A Modest Proposal

If you donate towards the site costs... you get "perks". You might wanna look into that way of increasing your send/receive problem that you seem to be having.

Link to the thread to help you: http://www.armageddongames.net/forums//thread/81167/

Wow...

I can't believe some of the things we're expected to pay for. A search feature? Was it really worth the time taken to gimp that out of the software by default? Sorry, but you guys don't pioneer or provide, you profit.

my rant for the day.

What problem? I can hold 10000. 😃

TD, just save a log of them when your box gets full. BTW, you aren't being satirical (� la Swift's pamphlet of the same name), are you?

No, there is no satirical prose in my works at this time. I'm simply paying tribute to a great writer as well as my namesake.

I can solve your problem - use the FREE feature - Delete Messages.

Terradigits wrote:prose

Ooh, that was fly. Did you hurt yourself? 😛

Also, if we didn't PM each other every five minutes, then you wouldn't have the problem of a full PM box. 😃

Well, frankly Pineconn, its just....no one else will talk to me 😞

And as for delete? too much of a hassle. Just double the limit. Seriously, its excessivly extreme. And don't pull the "it saves money card", because it doesn't. If someone is going to donate to your site, they'll do it regardless of the PMs, so by having the low limit, you're just p***ing off everyone who regularly PMs.

Terradigits wrote:Wow...

I can't believe some of the things we're expected to pay for. A search feature? Was it really worth the time taken to gimp that out of the software by default? Sorry, but you guys don't pioneer or provide, you profit.

my rant for the day.

I don't think you understand how much traffic this site gets. If everyone could use the search feature AGN would crash. Also if I remember right the more posts you have the more pm's you can send/receive.

There is no profit from members paying for a premium membership.

Maybe I am underestimating the traffic. But the search feature was simply one example of a side point I (perhaps foolishly) brought into the fold of this conversation. But how do other vbulletin sites deal with this traffic? Why not integrate a google search?

Terradigits wrote:Well, frankly Pineconn, its just....no one else will talk to me 😞

And as for delete? too much of a hassle. Just double the limit. Seriously, its excessivly extreme. And don't pull the "it saves money card", because it doesn't. If someone is going to donate to your site, they'll do it regardless of the PMs, so by having the low limit, you're just p***ing off everyone who regularly PMs.

im sorry, I didnt realise clicking the mouse 2 times was so hard 😉

lets just be happy we can even use this site and its features without much hassle 😃

I thought that this thread was going to be about eating children. I'm severely disappointed.

If you would like, I can discuss the practicallity of the real Modest Proposal with you. Or I can introduce baby eating into the thread somehow. But not until I get my point across. (although, frankly, I don't think I will. Nice guys finish last 😞)

Nice guys want to talk about eating kids?

phattonez wrote:I thought that this thread was going to be about eating children. I'm severely disappointed.

You an me both 😞
I even had ma steak tenderizer ready :tongue:

phattonez wrote:Nice guys want to talk about eating kids?

Phattonez = 1

Terradigits = 0

scratchnloved wrote:You an me both 😞
I even had ma steak tenderizer ready :tongue:

:scared:, and now cannibals enter AGN.

I can have 50 messages, what about you TD?

Don't bother. The last thread about baby eating ended up being distasteful...There's just not enough meat in those kinds of discussions.

I'd like to argue that babies in and of themselves don't have enough meat.

Adults on the other hand . . .

The Search feature consumes too much bandwidth. If everyone used it, AGN would go down in the first week of each month. Premium membership allows members to help pay to keep the site up.
Regarding private messages, you can do one of the following:
1. Take conversations to IM
2. Take requests and such to e-mail
3. Save your PMs to your computer
4. Become a premium member.

As has already been mentioned, no profit is made from Premium memberships, it just helps the site stay up.

Well, the propsal WAS modest. You could make the argument that a nice guy wrote that paper. It WAS for the greater good.

And the PM issue is simple. Just double the size limit. No harm done. The current value was arbitrarely set relative to the "rewards" you dole out, and frankly the limit is just too low.

Private message DarkDragon about it.

Terradigits wrote:If someone is going to donate to your site, they'll do it regardless of the PMs

I believe the problem with traffic is related to the quality of the server more so then the amount of bandwith AGN has available.

every time a new person mentions something you have to pay for, things get ugly it seems...

While my time here may have, so far, been short, I have a request to bestow apon the elegant, gracious hosts of this site. Can we possibly double or triple the amount of private message we're allowed to send/recieve? Frankly, i've already filled up 1.2 times, and it will soon get annoying. Private messages consume very little space (I can get statistics if nessecary), and with the amount of resources and prestige present at AGN, im sure my request will be no problem. Don't make me start demanding. (I kid, I kid. But really, you don't want to be on one of my bad lists...)

Your capacity will double when you get 100 posts.
In any case, just delete your old PMs. AGN is not your private Thunderbird.

I'd have no objection to everyone being allowed to search, but War Lord has stated that it poses an unreasonable strain on bandwidth, and I don't pay the hosting fees, so that's that.

phattonez wrote:I thought that this thread was going to be about eating children. I'm severely disappointed.

As did I.

Masamune wrote:As did I.

Your avatar always makes me think of a Gremlin.

Well, it doesn't look like Terradigits will have to worry about having a small message box anymore. :laughing:

Pineconn wrote:Well, it doesn't look like Terradigits will have to worry about having a small message box anymore. :laughing:

Pineconn did you know it was Pineconn_lolz?

Yeah, we all actually knew (he pretty much came out and said it in "So..."😉.

I didn't post for him by proxy, so I don't see what the problem is, officer. You'll never take me alive! 🙄