a) What Elena said. I have mine set at 30, because I thought it would be more helpful, but will set it at any number I'm told to - because I'm just that kind of girl.
b)...
Generally, when some outside place links to a VIP quote, they've already quoted the VIP. People who follow the link will want to read the posts around it for context. If we set up a special page with the VIP quote, most folks will still poke around trying to find the discussion from which it arose. That ends up using more resources, not less. Leaving things as they are may well be the most efficient way of dealing with this.
Yes, what Jon said. Also? What those-who-are-VIP-hounds want, is to be *noticed* by Joss (Tim, the Beagle, Whomever) - so they want to post where J/T/tB/W posted, so that their brilliance, humor, sex appeal, will be apparent, and, based on one post, timed just right - they will Be. Big. Star.
t /jaded
eta...
I don't mean to imply that most folks who follow a link to a VIP post are VIP hounds. Most are regular fans who want to sip from the grail. There's just this starfcker contingent...
So by having my preference set at 50 posts per page I'm not taxing the system more than I would be if I had it at 10?
If you plan to read all 50 posts, then it's less taxing to bring them up all on one page, rather than on several separate pages.
Whew! I've logged in maybe eight times in the last half-hour, and every time I clicked on one of my subs, I was "in guest mode," with no posting box. Is it all better now? Was it my computer or did the board have a hiccup?
Nope. I hit "post" and when the post came up I was back in "guest mode." I right-clicked and "back" to edit my post.
Whazzit?
This is your normal browser? With cookies enabled?
Are you going to [link] or [link] And do the links have the www prefix or not?
Ummm, it seems to be working fine, now. The URL in the browser window is the former of the two you posted, with the www prefix. Sorry for the lag, I had to be away for a couple of hours.
Crap. I'm logged out again. Did the right-click, "back" thing again to edit this. Foo. And darn.
I had to log in three times today. Twice from my bookmark that used to point to my message centre on opening Netscape 7, and it now sends me here:
[link]
The other time, I hit the "Message Centre" link at a bottom of a page I'd been sitting in for about a half hour or so, and got taken to the index page, and was logged out. I haven't changed any settings. And I'm using Windows 2000, and Netscape 7.
I shut down my computer overnight and clicked on my bookmark today, came right to b.org, already logged in, and have stayed logged in.
I figured out what happened, I think. I have both Netscape 7.0 and IE on this machine. I couldn't get DX's video to run yesterday in Netscape, so I logged on in IE to view the video while still logged in here in Netscape. I think I confused my computer. The trouble started when I shut down IE and attempted to navigate b.org in Netscape. But today, no problems atall.
I had to log again this morning.
Sarahrachel123 "Sunnydale Press" Jul 8, 2003 10:31:46 pm PDT
This post really ought to be deleted, but I couldn't bring myself to do it -- seems too mean.
Oh!
Yeah, maybe just a stompy note below reposting the thread header?
