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La Reine Margot wrote: ↑Fri Sep 27, 2024 6:46 pm There was a time, not long ago, when we reached our capacity for attachment. It happened more than once, actually. The first time ralphus.net went out was when it had reached a limit. It happened again after we moved the site to a new server, with more control over things. And it happened again and we were forced to upgrade our plan so the site could hold a lot more pictures.... and we upgraded again when we were meeting another limit.... and so on and so forth.

It has come to my attention that some people post pages and pages of attachments in one or two days... and those posts are not exactly GIMP. (I'm tempted to create a forum dedicated to mature ladies, really... )

I set the limits to 1 picture per post for the time being.

There were comments about how to control this... it's only possible if I take away the permissions from people that break the rules. However, I don't think that is a good thing. I think that we should all be nice about this and not abuse the capacity of a good thing.

We don't want to go through upgrades every few months, it costs money and our budget to maintain this site increases. I can foresee a time when the capacity of the server is overtaken and this site will become a relic.

This is a free site, and although we recently made a campaign to raise enough fund to make it stronger and with a lot more capacity, that is no unlimited.

I want to make a deal.

DON"T ABUSE your privilege to freely and openly post whatever you wish, except CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, of course, and I will bring up the limit of attachment per post to 3. Right now it's set at 1.

And what does it mean not abuse? Don't put 100 attachments in one week. Come on! I remember when I was just a poster here when I made a post with 40 pictures, instead of my normal 3 or 4, during the old days... but those were no attachments, they were links to our site. But Ralphus saw that as ABUSE and took the post down, completely down.

I could do that too, but it's too much work and I would have to ask for a raise.

So, this is the deal, limit yourself to the average 2 posts 3 pictures per day, not pages and pages and pages with pictures and pictures and pictures in one day.

When I see some agreements here, I'll change the settings. If I don't get more than one or two responses, the one picture per post will remain, and if I feel in a bad mood, I'll start eliminating excess of posts...

Thank you

cluseb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:26 am One option of third party hosting --> https://postimages.org



Later to day I'll put up a page explaining how to do it from " motherless" it's a little different, 1 extra step

hornythumb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:03 am

cluseb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:26 am One option of third party hosting --> https://postimages.org

Later to day I'll put up a page explaining how to do it from " motherless" it's a little different, 1 extra step

Isn't this place banned?
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explaining how to do it from " motherless"
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Just a question motivated by something I saw on an open discussion thread.

wee.eddie wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:46 am Seems to me that "MK" is bent on destroying the Forum by posting 100s of images

cluseb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 4:02 pm

hornythumb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 10:03 am

cluseb wrote: ↑Sun Sep 29, 2024 7:26 am One option of third party hosting --> https://postimages.org

Later to day I'll put up a page explaining how to do it from " motherless" it's a little different, 1 extra step

Isn't this place banned?
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explaining how to do it from " motherless"
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Just a question motivated by something I saw on an open discussion thread.

I know what your referencing to, I got chewed out a couple of years ago for the same sin.
Some times when someone is really pissed off they make statements in the heat of the moment that on reflection seem a little extreme not to mention harder to do than to say.

"And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action"
................................William Shakespeare

BobDarkroom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:30 am

wee.eddie wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:46 am Seems to me that "MK" is bent on destroying the Forum by posting 100s of images

You're right and he isn't the only one but he's probably the record holder.

cluseb wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:00 pm

BobDarkroom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:30 am

wee.eddie wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:46 am Seems to me that "MK" is bent on destroying the Forum by posting 100s of images

You're right and he isn't the only one but he's probably the record holder.

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Seems like a long time for him to go dark.

BobDarkroom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:30 am

wee.eddie wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:46 am Seems to me that "MK" is bent on destroying the Forum by posting 100s of images

You're right and he isn't the only one but he's probably the record holder.

La Reine Margot wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:26 pm

cluseb wrote: ↑Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:00 pm

BobDarkroom wrote: ↑Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:30 am

You're right and he isn't the only one but he's probably the record holder.

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Seems like a long time for him to go dark.

No action was taken against any individual or post or attachment. We went back to 3 pictures per post, as before with the hope that people wont abuse the privilege. That's all.

My comment at the time of resetting the number of pix per post was that the site has enough storage space for now and it will be like that for a long time unless there's a deluge of pages with posts and pictures that fills up the space. That's it.