Help Enworld

[Bront]

How can we (As posters/members/lovers of EnWorld) and I (personaly) help to make sure things stay working and something like this doesn't happen again?

I see you had 2 volunteers help you out of the goodness of their hearts, and we all thank them, but is there more we as a comunity, as well as any of us as individuals do to help you out?

 

[Jdvn1]

If you stop posting, there'll be nothing to back up next time.

I think this is mostly up to the admins, though. Maybe with more money they'd have spiffier hardware, but I can't say that was a cause of the corruption.

 

[Bront]

I'm guessing that the coruption likely came as part of the hack, but who knows.

I figured I'd put the call out.

Ask not what Enworld can do for you, but what we can force Jdvn1 to do for Enworld, or something like that.

 

[Jdvn1]

Heh.

I gave what money I could to EN World! It's a great site that I'm happy to help.

On my massive single digit hourly wage, I can only do so much.

 

[GlassJaw]

Maybe with more money they'd have spiffier hardware, but I can't say that was a cause of the corruption.

Maybe they should have some kind of server drive where people can donate their own money out of the goodness of their hearts....oh wait.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

That's not really fair, Glassjaw. The server drive bought the new hardware and the CS accounts help fund the ISP. No one is getting paid to manage this place full time, and I see a lot of places paying big bucks for a database admin with lower volume systems than ENWorld is.

That said, I do have some expertise in these areas, and I'm certainly willing to volunteer my time and effort to help run this place above and beyond buying a CS account.

 

[Rackhir]

I have a DLT tape library that is just sitting around at my job, that I might be able to talk my boss into donating. Would something like that be helpful or useful for backing things up? It is an older one which only holds I think like 40 gig or so per tape, but does hold 7 tapes.

 

[Jdvn1]

Maybe they should have some kind of server drive where people can donate their own money out of the goodness of their hearts....oh wait.

There should be an option for that, probably, not just during drives.

But if someone wants to donate money, they can buy (or extend) an account. Some people have CS accounts that go for many years just to give money to EN World.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Heh.

I gave what money I could to EN World! It's a great site that I'm happy to help.

On my massive single digit hourly wage, I can only do so much.

Sounds like my hourly wage....

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

That's not really fair, Glassjaw. The server drive bought the new hardware and the CS accounts help fund the ISP. No one is getting paid to manage this place full time, and I see a lot of places paying big bucks for a database admin with lower volume systems than ENWorld is.

That said, I do have some expertise in these areas, and I'm certainly willing to volunteer my time and effort to help run this place above and beyond buying a CS account.

I think that is what Bront was refering to. In RL he's a 3rd shift Data Base Admin. Myself I'm a Software Quality Tester.
While clear athority would need to be established to avoid the "too many cooks" issues, I'm sure there are technically proficient ENWorlders who would be willing to "donate" hours.