Kayaker
June 13th, 2004, 14:39
Hi All,
There seems to be a growing tendency when replying to a post to use the 'Reply With Quote' or 'Quick Reply to this message' buttons. This is convenient and I tend to do it myself. The problem is that some people rarely edit out the unneeded parts of the points they are replying to, and we often end up with posts with a one sentence reply and a several paragraph original Quote, over and over again.
Besides being redundant and making the thread more difficult to read, this is causing the size of the forum database to grow at an alarming rate. For example, the DB download for archive/backup purposes in January was 180Mb, now it's over 300Mb. I hate to extrapolate to next year at this time.
The DB is backed up daily on the server and the size isn't really a big deal, but for those of us who download it regularly to our harddrives for safety, size does matter as they say. Note that this will also increase the size of the Archive .chm file of the forum unnecessarily, which you guys/gals download, and makes it harder to read.
I'm not certain why the increased tendency to include quotes, I think it's just the layout of the new VBulletin version we're using and the 2 "quote" reply buttons, the regular Reply button at the end of the thread is not quite as prominent.
All we're asking is that people be aware of this and be a little more selective when including quotes, and we'll have a more streamlined and easier to read forum.
Thanks.
Regards,
Kayaker
There seems to be a growing tendency when replying to a post to use the 'Reply With Quote' or 'Quick Reply to this message' buttons. This is convenient and I tend to do it myself. The problem is that some people rarely edit out the unneeded parts of the points they are replying to, and we often end up with posts with a one sentence reply and a several paragraph original Quote, over and over again.
Besides being redundant and making the thread more difficult to read, this is causing the size of the forum database to grow at an alarming rate. For example, the DB download for archive/backup purposes in January was 180Mb, now it's over 300Mb. I hate to extrapolate to next year at this time.
The DB is backed up daily on the server and the size isn't really a big deal, but for those of us who download it regularly to our harddrives for safety, size does matter as they say. Note that this will also increase the size of the Archive .chm file of the forum unnecessarily, which you guys/gals download, and makes it harder to read.
I'm not certain why the increased tendency to include quotes, I think it's just the layout of the new VBulletin version we're using and the 2 "quote" reply buttons, the regular Reply button at the end of the thread is not quite as prominent.
All we're asking is that people be aware of this and be a little more selective when including quotes, and we'll have a more streamlined and easier to read forum.
Thanks.
Regards,
Kayaker