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[FMJeff]

I was considering deleting out very old topics to speed up board performance. What do you guys think? As this board builds and more posts are added, its just going to get slower and slower over time.

Not doing anything yet...just asking what you guys think....

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[McNabbShouldDie]

It depends. If the thread was based around a horribly crappy topic and got like 2 replies and 6 views, delete it. But more popular threads should stick around.

And would posts be deducted from your post count for every old post deleted?

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[DrewP]

I agree with McNadd, or if it's possible: archive anything older than a certain amount of time to a seperate domain, of course that's just more work.

In any case, my vote is yes.

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[Jackie Sloan]

Capital idea Jeff, a lot of those posts' are just taking up space. I say kill 'em.

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[TheMojoPin]

I think it's always important when a mod speaks to our penises.

And I'm with McNabb. Dump the shitty threads, keep anything with over 20 replies.

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[ChickenHawk]

Feel free to delete all topics from before I joined.


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[Immigration Dude]

If it will make things faster I say kill 'em. Except for classics...

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[who6489]

I also agree. If the topic never got much response, dump it. Also, If there are old topics that haven't been touched in over, say, 6 months, might as well get rid of them too, since they obviously lost interest. Or at least close them.

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[Def Dave in SC]

It sounds like a good idea. It seems now so many threads get started, and someone goes back two years to link to a similar thread.

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[Heather 8]

Define ''very old''... not trying to be a smart ass, I just want to know how far back this would reach.

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[Fallon]

Keeping an archive is important, but anything over a year old isn't really needed. I don't think we're gonna talk about Crossroads or the 2002 Playoffs anymore.

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[JustJon]

I say archive, don't delete.

Keeping an archive is important, but anything over a year old isn't really needed. I don't think we're gonna talk about Crossroads or the 2002 Playoffs anymore.
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[FUNKMAN]

go for it. we can't live in the past, we have to look towards the future, the moment is now, etc etc...

plus we were all uglier back then anyhow...

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[ag]

I say get rid of the archive. Im all about speed.

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[Def Dave in SC]

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[furie]

keep it all


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[Tall_James]

Delete all posts with 3 responses or less.

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[fiestygal]

DO IT...DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!! some peopel bring up some REALLY old threads at times which i learned is not good to do ( like the abortion thread)

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[mikeyboy]

delete. delete. delete.


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[ChrisTheCop]

Did God get rid of His original writings when he came up with the Jesus angle? Did the Brady's get rid of the original 6 when they adopted Oliver? Did the coca-cola company throw away the recipe for classic coke when they came up with the new crap? the answer is NO! An archive is the way to go; we wont be able to add to them, but it's a part of our history and our children, and our children's children will need to know how life was lived at the turn of the century. Surely, there's some dark corner of Foundrymusic where we can preserve the evidence of our humble beginnings, and still speed up the board at the same time. You say "archive", I say "OURchive". Thank you.

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[Death Metal Moe]

I have no idea what the criteria would be to dumping old posts, but go ahead if you want to.

How about deleting posts you locked instead of having them sit there?

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[A.J.]

Why not start by deleting all the locked threads?

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[Tall_James]

Why not start by deleting all the locked threads?


No! Those are the best ones! Forbidden fruit is always the sweetest!

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[DJEvelEd]

Save everything. Especially my Toilet Lust thread. I'm still getting laid from that one by beautiful women who want to share a toilet with me.



The locked threads are the best. Ya don't know what you got 'till it's gone.

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[A.J.]

No! Those are the best ones! Forbidden fruit is always the sweetest!

Well, how about the ones that were dupes of threads that were already started?

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[SatCam]

Jeff, if the posts from those stupid old music boards are still in the system... DELETE DELETE DELETE!

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[mdr55]

delete away

[JustinR]

If you can make an archive of older posts. It really slows the the board,. This is a sql database right?

[Heavy]

You have to keep the historical integrity intact. I say if youre getting rid of shit, keep it to the duplicate threads and lame ones with no good old board members in them. you cant delete anything that Gwen posted in for example. The board hasnt gotten slower anyway.

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[BrianTheBailBondsman]

Delete threads? Oh I thought that's what you guys were doing durring the december snow storms ( hehehe) It don't matter to me most of mine got MODified then.

I say archive I mean you never know when you want to flash back and thin of Silera Shaving that sweet azz or Alkey lathering it up ( you lucky Bastard).

Definatly keep anything that the Moe and Mo Comedy Hour listed and not to mention Christhe Cop ,Heckler, HorgeKing, HawaianShirtCraig, LatinSpice, Friday,Angelamy, Fig, Furie, omg the list goes on for ever like my rambling.. sorry I get like this when I just wake up from a nap....

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[nycenice]

yes please go through with the deletion even if u delete just half it should help tremendously

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[TheMojoPin]

About futher site modifications...and this was the closest I saw as being a thread on that...

When you go to "Today's active discussions", would it be possible to somehow make it possible so that you can jump to the latest page of each discussion? Yeah, I know, it's just another click, but I was just wondering. And would it be possible to put the "active discussions" link in the different forums, or even the threads themselves? I don't know if it's my computer, but the dates and times of when the lastest posts were from the board's main page are never right and are usually off by a good 12-24 hours.

Just some ideas.

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[A.J.]

Could we go back to 25 posts per page instead of 10?

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[JustJon]

AJ, you can set that in your preferences

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