he put into this for everyone's enjoyment of the site.

Spot on. This site is fantastically good. The only issues anyone has are with the posters themselves, and that's the nature of the beast. No spam, no bots, no garbage.

I know what it takes to run a site of this magnitude at a high level and I know what a labor of love it is. My contribution is probably only good for about a half day's bandwidth, but better than nothing.

I'd love to see Reality do an Off Topic "Behind the Curtain" look at the stack that makes up the website that I can't live without. I do understand why eh would be reluctant to do so on a number of levels though.