Hey, man! That's great to hear.

Best of luck with the project, and please don't ban me. TIA.

Don´t ban Sungam, set up a sin-bin where the bad boys can mouth of to each other and we can watch the fun from the sidelines.

Isn't that all ready here, called Scummunity or Soapbox or something?

On the community/content side, I'll be spending more time reaching out to folks. This is where I felt I was really failing because of lack of time.

Excellent! I would hate to see the site go under. I met my husband on RC.com!!

Let us know how we can help.

I've met a lot of great people through RC....including you Gail!

Why not just test it on your actual server? I am sure there is enough hard drive space to support multiple reversions of the site.

set up a sin-bin where the bad boys can mouth of to each other and we can watch the fun from the sidelines.

Lol. Not really cool with that--I'd like to hit reset on that part of this site's culture.

Overall, the crew here is pretty friendly (and many of you have known each other for years), but occasionally threads disintegrate into drama, and when that happens I'll delete those posts and hand out warnings/time outs. It's going to take a little bit for us to all re-calibrate so I will do my best to over-communicate and give any offenders a reasonable chance to change before perma-banning them. That said, if it becomes clear someone needs to be banned, I won't hesitate to do that.

Disagreement is totally fine (and healthy), being rude and prickly, or personal attacks or crude remarks can go elsewhere. I'm still building my "strike zone" on where the line is, so we'll just see how it goes.

I know I also talked a lot early on about having a clear vision for the site. That's another thing that I still see as very important, but didn't have the mental bandwidth to really think about while I was working on my previous job. Hopefully over the next few months that can crystalize into something more defined.

Lol. Not really cool with that--I'd like to hit reset on that part of this site's culture.

Overall, the crew here is pretty friendly (and many of you have known each other for years), but occasionally threads disintegrate into drama, and when that happens I'll delete those posts and hand out warnings/time outs. It's going to take a little bit for us to all re-calibrate so I will do my best to over-communicate and give any offenders a reasonable chance to change before perma-banning them. That said, if it becomes clear someone needs to be banned, I won't hesitate to do that.

Disagreement is totally fine (and healthy), being rude and prickly, or personal attacks or crude remarks can go elsewhere. I'm still building my "strike zone" on where the line is, so we'll just see how it goes.

I know I also talked a lot early on about having a clear vision for the site. That's another thing that I still see as very important, but didn't have the mental bandwidth to really think about while I was working on my previous job. Hopefully over the next few months that can crystalize into something more defined.

Just one more opinion, but personally I don't think anything should be deleted. Giving out warnings and bans is ok, but deleting posts or parts of posts generally makes a thread really hard to follow and drives users away from a site.

I also believe that there should be some kind of a scummunity type of forum where those members who want to sit around and insult each other all day can do that without threat of being banned.

I think, Jeff, that part of your R&D should be doing a roadtrip that includes RC meet 'n climbs. If you do one at the Gunks, I bet Gail and Tiffany and more than a few others would be up for it. You can park/camp for a couple days(no welcome overstaying, sorry) at my place(walking distance from cliffs). And if you have one in JT or other southwest destination between December and April, I will be up for that too.

Plus I'm the first to admit that climbing with all y'all I'd feel a bit intimidated--I don't climb that often and my technique is so bad that my muscles are generally shot after one day of 5.9's... if I can even last that long.

rc.com's cake is being eaten by sites like: http://climbing.ilooove.it/, http://climbingnarc.com/ and facebook. It's a little bit sad as it's only nostalgia and a currently boring day job that brings me back here.

Never heard of the first one and only heard the second one mentioned once or twice. The estimated site visits in May 2014 are 190K and 170K respectively while rockclimbing.com is 310K [Source: similarweb.com]

http://www.similarweb.com/.../climbing.ilooove.it

http://www.similarweb.com/...ite/climbingnarc.com

http://www.similarweb.com/...ite/rockclimbing.com

I agree about rebuilding the community first and not getting all worked up over policing said community unless it actually becomes necessary, but the predictions of demise are a bit premature.

If anyone wants a great case study in a site's total decline into irrelevancy, look at gunks.com - a shadow of its former self with only a dozen or two remaining posters. This despite having perhaps one of the most coveted domain names in the Northeast.

The huge decline started when the web master, due to a highly charged and contentious thread (which spilled over here as well), waded in with some extremely heavy-handed "moderation", which included mass deletion of posts that he didn't personally agree with. Gee, what a surprise. There was also a promise of fixing and improving the bug-ridden software running the forums "within a month" - that was well over 2 years ago.

Don´t ban Sungam, set up a sin-bin where the bad boys can mouth of to each other and we can watch the fun from the sidelines.

Let me tell you about the time GMBurns, Jmeizis and I took 3 days to do a 7 pitch grade III C1* tower.

That was nothing less than C3. I saw stars on those quarter-inchers.

At risk of derailling the thread here is a picture of one of the starbolts, in Fisher tower sandstone, with a badly cracked hangar.

And that was just the first one!

(a suggestion - find a way to change the code to get rid of the automatic dot on image tags when replying)

Thanks for the heads up, that should be a very simple bit of code as long as I can find the correct file.

So you're suggesting that in a multiple reply thread the same image is downloaded again and again and again and again and again....
Sure, that won't impact performance at all.

Let me tell you about the time GMBurns, Jmeizis and I took 3 days to do a 7 pitch grade III C1* tower.

THat is because you spent all your time BitCoin mining on your iphone.

I thought about doing that actually (not on a phone). Doesn't seem worth it.

Are you sure? I made, then lost, a s***load of money.

I'm sure. You need pretty high-quality systems that can cost quite a bit of money, and really the best way to mine is to get into groups that don't necessarily guarantee that they'll split the proceeds with the folks who actually helped to mine it.

Basically, with the amount of coins available going down significantly in the next few years, you'd break even after three to four years and maybe make a couple of thousand after that until everything is mined.

And oh yeah, this doesn't include the hackers stealing the document-less cash you have in your account.

You ignorance is stopping you from wasting literally hundreds of dollars here, Greg.

Good luck!! and for the love of rock find more pictures to rotate than the same 5 we've seen on the homepage for the past year.

Yowzer. Don't think I'd be in a hurry on that climb either.


Thanks for the heads up, that should be a very simple bit of code as long as I can find the correct file.

Update: This is fixed now.