Re: [Inkscape-devel] rules and guidelines for new forum - first draft

Hi Brynn,

The quota is useful in terms of just protecting the server from
overload. We could raise it now that the server has a lot more disk
space. We currently have 50GB free, and we could probably clean the
disk to reclaim some of that too.

Say if someone who posted twice, got through the queue and then created
a script to upload 100TB of tiny svg files.... the server would fall
over and we'd have quite a job removing all the files. (this is almost
certain not to happen of course)

We'll just top the quota at something reasonable for people who post a
lot. A mentor's team sounds like a great addition.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Sun, 2019-03-17 at 11:11 -0600, brynn wrote:
> > No, just read over it again and see if we can harmonise them;
> > making
> 
> sure there's no glaring omissions.
> 
> Oh ok.  They essentially contain the same info, just organized
> differently.
> 
> Re quotas.  Could it work so that a particular number of messages
> posted, earns 
> a certain quota?  We'd have to have some trial and error to find the
> right 
> numbers.  But that really makes sense, that the people answering the
> most 
> questions are probably posting the most screenshots.
> 
> > Prolific answerers are
> 
> a bit harder because they're not a group, but doable.
> 
> 20 mb sounds good for regular members.  The vast majority could
> probably get by 
> with whatever it was before.  But it's the prolific answerers that I
> was worried 
> about.  I think I'd rather see the regular member quota back to what
> it was 
> before (9 or 10 mb?) if that would help make room for the answerers.
> 
> Oh, or instead of certain number of messages, could their be other
> groups? 
> Inkscape Community has a group called "mentors" which are the
> prolific 
> answerers.  Just a thought.
> 
> I think we want to avoid people having to delete older images to make
> room for 
> newer ones.  Because a lot of people find answers to their problems
> by searching 
> the forum.  But if the image is missing from a message which
> otherwise answers 
> their question, they'll have to post a message anyway.
> 
> Should we start thinking about some alternative place where people
> can upload 
> images?  If they can't attach them, then at least they can insert or
> embed them 
> (I'm not sure the proper word, but we talked about it on GL, and I
> think you had 
> agreed to it, as long as it wasn't inline insertions, although I
> haven't seen it 
> yet).
> 
> Just out of curiosity.  If the project has its own server, why can't
> it be 
> unlimited?  Since we have the first 2 message moderation system, no
> attachments 
> are seen until they're approved by a moderator.  So the quota isn't
> needed to 
> prevent spam.  Would there be any way to remove the quota for forum
> uploads 
> only?
> 
> Thanks,
> brynn
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: [email protected]
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2019 8:16 AM
> To: brynn ; Inkscape User Community
> Cc: Inkscape-Devel
> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] rules and guidelines for new forum -
> first draft
> 
> Thanks Brynn,
> 
> > Anyway, are you suggesting to use it in the forum, or modify it for
> > the forum?
> 
> No, just read over it again and see if we can harmonise them; making
> sure there's no glaring omissions.
> 
> > Certain forums will not be moderated differently.  Not unless
> > you're
> > suggesting
> > we should have a "NSFW" section?  Do you think there should be
> > limitations on
> > formats?
> 
> No NSFW section, we don't have any age checking or viewer limiters.
> Formats are up to the forum, I'm guessing no limits.
> 
> > The quota is among several things that keep slipping my mind to ask
> > about or
> > bring up.  It likely will need to be expanded for the
> > forum.  Sometimes people
> > want to upload a 20 to 25 mb SVG file.  And the people who do most
> > of
> > the
> > answering of questions will need much more, as well.  Maybe I
> > should
> > make an
> > issue in GL for this discussion?
> 
> All that's needed is for a reasonable quota to exist, be set to a
> group
> and then add the users to that group so they get to have that quota.
> 
> For example moderators are easy. 200MB for them. Prolific answerers
> are
> a bit harder because they're not a group, but doable. Say 100MB? they
> can always delete their large files later if them want to.
> 
> Say 20MB for regular users for now?
> 
> Best Regards, Martin Owens 
>