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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#226: Sep 28th 2011 at 10:11:53 AM

It's enough time for there to be objections and for things to be unlocked if someone just hit the wrong button.

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#227: Sep 28th 2011 at 11:09:28 AM

There wasn't supposed to be a delay - that's a bug that is now fixed. If a thread gets locked too early, just Holler about it. Easy enough to move it back.

edited 28th Sep '11 11:09:43 AM by Fighteer

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#228: Sep 28th 2011 at 11:18:49 AM

I actually like having a delay.

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#229: Sep 28th 2011 at 11:21:10 AM

It would probably be easier to do it once a day, like have the widget run every day at 3 AM or something.

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#230: Sep 28th 2011 at 11:26:12 AM

Thread locks don't happen often enough that it imposes a huge processing burden on the system. Anyway, let Eddie sweat the technical stuff. Locked means it's done. If you don't see a TRS or IP thread around any more, go to the Morgue and see if it was carted off on a slab. Simple enough.

edited 28th Sep '11 11:26:58 AM by Fighteer

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#231: Sep 28th 2011 at 11:49:38 AM

My only objection to an insta-poof is that sometimes I'll lock an IP thread without putting a caption up, but leave a note that if someone wants to add one to do so...however, I posted a potential change to IP policy regarding that in the thread in there; comments would be helpful.

edited 28th Sep '11 11:50:05 AM by Willbyr

blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#232: Sep 28th 2011 at 11:51:10 AM

Maybe a stickied thread called Needs Captioned?

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#233: Sep 28th 2011 at 11:58:47 AM

[up] Nah, I don't think we need to go that far...captions are nice, but they're not necessary.

blackcat Since: Apr, 2009
#234: Sep 28th 2011 at 1:14:38 PM

Yeah, even as I hit "send" I realized that adding one more step wasn't going to help anything

Spark9 Since: Nov, 2010
#235: Sep 29th 2011 at 6:39:04 AM

I think the list of "TRS topics with a crowner" should only list those with an open crowner (i.e. excluding those with a locked crowner).

Incidentally, I note that its "next page" button (the '1' at the bottom) doesn't work.

Stratadrake Dragon Writer Since: Oct, 2009
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#236: Sep 29th 2011 at 7:43:18 AM

Toss my hat in with the "delay before poof" crowd. I've seen one or two cases where I've wanted to drop a comment on a thread but discovered it got locked before I could check back on the forums, and I've also seen a few cases where I want to say "hey, wait a minute!" because I personally thought the lock was premature. (Now, in either case I didn't care enough to PM the mod and give my $.02 about it, but that's a separate issue.)

Also, when I see a locked thread in general, my first reaction is to check the thread to see how it concluded. After that I don't care about it anymore, but when a thread just goes *poof* and vanishes with no explanation (especially if it's one you started) that creates confusion. We don't want to set a precedent for topics about "hey, why did X topic disappear?"

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#237: Sep 29th 2011 at 9:59:25 AM

Yeah, especially when most topics end with a note from the mods saying things like "Please use other thread" or "Locked because of X Decision". I think a day is enough time for them to hang around to just make sure that there aren't any loose ends.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
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#238: Oct 1st 2011 at 10:09:21 PM

Well the whole lockdown thing so maybe people will work on old threads is not working >< people are just making threads other places and/or things are just getting passed over that should be issues there.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#239: Oct 2nd 2011 at 2:46:20 PM

Disagree. I've been watching the count. We're slowly but steadily knocking out between 5 and 10 threads a day.

Though I don't have a lot of time, I've been trying to find at least one thread/day that can be knocked down quickly. Not always successfully, but I've gotten a few out.

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#240: Oct 2nd 2011 at 2:56:25 PM

^^We're locking out-of-place threads, and there is no difference at all between making a TRS thread and not acting on it and not making a TRS thread at all. Either way, nothing gets done.

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Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#241: Oct 2nd 2011 at 5:00:38 PM

Is it intentional that Image Pickin appears to have been re-opened to new posts based on the count of threads currently in it, while the message for TRS says that it's counting both itself and Image Pickin? Or am I just confused?

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#242: Oct 2nd 2011 at 5:04:26 PM

They each have a limit of 1000. The number isn't the total of the two.

Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#243: Oct 2nd 2011 at 5:06:13 PM

Ok, so the message is confusingly worded.

ETA: Looks like it got tweaked, yay.

edited 3rd Oct '11 8:52:27 AM by Elle

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#244: Oct 3rd 2011 at 4:30:22 PM

Did something get tweaked with the locked thread archiver? I just closed a thread in IP, but it didn't give me the style questions, and the thread wasn't in the list when I checked.

EDIT: Yep, the thread was immediately kicked to the Morgue, but threads that were locked between the first big kick to the Morgue and now are still in IP...do those need to be unlocked and then re-locked to kick them over, or is another sweep gonna be done?

edited 3rd Oct '11 4:33:35 PM by Willbyr

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#245: Oct 3rd 2011 at 4:35:12 PM

Crap. Yeah, I broke one thing while fixing another. One of those days. Standby for a fix.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#246: Oct 3rd 2011 at 4:38:06 PM

[up] Don't sweat it, it's Monday. wink

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#247: Oct 3rd 2011 at 4:39:57 PM

That fix is in. I wonder what it breaks.wink

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#248: Oct 3rd 2011 at 9:39:22 PM

Well, there has to be a certain amount of bugs in the code. Otherwise, the stars will align and an Old One will wake up and go on a rampage.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#249: Oct 3rd 2011 at 9:41:36 PM

Oh, didn't know there's a thread on this topic. Shame on me for launching a thread on it. :/

So...how's the progress?

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Madrugada Since: Jan, 2001
#250: Oct 3rd 2011 at 9:53:31 PM

It's down to 11 pages, or something under 1100 open threads.


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