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January 08, 2014, 02:22:46 AM
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tl;dr It's disabled for now because of being too processor intensive.

If only this forum had some money we could get better hardware.

Time to start asking for donations?
It's not a problem with hardware, it's the way the highlight script was written. You can throw all the hardware you want at an inefficient script but until you rewrite it and fix the underlying problem you'll be just throwing money away.
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January 07, 2014, 09:34:54 PM
#5


tl;dr It's disabled for now because of being too processor intensive.

If only this forum had some money we could get better hardware.

Time to start asking for donations?

Haha Cheesy
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Keep it real
January 07, 2014, 08:57:06 PM
#4
I remember way too much random crap in meta...

If the feature was written as:
-For every thread page of 20 posts that someone views:
 -for every user that posted:
  -look through every other user's ignore list and add up the times that user has been ignored

That's basically how it works because the ignore mod (which I didn't write) stupidly stores ignore info in a single column per user like "35,3,...". So each ignore button needs to scan through all established users. The cost of this used to be very little, but it has increased substantially as the number of users has increased. I added a lot of caching long ago to offset this, but the cost is too high now even for that. I need to mostly rewrite the ignore mod so it stores data more sanely. No too difficult, but it requires a somewhat large uninterrupted block of time, which I don't have right now.

tl;dr It's disabled for now because of being too processor intensive.
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Learning the troll avoidance button :)
January 07, 2014, 08:33:10 PM
#3
Not quite sure but when I noticed Mircea suddenly not having any beautiful orange beside her wonderful name
I knew something was up  Grin

That said I haven't noticed the standard orange users doing anything out of the ordinary, but perhaps I pointed it out by accident, then again they can grow on you ha-ha.
In which case should have just kept quiet about the scarlet letters if people are replying normally.
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January 07, 2014, 07:41:26 PM
#2
I noticed when looking at the ignore list the deep oranges and light oranges have dissipated
So watch for some trolling  Wink

I don't think that was really stopping the troll force. I think it might have made the trolling worse. I've noticed ElectricMucus and Smoothie contributing more productively since the "scarlet letter" program stopped.
legendary
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Learning the troll avoidance button :)
January 07, 2014, 07:20:41 PM
#1
I noticed when looking at the ignore list the deep oranges and light oranges have dissipated
So watch for some trolling  Wink
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