One of the problems with data storage is the long term storage of stuff'. We pay for storage in many ways.
Long term threads carry a very high load of data that is seldom accessed and very probably useless.
Susan has cut these threads. It is not to stop them but to save space with old stuff.
In the future I think after 1000 posts we close a thread down. Nothing 'evil' is intended just trying to keep a budget going.
You can restart the thread and off we go again.
Just be aware that we do not have unlimited storage.
Cindy
Sounds like a fair thing I'd say.
Here's how it works. After a post has about 1,200 posts it causes a massive performance hit every time someone loads it up. For popular threads that can be quite often. The top 10 threads account for 38,000 posts. So I locked them all. You are free to recreate one of the locked threads but it will be relocked after every 1,000 posts. Eventually the more frivolous (fun and games type stuff, not support) of the locked threads will be purged, sadly this will also reduce participants post counts; but there is nothing I can do about that.
I'm relieved to be free from the endless consequences of a moment of trivia. I like the idea of regular restarting of these fast-growing topics.
I like it. Then again, I've just decided to stop posting in those fun posts about 5 minutes ago. It would be funny if this thread got locked. Irony...
We used to make a break every 500 post in the old forums I used to be in, with a new thread being created automatically.
Totally understandable,
although for the things like fun and games stuff keeping the post count to something like 300-500 before it being restarted might make more sense and would allow more room and bandwidth for things take make take greater priority at that time. Usually things that affect the lives of the OP or the ones who are posting at that given time and may need more urgent responses.
although keeping it too low would increase the maintenance hours that people maintaining the site and servers need to put in.
as for persons post count going to low - can I suggest something like a base value and levels to that base value?
it would work something like:
a person with a post count of 100-149 gets a base score of 100 and the next base value/level after that is 150.
so how it would work is a person with a post count of say 509 gets a score of 500 and this number is then attached to their profile and the server then stores this value as level L or J or K and then this value brings up that score. and from that the datetime of the post that gave that person that value and from there the amounts of post are calculated using the count of datetime values assigned to each post.
That way the person doesn't loose too much numbers of post from their post score
example: if they have reached a post score of 461 out of which they made 96 posts in fun and games section. when that topic is taken offline rather than loosing 96 from their post score they only loose 11.
I don't know how this would work in reality but its just a suggestion, sorry if am rambling.
I have to deal with similar issues in RL. sooo can't help myself. ::) :icon_caffine:
edit: yup and a lot of forums usually just limit it to 500 to 700 max.
Some of the really older threads get resurrected after years being quiet.
Quote from: TessaM on September 23, 2012, 09:16:49 AM
Although id rather not have this done, im not the one paying the bills here! Do what you gotta do!
Thanks for the reminder Tessa, about paying the bills. How is the subscription offer coming along? I think it is time we started to pay our way.
Huggs
Catherine