LOL @ SF

TurboWarrior

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The search function was at the heart of the problem way back. Sometimes when people did a search it crashed the whole forum. They did alot of maintainence, purged the database, etc. Didn't help much. They will be giving up on the search function completely im sure if its causing these problems this time.
 

Supracentral

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Most large forums have a staff that is technically competent, at least at the top levels of forum administration.

SF's hiring practices have always seemed to have been a "who knows who" and "who is popular" contest.

This is your root cause.

There is NOTHING about SF that is all that difficult or unique. There are more popular forums on the Internet. It's just poorly managed.
 

Zazzn

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I can tell you I offered them to run soem diags and a perf mon to see what was chewing up their servers I got a reply once but never back after that..

AND not all the SF moderators are bad, I'd like to think i'm even handed.
 

Supracentral

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Zazzn said:
I can tell you I offered them to run soem diags and a perf mon to see what was chewing up their servers I got a reply once but never back after that..

Yea, I've made several offers to Dusty & David to fix it for them. These guys know me, in real life, not just on the Internet. But when it comes to SF, they act strangely. I've never been able to figure it out.

Zazzn said:
AND not all the SF moderators are bad, I'd like to think i'm even handed.

No, you are right, they aren't all bad. I'm friends with quite a few of them. Steve Theodore has a site hosted here on our server - (http://www.suprahardtopregistry.com). I know Artaxerxes (David) pretty well. V8 Killer (Dusty) and I have known each other for years. As well as houstonT (Peter) and Trent. 8secsupra (Jarrett from PHR) is an old friend of mine.

There are some very good people on the staff over there. But there are some notable petty tyrants and quite a few horribly unprofessional people over there as well who seem to be firmly, and permanently cemented in positions of power.

I've never sat a staff position over there, so I have no idea how they run the show. The staff here is very tightly knit. We are all in constant communication. SF seems to be a collection of fiefdoms, where each mod rules as he sees fit with little oversight from the management or the user base. That a recipe for petty tyranny. As I said, I don't know this, you would know better, but that's the impression from the outside.