anyways, these ppl not reading the news has become really frustrating, as i had to just go and delete about 40 Broken-Link maps from the site... the only good that seems to be coming of this is that ppl are freeing up space when they update their maps
PS. just tested, cuz i was curious, and you can still upload JASS ^^
Kimbo
#17
ill clear alot of my junk too. even though it might not be much, but bleh.
The map section is by far the largest section with an estimated 4GB of maps (beats my 1.4 GB of maps by far)
Deleting stuff of your own will not help there will always be 100s of beginners that ignore all this completly and leave their spam maps with 8mb of modles untouched.
The moderators have to individualy test each map to check the maps quality to decide if it is worthy of staying on the site. I would be more than willing to help report maps of low quality but currently it seems the admins have not decided on any "requirement" system for maps. Once the server problem is fixed I reccomend updating the rules if im not mistaken it is still saying that new rules will come soon yet does not link to them even if they exist.
Out of interest. . . What is the max server space the site can have? (How many MBs are you paying for?)
Was not Vexorian* at one stage a moderator of this site or atleast a common poster? If so why does he dislike this site so much? (if it is true that he dislikes this site?)
Facts are clearer. Our database is very big because our rules are too loose. We need to increase quality. I believe unit&building models, skins and maps take most of the space. I will start looking into the spells section and delete any maps with imported files that are not crucial. I saw a lot of maps that had importer models for the CASTER! I mean... that is simply obnoxious. We will also have to get to validation one way or another.
~Daelin
imported_MjhaL
#24
Maybe you should compress your resorce in other way, for example in rar. You could also make some limits in uploading files, for example: -every person can upload only up to 10MB -new users have to wait 10 days to be able upload anything
you could also thing about maikng a script witch would delete older versions of smoe map (if two map has the same name and author then delete the older one)
Some big files could be host as a torrents file. (you should have copy of those files)
Super - if everyone follows that opinion, we'll never get much space cleared up...
anyways, i cant really start deleting yet, as VG still ows me the map quality thing
imported_MjhaL
#27
PurplePootSuper - if everyone follows that opinion, we'll never get much space cleared up...
You mean my sugestions? What I wrote was not the finall solution, but things which you could do to get more disk space, it could give you more time to find way to solve the problem.
That's one of the dumbest ideas I ever heard. Why limit someone because he is creative and posts a lot of cool stuff? Unit models can take a lot of space but for a very good modeler it is worth it. Take olof. You want to reduce his resources just because they are many yet they are so damn cool? I doubt it!
The best solution is to increase quality. And even better, mods can choose what stays and what doesn't. Some orientative rules, and everything else is up to the mod. It's up to him. No more circus about "blah, you accepted his resource and you didn't accept mine". Bad luck! In my opinion, his resource deserves to stay, your's doesn't. We are here to help the community, not reason why x's icon is better than your's. If mods have more authority around here and we level the quality a little (I don't ask for a massive purge, but let's face it, maps section is filled with crap and I have the feeling that it eats most of the resources) and start applying them, plus we use validation system, problem solved!
You are the mod, you with other mod and admins will decide what to do. We, normal users just tell you what we think about this, we might be wrong we`re just users (If we were infallible we would be mods just like you ). You thing my Ideas, are dumb, maybe you`re right but I think we should share with our ideas even if you ther are dumb
You have problem with disk space now, and the best way to solve it (as you already wrote) is to remove the crap resorce. To do this you will ned a lot of time, but (if I am right) you have problem with disk space right now.
Making any limits of resorces for good modelers/skiners/mapmakers isn`t good idea, you`re right, but I`m not saying that we should remove all good resorces.
Always ther are other ways to get some free MB`s, if you ask people to remove their crap resorce some people will do it (I guess about 2% of wc3sear.ch users ) If you find some way to remove older versions of map you will also get some free disk space. Making torrents base of BIG files might be also some temporary solution (I think those torrents would "die" very fast) And the last thing which I sugested is changing compression typ might halp, it wont halp a lot, but always it is additional free disk space, I know that you would need 2-3 days only to decompres and compres againg already existing resorces (if there is easy way to do this) and you can`t be sure if it would give a lot of fre disk space.
Maybe it would be faster to just remove crap resorces then thinking about some other solution. But please dont tell me that me ideas are the dumbest ideas you ever heard, because no one likes to hear that he makes the dumbest ideas.
I am not your enemy, I don`t want to argue with you. I am also with Daelin
so is that only with maps and icons, or what 
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