Honestly, There are no performance issues since the posts in a thread are never called up all at once, these threads and the posts within them are all indexed, the servers hosting these sites aren't 20 years old, and none of these threads have 10000 posts in them. It may be a pain for a user to wade through several pages of replies to find a specific post but forum performance itself isn't affected for anyone else.
C'mon guys it's 2010 not 1990, get with the times ;-)
I am not sure I understand this.
This is not my sandbox or my rules.
I am only repeating what has been written by those in authority on this board.
I would advise that we try to play by their rules, since we all agreed to the TOS when signing in.
I personally respect MWD and thank her for letting us have this place.
Lance, I'm not sure I understand why you quoted me and what you're specifically asking? Was there an issue with what I had posted? I haven't lied or misrepresented the truth on forum performance issues, I have seen other forums outside of this website with threads that have post counts in the 1000+ and 10000+ mark, a thread with a few hundred posts is not going to cause a performance issue for the entire forum.
My post was specifically concerning the idea that a few hundred posts in a specific thread may cause performance issues for the entire discussion forum, and to repeat what I said, it won't.
Whatever rules you were referring to I'm sure I haven't broken so I don't understand how that got mixed up with what I was saying. I also haven't disrespected MWD or this website, I've been a contributing member for nearly 2 years. I'm also an I.T. Professional, work in the "biz", and have a clue as to what I'm talking about.
Please don't quote me out of context and put words in my mouth, that to me is disrespectful.
