Craven_de_Kere - 4:05 am on Nov 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

>How we suppose to do anything about it, when our friends don't even get it?

Brett,

You say this over and over again, but I really think that in many cases it's not a matter of people not "getting it" so much as not agreeing with your method of handling it.

A simple example is the more hardware vs. less hardware lines. It's easy to appreciate the desire to manage load, but at the same time I don't think you can expect all of us to agree that your willingness to cripple the user experience instead of scaling the hardware is the best route.

>I bet if we took off all the bot controls, it would take 20 servers just like this one to feed them.

What to you is a problem to me is a solution. 19 more servers isn't worth doing this to a site to me and this may come across as not "getting it" to you, but that's a matter of differently weighed criteria and disagreement on priorities and methods, not obtuseness on my part.

Anywho, good luck. If you take on the windmill of zombie computing you will need it.