LFGSS Transparency Report

Fair one. Keep up the good work making me rich.

VB - Probably worth making that a sticky somewhere. You seem to have to re-type that explanation about once a month.

When Microcosm arrives, I'll author something helpful and put it somewhere.... things will be in flux a little straight after.

Whether Jeez, Tommy or Scottmac are deliberately trolling or genuinely hold the shitehouse opinions they spout matters not a jot to me, this place is immeasurably improved by their absence. Hurrah to the dictator! And if I could rep the anonymous reporters I would.

"When Microcosm arrives" you seem to re-type that a lot too ;)

"When Microcosm arrives" you seem to re-type that a lot too ;)

It's so close.

I go on holiday on Tuesday 8th, and the big question Matt and I had was whether to launch it on Microcosm before I go on holiday (potentially leaving him with the hot potato until I get back), or just after I get back.

The latter won, so it will be the week of the 20th July.

On my local machine, it takes just over 30 hours to import LFGSS. This is a huge freaking site.

Whether Jeez, Tommy or Scottmac are deliberately trolling or genuinely hold the shitehouse opinions they spout matters not a jot to me, this place is immeasurably improved by their absence. Hurrah to the dictator! And if I could rep the anonymous reporters I would.

Hmm, three so clustered together, I guess that does look like it's more than usual.

But then... spam reports are down this month, so it's less moderation overall.

The vast majority of what I tend with isn't even reports, it's spammers and malware. This morning's nuking of every image and link to/from bikereviews.com is an example of that... they had a malware infestation and I acted to protect LFGSS.

Jeez got banned! amazing, about bloody time!

I think tommy was angling for a ban, just judging on what he told me. No idea why. I remember Velocio saying that sometimes people do (and not just to avoid being distracted from work/studying).

Jeez got banned! amazing, about bloody time!

keep up, you are a little slow. his ban was weeks ago and has ended

Slow punkture. :)

Slow punkture. :)

zing!
aw bugger, ive been on holiday, i just unblocked him and ive been nerged twice for ignoring him, so back on ignore he goes, wac

On my local machine, it takes just over 30 hours to import LFGSS. This is a huge freaking site.

Speed it up, you filthy software developer, you.

#callyourselfahacker #baitandrelease

I think what David was saying was that it's a fat site.

It's slow for a few reasons, not least the reading and deserialisation of 50+GB of JSON.

But the big reason? Millions of database transactions, and the updating of full text search indexes within most of those transactions.

LFGSS at it's peak took 4,000 posts per day (during the London riots), this is the equivalent of 3+ million posts per day.

I think in real terms this is going to take 2 to 3 days to actually do this... the full backup, export, import and check.

That's so out of context now.

Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuule!

Jeez got banned! amazing, about bloody time!
Yet again.

Got a rude awaking when the forum finally moved when going through this topic.

Just posting on here cos I like have thoughts and things. All are just things that float around my mind and are 'what would I do if I ran a forum?' type thoughts, so hope you don't mind the audacity of me asking.

• It seems unsual for me that some forums 'disguise' who is a mod or not. I guess this can reduce mod harassment - but the info usually gets out anyway. What is the policy on this forum and why?

• Would it be good to have a publicly acessible 'admin log' of some sort of deleted posts, people banned and reasons why? Be helpful to stop rumours spreading and a level of accountability if necessary.

• What happens when people get their posts deleted or banned or whatever? Are they told about it and why? Just remembered I got a bunch of posts deleted on an old forum I used to use and never found out why (I didn't think any at that time were in any way controversial, but I knew there was a mod there who'd developed a bit of a thing about me at the time), and another time I found a stiff telling of towards me on a forum after a post I made - however I hadn't actually checked that thread to see the response until about 2 months after the moderator posted it!

1. Mods aren't disguised, when you're in a forum look in the right hand bar at "Who has access to this forum?". It shows you what permissions every person has.
   
2. A public admin log leads to legal liabilities. If we've removed items for any of the large number of legal reasons (defamation, race hate, etc as examples), and then leave a log of it, we're re-publishing the item, or are ourselves risking that we are defaming others. If we filtered such a log to remove all things that were not legally based, nor spam, then you'd be left with such a small list you'd all accuse us of "censorship" anyway. What would be left of the log would be bullying, harassment, etc... and then the log would continue to have the effect of the thing removed. A public log just doesn't work. If you had to accept legal responsibility for all reported items and the after-effects, would you do so?
   
3. No, they are not notified. For trolls this would be a Streisand effect that caused them to troll more. But for the scenario you describe, the notification framework of Microcosm would let you know that your comment had been responded to, etc.