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Post by GodHand Kronix »

As many of you may be well aware, Bandwidth has become an exceedingly serious problem here at Weedguru. This has been become painfully obvious; in the month of January 2004 the bandwidth supply was completely depleted by the 20th of the month, rendering this site inactive for about 10 days. In order to preserve our bandwidth here, users are encouraged to use the following guidelines.

:arrow: Do Not Freepost- This means your posts should have some relative meaning, opinion, or point of view, rather than merely saying "Lol", "Ok", or "Yeah that's true". If you don't really have anything to say, then don't bother posting.

:arrow: Do Not Quote-Post- If you share an opinion with another user, the worst possible thing you can do is click quote and then click post reply without typing anything else. This is a big waste of much-needed bandwidth. If at all possible, at least try to rephrase the opinion in your own words and maybe add a little something to it.

:arrow:Stop Pointless Threads- For example, "Hey." Or "I'm high as hell!" There have been so many of these, just tell people hi or let them know how high you are as you respond in another thread.

:idea: You can also save a little bandwidth by clicking "back" instead of reloading pages each time, whenever possible.

The aforementioned guidelines should help us make better use of our bandwidth supply here at WeedGuru. Gurus, if you have anything to add, then do your thing, edit, whatever.

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Post by herbal stu »

lol I agree with ya second point about quote posting I have been an avid and pro-active supporter of SAQP (Stoners against quote posting) but you know like when u really are stoned and u hit the im high forum you get the urge to let others know how much of a sense of well being u gettin high and wanna let the world know! :P First 2 points r good images so long as they are hosted elsewhere have a negligable impact on bandywidth its just because we have such a huge communit goin down here bandwidth runs out.

ONE REQUEST: FOR F*CKIN HELLS SAKE GET A PAYPAL DONATIONS BUTTON!!! Its free money and u prob get so much of our support you wouldnt probably need to bother puttin any of your own money at all! Or just when bandywidth is runnin low tell us we then donate whatever much u need and u can buy a top up.

And for those who forgot to notice last time BAKIN KRU do have a refuge for when this sh*t happens :D

It seems only myself Kuba, kxbabe, Caro, eazeyo made any decent use out of it??

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Re: Bandwidth

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Kronix wrote:
3)Limit the use of Images- Images cost alot of bandwidth, and believe it or not, this includes smileys. Try not to use images all so often, it's probably fine in signatures, but, for instance, if you want to post a picture in the Art Gallery section, it would be better to post a link rather than the actual image.
But if pictures are hosted offsite (which they will be, because wg has no uploader) they wont leech wg bandwidth. So it wouldnt really matter.

The rest sounds good though, I'll try to stick to those rules.
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Post by Funk Doctor »

Actually I have a much simpler solution:

Animal, BUY MORE FUCKING BANDWIDTH, YOU LAZY BUM!

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Post by weedguru tom »

there is nothing you can really do about bandwidth, just loading the forum and reading it uses a hell of alot, so go figure
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Post by stnoed »

i hope people follow the rules. i will. and also i thiink if i try.. well how much bandwidth does weedguru have monthly? I have hosting myself and i have a lot of bandwidth. i think 10 gigs a month, i donno im just kinda a new member and lots of people wont want it on my server but uhm well yeah i have hosting. with bandwidth
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Post by The curious orange »

could u just deleate users who dont post for x days or something, would help save ne bandwith
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Post by Caro »

Thanks for posting that, Sean. If the people who use the forums regularly make collective use of these suggestions then we might be able to make our site last to the end of the month.

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Post by GodHand Kronix »

No problem, being cut off month after month just started getting on my nerves so I decided to try a little something to help out...
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Post by CardHore »

Yer i will try and follow those its just hard when you come on here baked and want to post silly things maybe someone should make a stiky 'HOHO im baked!!' ??
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Post by Funk Doctor »

Well AFAIK this bandwidth shit started ever since the I'm High forum opened. There's a lot of obsolete bull in there.
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Post by herbal stu »

Weedguru Funk Doctor wrote:Well AFAIK this bandwidth shit started ever since the I'm High forum opened. There's a lot of obsolete bull in there.
yeah but its ooo funny and releivin to be able to post in there remove it now and that shit mvoes into here hahahahahahahahahaha
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Post by clashcityrocker »

Why don't you just get a server with unlimited bandwidth?



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Post by th3rdeye »

Why don't you just PRUNE the forums. Have it auto-delete all topics over 30 days old. It honestly saves a lot of bandwidth having it reload usless bullshit in the background.

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