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Staff have recently been inundated with requests for thread deletions, most often when an account is being sold/moved into. This is creating an unsustainable workload that is impacting other areas of the site.
Due to this we are now formally restricting thread removals to one year old or less from the time of the last post. For example, from today, threads last posted in before July 14th 2014 will no longer be removed from accounts.
Users posting in threads they want deleted to bring them within the time limit will receive a formal warning against their account.
Posted by Eve
(#2775) on Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:08pm
- Eve
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:42pm
[Hiatus] & Blue (#19257) - This is not something we are currently interested in offering =)
- 🍂ENGINE🍂
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:44pm
Eveglori (#2775) (really not trying to sound rude please don't take it as that)
I honestly don't understand how you guys can see it as an unnecessary action. There are many forums that are very very overrun with old old forums that have nothing or no posts or have been removed of all content. While yes the most recent posts always show up in the front it still adds a bit of a "cluttered" feel to the site as a casual member.
Also i think that it more hinders the members more so than the website its self. I have a suggestion thread for "forum folder organization" so i think that if you guys were to give up deletion of forums all together the mods should think of a way to create some sort of organization or separation ability for those with tons of forums.
But thats just how i feel. I honestly understand your guys position and i have been a mod of website before so i understand the struggles of requests such as these.
- Guzma
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:50pm
On neo they delete everything that passes page 5 on the forum or page 25 on the topic itself so I went from a place where they literally delete day old boards to one where they don't delete anything.
I'm not complaining since this isn't a service I'm interested in but I'm not exactly a software engineer so I'm like ???? how does work
- 🐼Kaiyo🐼
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:56pm
Drawing-Hiatus (#8701) The forum has always been arranged by newest post show on top. Deleting threads does not change this fact, as many of the threads being requested are several years old. Threads that are a year old + are not going to be on the front page of any forum, unless that forum has very low activity. We will still be deleting threads that are less than a year old, which are the threads that may be involved in the "cluttering" problem your concerned about.
The only difference that this new rule has, is that we will not completely purge accounts anymore.
So it seems an unnecessary action to us, as those threads are doing nothing. Their just sitting there untouched, and we, as mods, can use our time to handle more pressing issues than the 100+ threads we get asked to move in a week.
- Gwennafran
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:57pm
In general, what people are discussing here, is "Keep everything for authenticity" versus "delete all unused things for anti-cluttering and/or so people can't be hunted by stuff their account did more than a year ago".
It's seen on a lot of forums, and it's generally like discussing PC versus Mac computers. I for one prefer things don't get deleted all the time.
There's no right overall answer, but some places prefer to do one things, while others prefer to do the other.
- SailorRosette
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:59pm
Could it be coded for a "mark for deletion" que? It just gets added to a list with direct links and somehow gets deleted like a pm/email would. Then when there is tine, click and removed or mass move for topics... maybe even a special code as the title of the said topic to be deleted. Like... que:deletetopic ...or whstever works and a bot finds them and removes them.
- 🍂ENGINE🍂
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 2:06pm
Kaiyo (#489) no i completely understand, like i said i have been in a mod position before for other sites and i had to deal with the same things. But like my suggestion on the first page, to make it easier just have a "time" for deletion of threads instead of a free for all as far as asking goes.
- bd84
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 2:10pm
I..don't get it. I've re-read this post 5 times.... so like...no threads are being removed ever now? That makes no sense to me at all so I am hoping I'm still not understanding this new rule.
- bd84
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Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 2:11pm
Oh wait. I get it now. Derp. How do we ask for removals? I've got several threads that I marked for deleting but never knew where to go to request them just that a mod would do a sweep every now and then.
Posted on: Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:38pm
Drawing-Hiatus (#8701) Quite honestly, it wasn't something that was ever meant to be offered, but while that moderator was able to keep up with it and was happy to do it we felt there was no harm in allowing her to do so. As I said, it's not something we've offered, nor are interested in continuing to offer as it's an unnecessary action.