Who Wins Thread....

[Fish]

I wonder how many users will have a negative post count when the \'Who Wins\' thread gets pruned due to the amount of bandwidth it\'s taking up on the forum....

Fish

[FD3SNuttah]

winnnerrrrrrrrrrr lolll just kidding.

Its a big thread that, does it actually serve a purpose? that last one to post could go on forever?

[pete sparrow]

I suggested this ages ago too stop the whinging from certain members..
As long as the original page/post count is kept somehow i doubt anyone would mind.

[Ada7]

Me Me Me Me Me Me :D

Adam

[pete sparrow]

Me Me Me Me Me Me :D

Adam

Are you argreement or disagreement with the whole me me me me thing???:Laugh

[Ada7]

Agreement i think. would be a shame to lose the thread count after all our hard work but i dont think we need every post now. Maybe just the first page or then the last 10 or so.
Just my 2p worth

Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me Me :D :rollin

Adam

[pete sparrow]

Didn\'t realise it was that big tbh! Could loose the first 700 pages and it wouldn\'t matter too much..Like you say though keep the counts..

[Fish]

Well if the posts are deleted the post count will be altered.

Fish

[kev-yorks]

There are plans to add some new area\'s to the site that will be bandwidth intensive so we are looking at trimming a lot of this thread as Fish said. By the very nature of who wins its only the last poster that really matters. As regards post counts thats down to Fish and the other admin but i would of thought the post counts will drop like they do when we clear out the old for sale posts. I suppose one option is to reset everyone to zero when we upgrade the software..........that should get a few comments:Hammer  
Regards Kevin

[grinder]

reset to 0 ......... noooooooooooooooooooo

on another forum i use - they lock threads once it reaches 1000 posts - this keeps the bandwidth down

[pete sparrow]

There are plans to add some new area\'s to the site that will be bandwidth intensive so we are looking at trimming a lot of this thread as Fish said. By the very nature of who wins its only the last poster that really matters. As regards post counts thats down to Fish and the other admin but i would of thought the post counts will drop like they do when we clear out the old for sale posts. I suppose one option is to reset everyone to zero when we upgrade the software..........that should get a few comments:Hammer  
Regards Kevin

Not worried about my personnel count in the slightest! Why can\'t you keep the page counter at 784 or whatever it\'ll be when you do this and delete the first 700 pages?? Same with the post count???

[strange_days_uk]

personal count irrelevant compared to easy maintentance of website..

[iaint]

It\'s actually (in microsoft terms) a feature of VBulletin and MySQL that very long threads take up a disproportionate amount of server resources in searches and other background indexing tasks.

Hopefully those posters on the thread will understand the need to keep things running smoothly but, in many ways, it\'ll be a shame to lose such a huge thread even though it really adds nothing material to MRC.

[kev-yorks]

Not worried about my personnel count in the slightest! Why can\'t you keep the page counter at 784 or whatever it\'ll be when you do this and delete the first 700 pages?? Same with the post count???

As i said Pete the tech side on this one is well beyond me as they have got a major software upgrade to do, so its down to Fish and co. But to my mind the smooth operation of the site would take preferance to page counts etc.
Regards Kevin

[BlitzBoy]

The two main points of the who wins thread was to make it the longest threaded post on ANY forum in the world and the second point was who post lasts wins.
So if you need server space I rather you deleted the whole thing rather then prune it because then you will lose its history and meaning.
So if you need the space guys just delete the whole thing, as I won\'t post on a watered down version.