[ADMIN] Future hosting of ILX (Part 8080)

awesome, adding my thanks here, and hopefully some $ at some point.

hey stet, thanks for all yr work!

fwiw i support using amazon too, best to use the futuristic hosting styles since we r a cutting edge community after all

can't believe dan is being such a huge jerk about this

hey stet, thanks for all yr work!

― your voice of treason, Monday, December 5, 2011 5:23 PM (15 minutes ago)

echoing frogbs here, thanks stet

dan needs to take some time off and think abt his priorities

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Thank you, stet! I have no skills to contribute but would love the opportunity to throw money at the problem.

btw in case I sounded too much like a huge wanker I was offering to develop the sort of supporting documents that would be megaboring for an ilx thread.

ditch the db, keep the sb

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Amazon affiliate setup where every word on ILX is a link to a product.

loll yes

i know this comes up a lot but ads for unregistered posters and posters i dont like would get help us pay for a more expensive server if we needed it

sb
xp

Given that the annual fund drive is always oversubscribed, do we really need to look into novel solutions?

Stet, you are awesome.

catching up now but thx stet you are a prince

Charge people $5 every time they change their display name.

Readmission fee after a ban

£51 fine for self-excelsioring

50¢ per otm charge

graduated lol tax

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Antichrist1.jpg

Tithes to be paid by all posters to The Church

that medieval church puggle ain't looking too happy

he can't afford to go on ye olde ILM

lol tax revolts of 2012

Am I the only person who thinks "sb" should be left behind?

^no

thanks 1,000,000 stet for all yr hard work

I'd like to poll that question, I'll admit. But I have 'mixed feeligns'.

In theory, if someone's just posting offensive crap or spam, 50 good and faithful ILXors should be able to point them out and the perp gets xored out.

At the moment, it's more a 'custard pie for not liking Animal Collective in the right way'.

Maybe a 'ban' should last all of an hour, in the spirit of "we love you but maybe you should go and chill out for a bit"

And so on. Don't mind me.

If someone's just posting offensive crap or spam, they'll get banned by the mods before even reaching 51.

I know, and there's the 'borderline' stuff, and there's the 'offensive to relatively few people', etc.

Do most SBs happen clumped together after someone has said something very not cool, or are they usually spread out because most people are low-level horrible rather than balls-out nasty? Because these two scenarios maybe require something different? Maybe?

it seems 'low-level'.

I've never sb'd anyone, but then again nobody's really been b-o-n to me.

I can think of a couple of scenarios where I could have been sb'd to heck (OK, one scenario), but because it didn't exist I was able to explain my side, and people were able to either agree/forgive/cope/whatever.

Is that so wrong?

I've never sb'd anyone

Same here. I hate the whole idea of it.

I think I've only ever done it to people threatening other people with an SB in a kind of twisted Karma way.

God i wish we had SB on sandbox

but maybe we shd debate it AGAIN given the huge number of inoffensive posters 51'd every week for being inoffensive

OK, parc the sarc, let's talk about it.

I'm guessing you've had your fair share of being sb'd to 51, right?

How many of those would you say you 'deserved', or 'helped' you?

hehehe i'm not who you think i am ;-)

thing is Mark, we have this debate every fortnight or so, a bunch of people don't like SB and will never participate in it, good for them. the system doesn't exist independently of moderation, it functions as a guide to mods. its biggest flaw is that on the odd occasion when a user has a bit of a meltdown an unseemly pile-on can take them to 51 quite quickly - as i understand it, mods will now try to step in and prevent this happening. the only other way to be 51'd is to piss off 51 separate posters enough to click the button within a limited time frame - under this system it's proven all but impossible to get 51'd, and peeps who have been have almost always been at least aware that part of their online persona is "controversial" to other posters. some people's ILX experience is spoiled by meanness and swears, some people's ILX experience is spoiled by dickwittery and not-quite-spamming. SB is a reasonable leveller of these differences of opinion.

I think that's a fair summary of the current thinking on SB. I love a clusterfuck as much as the next misanthrope, so by all means everybody who hates SB can keep telling us all about it. Don't think that's gonna make it go away, at the mo.

God i wish we had SB on sandbox

oh, and it's got nothing to do with hosting ILX so personally i'd prefer it had its own thread so we can address relevant issues relevantly.

i agree w/ you MarkG sb is tryrannical and cruel & should be outlawed

for one thing idk how we are all surviving without it on this here sandbox, julie you must be having an extremely hard time my apologies where o where is the sb button miss u boo

yeah, y'see i find it useful for when you've made a reasoned argument and then people just carry on as if you hadn't

lol @ ppl thinking you're actually LJ also lol @ this discussion AGAIN

we can never rest until the brutal shadow of the SB button has been lifted and people feel free to post their innermost thoughts again

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/

are we back now?

YES

so old skool ilx is kinda slow right now?

seems fine to me

Slow for me too -- 3-4 seconds for SNA page load. But it's better than it was a couple of hours ago.

As soon as I say that, now it's loading instantly.

yah its been intermittently slow for me

slow for me,as has sandbox

I no longer even have a working login for "real" ILX - can someone who's managed to log in pls be a dear and tell me if it's still got SB before I bother going to the trouble of reregistering? I've enjoyed it here but I'm not going back to that stress.

Yeah, the new ILX does seem to be quite slow. After I clicked "login", it took half a minute before it actually logged in.

FT, regular ILX hasn't changed at all, and so, yes, does still have SB.

OK, thanks for letting me know.

yeah, prohibitively slow in both spaces now.

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