http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/tags/vci Lower Mainland housing and economic issues. en-US Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:21:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/search.php http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/topic/comment-spam-ban-suggest-list#post-1550 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:41:55 +0000 The Ant 1550@http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/ <p>There are some trolls and crapflooders on this board. For the most part downvoting them works and I know there is resistance to banning people here, but I think that's the only way to send a message. Can we have a poll and at least vote to IP ban the worst?</p> <p>Here's who I think should be considered based on a track record of offtopic one-note trolling:</p> <p>Li Kai shing<br /> Extremely wealthy bla bla<br /> Ravishing Rick</p> <p>I think 'jokey' posts are fine, but they shouldnt fill the whole comment list. </p> http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/topic/who-wants-to-be-the-pope#post-1051 Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:37:28 +0000 The Pope 1051@http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/ <p>Hello all, </p> <p>Every so often we get requests to comment on news stories or respond to interview questions. Most reporters don't really want to hear about how a site is 'community run', what they really want is a talking head to represent a group of people.</p> <p>So who wants to be the <strong>VCI media liaison</strong>? The only requirements are that you can speak and write with a modicum of sense, we would forward any interview requests or questions to you. </p> <p>The only compensation for this position is the potential for occasional media appearances.</p> <p>If you're interested or want to encourage another poster to consider, please post your ideas here. </p> http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/topic/cant-we-all-just-get-along#post-772 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:24:44 +0000 The Pope 772@http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/ <p>Hey guys, I notice that there's been some unhappiness with the number of off-topic rants in the blog comments. This has always been a fairly open blog in terms of the commentary that is allowed but I think the comment ranking system generally helps to keep things on track. We can't please everyone, and each tweak we make to the ranking system usually gets the whole range of feedback from positive to negative. The open nature of anonymous comments on the blog leads to more volume and more chaos - the forums tend to be more focused because they require a user account.</p> <p>Can't promise any immediate changes, but here's a chance for you registered users to speak your mind on the best course of action regarding blog comments. </p> http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/topic/vci-site-performance#post-507 Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:47:50 +0000 The Pope 507@http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/ <p>A few days back <strong>Domus</strong> pointed out that this site is slow when loading all comments on one page, sometimes failing to complete loading. <strong>XXX</strong> echoed the same concern saying that ever since adding the <a href="http://vancouvercondo.info/coaster">rollercoaster</a> this site has been slower. The coaster is hosted off YouTube, so it's not adding any extra load to the site, but the performance issue is related.</p> <p><strong>The problem is two-fold:</strong></p> <p>1: Traffic keeps growing - the coaster is driving more people to the site, we steadily get more than 3500 visits a day and many people visit multiple times which puts a greater load on the server.</p> <p>2: We've added a lot of extras to the site, like the comment voting and formatting system as well as the forums. It's a fairly heavy load for a hobbyist blog, but these are things that tend to make this site both interesting and useful. If we shut down the comment voting and 'foreclosure' etc comment formatting the page loads would likely get a fair bit faster.</p> <p>No one has had much time to tweak the technical aspects of this site recently, but time permitting the plan is to add a barebones comment page for registered viewers so there is an option to load up a lite version of the comment page without any extra formatting. Hopefully this option for the regulars, plus some additional site optimization will solve this problem.</p> <p>Don't give up on us yet, and feel free to chime in with your own feedback below. </p> http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/topic/vci-suggestion-box#post-100 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:29:20 +0000 The Pope 100@http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/ <p>This thread is for any complaints or suggestions you have to make the site better. And if you just want to lay on the praise I'm good with that too. &lt;img src=&quot;http://vancouvercondo.info/forum/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:-)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p>