What's the reason for the 500 post limit?

[:) Smiley]

Is it a technical issue, and if so why is Picture Thread exempt?

[Urban Ranger]

It is a carryover from the prehistoric uBB days, when having more than 500 posts in a thread made things difficult.

As for the Picture Thread - it's one of the god's thread, so it's exempt.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Over 500 posts fries the binary encoding of MacIntosh wiring.

[Skanky Burns]

The picture thread was started by an admin. As Ming has said before, he or any other mod are not going to touch a thread an admin has started. So far, the admins don't feel like closing Markos' thread either.

[:) Smiley]

So in short, there's no reason for the cap? Wouldn't it just save the mods some work to not close threads at 500 then?

[Skanky Burns]

It apparently causes problems with vbb too.

[Locutus]

This has been asked before:

Originally posted by Locutus
Back in the days of uBB it made a difference. If threads got too big strange things would start happening, like new posts not being registered, pages not being displayed properly, etc. The rule was instituted to prevent such problems.

Now on vBB the rule may be obsolete as there don't seem to be any problems with large threads anymore, but then again that might also be *because* we have the rule

Plus, the limit makes moderating threads easier. Ever tried deleting/editing a large number of posts from a thread (that's too valuable to delete altogether), or splitting one? Very tedious job, and there's a good chance of screwing it up.

But most importantly, it's an Apolyton Tradition^TM

[Dinner]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Over 500 posts fries the binary encoding of MacIntosh wiring.

Yet more proof of the inferiority of Macs.

[DarkCloud]

and anyways smiley, 500 posts per thread is still an improvement over the old 200 post limit

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Yet more proof of the inferiority of Macs.

[Stuie]

Originally posted by Smiley
So in short, there's no reason for the cap? Wouldn't it just save the mods some work to not close threads at 500 then?

But then they would go on a banning spree to fill up all the free time.

[Jeje2]

Nono - 500 limit makes us start moreandmoreandmoreandmoreandmoreandmore Suomithreds

We are currently on threadnumber 33
(Longest thread series on Apo I think, or...? )

[Method]

/me runs off to spam the Recreation Commons more *

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by Jeje2
Nono - 500 limit makes us start moreandmoreandmoreandmoreandmoreandmore Suomithreds

We are currently on threadnumber 33
(Longest thread series on Apo I think, or...? )

What about the "I'm with Stupid" series? Not as many posts, but last I looked it was well into the twenties, and that was months ago.

[Snowflake]

Plus, the limit makes moderating threads easier. Ever tried deleting/editing a large number of posts from a thread (that's too valuable to delete altogether), or splitting one? Very tedious job, and there's a good chance of screwing it up.

Sounds to me a good enough reason.