A***** A***** 510 Report post Posted August 6, 2009 I have been wondering these questions: Is "cerb" located in an office? Mod, are you male? female? When was "cerb" started? Most memorable moments? Scary Stories? What is the traffic like on a daily basis? Any challenges "running" cerb? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grass_Hopper 18263 Report post Posted August 6, 2009 You were'nt talking about the shout box, right?.. :razz: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted August 6, 2009 I have been wondering these questions: Is "cerb" located in an office? Technically cerb is a website so it's on a hard drive in a computer in cyberspace... but Yes, our company is design co. (same owners as escorts-canada.com localescort.ca and many other escort related sites) We have a physical office in Barrie Ontario (but... I often work from home - Shhh! Don't tell anyone!). I go in to the office for weekly meetings (and to cover for people when they are away like this week for instance as Dave "the site manager for localescort.ca" is on vacation this week so we are all covering his shifts). Mod, are you male? female? I am male but keep in mind I am not the only mod on cerb all the time. we do have female staff as well and we all read the threads on cerb (I know this as they are topic of conversation at the office all the time). Any of the staff can log in as the MOD (but few ever do unless I am away now). we use to share this account equally but when the site started to get really busy it was just confusing having everyone moderate at the same time. We were stepping on each others shoes. I guess I drew the short straw (Just Kidding - I actually enjoy moderating the site most of the time, most of you are friendly and I still enjoy being part of the site - I just hate the trouble makers, complainers, people who continue to break the same rules over and over and basically anyone who makes my job harder than it needs to be). When was "cerb" started? It was started back in 2001 (I think) we did not start it ... it was started by a guy names Mark (in Vancouver) and was part of the localescorts.ca website. We purchased the site from him and in 2003 and we separated the site from localescorts and cerb was born later that year. We than upgraded to the software that we use today in 2004 (after the old software was hacked badly as the original software it ran on was FREE software and not secure) Most memorable moments? With cerb? When the site started to really take off back in 2004 and we proved a escort site without all the negative reviews or circus threads with people fighting and ganging up on people would be popular! Scary Stories? We have had some really pissed off pimps recently and some very unstable people over the years (they usually feel the need to call us and threaten whoever is unfortunate enough to answer the call) - I personally only answer the phones when I am covering for someone so luckily I just hear about the crazies but I have had a few myself. I can count the people on my hands that scare me... so it's no more or no less than any other type of business. What is the traffic like on a daily basis? I have posted traffic stats in the past for cerb. It gets very good traffic. Do a search for "Traffic" and you will find some threads with details and stats. Any challenges "running" cerb? Every day! Basically you could say running a site like this is a challenge. The list of challenges is a mile long and I would not have the time to go into that one! LOL... I can say it sure is not as easy as it would look from the outside. Hackers, spammers, trouble makers, complainers, rule breakers, immature people, kids, gossip, flame wars, PM spam, moderating, site upgrades, site updates, security patches, new mods, adding features, maintaining multiple servers to run one site, budgets, etc... etc... etc...it never ends. In order to have a site that looks like everyone follows the rules take a LOT of work. Thankfully we have a lot of really great members here who help by flagging bad posts and spam PMs, offering advise and much more! 13 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted August 6, 2009 You were'nt talking about the shout box, right?.. :razz: Exactly... just another challenge! The SHOUTbox was a MOD that someone else programmed. It works great on LOW traffic sites... but with the shear volume of visitors cerb gets it was causing the load level on the server to peek out. Causing pages not to load and causing database errors. It was making well over 1000 calls to the database per second causing the server to crawl... and the main server is a VERY large server. It was just coded very poorly. It looked good and was functional but the code work did not efficiently use the resources of the server (it was a resource hog) so it had to go. We have no way of telling if a MOD like this will work well on the site unless we try it out.... and this was the SECOND one we tried as the first one was just as bad. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
A***** A***** 510 Report post Posted August 7, 2009 Another silly question, when you are on your mobile phone, browsing cerb, does it show you as being "online" again, thanks for all the info! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted August 7, 2009 I don't know the answer to that but I would suspect it does as you are logged into the site (meaning you are active in the system) - When you enter your username and password it flags you as online - the cell phone display is really just a skin (displays the site differently) so I don't think it would be any different. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Susie 1472 Report post Posted August 7, 2009 good post angela!!thanks for the info mod!! susieXXXO Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whatsup 11893 Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Mod, on a members profile page it will sometimes say. "YOU MUST CLICK THE LINK IN YOUR EMAIL" What does it mean? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whatsup 11893 Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Mod, when I compose a post quite often the smilie that I want to include is not in the group of (15 that are available on the screen in the editor) I have clicked on the (More) and the smilie I want still does not show. I have a work around but it can take several page reloads to finally have the desired smilie that I want to insert. Can anything be done about this? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
buggernot 588 Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Mod, on a members profile page it will sometimes say."YOU MUST CLICK THE LINK IN YOUR EMAIL" What does it mean? I think that's when someone has signed up for an account at CERB, but they haven't confirmed the email address yet. So technically, they're not really a member until that gets done ;) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted August 12, 2009 "YOU MUST CLICK THE LINK IN YOUR EMAIL"What does it mean? buggernot is correct, These are NEW accounts and the person who registered the account has not activate the account by clicking on the email sent to their email. Mod, when I compose a post quite often the smilie that I want to include is not in the group of (15 that are available on the screen in the editor) I have clicked on the (More) and the smilie I want still does not show. Can anything be done about this? In the advanced editor mode [GO ADVANCED] button... you should see all the ones available. I do so I was not really aware of any problem? the [more] button does not do anything for me... I have no idea what this is suppose to do either. I think when I added all the "Adult" icons to the system this stopped working. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mod 135639 Report post Posted August 12, 2009 Oh... wait.. I see.. only 30 of the icons show up... I will look into this further. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whatsup 11893 Report post Posted August 13, 2009 Mod, when I compose a post quite often the smilie that I want to include is not in the group of (15 that are available on the screen in the editor) I have clicked on the (More) and the smilie I want still does not show. I have a work around but it can take several page reloads to finally have the desired smilie that I want to insert. Can anything be done about this? A big thank you :bowdown: Mod for putting all 60 smilies in the editor. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
