This is a slightly different message than that which I've posted on Main and
Movie. Still, there are things you should know. =)
Past experience has shown us that the day of the Premiere and the few following
are chaotic on the boards. There will be a lot of posts along the lines of
'OMG!!!!!!', 'I JUST SAW IT!!!!!!!!', and 'I KNOW!!!!!!' - generally without
any text in them. There is really nothing we can do to stop this barrage. We
just have to weather the storm.
The RPGboard software is the single largest load on the tOR.N server. It is
very likely that there will be times that the board software will crash this
week, as the newbies come out of the woodwork and inundate the boards. When
this happens, you'll be getting timeout messages. The single biggest thing you
can do to keep things running smoothly is, when you get a timeout message,
*don't* immediately try to reload the page. Wait 10 minutes or so. This will
give the server time to recover. Repeated reload requests only cause it to bog
down even more.
One other piece of friendly advice: if you're planning on writing that
thought-provoking post for the current discussion topic in here, write it in a
word-processor first, then copy/paste it into the boards. If you get a timeout
error while posting your message, it will vanish into the ether, never to be
heard from again. Saves you some anguish if you have it typed elsewhere.
Inferno.
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tOR.N's Message Board Parody Collection (thanks to Gorel)
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Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
