Quote by da69ve
ok it seems me against the rest of the world "lol".on this issue but seriously is no one concerned about what effect it has on the sites performance etc, surely it must slow it down and clog it up with thousands of "threads" that wasnt necessary?
yes your absolutely right there......i couldn't sleep last night worrying about it!
*Hits da69ve with his flaming trolling stick and shoves him back in the cage*
Anyway... where were we... oh yeah, getting caught up the finner points of posting on LMU threads.
I guess the site is slower atm because of the upgrades, code tweeking and updates being made by the code monkey clan (aka admin ;) ) So while it probably would run a tiny little faster without all the threads clogging things up... erm... probably not that much faster. People 's past posts are left for all to see as a reference for the mods and event organisers to see what the person has put in the past, bit of a security thing. When organising events I've used the archive of postings to see who's pulled out of what and why before now.
Some might post 'can't make it' replies cos theyve asked to go in PM and now can't make it and so kill several birds with one post... :uhoh: ..... telling a whole host of people theyre not going to be there without the cut and paste tedium in PM.
Also, the more you post, the more you get to know people's online personas and some snippet of a 'can't make it but have a great time' in an appropriate thread means so much more than a ton of empty space going on. Personally I'd rather have a meet up thread completely and utterly hijacked than have no replies!
Oh... and then there are the other reasons everyone else has given. ;)
If you personally didn't want replies of ' can't make it ' then a simple line at the bottom of a post cures that one... i.e. Please don't reply if you can't make it. ..... Please only reply if you can make it.... Don't reply if you're not what we're looking for.... Only reply on the thread if you're happy with all the details given, any further questions answered in PM. etc.
Now if we're talking about those who put up an advert saying:
"I'd like to meet a single male under 35 with own teeth and hair for this tuesday"
and the reply went something like:
"Hi, can't make next tuesday, how about a couple, both aged 75, a week next friday? ps. we have false teeth and betty wears a wig"
Then I'd have issue with the 'sorry i can't make it' replies!
Gem. x
;)