The 150 post limit thread that we are not to post in...

[Ming]

There was a place to voice any comments you had. I provided the link. I also stated I was just trying to alert people. If people feel they have to post just to post, it is their problem. They were warned.

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Ming
CivII & Off-Topic Forum Moderator
Ming@Apolyton.net

[Ari Rahikkala]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by MarkG on 05-06-2000 11:13 AM</font>
in other occasions that there was no such threads, and we were saying "there was an announcement", some people were responding: "where? oh, that's announcement? I never check it"...
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I find it ridiculous that people don't want to spend 0.1 seconds/day to see if there's a new announcement when they spend >3600 seconds/day to just post stuff, often with no apparent good reason.

[MarkG]

it's odd to me as well, but this doesnt mean that it didnt and doesnt happen...

[Caesar the Great]

Why read announcements... if you add up all the times you would read announcements per week, your post count could be 1 higher (2 for mao )... its a waste of time...

Anyway... people are greedy... they get nothing out of reading the announcments (especially when Ming spoon feeds 'em to us )...

I say, if we're too lazy to read the announcements we should suffer the consequences!! (whatever they may be...)

Although I would be one of those people and probably would get banned for posting the 151st post on a thread ... of course using a d/l for the hell of it

Anyway... I think there should be exceptions... like the coffee shop... 150, you'd have new coffee shops every 2 days!! This should be moved up to 500... or closed entirely... but that would be no fun.

Yes for 'normal' threads this is good, although annoying it helps speed things up... but for the coffee shop 150 posts is just ridiculous!

[Ari Rahikkala]

CtG:

First, I think that making exceptions is not so easy at all... It is if you are an experienced UBB hacker, which MarkG actually isn't.

Second, are you really so greedy that you all have T1 connections which show the whole page in 0.001 seconds? My 56k modem(In Finland) uses at least 5 seconds to load a forum page. BTW, it hasn't speeded up so much after making the limit. But, anyway, I really have enough time to read the announcements.

[Cthol]

damn i nearly posted in that thread... especially after MarkL's post... the message was ready, i was ready to push submit. then i thought, why am i doing this? a week without apolyton... and i stopped, COWARD!!
i am angry for my self. and i'm sad

[Cthol]

HAH! i am not a coward. See you in a week.

[Merijn Reijnders]

It is a disgrace that Ming and Markos are abusing their powers like this! You can't ban this many people because of this! Do you want that everyone moves to another discussion page?

[Jasonian]

First of all, I hope everyone knows that this isn't about 150 posts in a thread anymore. It's about tyranny and supression.

Normally, I agree with Mark, Dan, and Ming's actions. However, banning people because they wish to discuss something in a convienent place is absurd. That's all their is to it.

I may just post in that thread. It will mean nothing to you tyrants, but it will mean everything to me and the ones before me.

[Imran Siddiqui]

This is abuse of moderator power, no doubt! Ming should be banned for 2 weeks and docked 50% of posts. I'd hate to compare people to Hitler, but I think Ming comes close.

And to think I was starting to like Ming too..

[MarkG]

oh my god!
there are people with reason in apolyton who post their opinions in the right place!

the thread in the OT was meant as an announcement thread, not as a discussion thread. what's so hard to understand about that?

[Black Dragon]

Absolutely and completley Absurd! What the **** is wrong with discussing something on that thread? Next week will be a really bad week for ACS.

[Caesar the Great]

Yeah... if some of the vet posters get banned... MWHC, Imran, Mao and Speer get banned... the week will be long... does Ming know any of this is happening? (I'm sure he'll be surprised I'm still here)

[MarkG]

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</font><font size=1>Originally posted by UEC on 05-06-2000 09:03 PM</font>
Looks like I get a vacation. Oh well By the time I even want to post here again the ban will have lifted. Seeing as I only posted in this place once every 5 month.


SO I say to you BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!


<img src="/images/blue1.gif" width=100% height=1></font></td></tr></table></center>this was a typical post of an oppressed poster fighting for freedom of speech by posting in the wrong thread!

[Frodo83]

Maybe Ming just wanted to give the OT a big enema...