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[Pathy 0]

How come a thread about the 5th November (British Celebration) gets locked due to it not being international, yet a thread about thanksgiving (An American Celebration) is allowed, even though its not international aslo....

I'm confused about the consistancy with the forum rules here, so what gives?

[Balschoiw 0]

I may be not getting it, but opening a thread with the title

The ashes06/06 and NO content but some smileys can hardly be called a reasonable thread about anything.

[Pathy 0]

Yeah, you aren't getting it. Different thread i'm referring to.

[walker 0]

Hi all

My one peneth worth; PHP based forums are extremely flaky you only have to look how many times OFPEC has gone down or been hacked to realise that.

As to Ikonboard I have found it far more reliable.

And the recent problems as have been pointed out are with the database software and hardware needing an upgrade not the forum software. In fact Ikonboard has been extremly reliable and fault tolerent.

Despite the massive load Ikonboard has not failed us once during this time. Which shows just how good it is.

It obvious that load is the issue and that is dealt with by upgrades to the DB server and to the hard ware it runs on. You should not confuse the DB server that holds the database with the web server which runs presents the forum to us often they are and need to be on seperate servers optimised for the two different tasks.

Upgrades to the bandwidth the BIS forums use may also be called for but I dare say those at BIS will know what they need to do.

Kind Regards Walker

[NeMeSiS 11]

Ok i just got a message that my inbox was full, after deleting a few i checked the counter and it says that i have 198 messages, however there are +-100 messages in my inbox.

Dooes it count your sent items too?

[raedor 8]

Ok i just got a message that my inbox was full, after deleting a few i checked the counter and it says that i have 198 messages, however there are +-100 messages in my inbox.

Dooes it count your sent items too?

Yes, it does.

[shadow 6]

If you dont check the box called Add a copy of this message to my sent items folder you wont have so many messages stored.

[NeMeSiS 11]

Thank you both, i hope that i wont have to delete anything for a while now

[dm 9]

Having just noticed that the 2003 VIP status markers have been removed, it makes me wonder a bit about the various member groups.

I can understand stuff like OF Developer (tho I'm not sure why Suma and co are in "OF Forum Team" and not "OF Developer" - and surely that should now be "BI Developer" and something like "BI Staff" since ArmA and VBS are also part of the portfolio?)

Also - unless O2 "2" is planned to have the same style release as O2 Light did back in the day, is the "ModMaker" group not very redundant now?

[DaSquade 0]

No offence DM, but isn't that something that would fit better in PM ? But since you brought it up, I just hope BI knows there are many tallented persons (with old or new skills) that don't have an 'elite-mod-whatever' title (over here or in general) or contacts , but are also looking very forward to the tools. Personally i'm looking more forward to the tools then ArmA itself (tools i will be able to run and get some stuff in progress again, not sure about ArmA but will know in 1-2 days).

*Deleted some stuff though . If Shin was mod here he would of skulp me .

This was friendly meant, but feel free to delete it as personally don't think it fits here .

[Placebo 29]

Modmaker group is defunct and should we ever need to use something like that again (as we have today for the CWR group) we'll move everyone off it and start something else.

OF Developer has less admin rights than Forum team or whatever which is why certain people who are OF Developers are in fact in the other member group.

[BraTTy 0]

Just a note that I recently had forums problems...

I went into my control panel to change my account to my new email.Something happened and I never got the email to authorize my account so I had been sitting here for days unable to post or even send a private message.

In my attempts to get this fixed I had to email outside of the forums to the mods. Unfortunately Placebo was the only mod with a email displaying,all others are hiding their email.

Any chance other mods maybe update their profiles for future use?

[shadow 6]

Any chance other mods maybe update their profiles for future use?

This is a personal preference so I cant speak for the others, but I prefer keeping my adress private to avoid spam.

We only have our private email adresses registered here.

[JdB 151]

This is a personal preference so I cant speak for the others, but I prefer keeping my adress private to avoid spam.

We only have our private email adresses registered here.

There is an e-mail address to be found on your website (don't know if you still use it though). If you dig deep enough you'll always find what you're looking for

Nothing on the internet is private (simply not the nature of the type of media).

[Placebo 29]

And to be fair the other moderators don't get paid enough to receive the amount of abuse my inbox receives

[Major Fubar 0]

Hi all,

I'm back after an extended (and mostly unexpected) absence from the internet.

Anyone waiting on a reply on a PM, please be patient, I'll be sorting through all of them shortly...

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Thank god.

[shadow 6]

And to be fair the other moderators don't get paid enough to receive the amount of abuse my inbox receives

They get paid?   You tricked me  

Quote[/b] ]There is an e-mail address to be found on your website (don't know if you still use it though).

If its @c2i.net or @planetrainbowsix.com I dont have those accounts anymore, so trying to contact me on those would'nt help.

If you send a PM to me I will receive an email-notification about it

[Placebo 29]

And to be fair the other moderators don't get paid enough to receive the amount of abuse my inbox receives

They get paid? You tricked me

You get paid $0 per hour with double time on weekends, I think you're worth at least triple time on public holidays

[mike@uk 0]

Don't know if this is the right place to ask or not sorry, but I've made a SP mission for ArmA that's based around "things" that happen during the main Campaign, would it be alright for me to post it in the User Missions forum if it has the correct Spoiler Warnings, or would it be against the No Spoilers Rule?

Thanks.

[raedor 8]

If it has proper Spoiler Warnings it is okay. Don't reveal things in the title or subtitle.

[Journeyman 0]

…. So I posted a favourable comment in the photography thread this morning and asked someone who posted pics for their specs. As a result of this I get a warning level! ...LMAO!

I am a member of many forums and for the life of me I have never seen such an overly moderated board anywhere else ever! OK I know you are trying to keep things running smoothly and clutter free and I appreciate that it can be a frustrating job in such a busy forum, but for the love of god why are some of you mods so trigger happy?

So I forgot to check the first page of the thread just in case there were some special rules relating to it (which I now know there are), but some of us have got busy lives and cannot be running through every detail every time we want to post just in case we are contravening yet another hastily applied rule!  

Boy oh boy! Even when you try your best to keep your fingers clean they still get caught!  

[j w 0]

Well, no we got a seperate Photo-thread, and a seperate Comments&Questions-thread (yeye, I know I missed it ), so we're supposed to ask questions in the questions-thread, and post the pics in the photo-thread.

Just like it's been the past years in the OFP-section of the forum.

So I forgot to check the first page of the thread just in case there were some special rules relating to it (which I now know there are), but some of us have got busy lives and cannot be running through every detail every time we want to post just in case we are contravening yet another hastily applied rule!

That's not an excuse. Simply registrating to these forums obligates you to read and fully understand rules.

Wich should mean the seperate rules of single threads also.

JW

And now for a question from me:

The Report-to-moderator-function; in what ways can we use it? I understand that I can report offensive posts, posts with unappropriate links and all sort of stuff, but can I use it for lock-topic-requests, move-topic-requests, delete-post/topic-requests etc?

Where do you cut the line?

P.S. And I also understand that whatever we send through the report, it should be info enough for the mods to know what to do, no need to enlighten me there

Again

JW

[raedor 8]

@Red kite: You're one year around here. If you didn't get that it is forbidden to post comments in the official CP threads: I can't help you. We're quite strict in the CP thread(s) as if we are not, people will never get it. Everywhere else we're quite "trigger resistant", it has to become very spammy before we react...

@J_W: Use RTM whenever you want a mod to do something (of the things you noted); you can also send a PM, but RTMs are faster as you bother every mod with it

[j w 0]

@J_W: Use RTM whenever you want a mod to do something (of the things you noted); you can also send a PM, but RTMs are faster as you bother every mod with it

*RTMs: Get me a coke. And cookies.*

Thanks for answers