The messages posted in a day record will take place from September 11th at 11h00 PM to September 12th at 11h00 PM (GMT).
During this day, you will earn thrice as many Tings as usual by posting, plus extra rewards up to 6000 Tings. We count on you to be here and post as much as you can in order to beat the previous 14120 posts record!
― September 6th 2009 ―
It has been decided that record day will take place in September. Please vote for the date(s) you want it to take place in the poll.
― September 4th 2009 ―
Pirate-Community was successfully transferred to its new server, which will be able to put up with the significant activity of record day. You are invited to choose the month(s) you would prefer for the delayed fourth edition in the new poll.
― July 18th 2009 ―
Following the server overload caused by the activity of the record, a hardware change should take place soon. Meanwhile, we propose three alternative dates for this year's record, which are Saturday 8th, 15th and 22nd August 2009. Please indicate your availabilities in the poll, but also in this topic to confirm the corresponding votes.
Thanks for your understanding.
― July 18th 2009 ―
Due to an unavoidable technical incident, the record day is cancelled and postponed to August. Unfortunately, our current server proved unable to put up with the amount of requests caused by the high activity of record day, and froze after ten minutes of slow performance, despite our efforts to avoid such a situation, which led to reducing the processor use by 60%. The significant size of our database is responsible for this saturation and a server change will be discussed in the following days to solve this problem.
We apologise for the inconvenience and promise you the next record day will go smoothly.
― July 2nd 2009 ―
The posts in a day record will take place from July 17th at 11.00 PM to July 18th at 11.00 PM (GMT).
― June 16th 2009 ―
Good evening!
Each year since 2006, we organise a posts in a day record at PC. The whole thing is quite simple: it consists in posting the most possible messages in a predetermined time span of 24 hours. The goal is not only to break a new record every year or bring more activity to the forums, but also to shuffle our topics in order to bring new discussions for the following year.
This is not a spam contest, and useless messages are obviously not welcome. However, the special conditions during the record day will be the cause of a certain leniency, especially as concerns old topics, which can be bumped freely.
Last year, 14120 messages were posted during the given 24 hours, and the winner was Beebop, with 2428 posts. We count on you all to break this outstanding record, which won't be easy. You can view the individual results here.
As concerns the rewards, all you need to know is that each post is worth 15 Tings within the given time span, and then come the bonus Tings: 1500 for participating (i.e. posting at least one message), 1500 for beating one's own posts in a day record (you can ask me to calculate it for you), and 3000 Tings for the winner. For example, Beebop gathered the staggering amount of 42420 Tings that day (which he all stupidly gave away later if my memory serves me well
).We have to choose a date, and I suggest Saturday July 25th from 0.00 AM to 12.00 PM (GMT+1), which must be adjusted depending on your time zone (feel free to post your time zone here if you aren't sure). For instance, it would be from July 24th at 11.00 PM to July 25th at 11.00 PM in the UK. If you have a problem with this date, please tell us as soon as you can; this will not be decided until all major posters have confirmed they should be able to come.
I think that's all, now please tell us if you think you should be able to come, and don't hesitate to ask any other questions!
