We may do that. Right now the simplest thing to do is cap the number of open threads in TRS and IP. I'm going to pluck the number 1000 out of the air and set the cap there.
Edited to add: That's implemented. Standby for the howling.
edited 13th Sep '11 4:18:42 PM by FastEddie
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyThe auto-message says "There are 1445 threads open in this Repair Shop or Image Pickin' forum. The limit is 1000. We won't be talking new items here until some threads are closed." However, the stale shop report
says there are 1986 left. Which one's the glitch?
There are 1437 threads open in this Repair Shop or Image Pickin' forum. The limit is 1000. We won't be talking new items here until some threads are closed.
Ouch. (I was just going to open a quick one too.)
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Maybe we should bump and lock the say half last page of image picking and repair shop.... then if anyone wants to input on a certain situation use the mod alert thing to unlock?
This whole rush to get things done so we can open up new threads is going to get alot of people just doing things for the hell of it without even a crowner or such.
edited 13th Sep '11 7:42:20 PM by Raso
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That is a good idea because man sometimes I forget which ones I was involved in / opened up.
Ooh, I thought of something. What if we kicked all the "I think this needs a split" stuff over to Trope Talk? If we find a broken trope, and the problem is that it's several tropes run together, we start the YKTTW and move the thread to Trope Talk to coordinate it.
Fight smart, not fair.
Turning Trope Talk into TRS part II is not going to help things. It's just going to make things more of a mess.
Yes. You make a post in the thread and then just hit the yellow triangle button on top of the post to holler for a mod. Don't do it prematurely though. That's frowned upon.
edited 14th Sep '11 8:35:24 AM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickI've noticed a few where the heart of the issue is simply asking for Natter cleanup. I wonder if people post TRS threads for that because the thread about natter clean-up is in Special Efforts.
Maybe it would be helpful to put a post in TRS directing people to the appropriate thread rather than starting a new TRS thread.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.If it really is just a Natter clean-up or example scrub-down or wick cleaning that's needed, those can be moved to Special efforts. They aren't trope repair. They're just a page that's in need of a dose of concentrated clean-up.
Remember when a lot of those threads were made, we didn't have the special Efforts section yet.
edited 14th Sep '11 12:12:00 PM by Madrugada
It wasn't an overflow, it was more that when it gets to "splitting", most of what goes on is just monitoring YKTT Ws instead of any kind of actual repair work. A number of tropes get put in TRS with "I think we should split this" as a reason. Is that really a repair issue?
Fight smart, not fair.Not in the strictest sense of "repair", but then in the strictest sense of "repair", neither is "merge?" or "Bounce back to YKTTW", or "Cut?"
That's very much a repair issue. That's doing a large scale repair on a page. Trope Talk doesn't alert anyone that something is going on with the page. It doesn't let them know that you're going to do a massive change to it. That's a TRS issue.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

I still think some way to tag TRS threads would help. Rename, Definition, Clean Up, Misuse, No Wiks, could all be tags which would help people at least sort through and find threads that are easy to finish fast.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick