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Originally Posted by bunni
I have bills to pay. The site runs ~$1,000 per month in expenses and that number is always growing. Advertising has never covered the costs - I have always run this site at a personal expense to myself.
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A large part of that is people CRAMMING the servers full of crap that the site doesn't need.
My suggestions to help with this:
1) Continue the policy of limiting screenshots. We don't need 36 screenshots of one gun (I've talked to Kin93 about this already).
2) We are pretty good now at policing guys who put up PNGs. Ben41 has been especially good about warning new members about this. I once deleted PNGs which were 2.57 Megabytes just for ONE PICTURE!!!!! But a lot of them are just 700K-1.4 MB, which is STILL TOO MUCH.
3) I am still against people putting up endless pages of stuff which are of questionable use' to anyone wishing to use IMFDB as a research resource.
4) Start DELETING crap on your talk pages that are old business. You can keep memorable quotes or conversations. But questions back and forth that are ultimately settled. Why keep them? I'm gonna start editing all my OWN stuff that that is just dead weight on Bunni's servers.
5) We do have a rule against members mass deleting any conversation or discussion that is not created solely by them, but us MODS should start cleaning things up. I see tons of discussions on discussion pages about questions or mysteries that are eventually "cleared up" and are no longer relevant, so we can either clear the discussion page or delete it entirely until someone has something new to say.
Again, I wrote too much again, but heck. I am procastinating from cleaning guns...
