Actually, I really don't know what bandwidth is -- I just know I'm trying to save it. I collapsed the categories the day I read the bandwidth savings post but don't know if I'm able to collapse them further. I left the 3 things in the profile checked, and try to keep my posts under 5 a day, but don't know if that makes any difference or not.
Your efforts and the efforts of other cousins to save bandwidth have been much appreciated. The ultimate goal in doing so is to keep the message board online for everyone to enjoy, but I gasped when I read that you try to keep your posts to under 5 a day. Connie, if you or anyone else has something to add to any discussion, please feel free to post it instead of denying the rest of us that valuable opportunity. I really mean it!
Okay, yes, there's a 10-post limit set into the system, which I feel is reasonable, but its intent has always been to prevent any one person from dominating the forum or a particular discussion and never to stifle anyone's creativity. What you see on your screen if you reach your limit is just a gentle and private reminder, and when the forum clock resets at midnite, er, midnight GMT you're immediately back in business!
I talked about fluffing a while back, and MB and I will eventually be coming up with a guideline that will address it (TIME??? We don't need no stinkin' time!
), but that's only because we feel we've been backed into a corner, and this is a separate issue from the posting limit and one that you as well as most posters shouldn't have to worry about. Fluffing is easy to spot, and any cousin guilty of the practice
knows that they're doing it.
I guess I should define it again, especially since it's a term with multiple meanings outside of internet posting boards. Fluffing occurs when members attempt to inflate their post totals in order to gain a more prestigious title on the forums. We're not attempting to judge the content of messages; if a poster wants to merely post "LOL" or a smiley because that's how they want to express themselves at that time, then by all means they should do it. What makes a message problematic is its
intent-- if the poster is clicking submit with the purpose of upping their own total, they're fluffing. This doesn't enhance the board, it does waste bandwidth as well as the time of everyone that reads these posts, and it ticks off the moderator.
I hope I didn't confuse anyone! And I didn't mean to come across like I'm lecturing, or that I'm only addressing one person.
The only problem NOW is......
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I keep slipping off my chair...
(No...sorry...sorry) SHUT MY MOUTH!
With fondest joy,
Connie
LMAO! Connie, you slay me!!