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Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

I saw at the Straight Dope message board that the mods lock threads that become long (say 6-7 pages or so), as long threads make that board unstable. Is that what has happened here? The fact that we lost some long threads in the glitches (mafia 1 or 2 a long time ago, the Eevery day thread in OT now) makes me wonder.

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Ghost Post · Icarian Member

My paragraph puzzle thread vanished and it was less than half a page.

El Blobbo revived · Daedalian Member

I found 2 dead threads at the bottom of OT, but I can't check out the second, 'cause the first is a blank page.

El Blobbo revived · Daedalian Member

And 2 in VG...

Ghost Post · Icarian Member

the solution is obvious
vote IS

Sofis · Beautiful and Decadent

It's certainly no secret that long threads are more ISE-prone.

Ghost Post · Icarian Member

So we have to remove every long thread we've ever had?

That leaves us with JD's debates and Macros' games! Horror!

HyToFry · Drama queen

What happens:

Note, this is an example, and not nececsarily what actually happens.

User one, we call him DP, opens a thread to reply, when he hits submit, the script "locks" the file. At aproxamately the same time user two, we'll call him luckyone, opens the same thread to reply. When he hits submit, the script attempts to lock the same thread file. DP's script has made it to the point where it's updating his profile--post count--, but still hasn't closed the thread file. When luckyone's script has waited 500 miliseconds, it figures something went wrong, unlocks the file, and crashed DP's script, loosing his user profile.

Bigger threads take longer to load, that's why they are more ISE prone.

I plan to fix the code, but I don't know when. We'll just say, "eventualy".

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Chuck · Daedalian Member

So if you want to keep your name, post only in short threads.

mathgrant · A very tilted cell member

Well, I guess I can't post here! This thread's too long!

Ferris · Daedalian Member

*Waits for DP's script to burn luckyone's script...*