Have you been on the miserable users list?

[stuck]

Based on this post (http://forums.intpcentral.com/showpost.php?p=1295284&postcount=36), I have come to believe I may have been placed periodically on a list of "miserable users". This group of elites enjoys lag times and a certain percentage of forum outages.

The reason I think this may be the case is that I have noticed the forum going down for random periods of time, with nobody seeming to notice. My brilliant, massive brain with its shocking attention to details has just put these two things together.

Can a mod confirm?

If you're not a mod, do you suspect this has ever happened to you?



When classed as miserable, a member suffers ;

1. Slow response (time delay) on every page (20 to 60 seconds default).
2. A chance they will get the "server busy" message (50% by default).
3. A chance that no search facilities will be available (75% by default).
4. A chance they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).
5. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).
6. Post flood limit increased by a defined factor (10 times by default).
7. If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.


http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=165961

[Delilah]

I don't know. If those things were happening I am guessing that I would assume it was my computer, swear a lot, and eventually wander off to another part of the internet for a while.

[C.J.Woolf]

As I recall, no one has been put in Miserable Users since the "Limey incident".

How often do you have performance problems? I have them occasionally myself.

[stigmatica]

I've had similar issues on 4 or 5 occasions. Other websites worked fine, but INTPc went into la la land for maybe 10 or 15 minutes. I just figured the server was choking on something temporarily.

Edit: This occurred a few days ago, and I ended up posting twice to Delilah's blog during the hangup. However, I immediately noticed another user did the same exact double post elsewhere during the slowdown, so it had to be Universal.

[stuck]

As I recall, no one has been put in Miserable Users since the "Limey incident".

How often do you have performance problems? I have them occasionally myself.

Ahh, ok. Maybe once every couple of weeks?

[melancholeric]

A better question would be, "have you ever been sent to coventry (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?73604-Tachy-Goes-to-Coventry)?". That thread would not get a whole lot of replies.

[stigmatica]

A better question would be, "have you ever been sent to coventry (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?73604-Tachy-Goes-to-Coventry)?". That thread would not get a whole lot of replies.
To do that without informing the user of it would be far more cruel than just banning him. Evil

[kuranes]

I've noticed that sometimes the "search" function here doesn't work as well as other times, although it is never stellar. And I'm not counting searches for extremely short words.

This seems to be true of other search engines too, however. Sometimes Ebay's search engines will not work properly either, for example. I'll try to look up something that I just saw, and come up with zero, even when I'm certain that I'm using the correct words/spelling etc.

There used to be a period, every night ( about 11 or 11:30 PM wasn't it, midwesterners ? ) where no one could access INTPc due to some tech reason. Data base reconciliation or somethin'. I assumed the "new server" may have eliminated that.

[melancholeric]

To do that without informing the user of it would be far more cruel than just banning him. Evil

And what exactly would be the point of doing that if you inform the user?

[stigmatica]

And what exactly would be the point of doing that if you inform the user?
None. It's a tool for which the only use with a point is an evil one. :ph34r:

[melancholeric]

None. It's a tool for which the only use with a point is an evil one. :ph34r:

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[stuck]

I'd like to take this opportunity to note that my magenta letters look a bit like looking through a stencil at a dog penis.

[C.J.Woolf]

I'm told that IP address searches (something we do while checking out newly registered users) are a real pig.

[Works]

I believe the entire forum was in the miserable user group until Garak cleared out the porn forum hijacking our bandwith.

[C.J.Woolf]

I believe the entire forum was in the miserable user group until Garak cleared out the porn forum hijacking our bandwith.
Yes, the clandestine Argentine porn site. Madrigal has much to answer for.

[Jynweythek]

Every time I see the word "miserable" it's like losing the game.

[Dr. Haight]

Can a mod confirm? I uninstalled the program a couple years ago . . . so no, you've never been in it.

[outmywindow]

As I recall, no one has been put in Miserable Users since the "Limey incident".
I'm pretty sure we completely disabled the Miserable Users usergroup* at least a year ago, probably longer.






*to my occasional chagrin


I uninstalled the program a couple years ago . . . so no, you've never been in it.
NM (New Mexico?), Haight beat me to it.

I'm told that IP address searches (something we do while checking out newly registered users) are a real pig.
They take forever to run, which is really annoying.

[manza]

I'm pretty sure we completely disabled the Miserable Users usergroup* at least a year ago, probably longer.

Yeah, as far as I can tell, there is no such thing.

[C.J.Woolf]

They take forever to run, which is really annoying.
They might affect other users too. Does anyone know if they do?

[outmywindow]

They might affect other users too. Does anyone know if they do?
Sometimes I'll be running an IP search in one tab while browsing the forum in another, and I haven't noticed a correlation in terms of forum navigation. All I know is that for some reason those IP searches take 15-20 seconds to return results.

[attila_the_hunny]

When I was a mod, I was an avid IP checker, but I don't remember them taking that long to process. IPs love to give me results.

[outmywindow]

When I was a mod, I was an avid IP checker, but I don't remember them taking that long to process. IPs love to give me results.
I find it's the cross-referencing that takes forever. Getting a user's IP(s) isn't the bad part, it's getting the list of everyone else with that IP (or a partial). I guess there's a ton of data to comb.

[attila_the_hunny]

I find it's the cross-referencing that takes forever. Getting a user's IP(s) isn't the bad part, it's getting the list of everyone else with that IP (or a partial). I guess there's a ton of data to comb.

Lol I loved it when like 20 different IPs came up. I was like...fuck that, I'm not checking every one of those.

[Madrigal]

Yes, the clandestine Argentine porn site. Madrigal has much to answer for.

If it wasn't subtitled, I have nothing to do with it. :ph34r:

[aphemix]

6/30/09:


aphemix (6:06:36 PM): I think I might be on a list of INTPc users who experience site behavior that deliberately mimics server problems, but isn't
asiyah revision (6:07:08 PM): ...huh?
aphemix (6:08:29 PM): I experience what appears as server problems on INTPc. I think it may be an illusion, imposed on my account because I am specified on a list.
asiyah revision (6:08:41 PM): Or
asiyah revision (6:08:47 PM): It could be that the servers have a lot of users
asiyah revision (6:08:51 PM): I get problems occasionally too
aphemix (6:09:25 PM): mine have picked up dramatically very lately. I don't believe this. I am just suspicious.don't believe them! It exists!

[nonperson]

6/30/09:

don't believe them! It exists!

I have never had such problems therefore I doubt it exists.

[MacGuffin]

We always liked nonperson.

[djm]

I wouldn't have thought so, unless the swine that voted for me in the 'douche' category is a madmin :ph34r:

[nonperson]

We always liked nonperson.

Bless your little cotton socks. Though one is troubled by the use of the past tense.

[nonperson]

I wouldn't have thought so, unless the swine that voted for me in the 'douche' category is a madmin :ph34r:

How did you feel about the nomination for best meme?

[djm]

How did you feel about the nomination for best meme?

Better than I did about the two for 'hottest female' :mellow:

edit: The two for best n00b and the three for best admin were somewhat perplexing as well.

[nonperson]

Better than I did about the two for 'hottest female' :mellow:

My own experience on the forum suggests you should have been nominated for best group of trees.

Hot female is now proving to be perplexing term for me. There are some very pretty radiologists and nurses in the cancer unit. I am troubled that they might actually be hot; I will take my Geiger counter to find out.

[djm]

My own experience on the forum suggests you should have been nominated for best group of trees. copse

or possibly corpse :mellow:


Hot female is now proving to be perplexing term for me. There are some very pretty radiologists and nurses in the cancer unit. I am troubled that they might actually be hot; I will take my Geiger counter to find out.

That brings me in mind of Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn - you would enjoy it, it's a fine book (one of the best actually IMHO).

[nonperson]

That brings me in mind of Cancer Ward by Solzhenitsyn - you would enjoy it, it's a fine book (one of the best actually IMHO).

That is the second novel about (post)Stalinist Russia that has been recommended to me tonight. Spooky....:ph34r:

EDIT: I thought group of trees was more inclusive. I am not sure when a stand of trees becomes a copse. To me the latter term implies trees that are actively managed to produce timber products.

[Madrigal]

A better question would be, "have you ever been sent to coventry (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?73604-Tachy-Goes-to-Coventry)?". That thread would not get a whole lot of replies.

Heh. Sounds like something for a feeler board.

[manza]

EDIT: I thought group of trees was more inclusive. I am not sure when a stand of trees becomes a copse. To me the latter term implies trees that are actively managed to produce timber products.

As someone in forestry, I've only every heard "stand" used. Could be regional though.

[djm]

That is the second novel about (post)Stalinist Russia that has been recommended to me tonight. Spooky....:ph34r:

EDIT: I thought group of trees was more inclusive. I am not sure when a stand of trees becomes a copse. To me the latter term implies trees that are actively managed to produce timber products.


As someone in forestry, I've only every heard "stand" used. Could be regional though.

I don't think a copse is necessarily managed, that would be a coppice I would have thought. Maybe Spinney is better choice of word though, in any event neither are big enough to constitute a wood or a forrest.