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Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 2:22 pm
by Michael
In order to keep GRB as stable as possible, going forward threads over 2 years old will be automatically deleted on a daily basis. This process excludes the archive forum and will not impact user post count statistics.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.


edit - The Interviews forum won't be impacted either.

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 2:24 pm
by Popeye_Card
My concern is that Leroy is going to start bumping a bunch of endangered threads...

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 2:24 pm
by TheoSqua
One of the few downsides to having a huge forum base.

There's some classic old threads we won't be able to reference anymore.

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 2:25 pm
by Michael
Popeye_Card wrote:My concern is that Leroy is going to start bumping a bunch of endangered threads...

It might not be a bad idea to have a thread in the social forum to nominate older archive worthy threads.

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 2:30 pm
by Popeye_Card
Michael wrote:
Popeye_Card wrote:My concern is that Leroy is going to start bumping a bunch of endangered threads...

It might not be a bad idea to have a thread in the social forum to nominate archive worthy threads.
Couldn't we just delete the election thread and seque thread? Those surely constitute at least half of the total posts on the board.

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 3:06 pm
by heyzeus
Yeah, we need to elect an official GRB Archivist/Historian to go back and pick some more threads to keep in archives.

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 3:07 pm
by Cronos
Popeye_Card wrote:
Michael wrote:
Popeye_Card wrote:My concern is that Leroy is going to start bumping a bunch of endangered threads...

It might not be a bad idea to have a thread in the social forum to nominate archive worthy threads.
Couldn't we just delete the election thread and seque thread? Those surely constitute at least half of the total posts on the board.
This.

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 3:14 pm
by lukethedrifter
Did you say going forward?

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 3:23 pm
by Fat Strat
heyzeus wrote:Yeah, we need to elect an official GRB Archivist/Historian to go back and pick some more threads to keep in archives.
I elect you.

Re: Old Thread Deletion

Posted: February 26 09, 3:39 pm
by Radbird
Michael wrote:will not impact user post count statistics.
Oh, thank god. I'd hate to drop back to being an everyday unicorn.

My self-esteem is intact. Thanks, Michael.