more funny Tygar quotes and the LJ issue du jour

[katster]

"the shell forked off your grep...don't quote me out of context..."

"And then you have Clippy over here, going 'Let me imitate flatulance to amuse you!' and over here you have the microsoft input checker going, 'Has a key been pressed yet....has a key been pressed yet...'"

Yeah, 206 lecture. Tygar is a *great* lecturer and as I said, I'm going to die this semester in this class, but I'm going to have a blast doing it.

As for this morning's hot issue on LJ, well...I like the higher limits. I'm just worried that this would be like Dalnet (and if you haven't heard what Dalnet did, you should go look it up, it's pretty funny), in which the Powers that Be are sitting there smugly going, "See what a great thing we have done" with a freshly minted bullet hole in their foot. Because part of the reason I like LJ is the communities, and posts to communities were going to count in your three a day as a post. But five and fifty should work very well in my opinion.

Comments

[millenia.livejournal.com]

I think in the long run this may be a better solution for communities, though, if only because how it could have ended up is that the communities themselves would be limited to (x) posts per day, which would definitely have been a shot in the foot for LJ. I agree that a limit higher than 3 (I think the current plan is 5/20/50 or something) was a good plan, and they had said your first post on a community for the day might be 'free' or something.

I understand where you're coming from in that respect, though; if LJ is a community discussion sort of tool, is limiting how much you can say a good idea? I think in the long run it is; the servers will run better, paid accounts will increase as their usefulness increases, and the LJ crew will have more capital to build a better network.

Something I was considering suggesting, but am not sure I have the patience to try and bring up because it would require sorting through 3000+ comments over 2 posts, is differing levels of paid service, where you can buy "extra posts per day" for less money than a paid account, but without a paid account's normal benefits. The problem there is that it might 1.) devalue paid accounts or 2.) make the cost of paid accounts rise. I don't want to be responsible for that second one. ^_^

Dalnet?

[lots42.livejournal.com]

What did Dalnet do?

[tropism.livejournal.com]

I wanna know too ... WDDD?