mkweiss,
As far as closing this thread, one of the abilities and responsibilites of being a "global mod" is being able to format and move posts. Like when I hijacked Indy's thread on Droid, I moved my posts and unhijacked it.
Here it wouldn't be that helpful. In other forums, the entire thread is based on the author's question. I was kind of talking about closing the question based on other forum's rules. A little tongue-in-cheek, but a bit serious.
Question was asked and, on the SAME day three users spent time trying to help. Since then, there has been no reply. One user offered to help offline and maybe that is where the question went. But, to be honest, I find it only common courtesy to post follow-up posts and work with those who have tried to help. Not so much for thanks (although that would be nice), but to give feedback and let those who are helping AND the entire community learn from the question. It is also very rewarding to know if you have helped or not.
This happens more than you think, and it is frustrating. I just think if you are going to ask the board a question, you should continue to participate in that question until it is either resolved or even not resolved.
Let me say that the vast majority of users do. We all learn, and I learn a ton both from reading other threads and from feedback on questions like these.
The author asked for help on sub par performance of his server.
