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tuxamd
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 Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject: Pruning OTW. |
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Ok well I see the admins want to keep OTW  I won't argue against that any longer. However I did notice a rescent surge of old OTW topics being brought up. Since they aren't really useful in any way what if they were pruned? I believe that's the feature name in phpbb which deletes post after some ammount of time in a specific forum. I'd say that 3 months is a pretty safe limit for the post's life, and just imagine how many resources it will free up. OTW is like a chatroom anyways so what's the point of keeping logs? 
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Ok someone mentioned that old posts cannot be deleted and this idea has been said a long time ago. Why not though? I mean is this some obsession over having a 100% complete archive of everything ever done on the forums and whatnot? I don't see a problem with deleting old posts from OTW. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| This has been discussed before. It is a preference to keep historical posts. |
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tuxamd
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| John-Boy wrote: | | Just had an idea - if posts can't be deleted, then could they be auto-locked after a certain amount of time of inactivity ? If there's a pressing need to post to an old thread a swift email with the reason to a mod should suffice ... |
Someone mentioned that on OTW. I think that's not a bad idea. |
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dirtyepic
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topics should be reused instead of starting new ones. no one is going to bother with sending an email to a mod when they can just start a new topic. also, just because you don't see a problem with deleting posts doesn't mean it's okay.
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tuxamd
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| dirtyepic wrote: | | topics should be reused instead of starting new ones. no one is going to bother with sending an email to a mod when they can just start a new topic. also, just because you don't see a problem with deleting posts doesn't mean it's okay. |
I don't see it because it simply doesn't exist. It's more of just personal preference by the admins, either way it wouldn't kill the forum.
Some people prefer to archive everything, I'm the opposite of that. I throw away everything even suspiciously useless. I've yet to come up with a need for anything I dispose of, physical or digital. There are better things to spend time in life on than organizing and maintaining old junk or data. Some things are ok to keep for history, but this isn't one of them. Plus when we study history and related things we don't try to replicate the events in our minds 100%, to do so would be pointless. |
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amne
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We decided not to prune OTW. Resurrecting old threads is intended if not done only to resurrect, so everything is fine.
edit: Seems you've been digging yourself.
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dirtyepic
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| tuxamd wrote: | | Some people prefer to archive everything, I'm the opposite of that. I throw away everything even suspiciously useless. I've yet to come up with a need for anything I dispose of, physical or digital. There are better things to spend time in life on than organizing and maintaining old junk or data. Some things are ok to keep for history, but this isn't one of them. Plus when we study history and related things we don't try to replicate the events in our minds 100%, to do so would be pointless. |
i'm of the exact same mindset. i don't even keep childhood photos or packages that i've installed that i /might/ need down the road but don't right now. but i'm glad there are people that do packrat everything because it does come in EXTREMELY handy sometimes.
shit i completely forgot my whole point of coming back to this thread now.
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| dirtyepic wrote: | | tuxamd wrote: | | Some people prefer to archive everything, I'm the opposite of that. I throw away everything even suspiciously useless. I've yet to come up with a need for anything I dispose of, physical or digital. There are better things to spend time in life on than organizing and maintaining old junk or data. Some things are ok to keep for history, but this isn't one of them. Plus when we study history and related things we don't try to replicate the events in our minds 100%, to do so would be pointless. |
i'm of the exact same mindset. i don't even keep childhood photos or packages that i've installed that i /might/ need down the road but don't right now. but i'm glad there are people that do packrat everything because it does come in EXTREMELY handy sometimes.
shit i completely forgot my whole point of coming back to this thread now. |
Hehe well at least we agree about something But also consider this, if you don't ever even look at childhood photos, then you definitely won't sit there reading old OTW posts for hours  To me it's like a chat log, but the rest of the forums is no doubt nice to have saved. Would you go through old IM and IRC logs just to read things once again? |
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