| Author | Message |
|---|---|
 Guiness4 |
Date sent: 2015/11/23 23:50:13
I think for the new year, all of the subdirectories under the main headings should be cleared. as i think some of them date back towhen the server began? If this reset happens! at the end of every month. all of them should be wiped again. just to keep them to a minimum and control the forums for once... plus who da hell knows what they're reading when there's 800 topics in yo face.. +1 if you agree -1 get out of here and leave the server |
 luigiofthebakery Moderator |
Date sent: 2015/11/25 14:33:51
Forum topics don't date back to when the server began, we didn't have the forums back then. The earliest topics are from march - April 2014 when the forum was first implemented but even then hardly anyone used the forum. Forum activity started to pick up around late 2014 and early this year, which means the majority of forum posts are still less than a year old.Removing older posts will have disastrous affects for the forum, and these implications are just generalised, I wouldn't dare think of what would happen if it occured once a month... 1. Forum activity will decrease because of a lack of existing topics. If there is no existing discussion less people will be brave enough to start topics on their own. 2. The quality of forum posts will decrease. If people feel like what they write is just going to be discarded after a month, there will be less motivation to initiate discussion or submit meaningful, quality replies. 3. If there is no existing discussion people will feel like they can't contribute anything and stop using the forums. This becomes a vicious cycle until the forums are no longer useful. 4. Loss of old topics means important information or ideas/suggestions that could have been brought up previously are no longer available. I'm talking about all categories, not just the suggestions category. I feel like these forums have come such a long way and begun to realise the potential of this website. Even if everyone stopped using the forum tomorrow, it would still continue to be a great historical archive of information. Why throw it all away? |
 Wowman2002 |
Date sent: 2015/11/25 18:28:00
Late 2014 when I popped in! :D |
