Daniel0

Heh... I wonder how CV's research is going. I remember giving him a dump of the posts and topics table so he could do research...

If it appears again, can you take a screenshot and send it to me?

ngreenwood6, please do not report posts that are not violating any rules. Thanks.

About 1 GB.

MySQL can do it itself. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/slow-query-log.html

There is one at the top and one at the bottom. Then there is the youtube one that had to be displayed below all the posts because it sometimes caused loading issues, although that seems to have disappeared. From a visibility standpoint it makes a lot of sense to place the ads within the topics. Also, we use an SMF modification for displaying the ads, meaning we're restricted to the options it gives us. This makes it much easier to manage the ads without modifying the source ourselves each time.

Listen, whether there are ads or not is not debatable. Unless someone is willing to pay the amount of revenue we gain from the ads then they will stay. Period. We are well within our rights to hide the ads for whomever we wish. We get paid either by impression or by click (not sure which) so if we get less impressions or clicks by hiding the ads for certain users then we'll just not gain revenue from them (apart from their donation of course). They don't pay for ads that aren't shown so they have no say in that whatsoever. Oh really? What do you know about the costs of keeping this site up and what do you know about the revenue we get from displaying advertisements? I don't see how making our own advertising campaign will differ from using an existing one... What do you know about that? For your information, since we started displaying the ads we've earned $120 in donation subscription money. That doesn't make sense to me. What would be get spammed about and what would they beg for? They themselves can just go purchase a subscription and get ad-free pages, stars, and a colored name.

I don't think that'll be any major problem. I'm guessing it's because the file downloads slowly from Youtube's servers. We can't really edit anything. You can take a look at the source code on this page. We have to add those codes virtually verbatim. What kind of session expired errors? Here on the forums? This is the answer I got from Eric when I asked the other day: Edit: I added them again, this time at the bottom. They seem to load faster now, so maybe there were just some network issues.

FYI, the inline Youtube ads have been temporarily removed because they were causing issues with loading pages. They may or may not return later.

We have... since 2004.

Write a program that checks if the username is his and then have it run shutdown /l. Make this program run on startup. He's probably a noob anyway so he won't figure out how to remove it.

When I say 'strange codes' I mean it What does it do?

The answer is quite simple: If the programmer is me

To be honest, if I was a sysadmin then I wouldn't want people to randomly install software either. Firefox wouldn't be on my blacklist though. Probably rather IE instead.

Yes.

Yes we do, although some people might argue that we donate our time instead of monetarily.

No, it's for active subscribers only. Either way you'll be supporting us. Either by paying us directly (subscription) or by paying us indirectly (by having ads shown). The subscription is an extension of the normal donating we used to have where you would get no recognition.

I changed it to: Better?

Indeed you will. You'll get automatically moved into the donators group once you've purchased a subscription and back again once it expires.

Maybe I should reword it. You'll just get a different color like for instance I'm red. It will just move you to another group. The most important part in terms of changes will be that ads are disabled.

People pay to have their ads seen, not to have their ads hidden and tucked away where nobody notices them. Besides, the entire only takes up about 200px vertically and I do not think they're very intrusive. We've had ads embedded within the first post in the corner before and we had no problems with that either. If you wish the ads to go away then I'm afraid you'll have to send us a regular sum of money because bills do not pay themselves. With regards to relevence, is there not any specialized systems like Google that gear the ads towards relevent site content? Surely there must be some more 'organized affiliation programs'. I said that I (as in me, Daniel0 on phpfreaks.com) cannot do anything against it. I don't know how the AdSense/Youtube advertising control panels look like as I do not have access to them. The person who does that is Eric/phpfreak.

I remember once when on vacation that we found a brand of sausages called "Pik". In Danish that means "dick" so my younger siblings thought it was funny to run around and say "jeg vil have noget pik" (="I want some dick"). Picture attached to verify the above. [attachment deleted by admin]

You'll have to take that up with the ServerPowered sales department. ServerPowered and PHP Freaks are different branches of The Web Freaks and their only relation is that both of those belong to The Web Freaks and our server is in ServerPowered's datacenter. PHP Freaks admins do not have access to customer info and whether a customer has got what he paid for or not. I can tell you, however, that unmanaged Virtual Private Servers usually come with a bare minimum operating system, which is what I assume is the case when you say that it came "with nothing on it". We cannot style it. I don't know if you can through the AdSense panel, but I don't have access to that.

Some of the ads are relevant, others aren't. Not much I can do about it.

The max_connections limit was exceeded. I've increased it so it shouldn't happen again.