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Deleting Useless threads
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13. May 2004 @ 09:20 |
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I am not a number
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Praetor
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13. May 2004 @ 19:37 |
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:)
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14. May 2004 @ 06:55 |
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Praetor, ?
I was talking from a Dictator point of view. As in to save hard drive space on what ever system that holds all the Afterdawn threads, Just delete the ones that clearly have no use. Of course this could also lead to dRD, deleting the ones that just make fun of him and seem to resurface every now and again. But I was mainly thinking of all the threads created that just try to sell or scam users.
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Praetor
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14. May 2004 @ 08:51 |
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Neither of those threads served any use.
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Toiletman
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5. June 2004 @ 19:40 |
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We need to have a thread spring cleaning. I mean just look at the PS2 forum, over 428 pages in General Discussion. Maybe some sort of mass closure/deletion on most threads after a certain date?
Everyone is entitled to their own true opinion. Either respect that or don't.

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cozza1987
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5. June 2004 @ 22:56 |
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Yea, i agree with T.M.
Maybe go through and delete some of the crap threads that have been closed and have nothing to do with aD.
It might take a little while to do, but in the long run its worth it, considering the space it takes up.
Also im sure if newbies go to a Topic that has like 20 pages and see a whole lot of crap, im sure they r just going to start their own as not being bothered to read through all of them.
But hey, this is only my opinon.
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6. June 2004 @ 11:15 |
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Quote: As in to save hard drive space on what ever system that holds all the Afterdawn threads
That is probably the last reason to delete anything from forums -- all of the almost 500,000 messages in the forums fit into 420 megs. And we got five servers, total of something like 1.5TB of SCSI HDD space :-)
But yes, "totally, completely useless" threads need to be removed from the forums, just to make the forums nicer to use in terms of searchability. But there are almost 90,000 threads now and we (admins) have left the task of removing threads and messages to moderators. Mods are volunteers and everybody understands that you simply can't read through every single thread and message that gets posted here on daily basis (over 700 msgs a day only to English forums nowadays). Despite this, mods are doing great job and soon, as we plan to launch a "report an offensive post" feature at some stage, this hopefully gets even cleaner forum in terms of garbage threads/msgs.
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cozza1987
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6. June 2004 @ 11:38 |
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Hey dRD
shit only 420mb, i thought she would be hiting the 800mb+ mark for that amound of messages.
Thats a good idea.
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6. June 2004 @ 12:15 |
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cozza: Of course it is far more if you download the pages in HTML, but the msgs are stored in the database and pages are created dynamically from the db.
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cozza1987
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6. June 2004 @ 12:35 |
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Yea i just thought for the amount of messages.....
420mb used out of 1.5TB..... lol
If you look at it that way 420/1,572,864mb... lol
It aint much :D
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Toiletman
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6. June 2004 @ 12:56 |
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You know what that means don't you.... we can start more useless topics!! YES! Go me and my useless 1kb posts!
Like this one.
Everyone is entitled to their own true opinion. Either respect that or don't.

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cozza1987
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6. June 2004 @ 13:03 |
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Just because its there doesnt mean it needs to be full of crap... lol :-) hehe
Whoops ther goes another 2k... lol
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Praetor
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6. June 2004 @ 18:56 |
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Thread terminated due to excessive silliness :)
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