Suggestion to modify 10 page rule

[Scorpion]

I think that the 10 page rule should be waived during hurricane season. Already, there have been 5 pages on the current invest thread in 1 hour. That means that there will be at least 12 different threads per day. This will get confusing, especially to people that want to go back later and look at them. I think it should be modified to 25 pages, like it was last year.

[CHRISTY]

i agree Scorpion...

[drezee]

Let's Vote...I agree with Scorpion

[StormScanWx]

I agree, IMHO, the limit should be raised significantly.

[Weatherfreak000]

I also agree.

[x-y-no]

I'll chime in and vote for 25 pages also.

Not to little, not too much ... just right. (thought that appied, what with the Bear Watch in effect)

[MiamiensisWx]

I also agree. 20 to 25 pages per thread sounds good.

[wzrgirl1]

why do we have to have a limit at all?

[skysummit]

I'll agree too....20 - 25 pages. At first I thought it was a good idea, but now that I'm remembered how fast this forum can flow when something is active, I do think it should be at least raised from 10 pages.

[Regit]

I'll put my two cents in an agree with a higher limit or, preferably, no limit.


Edit: I forgot to include that the problem with closing threads is that all the responses near the cut off limit are completely ignored as most people don't go back to the old thread to check. Also, a lot of posters become occupied with "shouldn't a new thread start now" as the limit approaches.

[Extremeweatherguy]

yes, a higher or no limit would be much better.

[KWT]

As I said a few weeks ago when this was introduced I did say that thread wil lbe filled extremely fast indeed and thats whats happening.
I agree, a 25 page limit is a good idea.

[Buck]

At a forum that I'm an admin of, we have a limit due to server issues (because with our type of forum, whenever a thread is accessed, it loads all the posts, not just the posts shown on the page of the thread you are on)... but its a limit of 2,000 posts per thread (which is I think around 70 pages)... so it's a bit different.

But the limit here might be for server issues, but its not the same type of forum, so I don't know.

But 20 or 25 pages would be alot better.

[Lindaloo]

At a forum that I'm an admin of, we have a limit due to server issues (because with our type of forum, whenever a thread is accessed, it loads all the posts, not just the posts shown on the page of the thread you are on)... but its a limit of 2,000 posts per thread (which is I think around 70 pages)... so it's a bit different.

But the limit here might be for server issues, but its not the same type of forum, so I don't know.

But 20 or 25 pages would be alot better.

You are exactly correct.

[SouthFloridawx]

Not that it matters much but, i'll kick in at 20-25 pages also.

[CajunMama]

At a forum that I'm an admin of, we have a limit due to server issues (because with our type of forum, whenever a thread is accessed, it loads all the posts, not just the posts shown on the page of the thread you are on)... but its a limit of 2,000 posts per thread (which is I think around 70 pages)... so it's a bit different.

But the limit here might be for server issues, but its not the same type of forum, so I don't know.

But 20 or 25 pages would be alot better.

You are exactly correct.

Yes this is correct. If you want the board to crawl with longer threads then there can't be any complaining on how slow the board is.

[mf_dolphin]

Sorry folks but this isn't up for a vote. We are discussing the limit but it's more of a technical issue than anything else. The way our board's software runs is that when you click on a topic to read it the board reads every post involved out of the database and then gives you the first 20 posts. With 20 posts per page a 50 page thread would cause over 1000 database reads. Now take a thread like recon/advisories etc which sometime have 50-60 doing that at once the load can get overwhelming. By minimizing the number of pages we cut down on the impact of this shortcoming. We are also looking into a board modification that would change the behavior of the board but until we know a little more we're going to keep the limit as it is. Thanks for your understanding.

[Stratusxpeye]

100% Agree At least 25 Pages. If Mods or Execs have a concern with this as I do understand due to server load this is a concern they should post an amount we all as members need to raise to afford something better. Like a Storm 2K Telethon on-line

There are many problems with this. As stated in a post above the last post is completely ignored and This is just an invest and when you refresh or go to post your post may not post the thread may be locked by then. Also there's almost a whole new page when you post and you can not navigate back later on to check the thread. I agree with raising the limit.

[x-y-no]

Sorry folks but this isn't up for a vote. We are discussing the limit but it's more of a technical issue than anything else. The way our board's software runs is that when you click on a topic to read it the board reads every post involved out of the database and then gives you the first 20 posts. With 20 posts per page a 50 page thread would cause over 1000 database reads. Now take a thread like recon/advisories etc which sometime have 50-60 doing that at once the load can get overwhelming. By minimizing the number of pages we cut down on the impact of this shortcoming. We are also looking into a board modification that would change the behavior of the board but until we know a little more we're going to keep the limit as it is. Thanks for your understanding.

You're the boss!

I'm sure we'll all manage to live with it.

[mf_dolphin]

Believe me we don't want to have a 10 page rule. It's just a way of temporarily dealing with a performance issue.