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View Full Version : Ban "Unlimited"?
mind21_98 09-01-2002, 08:11 PM Hmm. With so many people foaming at the mouth due to the word "unlimited", has anyone ever thought of sending it to the banned words dungeon (along with ***** and whoever else is in there)? Is this word really a problem?
*imagines posts in the advertising forums reading something like*
blah blah plan $1.00
********* email aliases
********* subdomains
50 MB
1 GB bandwidth
It'd just look weird. :)
shaunewing 09-01-2002, 10:34 PM Perhaps the phrase "unlimited bandwidth" would be more appropriate to ban instead of just the word unlimited?
--Shaun
Acronym BOY 09-01-2002, 10:38 PM What would that do? A new person will come by, make a post saying they have found a host with unlimited somethingorother and will get all confused as to why their post is censored. Censoring words is meant to keep businesses from conductiong business on WHT. They are stopped from doing that becuase they SPAM or things of that nature. Offering unlimited bandwidth is not cause to be banned (although it may be cause for a few rolled eyes). Not to mention the fact that unlimited is a normal word, not a tech world like modem is or IPv6 is.
ned patter 09-01-2002, 10:41 PM Well i think you's have already made enough good reasons why it should not be banned
:) .
floppy 09-01-2002, 10:58 PM There is nothing which can be called unlimited. Rest mind21_98 has said.
chuckt101 09-01-2002, 11:12 PM i have unlimited good things to say about doofushost! the unparalleled support they have provided me has proved that the steps they are willing to take to ensure my happiness are unlimited! they give me unlimited popemails and unlimited domains and I find that highly convenient. with the unlimited # of hosts out there today, doofushost has proved to be #1.
i have ****** good things to say about doofushost! the unparalleled support they have provided me has proved that the steps they are willing to take to ensure my happiness are ******! they give me ****** popemails and ****** domains and I find that highly convenient. with the ****** # of hosts out there today, doofushost has proved to be #1.
chuckt101 09-01-2002, 11:13 PM ok, so i exaggerate :D
mind21_98 09-01-2002, 11:16 PM Originally posted by aragon
i have ********* good things to say about doofushost! the unparalleled support they have provided me has proved that the steps they are willing to take to ensure my happiness are *********! they give me ********* popemails and ********* domains and I find that highly convenient. with the ********* # of hosts out there today, doofushost has proved to be #1.
client> doofushost is the best! let's sign up!
:D
TheGAME1264 09-02-2002, 12:40 AM Originally posted by aragon
i have unlimited good things to say about doofushost! the unparalleled support they have provided me has proved that the steps they are willing to take to ensure my happiness are unlimited! they give me unlimited popemails and unlimited domains and I find that highly convenient. with the unlimited # of hosts out there today, doofushost has proved to be #1.
I wonder if doofushost offers unlimited SSLs, unlimited forums, unlimited hard drive space and unlimited uptime with an unlimited refund guarantee. If they do all this, count me in! :)
Acronym BOY 09-02-2002, 12:53 AM 260% uptime guaranteed!
Originally posted by Acronym BOY
260% uptime guaranteed! Well that might be enough to entice you sign up, but not me. If a host doesn't offer unlimited uptime, I pass them by.
shaunewing 09-02-2002, 01:14 AM Originally posted by JayC
Well that might be enough to entice you sign up, but not me. If a host doesn't offer unlimited uptime, I pass them by.
Our servers have been up for a very long time. So long, they might as well be considered unlimited. This might be enough to entice you to join:
sh-2.04$ uptime
3:17pm up 424173621 years, 47 days, 13:58, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00
:D
--Shaun
Acronym BOY 09-02-2002, 01:23 AM Wow, your webserver predates the internet.
Hell, it predates the abacus!
Originally posted by shaunewing
Our servers have been up for a very long time. So long, they might as well be considered unlimited. This might be enough to entice you to join:
sh-2.04$ uptime
3:17pm up 424173621 years, 47 days, 13:58, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00"Considered unlimited?" Puh-leez. Trying to pass 424173621 years off as "unlimited" is like those hosts that tell me I don't need "unlimited traffic" because they'll give me something like 600 gigs a month. Only unlimited is unlimited, anything else is a fraud.
By the way, to seriously respond on topic for a change (:)), I think banning the use of "unlimited" or any other word (at least words that have an webhosting-related use or legitimate use for normal communication; I have no problem with words that are banned because they are deemed by some to be "offensive") would be a bad idea.
I see no reason why we'd want to stop any normal discussion of the "unlimited issue," and banning in even in the ad forums wouldn't serve much purpose. It might even make it worse for those who think that offering it is a bad thing, because those who want to offer it will just use other words. It won't be so easy for the unlimited avengers to jump all over them.
shaunewing 09-02-2002, 02:16 AM Originally posted by JayC
"Considered unlimited?" Puh-leez. Trying to pass 424173621 years off as "unlimited" is like those hosts that tell me I don't need "unlimited traffic" because they'll give me something like 600 gigs a month. Only unlimited is unlimited, anything else is a fraud.
I was being sarcastic... I'm as much against "unlimited" as you and most other people out there. I was merely using an example to show that 424173621 years is just as improbable as "unlimited bandwidth".
I see no reason why we'd want to stop any normal discussion of the "unlimited issue," and banning in even in the ad forums wouldn't serve much purpose. It might even make it worse for those who think that offering it is a bad thing, because those who want to offer it will just use other words. It won't be so easy for the unlimited avengers to jump all over them.
Yes, you raise very good points. I don't think that unlimited should be censored. As you mentioned, it does prevent legitimate discussion on the unlimited issue. After all, if this word was censored - most of this topic would be censored :)
--Shaun
Originally posted by shaunewing
I was being sarcastic... I'm as much against "unlimited" as you and most other people out there. I was merely using an example to show that 424173621 years is just as improbable as "unlimited bandwidth".Uh... me too. Believe it or not, I didn't fall for that; I didn't believe that your server really had been up for millions of centuries.
And the "seriously, for a change" comment in my second paragraph was mean to illustrate that the first paragraph was joking, lest anyone think I really believe that anything other than unlimited is a "fraud."
Subtlety just doesn't work any more!
shaunewing 09-02-2002, 02:33 AM Originally posted by JayC
Uh... me too. Believe it or not, I didn't fall for that; I didn't believe that your server really had been up for millions of centuries.
:D
Yes, I suppose my reply was a bit stupid. Subtlety and humor is hard to express on the Internet.
Oh well :)
--Shaun.
SoftWareRevue 09-02-2002, 05:25 AM Banning the word Unlimited would make this forum so boring. :(
What would we do for fun then?
edude 09-02-2002, 05:42 AM Well, the post count rate would certainly die down :D
mind21_98 09-02-2002, 12:09 PM Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
Banning the word Unlimited would make this forum so boring. :(
What would we do for fun then?
Go out, get drunk, get laid, you know, what almost everyone in the 18-25 age group does for a real life... :D
Ahmad 09-02-2002, 09:01 PM Unlimited RedHat
Unlimited PHP
Unlimited CGI
Unlimited Perl
:D
StarGate 10-09-2002, 05:55 AM For the sake of the business I agree to ban the word "unlimited"
Gordo 10-09-2002, 09:02 AM Please do not ban that word. How else can I report the quantity of this special feature, downtime, I had with my last host.
mind21_98 10-09-2002, 09:29 AM Originally posted by Gordo
Please do not ban that word. How else can I report the quantity of this special feature, downtime, I had with my last host.
How can a host be down for an unlimited period though? There are only a certain number of years in a typical human life. :D
PatrickWells 10-09-2002, 12:15 PM Don't ban it so it would say **********, make it say something like "ABSOLUTELY NO". So:
Unlimited Bandwidth turns into ABSOLUTELY NO bandwidth :D
The problem is, even I have an unlimited plan....but not for web space or bandwidth....just unlimited email accounts, subdomains, etc (as many as the web space your given can handle).
mind21_98 10-09-2002, 05:23 PM ABSOLUTELY NO web space
ABSOLUTELY NO bandwidth
ABSOLUTELY NO databases
Man, that's a crappy host! :D
sHosts 10-09-2002, 07:56 PM lol
PatrickWells, :stickout: :stickout:
BAN!
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