A couple of questions for Owens...

[bad_roo]

First off - do you get to see all the IP addresses and have a good laugh at all the lame aliases and secondly can you show us any graphs or stats of the traffic around the time when everybody decamped from powmag.com?

Is it also possible to see who makes the most Ignore lists?

[dipstik]

bump. i wanna know goddamnit!

[Sublime]

Bump ^ this would be fun.

[bad_roo]

You can 'Ask TGR' but you're not guaranteed a response...

[The Suit]

I'd tell you, but I don't know. I'm claiming that this still counts as a response, though.

[bad_roo]

The Random Chas Factor spent two weeks in Jackson Hole and constantly referred to the bar at Teton Village as "The Magny Moose". None of us corrected him, instead preferring to openly laugh. Was this the correct thing to do?

[The Suit]

Originally posted by bad_roo
The Random Chas Factor spent two weeks in Jackson Hole and constantly referred to the bar at Teton Village as "The Magny Moose". None of us corrected him, instead preferring to openly laugh. Was this the correct thing to do? Is that a trick question?

[Owens Never Sleeps]

Yeah - I can se the Ip's and my admin feature links them up for me so I can see who is tweeking people. It really is pretty funny.

As far as the traffic influx, it was BIG. Really BIG.

[Spicoli]

He can also log on to the board under any name he wants as well. :eek:

[Owens Never Sleeps]

Ummm, I can? I'll have to try that.

[Spicoli]

Originally posted by Owens Never Sleeps
Ummm, I can? I'll have to try that.

heh

[Innominatus]

This is Owens, loggin in with the unsuspecting Innom's user ID.

Huh, it really does work.

[Owens Never Sleeps]

Liar.

[Woodsy]

not to bitch a bout a fantastic free service that i abuse but
often times i get a server too busy try again later.
even now that it is May.
any hope that may disappear?

[Owens Never Sleeps]

really? Anyone else getting this?

[Owens Never Sleeps]

Ok - I'll see what I can do about opening up the throttle a little....

[Spicoli]

yup

Also been getting an active-x control security warning message.

[The Suit]

Originally posted by Owens Never Sleeps
Ok - I'll see what I can do about opening up the throttle a little.... I'm going to have to pay for that, aren't I?

[Owens Never Sleeps]

Nope -- more of a server management thing than a bandwidth thing. It's a fine balance between keeping the server loads reasonable and tippingthe damn thing over. I tend to lean more to the conservative side.

[The Suit]

Carry on, then.

[Woodsy]

Originally posted by The Suit
Carry on, then.
Mr. Suit,
I am curious as to the increase in online sales since the influx. I mean I have been buying tgr since all I had was VHS but my schwag purchases for me & the GF have definately increased since I am here anyway.

?!?

[The Suit]

I just looked back at our web sales reports from last November, December, and January. They were up a bit more than 50% over year earlier web sales numbers.

It's pretty hard to draw conclusions from our numbers, because a lot of things have changed over the past couple of years, but wholesale sales (to shops) didn't increase anywhere near as much, so I think you could attribute quite a bit of that increase to "the influx."

It would be interesting to get Owens' point of view - he's got quite a bit more history on the web site than I do.

[Buster Highmen]

Does Teton Gravity Research study droopy boobs?

[Spicoli]

Droobs? Droobies?

[bad_roo]

Have you got the love throbber WFO yet, Owens? I'm still getting 'server busy' messages whenever Jayfrizzo posts nekkid pictures of his hot wife.

[Woodsy]

[jamestkirk] open er up scotty![/jtk]

[supercow]

I cannna du it captin I just donna have the power