Willow ,'Storyteller'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
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?
I don't have any problem with relocating closed threads. And I've said I can live with cutting the Farscape thread (and any other non-ME-verse thread, although the fic thread would be painful), particularly if it can be shown that it would actually help the situation.
I'm not being difficult; but at this point it's unclear what particular actions we could take that would make an appreciable difference, given that, as I understand it, there's a problem with the code not closing connections.
No, we think [hope] that it's just a coding problem. But it may not be. If we had 180 users active at this board, it is entirely possible that the problem is just too many users, too many threads, too many posts.
I'm dead serious about ditching Natter. I doubt it will ever pass a vote, but that's what needs to go.
Losing the Farscape thread will have the net effect of a hamster fart in a hurricane. Loosing Natter or Bitches will make a difference.