by Joe S (AK) » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:56 pm
Well, She's a Smokin' Now!
It would seem that some outside factor has caused the slow down and now has shut down it's activity.
In the past my own PC has 'picked up a cold' where a virus would have the programing task itself a simple command many thousands of times a minute. The upshot was a very slow computer.
Another mining site had a similar problem with multiple, multiple postings of extremely long posts which jammed up the forum speed. It went to the point that the site had to go to a variation of the posting process to break the cycle. Once broken, the forum returned to normal speeds.
Spring Break has been, traditionally, a period where enviro nutz have had the time on their hands to bombard gold forums with irritating attacks like that. It might just be that the 'fix' was a simple return to classes.
At this point I would guess that we have returned to business as usual - until it happens again.
Joe
Wiser Mining Through Many, Many Personal Mistakes (OOPS, "Personal Learning Situations")