A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
We can do that, but it takes a few hours apiece to go through them and get them into shape for archiving, and you need to be a stompy to do the required editing. For example, a long URL is only a minor inconvenience when encountered in a thread, because you just go to the next page and the page width goes back to normal, but if it's allowed to stay in the archived file, the whole file is going to be a royal pain to read.
To be honest, I don't think the closed threads are that much of a drain on resources. They take up room in the database, but I suspect those posts aren't accessed that much. It would be different if the search function was still active, and people were constantly running searches on all the threads, but search is disabled.
The resources are being used mostly to read and post in the active threads, and to update the message center.
Sweet. Good job, DX, and while you're at it, I need some new bookshelves.
(And I should have added, if a hand is needed with that, I've got a lot of free time these days.)
The bookshelves are in my basement, sweetie. All you need to do is come get them...
My turn for something of a crosspost, from lightbulbs.
You know, if we really want to cut down on the problem, the rinky-dink little threads are not what we should be talking about.
We should be talking about cutting Natter loose, yo.
Everybody's always complaining about how they can't keep up.
Sean, that's spooky -- I was about to post almost the exact same thing.
'Cause seriously, closing Farscape? Not gonna save us any space. Closing Movies? Music? Natter? Bitches? Those are the threads that cause crashes.
All you need to do is come get them..
Will you make me breakfast?
We should be talking about cutting Natter loose, yo.
Or Bitches. It's really just Natter with more bodily fluids and hair pats, right?
Sean, that's spooky -- I was about to post almost the exact same thing.
Seriously. The problem, in lay terms, is that given an indefinite amount space to fill, Buffistas will fill an indefinite amount of space.
Natter is the ultimate indefinite space.
But really, Natter and Bitches go hand in hand. One will absorb the other.
I don't think Movies or Music get that much play. Natter and Bitches are the two big drains on resources (in or out of the active viewing season).
But Natter will fill - that's why they were created. Would having four threads with the same number of posts as, say, twelve, make any difference on the problem in question? That's a serious question, as I don't know w/r/t to current situation.
