Increasing the private messages quota

[Hard Core Rikki]

Possible?
100 sounds a little low a limit, and deleting possibly sensitive messages or ones more desirable to be kept would be cool.

[jeffy]

Do you know you can
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[Hard Core Rikki]

Yes, I do. Keeping the messages associated with the forum account is neater though. Not everyone really would keep carrying their PM history in usb keys.

I myself have very few PMs, but those who reached the 100 PM quota cannot receive any further ones.

[Shinigami-Sama]

yeah I've had that happen a few times myself
was lame

you could probably help this cause by mailing a nice big harddrive to swede to put in the server just for that ;)

[Dark Shikari]

I agree, it'd be damn nice to have a larger quota. I keep having to clear mine out.

[Sharktooth]

the limited quota is particularly usefull... at least for me...

[foxyshadis]

Become a moderator, get as many PMs as you want. :p Seriously, I'm of the opinion that PMs should be unlimited (with an option to simply turn them off for people like sharktooth) since they take up no more space than any forum post, but doom9 doesn't see it that way.

[Inventive Software]

The issue there though, is cost. If you, for example, double the PM allocation, you've potentially doubled your costs, certainly in the case of the 500 or so regular users. Cost is always at the forefront of things. The more space you need, the more it'll cost.

Case in point: my serial downloading of both useful tools and university programs, and other random s**t, has more than doubled my space needs, and that's doubled again because I've got to back that up somewhere. It all costs money (but less because hard drive prices keep coming down), which is something I'm a lil short of, being a student without a job, but good placement prospects for 2008/09. :)

[Dark Shikari]

The issue there though, is cost. If you, for example, double the PM allocation, you've potentially doubled your costs, certainly in the case of the 500 or so regular users. Cost is always at the forefront of things. The more space you need, the more it'll cost.

Case in point: my serial downloading of both useful tools and university programs, and other random s**t, has more than doubled my space needs, and that's doubled again because I've got to back that up somewhere. It all costs money (but less because hard drive prices keep coming down), which is something I'm a lil short of, being a student without a job, but good placement prospects for 2008/09. :)If there was a cost issue, doom9 would start deleting old posts, or perhaps a few of those gigantic attachments (each of which is probably equal to a few dozen threads in terms of size).

PMs are cheap.

[Hard Core Rikki]

o.O PMs take virtually no space o.O
Just denying avatars to people with less than 5 posts could save more enough to compensate, lol

If anything, normal members could be separated into 2 usergroups with different quotas (for uploads, PMs, etc...). Not like people under 50 posts should really have a high PM quota...

[Shinigami-Sama]

o.O PMs take virtually no space o.O
Just denying avatars to people with less than 5 posts could save more enough to compensate, lol

If anything, normal members could be separated into 2 usergroups with different quotas (for uploads, PMs, etc...). Not like people under 50 posts should really have a high PM quota...

a better way would be having a few 'high traffic' people, like the devs of things like imgburn, x264, xvid, the decypters ect...
because they're the ones that would benefit most; except for shark, it'd just mean more deletion for him :P

[Swede]

Just because I'm in a good mood as the load has dropped quite a bit since the upgrade I've doubled the amount of PMspace. It's not really a question of space as much as time to backup the 1.5GB database. As it is now I only shut it down once a week since it takes some 10 minutes to backup and I don't want that time to increase.