While I admit to having made numerous feature requests in the past, I've come to realize there is a certain zen to it. It's not merely enough to think "gee wouldn't it be nice?" and hope that others concur when you post it to PMD. subsequently crossing your fingers that it will catch the eye of a devil with enough tuits to implement it and that the god who reviews it is having a good day and applies it ;-).

One needs to take into account the benefit of a new feature (ease of use OR bytes saved * likely number of users * probable frequency of use) vs. the cost (bytes added OR CPU cycles consumed OR database hits required * likely number of users * probable frequency of use). Does anybody happen to have some sort of numbers to apply to this?

Anyways, I bring this up because I've longed for a user setting to disable the section links at the top of every page. I'd personally choose to only have them on the front page, which is where I put thing I rarely use, or to bookmark the sections. The only metric I can supply to support this is that that section of HTML amounts to a hefty kilobyte. That may not be much for some nodes, but for an otherwise empty node that's 7% of the page, and every bit counts (Ha!).

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In reply to Creature Feep Payoff by belg4mit

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