SilenceGold
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Hello, I was planning to post this last night but some major issues has came up which I had to hold off. Finally I can post it now.
Keep in mind that I'm posting it as a regular user (not a moderator or official supporter of AD)
The point of this thread is to cover the issues of this board.
The problem with AD is how slow this board has been. When I first joined AD, it was popular. Almost everyone was posting almost every minute of 24 hours a day.
Now right now, I got puzzled at why it seems like a ghostboard (heard of ghost town?) I am afraid that I believe that many of those users, who used to post excessive all around this board, has slowed down with a fear. Sadly, one member has requested to have his/her account closed because of this HUGE misunderstanding. Maybe other members have just quit posting here because of this misunderstanding problem.
Postwhoring was this problem that many of the other users has brought up on the concern of Alex's small amount of financial supply to continue to keep this board running smoothly for the sakes of all of us. Remember that Alex has provided this all to us all for free. I am sure that we ALL thank Alex for his gracious work!
I want you all users to understand that we did NOT mean to say that you ALL must slow down your postings just so we ALL can save Alex some money.
Let me explain what those problems were exactly...
1.Worthless posts to use just one emotion for ONE post.
2.Pointless and repeating posts.
3.Nonsense posts to rack up number of posts.
1.Worthless posts to use just one emotion for ONE post.
You can see when that happens like you might have noticed that it is frequent on the Jokes section of this board. That is reasonable to let the rest of other people know that they read and laughed over it. However, on other sections and threads like a thread asking a question or asking for a discussion. Someone posts a single emotion then leaves it off...that don't make sense does it? That's why it seems pointless. :/
Remember that most of the users use the “View New Posts Since Your Last Visit.” If they have replied to a thread and then you made a post with one emotion and this person came back to check to see if anyone has answered him/her. They end up clicking on that link and find out that sonna of a bitch has posted just one emotion to waste their time. To make it worse, they might have enabled an email notify and they're out there somewhere and a pager goes off, “you got a new email!” They are so excited to go and check the thread. Just one stupid emotion to set off this rage hidden inside this person. :/
2.It's similar to the #1 problem (with single emotions) except it is more of repeating a thread. Sometimes, a topic is best to stay under one thread because later in time, if a person from AD has came up with a comment and decided to go and SEARCH for this topic, it would be easily found under just one thread. If there were like 5 threads all of the same topic...which one should this person post under? See how easy it would be if there were just one thread?
There could be a same thing with where there's a discussion of a car. There is 4 different threads of this car. Someone posts something about the car's motor in one of the threads then in this different thread, someone else asks, what kind of motor does this car have? Someone would have to either, “repeat” or “point him to a different thread with that answer,” see how that is complicated for everyone?
That's why we all attempt to keep to the topic. If you have a new topic, post a new thread. No one might stop you UNLESS there is already a thread of your desired topic. Don't worry about making excessive reposts as long as it is understandable that you had tough time finding the thread. Someone else might post a link under your new thread to the old thread of your same topic. Hope that clears it up?
3.Nonsense posts to rack up number of posts. You probably have seen threads started by those members who bragged about how far they went. “Look I got 3000 posts!” See what I mean? What are the point of those high ranking number of posts? I think that it is just something to brag about?
The problem is not the NUMBERS...but the problem is how POINTLESS those posts were. If you made millions of posts that all made sense. No one will bitch at you. PERIOD.
I hope you all understand what I am saying?
Now discuss!!
Keep in mind that I'm posting it as a regular user (not a moderator or official supporter of AD)
The point of this thread is to cover the issues of this board.
The problem with AD is how slow this board has been. When I first joined AD, it was popular. Almost everyone was posting almost every minute of 24 hours a day.
Now right now, I got puzzled at why it seems like a ghostboard (heard of ghost town?) I am afraid that I believe that many of those users, who used to post excessive all around this board, has slowed down with a fear. Sadly, one member has requested to have his/her account closed because of this HUGE misunderstanding. Maybe other members have just quit posting here because of this misunderstanding problem.
Postwhoring was this problem that many of the other users has brought up on the concern of Alex's small amount of financial supply to continue to keep this board running smoothly for the sakes of all of us. Remember that Alex has provided this all to us all for free. I am sure that we ALL thank Alex for his gracious work!
I want you all users to understand that we did NOT mean to say that you ALL must slow down your postings just so we ALL can save Alex some money.
Let me explain what those problems were exactly...
1.Worthless posts to use just one emotion for ONE post.
2.Pointless and repeating posts.
3.Nonsense posts to rack up number of posts.
1.Worthless posts to use just one emotion for ONE post.
You can see when that happens like you might have noticed that it is frequent on the Jokes section of this board. That is reasonable to let the rest of other people know that they read and laughed over it. However, on other sections and threads like a thread asking a question or asking for a discussion. Someone posts a single emotion then leaves it off...that don't make sense does it? That's why it seems pointless. :/
Remember that most of the users use the “View New Posts Since Your Last Visit.” If they have replied to a thread and then you made a post with one emotion and this person came back to check to see if anyone has answered him/her. They end up clicking on that link and find out that sonna of a bitch has posted just one emotion to waste their time. To make it worse, they might have enabled an email notify and they're out there somewhere and a pager goes off, “you got a new email!” They are so excited to go and check the thread. Just one stupid emotion to set off this rage hidden inside this person. :/
2.It's similar to the #1 problem (with single emotions) except it is more of repeating a thread. Sometimes, a topic is best to stay under one thread because later in time, if a person from AD has came up with a comment and decided to go and SEARCH for this topic, it would be easily found under just one thread. If there were like 5 threads all of the same topic...which one should this person post under? See how easy it would be if there were just one thread?
There could be a same thing with where there's a discussion of a car. There is 4 different threads of this car. Someone posts something about the car's motor in one of the threads then in this different thread, someone else asks, what kind of motor does this car have? Someone would have to either, “repeat” or “point him to a different thread with that answer,” see how that is complicated for everyone?
That's why we all attempt to keep to the topic. If you have a new topic, post a new thread. No one might stop you UNLESS there is already a thread of your desired topic. Don't worry about making excessive reposts as long as it is understandable that you had tough time finding the thread. Someone else might post a link under your new thread to the old thread of your same topic. Hope that clears it up?
3.Nonsense posts to rack up number of posts. You probably have seen threads started by those members who bragged about how far they went. “Look I got 3000 posts!” See what I mean? What are the point of those high ranking number of posts? I think that it is just something to brag about?
The problem is not the NUMBERS...but the problem is how POINTLESS those posts were. If you made millions of posts that all made sense. No one will bitch at you. PERIOD.
I hope you all understand what I am saying?
Now discuss!!
Just a thought.
its really not necessary i agree and can be discussed in a thread already started previously and can be revived -- when i have started threads -- i often put a note for the mods if ive overlooked the thread that is quite similar to what i had started to let me know and i would correct that OR i can ask the mod to go ahead and merge that thread with the other active thread OR just to close it and post the proper linkie to the thread that was already open and active 
to SilenceGold! 
SG.. wonderful and beautiful well said.. 
I have to watch his every curious moves inside and outside.. also, he LOVES his wanding pool. He always want get in, even chilly weather, I told him "not today", he go 
=\ but thankful that other kids keep him busy, but also, he follow them around. I have to remind them to look out for him, or my eyes boggle around to make sure he's safe. (phew). 
