I thought I was auditioning....that's why I wore my best suit while typing.

 

That sounds good to me h20boy. How about we start with Admin and the Mods.

 

Bravo to the admins and mods for a job well done, thus far!!!

 

I personally would like to know what makes Caddie tick.

Perhaps she should be our first ginnea pig for the member spotlight thread.

 

"SHE" is really going to thank you for that, but yes good idea. So go ahead and start the thread.

 

"SHE?" Caddy's a she?

 

Could be that H20 knows about the "opp", be an interesting spotlight though:-)

 

Ok, caddie isn't a she. It was a typo on my part, but that would be a spin, wouldn't it?

 

I was wondering if his sig was supposed to be a reference to what he looked like or just because he likes that chick...lol.

 

Yup it would sure be a spin, but one heck of a typo.

Along the lines of instructions to an ER surgeon:

In the event of injury to this area don't just lop it off.

Becoming,

In the event of injury to this area do just lop it off.

Owch!!

So me thinks you should start your spotlight thread.

(Motor, the beautiful Charleze Theron)

 

Yes I think Caddie is a good candidate, I'd like to know more about him.

We could set up 10 standard questions they could answer.

For example -
1) Where born & grew up
2) Where do they live now
3) What do they do for a living
4) Family background
5) When did they get their first Jaguar and why
etc....

Cant think of any more. Im sure you will do a good job h20boy.

 

Thanks, Translator...her name escaped me.

I second (or third, or fourth, or whichever motion it's up to now) that emotion about Caddy.

 

Another thing...I was perusing the members list, and noticed that there are a LOT (and I do mean A LOT)) of "members" who have yet to post even once.

On one of the boards that I am an admin on, I go through once a month, and anyone who hasn't made any posts since signing up gets their account deleted. I generally make sure they've been a "member" for over 30 days, unless the email/membername is just too ridiculous to be real (in my opinion).

Yes, it takes a while, but it sure makes room on the database for people who really want to know stuff.

Statistics:

30,004 members on 765 pages in the member's list (according to the number at the bottom of the front page)
22,933 members according to the member's list

If we go by the second number, there are 557 FULL pages and one partial page of people have not made any posts...that totals up to 16724 people who have not made a post.

There are roughly 2,000 members who have only made 1 post (yes, this includes anyone who has registered over the last few days and actually made a post).

If it were me, I'd go in and check when each of the people who have no posts signed up, and if they signed up over, say, 6 months ago, delete that account. Make room for someone who actually wants to participate, and make a lighter load on the database server...it would also take up less space when creating backups of the db. I might also do that with people who only have 1 or 2 posts as well. If they haven't logged in for over 6 months, delete them.

My 2 cents.

 

^^ noted m0t0

 

Hey Momo....re the pruning of the database, sumthin I've been meaning to get round to for a while now
Anyways, in progress as we speak.
I'l be looking to delete all those with posts of minimal amounts as well as those that havent logged in for a year.
Basically, looking at as many options as possible to lighten the load and make the experience the best possible for all those members who wish to participate and use the site.
I'll be doing my best although I still seem to have limited acess at times.

All the best guys

Jim

 

Good show, Jim!! We know that you don't get paid to do this, and that your time is precious to you. No worries...I simply noticed it in passing one day.

 

Hey MM....thanks for the kind words.
As for the database? I spent a few hours last night and removed all banned members, members with zero post count / post count less than 10 and OR not been active for at least a year or so.
This has reduced the numbers by around 7000

I've still not got great connection and certain issues still remain, but I'm back on the case and hopefully we can start moving forward again.

For anyone who has forwarded me FAQ's to issue I'll be getting round to this hopefully in the next several days, so please bear with me, and then all being well normal service will be resumed.

Thanks

 

Keep up the good work Jim, just another 10,000 or so to go;-))

Know all about bad connections, and sympathize with you.

 

Perhaps a monthly "newsletter" type thing? Simply high-lighting new topics, or topics that have received a lot of replies & input? I'd be willing to pen something up the first of every month (starting Jan 1, 2010). The start of a new year...the start of something new for the forums.

Anyone? Hello? Bueller?

 

Hey MM...just read your post
Sounds like a great idea that we could easily apply. Why not put something together to give me a flavour of what you'd like to put out and I can have a look at it?
I'd suggest that it be short and to the point, with perhaps 2 or 3 links to the site.
Look forward to hearing from you......

Nice one