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Modernisation and updating
I have noticed that there are lots of posts from as far back as 2007.
(There may be more but this is enough for my suggestion.)
I have looked at the site for new comments and posts and have found that I am often looking at things way past their use by date.
Why are these not archived?There was one reference to a meeting that was to have taken place in 2010.
Why would this still be there?
If the admin do not remove these after the event then perhaps the member posting could/should.My main aim is to suggest stream lining and trying to keep things current.
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2 Replies
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Phillipa,
Fair comment…
I try to weed out postings that have gone past their use by date…
but with over 13,000 articles in the forums it is now way past what one person can do.I now focus on the events pages (which always go obsolete!) and I also let the forum automatically prune out the For Sale postings.
As to the rest… you will have noticed that I have recently re-organised the forums to clearly separate the “formal” content (which is moderated)…and the informal content that we no longer have the resources to keep tidy (nor ensure it is relevant).
I am proposing to put an automatic purge on all the unmoderated forums – so after a thread has been idle for a few months it will be deleted. But we will have to review the content regularly and move over to the moderated forums any postings that are of lasting value. So it isn’t exactly a ‘no overhead’ option. Not sure how that will work out in practice.
For the moderated forums all I can ask is that people who post time limited stuff (what is on TV tomorrow) put the use-by-date in the title – that way it can be purged without having to read the content.
As to members deleting their own obsolete posts – sadly never again , because there are those unworthy members in the past who have written inflamatory posts, then deleted them after they had upset others to hide their tracks from the admins.
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Thanks Amanda for the nicely detailed response.
I had found it a little difficult to navigate around the forum and it is a lot to do with all the old stuff.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Are you a one person band looking after the site?PJ
