OK, look, I am trying to figure out why some of us had these issues. And it's conspicuous that it was "the troublemakers" as we shall be known. I know others had problems, too, but I'm not talking just slower loading of pages, I'm talking multiple failed attempts, sometimes blank pages, more than 9 out of 10 times not able to access any kind of content on BF. The degree of deterioration brings a new quality to the quantity of "problems".

As for hooters having two accounts associated with "his" IP address, did it occur to you (plural) that IP addresses are usually administered and provided by a DHCP server randomly, or several people may be using the same IP address when shielded by a network address translation firewall. When I was working at Nokia, everyone in our campus had the same IP address visible externally, and at one time Slashdot banned that IP address because of one boneheaded guy what was trying to overwhealm their webservers. So we all were cut off.

OK Brian, this admittedly is only my theory: Why would you monitor us? I have no exact reason. I think you didn't like our opinions or the way we presented them concerning the tommassini debate. You did say we weren't wealthy enough to purchase one so our opinions don't matter. You were at every single tommassini thread making your presence known. Right? You wanted trouble makers to be quiet. Right? Essentially you were looking for violations of the Bike Forums guidelines. Something. Anything. Also, maybe you didnt like the "tiny violins" comment (which you must now admint was funny). I don't know. But mrrabbit hit it on the head as far as I'm concerned. Read below.
This means if Brian is "monitoring" us (or has us on an active list of people the forum software will keep tabs on), and we log on or do anything, the whole website is slowed down because the utilty software is not set to the right "threshhold".


He did. Thats why we all got our normal usage back. Am I wrong here? Anyway, thats my theory. Or, it could be as simple as cuda2K running IP traces on all of us for the same reasons and that alone was enough to cause the problem. I have more reason to believe and feel inclined to believe the first explanation though.

Also, I actually do have enough money to buy one of those frames, but I'd rather not.

I have 2 IDs and Brian said that was ok for the reasons I did it. I only did it to see if what others were saying was true. It was. My original ID was slowed down, not my computer or my cache. I actually don't want the other ID anymore but i don't know how to delete it.

Yes, we are aware that more than one user can be on the same IP address. But that is irrelevant. Figuring out when it's one person with multiple usernames is rarely rocket science.

Here we go again. There would be no need to monitor you, or any other user. None of us could be bothered to take the time to keep tabs on any individual user. Inappropriate posts generally get reported to the moderators queue pretty quickly by other members.

There was no Tommasini "debate". I think "razzing" would be a better word, don't you? Regardless of how ridiculous the original allegations may have seemed, Tina should not have been subjected to as much abuse as she was. I've gone over that already. And here is my quote, copied right from that post:

"Reviewing this thread, I suspect that many of the negative comments came from posters that would never dream of purchasing a Tommasini, or would not have the means to do so."

That comment was based on the fact that several members in the SS/Fixie contingent were pretty vocal about the fact that they would never buy a Tommasini road frame, but would consider a Gorilla track frame.

Out of at least seven Tommasini threads, I'm pretty sure I only posted in 3 or maybe four, at the most. Is there something surprising about the admin posting? Why do you think anyone would go looking for violations of the guidelines? On the one hand, they're not usually too hard to find. On the other hand, that's kind of the point of moderating a forum, isn't it? Or are we doing this all wrong?

Except that no such utility exists, making that theory moot.

[edit] Fark! I typed all that out, and got an error message when I hit the Preview button. Luckily, I always copy my long posts before submitting, in case there is a server issue.

I just want to know who crashed the entire site for near if not over an hour last night. I know it wasn't me... this time!

I was writing the foil hat thesis you see above. And I had to wait until this morning to post it. Must be a conspiracy.

This is not true. Brian made no posting to the Tommasini thread in C & V.

Just sayin'.

East Hill

That thread was apparently quite civil.

We do tend to be a bit quieter there.

East Hill

I wasn't logged in last night, but I do have a foil hat.
and as an aside, weaving the foil in one's hair works just as well.
I saw a whole family in Alexandria, Va. who presented to the ER that
way, being that close to pentagon and CIA, well we learned a lot.

marty

Dang, I learned something new. Here I always thought that hair foil wraps were just for colouring hair. I never thought about the side benefits of foil weaving.

Thanks lotek!

East Hill

reflects Gamma rays too.

No. It happened just as I was trying to post my mustache pic in the "Show us your mustaches" thread in foo.

BF simply couldn't handle how rad my 'stache is.

All three variations--way cool !

East Hill

I just posted mine in there, and the server didn't crash. I can only conclude that mine is either way better than yours, or nowhere near as rad as yours.

Oh you guy's don't EVEN want to see my moustache.

yeah we do ^

See, now that's what I was going to say. But in a good way .

East Hill