Aw shit. Level 2.

[uppityperson]

Usually I hate level 2 because pictures and sig lines disappear. First time I've had anyone on ignore and here they are again.

[Hydra]

1. Same

I wondered why I was getting in a flame war with someone earlier, and then realized that they were supposed to be on my ignore list...and I put them back on, and there they still were!

*D'OH!*

Thank god I haven't seen the other red dragon- that would be the last straw!

[uppityperson]

3. Yup, and without the visuals, it took me a bit to figure out who it was.

blech.

[Growler]

6. yup

:(

[burythehatchet]

2. It's like herpes. I've heard

:)

[Mojambo]

4. I hate level 2.

I don't think you get notified of replies at level 2.

Major pain in the butt.

[Wizard777]

5. What's level 2?

[blondeatlast]

7. To our great VOLUNTEER mods: Please step out for some air and toss back a cold one or two.

It's going to be a bumpy night and you all deserve a reward (this afternoon's already been a wild one and Puglover and SR's been right on the ball--thank you!)

[LisaM]

8. Funny - I actually like when the pictures disappear.....

sometimes they are just too much! And some of them are too scatalogical.

[bbernardini]

9. What's the highest level possible, and what are the changes at that level? nt

[uppityperson]

11. I think 4, maybe 5. Here is link to Level 2, and info.

There is a forum announcement, in red, at right side of "discuss" page. Wait til later and I bet we'll get to at least lever 3 tonight, if not 4.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=announcement&id=1
Some forum features are currently unavailable (Level 2) (Jun 03rd 2008)

You may have noticed that some features of Democratic Underground are currently not working. This is intentional and a result of the website experiencing an unusually high level of traffic currently.

Democratic Underground has dozens of features that we've programmed into our software over the years that, while important, are considered extras because they are not required for DU to run smoothly. We are very proud of all these extra features we provide to our members, but when our servers get backed up with heavy traffic we have to make difficult decisions and progressively turn off certain extra features to reduce the stress on our servers. The alternative is a DU that is very difficult at best to navigate due to overwhelmed servers slowing everything down.

These features will only remain turned off temporarily until our traffic dies back down to a normal level. Currently, we are on Level 2. The features that are turned off at Level 2 are the following:

* Advanced search
* Hide thread feature
* Signature lines
* Avatars
* RSS/XML feed for Latest Breaking News
* Forum hiding on the Latest page
* Expanded threads mode
* Ignoring new threads by author

[blondeatlast]

10. I have exactly 2 people on "ignore" and I've seen posts from both this afternoon.

Yeesh.

[MedleyMisty]

12. I hate it because the hide thread feature doesn't work

Sigh.

Actually most of the people on my ignore list don't seem to post very much anymore. I guess I need to go through it and clear out the ones who have been tombstoned again.

Oh, no, wait - suddenly there's a lot more stupid flamebait than there was before.

Ah, I get it - they mostly only post in the threads that they create, so since I don't see their threads I don't see the "You are ignoring this user." thing and assume that they're not here anymore.

[blondeatlast]

13. "...lot more stupid flamebait ..." Yes, indeed! nt

[Breeze54]

14. I'm surprised it isn't at DEFCON IV tonight!!!!!

:P

:toast:

Is it over?

[uppityperson]

15. Wasn't level 4 annoying?

All those lost snarks not posted in "my du", lost to me forever wahhh


GDP was rather nuts. Worse than FLDS eating cougars running amok at Walmart

[uppityperson]

16. Woohoo! back to level 2!!!

[cabbage08]

17. where can you see the level?

[uppityperson]

18. Right now go to "Discuss" and look on R side.

When it was level 3 and 4, when went to Lobby page, and there is a place to click on "old lobby page" and there it said what level and what it meant. "Forum announcement" sort of thing.

[Eurobabe]

19. It was DEFCON3 or 4 around 12:30am EST

Thankfully it has calmed down and IGNORE is back.

[cabbage08]

20. thanks...