Okay, I'm going to be a dick.
Everyone has damn fine reasons for keeping threads. Where you gonna keep 'em when the board goes KA-FUCKING-BOOM next month?
Cutting down on threads, consolidating them, is going to make some people unhappy.
I love the Minear thread. I really do. But you know what? Get rid of it. If it'll help, delete it.
I sincerely believe that we have to tighten our belts now, so we can enjoy the board for a long time.
Choose Natter! Kill Natter!
Huh. Would that cause problems for people who hadn't gotten all the way through the thread yet, with finding where they left off?
Don't know, don't care. We're all bright people, we can figure it out.
Huh. Would that cause problems for people who hadn't gotten all the way through the thread yet, with finding where they left off?
Don't know, don't care. We're all bright people, we can figure it out.
Actually, I let my thought get derailed there. Will it cause any probs when people are still subscribed and message center is looking for a thread that's not there anymore?
Ah! I don't know. But how long would you keep a closed thread on the board for the people then? Two weeks? A month?
Keep up or DIE! i say.
If you try to look for a closed thread in your message center, a virus slags your hard drive and blows out all the chips on your motherboard.
Will it cause any probs when people are still subscribed and message center is looking for a thread that's not there anymore?
I'm just guessing, but I think that when a thread is deleted from the database, it's also deleted from the subscriptions table. So no, because the deleted thread should just disappear from anyone's subscriptions list.
Allyson, are you talking about closed threads or already-archived threads?
Closed threads. Get rid o' dem. It's 15 threads taking "click through" space on the board. They're not active. Archive them.
Dunno.
If
it wouldn't cause a problem, then one week or two seems fine. If it will cause a problem (for the board, not the slacker) then would someone (ita) have to manually unsub people before moving the thread off-site?
Ah, question answered. I say we go for it then. One week? Two?