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zyxomma100
Squire

posted 06-23-03 00:34 AM CT (US)

Forgive the bad title, but it's the only thing I could think of. It appears that a new rule has been enacted, and all threads 2,500 posts or higher will be closed. So our old splash splash was closed. It appears I have the honor of creating the new thread, so I will try to keep it neat as possible.

Regular Features
Link of the Week: Akiyoshi's illusion pages
A page with plenty of illusions. I haven't checked out much of the site, so I have no idea what it has. Just tell me about it. :-p

Sig Post List
Meh. I remember all the spam sig post used to cause, so I'll only list them by the thousand, as well as any other special numbers that may come up. I have not bothered to list the current names of the trophy winners; instead I have usually posted the name from which they got the sig post.

The New splash splash(continuation of moooooooooo)
1- Jawn Henry
100- LKS_Lawngnome
500- RoboPaul88
666- Silent Ninja
1000- The_Real_Zeus
1111- The_Real_Zeus
1234- Jawn Henry
1337- Nabrimn
2000- FunkyGus
2222- Darkmaster
3000- Nabrimn
3333- bleedteal
4000- Darkmaster
4444- FunkyGus
5000- FunkyGus
5555- Ghost of Caesar
6000- LKS_Lawngnome
6666- Darkmaster
7000- FunkyGus
7777- FunkyGus
8000- Ghost of Caesar
8888- Darkmaster
9000- FunkyGus
9999- KeLar
10000- Darkmaster
11000- Darkmaster (thanks to Aro )
11111- zyxomma100
12000- Ghost of Caesar
12345- :-(

Thanks Darkmaster, for finishing the list. :-p

Current thread list to be added soon...

History
Splash Splash goes back a long time thread-wise. Let's start from the beginning...

Back, years ago, there was a newborn baby looking up at it's mom... So cute... and the first thing it said was... Moooooooooooooo. He was promptly dumped off at an Internet cafe, starting his other obsession.

Fast forward. Renowned forumer cow_gone_mad created the first in the animal sound off-topic thread series, Moooooooooooooo. It reached 7683 posts before finally being closed.

Next to come into the picture was dedkrikit. Continuing the animal sound saga, he gave it his own sound, chirp chirp. I've never seen a dead cricket chirp, but that doesn't matter. It only reached 2533 replies, but nonetheless a large thread.

Enter Tonto_Simfish. With the end of chirp chirp comes splash splash (continuation of moooooooooooooo). This new thread was close to coming to the legacy of moooooooooooooo, but the thread was corrupted at ~post 4,900, and most of the posts disappeared.

But that wasn't the end. He created a new thread, The New splash splash(continuation of moooooooooo), and this thread became part of AOKH history. It reached 12,289 posts before being closed due to a new HG regulation.

And here we find ourselves. I, zyxomma100, will continue splash splash, and continue the great legacy![/end motivationalspeech]

The splashers
With such a large thread, many people have posted, if just to say they have. Here is a list of nearly everyone who has posted in splash splash. If I am forgetting a name, please tell me and point out which post it was they had. (Or if it's yourself, just post... it automatically adds you to the list.)

Tonto_Simfish
_parlous_provost
Jawn Henry
bleedteal/innuedo alert
1929
Funky_Gus02/TOAO_FunkyGus
Mithrandir_88
Ghost of Caesar/crow_gone_mad (hehe... *goes to trivia thread*)
Anonymous
Gaiseric/Cherub Gaiseric
Luke Gevaerts/Cherub Luke/Angel Luke/Luke (gives up thinking)
Macdaddy
Drizzt 396
zyxomma100
MaxPower765
Pale Horse
Qazitory
LKS_Lawngnome/CoRk_Lawngnome/klarson/KeLar
Western_Rebel/Dr Peppa
Mickey Sommers/Not Quite (gone now, thankfully)
swp/Stevay
Dark Side of Day
RoboPaul88/Enraged Orange
The_Cobra_81
The_Darkmaster/Darkmaster/DM (grr..)
Dark_Aro/Aro/Cherub Aro/Angel Aro
Philip Dunscombe
neo222/Eothain
EP_Roller4Life
The Red Knight
TheShadowDawn *sigh*
dragons89/ghost_gone_mad
cow_gone_mad (no comment, anyone got one?)
SKD_Spook
yugiohblueeyes/CoRK_DragonYugi/TVB_Yugi/TOAO_Yugi/TOAO_Cletu s/Lightning Elemental
iam_Chrono_J
Nabrimn
Jous
King Of The Hill
Aza (cheese, anyone?)
LoRd_YuRi_NiNjA/Silent Ninja
StArK_ZeRo/ZeroX763/Starkay
LongBow/IAmVinegaryFlea
Ornlu
Coucy
WhiteWolf
AoC_DaVe/Tonto_DaVe
toolman89
KingAllDat
The_Real_Zeus
The_Lag_Monster/Mom_Gone_Mad (yeah, remember that spammer?)
Yacob/Manaxter
Maximes9
Night_Warrior
Danthered
Mobely
clayperboy
Joe Henderson
Frogdude
CrystalCrown
ZeroX76
_Vontos_/_Von_
Antarctican
dr_biggie
nav_2004
TOAO_Professor1/TOAO_Cheesus
Theseus_OEP
railroad
sharrkmaster
Tribal_TrUeGoD1
Devil Ranger
Brad_Ad23
S_A_S
DasBier
BrandNewCar
kevingamer_prime/kevingamer_AcX_
The Adder
ArthurKing02/Lord Ben
hairic
Cknchaos
Tanneur99
Bad Boy
Angel Zen/Zen
Helmet_Olsonm2
NightNecromancer/Artifex Chalybis

Pretty long, isn't it? Hopefully the list grows longer...

Update coming tomorrow. (hopefully...)

Last Update: 7-30-03

zyxomma100- Age of Kings Heaven forumer
Proudly thwarting Dark_Aro's evil plans since 2002
"There is nothing more sad than watching a teutonic knight chasing a petard."

[This message has been edited by zyxomma100 (edited 08-26-2003 @ 00:24 AM).]

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Rose
Squire
(id: railroad)

posted 06-23-03 00:37 AM CT (US) 1 / 2500

First things first: First post!

Second:

I think HG just had a rule change or something.

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GoC
Squire
(id: Ghost of Caesar)

posted 06-23-03 00:40 AM CT (US) 2 / 2500

Quote:

I think HG just had a rule change or something.

Impossible. AoMH is still swimming in spam, the "Now Playing" threads are still open in OD, and CH has been given a new Inn, their splash splash equivalent.

Rose
Squire
(id: railroad)

posted 06-23-03 00:44 AM CT (US) 3 / 2500

Quote:

AoMH is still swimming in spam, the "Now Playing" threads are still open in OD

The "Now Playing" thread that is over 2500 posts is closed. The threads in AoMH will soon be closed because of a report filed by our very own long-time AoKH forumer. Maybe the threads are closed temporarily(I hope so). If this continues to happen, this place is going to be dead soon.

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Dragon_Sword
Squire

posted 06-23-03 00:46 AM CT (US) 4 / 2500

Quote:

this place is going to be dead soon.

~~do you mean AoKH....Dead.....Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

GoC
Squire
(id: Ghost of Caesar)

posted 06-23-03 00:47 AM CT (US) 5 / 2500

Quote:

The "Now Playing" thread that is over 2500 posts is closed.

Yes, but the point is that new ones were opened and welcomed. Why are new threads along the lines of splash splash being rejected?

Angel Aro
Squire
(id: Cherub Aro)

posted 06-23-03 01:04 AM CT (US) 6 / 2500

Shoot... my ISP was out because of a storm, so I wasn't online all day. But this is going to be the official Splash Splash thread, ok?

And that rule was enacted to save bandwith. We can't have one thread taking up so much space on the servers.

Angel Aro
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Temur
HG Alumnus
(id: Gaiseric)

posted 06-23-03 01:08 AM CT (US) 7 / 2500

I protest! Our Inn is not spam, we actually talk about things there.

"War does not decide who is right... only who is left." -Bertrand Russell

GoC
Squire
(id: Ghost of Caesar)

posted 06-23-03 01:10 AM CT (US) 8 / 2500

Consider those protests...ignored.

zyxomma100
Squire

posted 06-23-03 01:16 AM CT (US) 9 / 2500

Quote:

And that rule was enacted to save bandwith. We can't have one thread taking up so much space on the servers.

I don't understand, sorry. The issue can't be disk space; all threads are archived. And since only 50 replies (or whatever your preferences are) are loaded each time you view the page, any thread with >50 replies will use up the same amount of bandwidth.

Edit: Anyway... Let's start from where we were. Editing topic post now...

zyxomma100- Age of Kings Heaven forumer
Proudly thwarting Dark_Aro's evil plans since 2002
"There is nothing more sad than watching a teutonic knight chasing a petard."

[This message has been edited by zyxomma100 (edited 06-23-2003 @ 01:17 AM).]

Angel Aro
Squire
(id: Cherub Aro)

posted 06-23-03 01:22 AM CT (US) 10 / 2500

Well, something like that. I don't know the problem exactly, but there is a limit to threads that they can only have 2500 posts. That shouldn't really be a problem, should it?

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AoC_DaVe
Squire

posted 06-23-03 01:28 AM CT (US) 11 / 2500

Quote:

I protest! Our Inn is not spam, we actually talk about things there.

..And we don't?

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Temur
HG Alumnus
(id: Gaiseric)

posted 06-23-03 01:44 AM CT (US) 12 / 2500

You don't, most of the time it is mindless stuff like "*bashes x over the head with y*", where x is any AOKH regular and y is a random object.

"War does not decide who is right... only who is left." -Bertrand Russell

GoC
Squire
(id: Ghost of Caesar)

posted 06-23-03 01:49 AM CT (US) 13 / 2500

*bashes Gaiseric over the head with a wheelbarrow, five bricks, and at least two (but maybe more) octopi*

Temur
HG Alumnus
(id: Gaiseric)

posted 06-23-03 02:11 AM CT (US) 14 / 2500

My point exactly.

"War does not decide who is right... only who is left." -Bertrand Russell

AoC_DaVe
Squire

posted 06-23-03 02:34 AM CT (US) 15 / 2500

Quote:

You don't

Keyword(s):

Quote:

most of the time

zyxomma100
Squire

posted 06-23-03 03:12 AM CT (US) 16 / 2500

Hmm... Already the makings of a good off-topic thread.
*bashes Gaiseric with Ghost of Caesar*

zyxomma100- Age of Kings Heaven forumer
Proudly thwarting Dark_Aro's evil plans since 2002
"There is nothing more sad than watching a teutonic knight chasing a petard."

Zen
Ghost
(id: Angel Zen)

posted 06-23-03 03:21 AM CT (US) 17 / 2500

Explanation of why the thread reply limit:

First, despite our many rewrites to get it run efficiently, our forum software is still based on plain text files. Later this year we'll switch to a SQL-based solution, and I'll have more details about it about a month or so before the transition happens. That transition is - roughly - planned for Decmeber of this year.

The original Splash Splash thread datafile is about 40MB right now. Everytime you view the last 50 replies, the forum have to scan the entire file (all 40MB's of it) 'till it finds the 50th-to-last reply, and start reading the replies from there.

Then, due to the nature of flatfiles and the way the forums handle it, everytime you post a reply, it has to rewrite the entire file to update the reply count, which is the first record in the file. Thus, for everytime you post a reply, it reads all 40MB's of it and rewrites all 40MB's of it, plus the reply you just posted.

Thus... it would be fine if the Splash Splash thread is the only available thread and only page served on the server, but it isn't. So, coupled with many HG forums, a database server, and a busy server, you've got a performance problem.

Zen
Ghost
(id: Angel Zen)

posted 06-23-03 03:21 AM CT (US) 18 / 2500

*spams*

zyxomma100
Squire

posted 06-23-03 03:30 AM CT (US) 19 / 2500

Ah, that makes sense. Also explains why it takes longer to post at splash splash than anywhere else. I see why you are switching.

Hmm... In this thread, Zen has done more spamming then me.

zyxomma100- Age of Kings Heaven forumer
Proudly thwarting Dark_Aro's evil plans since 2002
"There is nothing more sad than watching a teutonic knight chasing a petard."

Phoenix II
Guest

posted 06-23-03 03:39 AM CT (US) 20 / 2500

Stop whining, Ghost. We're OD, we're special.

Having said that, I'm going to do a Mith.

Here's one for posterity.

Bad Boy
Squire

posted 06-23-03 04:32 AM CT (US) 21 / 2500

Quote:

Here's one for posterity.

The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. - Deus Ex

AoC_DaVe
Squire

posted 06-23-03 04:37 AM CT (US) 22 / 2500

Quote:

y is a random object.

So GoC is now an object?!

zyxomma100
Squire

posted 06-23-03 04:54 AM CT (US) 23 / 2500

Yes.

zyxomma100- Age of Kings Heaven forumer
Proudly thwarting Dark_Aro's evil plans since 2002
"There is nothing more sad than watching a teutonic knight chasing a petard."

Temur
HG Alumnus
(id: Gaiseric)

posted 06-23-03 05:00 AM CT (US) 24 / 2500

Quote:

So that explains why in threads with large numbers of posts (and in KORT previously), it took so long to make one post.

Quote:

So GoC is now an object?!

He always was, and we are too, if you think about it

"War does not decide who is right... only who is left." -Bertrand Russell

zyxomma100
Squire

posted 06-23-03 05:10 AM CT (US) 25 / 2500

I'm surprised Dave hasn't yelled at me to get on the Zone yet. Not like I would... I should try to get at least one hour of sleep.

Hmm... Maybe some regualr topic features would be nice.

Rise of Nations demo d/l at 8% complete. I hope it doesn't disappoint me as much as the AoM trial.

zyxomma100- Age of Kings Heaven forumer
Proudly thwarting Dark_Aro's evil plans since 2002
"There is nothing more sad than watching a teutonic knight chasing a petard."

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