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| Feb-24-12 | | WinKing: OMG somebody killed chessgames! Quick we need a team to resuscitate. Charging, charging...Clearrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! |
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| Feb-24-12 | | WinKing: Phew I got a heartbeat...that was close. |
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Feb-24-12
 | | chessgames.com: We had a database problem for (at least) the past 90 minutes. Restarting the database and the server software seems to have fixed it for the time being. Meanwhile, we're looking into the cause of it. Sorry for the inconvenience and we thank you for your patience. |
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Feb-24-12
 | | WannaBe: Probably due to all that 'meaningful' discussion on the K. Rogoff page. |
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| Feb-24-12 | | whiteshark: <The four most expensive words in the English language are <This time it’s different>>.
~ Sir John Templeton
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| Feb-24-12 | | dzechiel: <the man working at a bank of computers> If I'm not mistaken, that's one computer. Probably ENIAC or other early machine, circa 1947. |
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| Feb-24-12 | | Nemesistic: I kept getting a picture of a man fiddling with a huge 1950's looking computer everytime i tried posting too.. Be honest <chessgames.com>, was the aforementioned man looking for <LMAJ>'s missing emails, and the whole system just capitulated under the huge biblical sized workload?? Lol.. I do of course joke chessgames.com, and thanks for fixing it so promptly..:) |
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Feb-24-12
| | chessgames.com: That is indeed the ENIAC in that black and white photo. You can find on the internet some wonderful old photos depicting the dawn on computing, courtesy of the US Army. So on one hand we're very proud of those graphics but on the other hand we dread for anybody to have to see them. Anyhow, we're still scratching our heads over the outage. The errors were symptomatic of having such large server load that we were unable to open new database connections, but there's no reason why that should be the case. Of course in cases like this you always have to worry about it being an intentional Denial of Service attack, but we don't see any evidence of that either. If we learn anything else we'll let you know. Thanks again for understanding. |
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Feb-24-12
 | | Stonehenge: Problems with the naughty bits, I don't envy you guys :) |
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Feb-24-12
| | chessgames.com: This is my favorite ENIAC graphic. Hopefully you'll never see it in action: http://www.chessgames.com/chessimag... |
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Feb-24-12
 | | Domdaniel: First, I would like to nominate <Jessicafischerqueen> for an award - Most Appropriate Use of a Dead Metaphor, maybe - for this gem: < our wider membership who also have tons of these actual books> ... on the grounds that the said books *do* actually weigh 'tons', and it isn't just a casual use of the trope tons of/ loads of/ heaps of/ piles of (etc). Secondly, if 'pointy' <elbow brackets> are lost to everyday use there may well be an increase in the deplorable use of hashtags and similar devices to address other members. I'm talking to you, @user: chessgames.com. Thirdly, I have never posted a facile one-liner, though I admit to facile ten-liners and eleven-liners. *This* is neither. |
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Feb-24-12
| | Domdaniel: One can only swoon with a vague analog of maternal love when LMAJ says stuff like <the little picture of the man working at a bank of computers and the message that your game DB is <temporarily> off-line. Are you aware of this? (Cause?)>
Quick, somebody, oxytocin. He's so *cute*.
As <frogbert> sez, it's just heuristics. And as Brian Eno wrote: <If we study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics/ We will find that their minds rarely work in a line> No insult is intended. |
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Feb-24-12
 | | OhioChessFan: <cg.c: On the other hand, if we had a quasi-official pronouncement of the members who deserve special recognition, I'm sure most people would enjoy it. Meanwhile, the posters with quick trigger-fingers would see that there's no software algorithm that they can trick. Perhaps a special section in the upcoming newsletter?> No. |
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Feb-24-12
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <Admins> not sure how aware you are about the increasing damage the <AJ vs. the World> garbage is causing on *actual* games pages (as opposed to AJ's). Important historical games pages are being defaced by this garbage on a daily basis and the cancer is spreading. It's one thing to have it localized on AJ's pages, quite another having it spread to important historical games. The pace of this defacing outstrips the power/speed of the "Whistle Blowing function". I suggest you take this as seriously as you took the <Wesley So> page garbage. You took strong action there and it worked. You need to do it again. How much would it cost to pay an extra person to daily monitor the games pages postings listed on your front page? An outside person with no "stake" or "axe to grind." Somebody neutral. If you have money to spend on this I advise you to do it. Allowing this cancer to spread, and believe me-the pace and scope of the spread is increasing recently- would be an egregious error. It is making your website into a public internet joke. It is not good for business. It is not good for newcomers. It is not good for the people who work hard to post analysis and history on these important games pages. It is not good for anyone. You have already proven you can stop such things if you take strong enough action. I know exactly what you did to fix the <So> page. It worked. So there is no excuse to ignore this problem or allow it to continue. Thanks in advance,
JFQ
(some recent dicussion of this issue here: User: TheFocus) |
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| Feb-24-12 | | hms123: <cg> I have to echo the sentiments of <OCF>. You have to be categorical in your approach or it will cause untold problems. You can announce the <Caissar Awards> or you can have standards that anyone can meet (e.g., number of posts), or some other such categories. To start playing favorites, however, without an underlying structure would be a mistake. I would be happy to see recognition of the biographers or other members who play some official role at the site, but I wouldn't go beyond such categories. |
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Feb-24-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: Re: <AJ v The World GARBAGE> a recent example:
Botvinnik vs Alatortsev, 1931 Note the repetition of this nugget of wisdom in the "discussion" of this important game: http://www.ajschess.com/for_the-tro...
Any serious person looking through this important game would be tempted to think your website is not a serious project- but rather a joke. An unfunny joke. Are you going to do something about this or not? It is an ongoing, endemic problem and it is getting more serious on a daily basis. |
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| Feb-24-12 | | Nemesistic: OK Jess, but that post was a joke, you know i have a sarcastic sense of humour (maybe you should develop a SOH too?), and anyone in their right mind can see im parodying myself and the so called Goldsby christened Troop!!! BTW have you missed any of AJ goldsby's posts to his 'trollpage' link, because i can't view any pages without coming across one myself, and i'm not being sarcastic for a change.. Seriously love... Are you picking one of my posts on that page out of everyones as an example, because if you are i may as well leave right now.. Anyway im not arguing with you on this page of all pages, i just thought that if you have issues with any users here try diplomacy first before dropping the bomb on the administrators... Or try speak to Goldsby, its been 9 years of frustration for most people here, especially the premium members and it all boils down to one man!!! |
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Feb-24-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Nemesistic> absolutely not, I'm not trying to single you out or <The Focus> or the <Colonel> or anyone else.
All I'm asking is that you guys do your best to restrict the <AJ War> to AJ's game pages, because nobody cares about AJ's games. I suppose that's part of the joke eh? People do care about important historical games pages, however, that's my only area of concern. The games page I linked here is just one (of many, sadly) example to demonstrate my point to the administrators. At any rate I personally like and respect all the people involved in the <AJ war>, including you. You and I spoke for the first time today, and as you know we also have good friends in common at this site. Good grief man don't leave the site because of anything I say, or anything anyone else says, for that matter. |
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| Feb-24-12 | | TheFocus: <Nemesistsic> <jess> is absolutely right. It was me that said to others to post <AJ>'s "troop-message" in response to him doing so and it has gotten out of hand, and has spread from <AJ>'s pages. I take the blame for this and ask that no one reposts his "troll-message" link. Admins: this is the link I refer to. <AJ> has posted this dozens of times. Why don't you ask him not to? http://www.ajschess.com/for_the-tro... |
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| Feb-24-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: Want to hear a really scary statistic? The average "smart phone" (today) has more computing power than 100 ENIAC computers. |
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| Feb-25-12 | | whiteshark: <chessgames.com <Admin>> There are about 80 (m.o.l. senseless) posts during the last 7 days with this idiotic <for the troop> link. Search Kibitzing I'd think that's violationg posting guideline no. 2 <No spamming, advertising, or duplicating posts.> in the extreme and I kindly ask you to REMOVE THEM ALL! |
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Feb-25-12
| | Stonehenge: Hmm, by clicking on whiteshark's link I can still read posts by trolls like AJ, TheFocus and Nemesistic. I thought I had them on ignore. |
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Feb-25-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Stony> it's a good thing those posts in <Shark's> link are visible to everyone. I respect your use of the ignore list, and that goes for everyone. But if you read my initial post on this thread the ignore function works against a solution to the problem that's giving me hives. People who aren't even registered or who never kibbutz visit our historical games pages. Since the beginning of this website many expert analysts and historians (not me- other people) have done a lot of work to supply serious and interesting information for all. It's these serious posts that get buried by GARBAGE from flame wars such as <AJ v. The World> that all too often bleed on to historical games pages. Just because we put someone on ignore it doesn't erase the damage that Flaming does to these pages. It's crucial that we all know about this damage, acknowledge it is damage, and acknowledge that something has to be done about it. All that said <Stony>, I don't blame you for your ignore list choices and I realize I'm not actually addressing anything you said in your post. It *is* strange that your ignored posters still show up in <Shark's> link. However, <Shark's> link is crucial to display evidence to the admins. Anyways more important than all this, I'm happy to see you. I'm so glad you are still with us <Stony>, still have your preemy and are still working hard to improve our website. I appreciate you and your hard work and I always have. |
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Feb-25-12
| | jessicafischerqueen: Posting this 300 times on a CG.com historical games page: http://www.ajschess.com/for_the-tro...- is no different than walking into the Louvre with a bucket of paint and splashing it all over the paintings and sculptures and whatever else they have in there. I've never been in the Louvre myself, but I hear it's quite nice. |
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| Feb-25-12 | | Benzol: <I've never been in the Louvre myself, but I hear it's quite nice.> I've only been to the Louvre once and that was in 1982. The artwork was fantastic but much to my annoyance I was unable to see the Mona Lisa because the place was closing and I ran out of time and it was the one piece of work I really wanted to look at. <It's crucial that we all know about this damage, acknowledge it is damage, and acknowledge that something has to be done about it.> <Jess> I think only the admins can do anything about it. |
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