I have moved a slew of topics out of the regular forums to a special archive forum to sort of clear out some of the clutter. While I know many of you have worked hard and have written thoughtful posts and comments ("Woo Hoo I'm Fresh Kill!") I felt it was time to make some room for some new thoughts.
I have two dilemas. How rigid should I be about archiving? Should I delete the non-game relevant stuff? Should I keep everything? Anything that is deleted drops the POSTING COUNT of the person who posted it. So consider that...
Second Dilema: Some of the forums can be set to auto-houseclean. This means that any topic that has not been posted to in the last 7 days/14 days etc... will be dropped auomatically. This means that drivel topics will disappear automatically after a few days (and the associated drivel posts count that accompanied it).
The upshot of this would mean that drivel posting in the Member Lounge (for instance) would disappear on its own.
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Housekeeping Duties
I have no problem with losing post levels. I came here to game, not to get caught up in pointless babbling...unfortunately, I've done very little but babble. :oops:
But I wouldn't like it if, after so many days have passed, some topics were to get automatically deleted. Some topics are timeless, and they shouldn't vanish just because they haven't been touched recently. Besides, some of us might just start posting only in order to keep a topic around. It could lead to more needless posting.
Housekeeping Duties
I don't think I'd like the auto-houseclean, just because there is some good stuff being thrown back and forth in some of the threads and I'd hate to see it just disappear.
But I don't have a problem with deleting threads that are non-game relevant. If the topic has been exhausted and doesn't need to be kept around for game purposes I'd say delete it.
Who really cares about Post Total anyway??
Things I would consider getting rid of are:
NPC profile petitions,
Factions petitions (basically anything that has already been linked, re-posted on to the home page)
All the 'Woo Hoo' threads
The Rank Images, about the Game Board, etc... the things that Tempest posted since they have no relevance to how WE play the game anymore...