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All Uploads STOPPED at Zymmetrical!
RaFaLe:
--- Quote from: zymmetrical on May 07, 2009, 07:42 ---Thanks for your patience, all I can say is it's a temporary pause, the resume date is not finalized - we are working to implement new methods for keeping things fair for everyone- The message on the site pretty much should say it all - most people are reasonable enough to be selective about their uploads, a minority are not - and those people should not be taking away resources from you folks.
The temporary pause also allows us to take a step back and measure site activity on the technical side - with the 'production line' shut down we can accurately do a checkup on system resources, which is a factor in how much 'juice' one member can be permitted.
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Thanks - I'm looking forward to submitting my work so that we can help bring Zymmetrical up.
Do you care to share what approach you might take regarding limiting uploads?
zymmetricaldotcom:
Rejection percentages seem to be the way to go.. although people seemed to get grumpy about another agencies stab at this recently. :) I personally never wanted to go this route, I always imagined we could overcome these issues through purely technical and not policy means. There comes a point though where you can optimize a business process like photo reviews as much as you want, if it's not making an ROI then you are not in a business but a liability.
There's just no room for hazy grey areas in business these days - the logistical costs of trying to manage submissions, where sometimes the members don't even respond to polite messages like 'hey, your rejection rate is getting up there, maybe slow down a bit, here's how you can improve' etc. is a central issue in scalability. Adding some house rules is the only way to enforce playing fair, it can only be to the benefit of the good crowd.
RaFaLe:
--- Quote from: zymmetrical on May 07, 2009, 07:57 ---Rejection percentages seem to be the way to go.. although people seemed to get grumpy about another agencies stab at this recently. :) I personally never wanted to go this route, I always imagined we could overcome these issues through purely technical and not policy means. There comes a point though where you can optimize a business process like photo reviews as much as you want, if it's not making an ROI then you are not in a business but a liability.
There's just no room for hazy grey areas in business these days - the logistical costs of trying to manage submissions, where sometimes the members don't even respond to polite messages like 'hey, your rejection rate is getting up there, maybe slow down a bit, here's how you can improve' etc. is a central issue in scalability. Adding some house rules is the only way to enforce playing fair, it can only be to the benefit of the good crowd.
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Indeed. This is true.
Thanks for the feedback ;)
Chris
zymmetricaldotcom:
The upload interfaces (including FTP) are back up - we did what need to do behind the scenes. The new rejection-based upload throttle will be put in place in the wee hours of the weekend to avoid any disruptions - the rules will be plainly posted on the submissions page. Thanks for your patience.
RaFaLe:
Thank you :D
Although, it does seem that the server is down - I'm unable to access any server at zymmetrical.com domain - FTP or WEB.
Maybe all of a sudden you guys are being bombarded with traffic :-\
I'll be patient and wait - I know these things happen ;)
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