No ChiefDelphi for a week? Vote Now!

[Koko Ed]

I'll do you one better and go without two weeks in mid August (due to the fact that we will be in St. Croix without any internet)

[David Kelly]

Originally Posted by Bharat Nain

Here is my idea

Brandon gives extra moderating priveldges to selected/all the mods on this forum and goes on a cruize. YEAH, he needs a break... Let the moderators handle chiefdelphi for a week.. I think they are capable of it, right?

It's already like that. There are many mods that have different levels of admin power. Brandon takes breaks a lot of the time and many people dont even notice. Example at 2004 IRI all but 1, maybe 2 mods where at the event without access. Not much can go bad when B is gone.

Lets send him on a cruise

[Joe Matt]

Instead of closing the forums, just have a page that says:


Do you really want to go here? I mean, look outside. It's sunny. It's a great day to go fishing/skating/rollercoater riding/mountain bikeing. If it's rainy, enter here.

[Jay H 237]

Originally Posted by CourtneyB

hmmm a week isnt bad...but whenever i go on the computer, this is the first website i automatically go onto.

It just occured to me that some people have CD set for thier home page. This may be a bit of an inconvienence for them but who knows...... I can only speak for myself.

[Bharat Nain]

OK let's all take Brandon and go on a cruise. Now that'd be fun, and we can have rooms about different topics and Brandon sitting in the security room monitoring all of us?
ChiefDelphi Cruise. fun.

[Marc P.]

Here's a better option. Everyone who wants to take a break, take a break! We can come up with a list of users who want to take a break. In everyone's public profie, there's an item called "Recent Activity." Every day someone can update a list here with the involved users' "time off" (days/hours/minutes from last activity to current time). It won't block people from reading CD, but it will keep track of who's cheating/posting.

For those more serious about cutting off access, change your hosts file to point chiefdelphi.com to 127.0.0.1. That will redirect any web browser to a blank page when chiefdelphi is entered (unless you run a webserver on your computer locally, in which ase you'll get that page).

[Franchesca]

Originally Posted by RogerR

well, since i'm going to be away from the internet this next week, then i think that everyone should have to go through withdrawal with me. i vote yes!

HEYYY!!! That's not fair ... just cuz you have to go away ... !!!

But in all seriousness, this shouldn't be a confrontation between people. Personally, I don't think its a bad idea but if its going to be a problem then it doesn't have to be done!

I agree with Jessica, it really is Brandon's choice ... but you would expect him to want a rest ... although if you he doesn't well, then you can't make him!

So, i'd vote yes if it's not going to be a problem for anyone!

[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by David Kelly

Bad idea and I voted now. What am I going to do at work?! I can't stop having breaks like how the union workers do every 20 minutes!!


I hope Papa Smirf (Chris Fultz) doesn't see this because he'll show it to my boss. Oh wait, Papa checks CD just as much as I do and I wont get his lunch anymore..



P.S. I do work hard, and dont really spend that much time on CD. Don't believe what anybody else says.

I agree with David... I'd be so bored at work, without CD

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Erin Rapacki

Vote now if you think you could handle a week without ChiefDelphi this summer!

The site won't be shutting off. A week without Chief Delphi doesn't require the site to be turned off. If you need a break, take one. I don't; I'm not going anywhere. We strive to keep the site online, taking it offline purposely would be counter-productive.

[phrontist]

"Forcing" someone to better themselves will:

a) not work
b) breed resentment in the individual "forced"
c) make you look, in general, like an elitist patronizing [numerous expletives deleted]

If you are serious about this the best way is certainly not a vote! Do you think a mandatory exercise law would pass in the US? I guess, if you were particularly determined you could start a distributed DDoS, a little client that uses extra bandwidth to bring down CD. Or hey! How about MyDoom.GetSomeSun!

[phrontist]

After further thought I think I've got a plan. How about a CD setting that allows you to lock your account for x amount of time? You could have a page that shows people currently abstaining from CD. Like Monks/Nuns!

[Rich Wong]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

The site won't be shutting off. A week without Chief Delphi doesn't require the site to be turned off. If you need a break, take one. I don't; I'm not going anywhere. We strive to keep the site online, taking it offline purposely would be counter-productive.

Denial.
That’s a sign of being overworked and in need of a vacation.
(At least get a tan! lol)
Is there a Brandon-Want-A-Be who can takeover or just to do maintenance for a week?

So I also vote YES!

[Amanda Morrison]

I don't really see the point to this?

'Hey - everyone who is already online and checking CD enough to find this thread. Do you want to stop looking?'

Maybe the people who are on here constantly are the ones who are year-round FIRSTers... the program doesn't exactly stop once the build/competition season is over. Plus, this is a great chance for Brandon and such to revise and add features for the upcoming year. CD dies down enough during the summers that I don't see why this would be a concern... I guess I don't really get the motive behind this.

[Michael R. Lee]

Check CD? Lol. Some of us have other things we need to do. Now back to the reading for my summer online class.... I try to check CD but usually its when I can. Right now is some downtime from another online forum I'm a memeber of as the largest conference in terms of attendees is occuring right now.

[Mike AA]

Well, come to find out, talking to the guy, Brandon really doesn't need time from CD, he needs time from everything else! 2 bands, his job, CD coding, listen to coding and something else i dont remember what. If you wanna give him a break at something go see them play at PUB 1218 nearby him and Cheer them on. Or something around those lines.

Practice makes perfect and he's said he's gotten the hang of this, it is in a form, part of his job. I could see him needing more of a Cruise (like the one in one of his posts ) and getting him away from everything, and it wouldnt really affect much! ok, maybe it would. (sorry Brandon I'm a little sneaky at getting info )

I only check here at night either when I'm going to bed or just simply bored and got home from work. I work an average of 50 hours a week so the hour I spend on here isn't much and its kinda fun to read.