New rule: 10k post limit for threads
 

As you may have heard about at some point, vBulletin has trouble with very large threads. From my naiive understanding, it essentially has to count every post in a thread when displaying it, so large thread put a huge load on it, especially when they're popular.

Because of that, I'm going to start experimenting with proactively closing or splitting threads that get to be too large. I'll always link back to the original thread in the OP.

If you happen to want to save me some time, it'd help if people intentionally choose to abandon those threads and start a new one once in a while like kstater has done with the K-State threads from time to time. Any mod can lock the old one with just a PM.

That is all. Now back to your regularly-scheduled programming.

This place has gone to heck since Phobia left.

Damn. I thought it was gonna be a 10k min for starting new threads.

Carry on

Great idea. It should be one post more than whatever Pete's post count is. Make it so.

Next you're ganna ask for pics of our peepees.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MOD HATES LAGS

I guess I better stop making threads

REDEMPTION!

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=256523

Maybe you should move all 10K+ threads to a large thread sub forum and lock them.

Dead Thread Redemption?

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I actually thought about creating an "archived threads" forum. For now, I'm just linking them in the OP's. Creating another subforum is more effort than I care about for now.

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9984 to go. Make it happen.

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Damn post limits!!!:cuss:

This is all my fault.

I like it when mods arbitrarily make up new rules to suit their fancy. It's time for them to step down and let Saul Good and that cajun, Patteau take over.

I am this [ ] close to ****ing killing you right now you ****ing son of a bitch.

Somebody is so faking right.

I'm curious... how does the whole SOC thread rate all time on CP stats in terms of views and posts? Or how do I look it up?

I'm being repressed!

Bloody peasant!

I'm not a woman.

Probably second to the 10pm thread

Girlie thread too.

Not in the main forum, doesn't count. It's a creation all it's own, tomato to oranges

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now we know the real reason for the rule! Someone is trying to get the girlie thread locked! I smell a rat! :cuss:

Please let's push this one to the limit, for the sake of sweet, sweet irony.

We must do it!

Only 9,965 to go. w00t

pooptaco

HOW THE **** CAN WE HAVE MEGA THREADS IF THEY ARE LIMITED IN SIZE!!!!!

Lets **** this thread UP!!!

Like a massive star that collapses and results in a supernova explosion, as is the result with mega threads. It is the natural progression of the universe and v-bulletin.

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Shit boxes I tell ya!

*** The official way too long ass thread ***

pooptaco

I stuck it in and the thread told me it was too deep

Where's Mr. Skip (100 posts per thread) Touwnee when you need him?

Q?

NOT THE GIRLY THREAD YOU SON OF A BITCH!

That's cool man, whatever you think.

That one really pained me, but I don't know what else to do. That was both our biggest thread and one of the most common threads for n00bs to click through.


The nice thing is that I can always put them all back together if the new version of vBulletin does a better job of parsing threads. It takes a lot less effort to put them together than it did to break them apart.

That's kind of awesome.

You can sort each individual forum by replies by picking "Sorted by: Number of replies" and "From the: Beginning" in the bottom-left corner of the page.

The SOC thread topped out just over 9k posts, which puts it somewhere around #10 on the all-time-biggest-threads list, though it would have undoubtedly continued to grow had we not declared it a "Classic" so soon.

What the - THIS IS A VIOLATION OF MY FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS! I'M BEING DENIED FREE SPEECH IN THREADS WHILE OTHERS BEFORE ME GET TO SPEAK! THIS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL! FIRST AMENDMENT, PEOPLE! FIRST AMENDMENT! THAT'S THE ONE THAT'S EVEN IN FRONT OF THE GUN ONE AND THE DRINKING ONE AND THE ONE THAT LETS WOMEN VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS! IT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT AMENDMENT, AND THE MODS ARE DENYING IT TO US!

Yeah, but you can still post poop threads, so theres a tradeoff.

"Tim Tebow is NOT in Jacksonville's plans. So its going to be tough to get a thread that big."
-ESPN

RainMan has good points.

This is a plot to silence the voice of the members so the mods can take over. DON'T LET THEM ERODE OUR FREEDOMS!

farfignuggen

I'm here on the mods good conscience so I cant officially complain

Did he leave? Hadn't noticed. Seriously, he's a level 1 grade "A" ass but I hope he's ok. :D

With that being said, have you thought of the number of suicides you are inviting due to ruining the 'girlie thread' ????????

Your and idiot

Well I can. And I will. ****ing communist pigs they are, first it's our tags, then it's our visitor messages, then we can't make threads that break the Planet. What freedoms are they going to take next?

You would know. :) :evil:

Those were really the three things that defined my time on the planet.