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[–]send_nasty_stuff 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (14 children)

Thanks for the update. So you've reposted the rules (with some updates) but you have no idea if the sub will go down? If magnora has the keys but is not responding then he's also probably not paying the bills and this site is going down very soon.

I'm curious why you're doing all this work and trying to keep things 'clean' when we are essentially on borrowed time. Why invest all your time on essentially being a janitor on a site that's inevitably going to shut down very soon?

Can you or someone else get the keys and pay the bills? If not you will Magnora7 give the keys to someone else so they can pay the bills and keep the site running?

paging /u/JasonCarswell are you in touch with /u/magnora7?? Is anybody in touch with u/magnora7?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

Jason is banned and nobody knows how to contact M7.

[–]superfox 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Imo, Jason carswell was NEVER offensive to me in any way and he was ALWAYS pleasant and friendly. It was a major mistake to ban him.

Re-instate his account immediately.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

He's been a dick to me. He sometimes lashes out when he disagrees in a way that's not an appropriately measured response. That's just Jason though, he can't help it. He's written about why he's like that.

A ban though, for one of the top site contributors over a fight... I agree that's a huge mistake.

[–]superfox 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

one of the problems with this site is that I dont really know who or what you really are. I have no idea who or what i am chatting with when i use a website like this. The reality is that mr jason carswell is most likely present in this forum using another registered userid, so banning him really accomplished nothing.

this website is simply an old and outdated version of reddit.

when i suggest that the core functions of this site are not designed properly, others only suggest making modifications to the current site, when it really needs to be redesigned and rebuilt from the ground up.

before you ask, the answer is no, i am not going to tell you how to redesign this site.

I am a seasoned veteran engineer and i dont dance with kids.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

You're new here but this is a small site, a lot of us do know each other more than you would at a larger place. I'm chatting with Jason and another guy on here, LarrySwinger2 rn. Last time Jason was banned he did respect it. I'm the one who didn't, everyone kinda knows who I am except maybe the admins lol. Not sure it matters now, I think we've come to a critical place.

The owner of the site has been missing for over a month, we're not sure the lights are going to be on much longer. autopay apparently is going

this website is simply an old and outdated version of reddit

We're not here for the UI, although we have inline links, which is awesome. Clicking on the "jpg" button lets you see the image inside the message. And the irc chat is nice if anyone ever used it.

I am a seasoned veteran engineer

I love engineers, you guys are almost as smart as me.

[–]superfox 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The core design and functionality of this site is defective.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

What's wrong with the core site? It is optimized to all hell. We had 20k registered users on a single 4 core server.

It is a python 2 app that will "poof" stop working someday, that is bad for sure.

[–]superfox 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I appreciate that your hardware is very good quality.

If your software wasn't some crap that you salvaged from reddit..

If your website software were designed properly, you would not have the problems that you now have.

Saidit has already hit an iceberg and is sinking slowly.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Okay if you don't want to talk tech that's fine. If you cared to look deeply you'll see that every single other reddit codebase uses a single SQL database and they aren't scalable whatsoever.

[–]superfox 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Okay if you don't want to talk tech that's fine

scaleability has absolutely nothing to do with your current management problems of users being banned and users arguing and fighting and it has nothing to do with sql or any thing like that.

with a website like yours, you must first identify the problems that you are having.

1) arguing and fighting amongst users.

you must design a website that does not allow this problem to ever become a problem.

of course you will only want to argue with me endlessly, which is what you are already doing.

saidit is terminally sick and will die and if you dont believe me just look at the title of this thread that was posted by one of your senior moderators.

it is time to make funeral arrangements for this website.

[–]astronautrob 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

How would someone prevent people from arguing or fighting? You could create a website that's a giant echochamber so everyone agrees and never debates, but if you have debate you will inevitably have arguments. That's pretty obvious and to think that you can eliminate that is retarded. Why is people arguing even a bad thing? People can have arguments and still be civil. The core site on here is fine, the people are fine, it's the idiots who like you have only been on saitit for one day or one year and think they know anything about it.

[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

He sometimes lashes out when he disagrees in a way that's not an appropriately measured response.

Can confirm.