Need to post off topic. Many of you are aware of the site lagging and even gowing down completely for short periods of time.
A main cause of this is signiture images with large file size. We recently set rules regarding this:
http://forums.khinsider.com/showthread.php?t=77518
An extremely major misconception ppl have with this is they think if the image is hosted on another site it will not affect our page load speeds.
That is just simply wrong. We are not talking about bandwidth. The reality is images hosted on other sites are
worse.. since if our server is fine, but that other site is experiencing some issues, this will hang OUR page.. since it needs to wait for the other server to respond! when this is occuring 5-10 and even more times per page load, and hundreds of them are occuring every second at peak times, the result is a total mess.
So... I just went ahead and deleted five sig images from various users that were in violation of our limits, or had two images instead of just one which is also a violation. Others I left including some 80-90kb images, expecting those users to fix them up themselves.
Unfortunately some of the staff members still haven't appreciated the gravity of this, which is the reason I'm needing to post about it. Hopefully the above explanation will prove helpful.