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Olias:

--- Quote from: RudySchneider on April 24, 2008, 02:34:55 pm ---No argument there, Olias, as long as it's something truly constructive, and not simply yet another fanboy- (or girl-) type acknowledgment like "that looks great!"  The whole point of the forums is supposed to be as an information exchange.  Once a thread has been dormant for months, anyone resurrecting a thread to merely comment, without providing any NEW information, is not really providing benefit to the community as a whole.

I have seen in the past several NEW members dredge up long-dead threads simply to say "I like it," which is great, but adds no value to the original poster, or to the community as a whole.  Now, if they have a question about how somehing was done, or use it as a point of reference, such as "I want to know how to do this...," then by all means, dredge away...

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Well, I'm afraid I have to disagree there as well.  No one but the poster can determine whether or not a post that says nothing more than "I like it" adds value to the poster.

While information exchange is certainly a valuable use for the forums, I'm sure there are people posting their work here not so much for the express purpose of exchanging information, but to display their works to the one group of people that can most appreciate them - other anim8or users.

Besides, one "I like it" post to an old thread isn't going to harm much...that thread will spend a day or two in the limelight then fall back off the front page as activity in the newer, hotter threads everyone's watching keeps them circulated on the front page.

RudySchneider:
Olias --- I'm not trying to be argumentative, and you have some valid points, but...

The primary reason Steve closed the original Anim8or.com forum was precisiely because of pointless posts.  Too many meaningless "I like it" and "Better than I could do" posts, consuming HIS bandwidth.  Granted, it's always nice to get recognition for your efforts, but the whole point of a forum is not to showcase YOUR (figuratively speaking) works.  YOU (again, figuratively) can do that on YOUR own website, and consume YOUR own bandwidth, for which YOU have to pay.  The REAL value of a forum is in the exchange of information, techniques, and tricks, and as a tool for training others.

Olias:

--- Quote from: RudySchneider on April 24, 2008, 03:26:24 pm ---Olias --- I'm not trying to be argumentative, and you have some valid points, but...

The primary reason Steve closed the original Anim8or.com forum was precisiely because of pointless posts.  Too many meaningless "I like it" and "Better than I could do" posts, consuming HIS bandwidth.  Granted, it's always nice to get recognition for your efforts, but the whole point of a forum is not to showcase YOUR (figuratively speaking) works.  YOU (again, figuratively) can do that on YOUR own website, and consume YOUR own bandwidth, for which YOU have to pay.  The REAL value of a forum is in the exchange of information, techniques, and tricks, and as a tool for training others.

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Hmm, well I don't know anything about Simple Machines Forums, but based on my experience hosting a couple of Invision Boards over the last several years, bandwidth on many forums has become pretty much unlimited, even on the free boards.

Furthermore, a post of just text, i.e. "I like it" consumes such a minute amount of bandwidth as to be a non-issue.  The only times we ran into bandwidth issues is when an image file actually uploaded to the site was repeateadly quoted, this problem was easily solved by linking offsite to Photobucket, Imageshack and so forth.

Again, I don't know how Simple Machines handles it, but I'm willing to bet bandwidth isn't the issue it was several years ago.

RudySchneider:
I see your point.  You don't see mine.  I think I've said enough.

Olias:

--- Quote from: RudySchneider on April 24, 2008, 03:37:26 pm ---I see your point.  You don't see mine.  I think I've said enough.

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Nah, I do see your point - in fact I experienced your point a few years ago on another forum I belong to.  It was a forum set up for a player association for an online game, which one of our friends set up out of his own pocket.

Well, I go to log in one day and get a 404 error.  We had other channels to communicate with, so I found out what had happened was one of the members uploaded a dozen or so vacation picture, those huge JPEGs you get off a hi-res digital camera.  After a few days of people looking at the pics (and the images downloading over and over again), the month's alottment of bandwidth was eaten.

It wasn't really her fault, as she nor anyone else knew anything about what did and didn't eat a forum's bandwidth.  Most of us didn't even know there was a limit or how any of it worked.  That served as our education on the matter.

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