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Originally Posted by clintjm
Current Sticky Rules for J Music:
I think its unreasonable to delete posts because inactivity or even duplicates.
Is there a disk space issue with JF? Is the search engine having issues?
Some enjoy a forum for its entire content of the subject, not the cherry picking of a few.
Some value the complete age of the forum so it may also be used as a reference.
How famous is the artist?
The rules seem a little gray.
I'm sure being a mod here is quite a burden but at the same time I think it really takes away when threads are cherry picked for deletion and the rules are not crystal clear or biast. Some wouldn't spend the time to post if it will possibly be deleted down the road because some just didn't get anything out of it.
I would also think the posting rules and maintenance rules would be similar for all forums on JF, even though each forum has their own mod. But I guess this board is unique for lack of active admin.
Just my opinion.
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Originally Posted by darksyndrem
Are you kidding? Every forum (that I'm aware of) has a bandwidth limit, if JF left inactive threads and duplicates there, JF would fill up the bandwidth and we'd be trash, until we just restarted everything. Those threads have to be deleted, to keep JF organized, clean, and to keep from having our server over encumbered.
It's not cherry picking, it's just getting rid of unnecessary threads.
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No. I'm not kidding.
Is bandwidth really affected by having 2 or more years worth of posts as some forums on JF already do? I'm a little lost on the bandwidth issue / limit you write of. The question to more as "is there a disk space issue"
Sure there are threads that need to be deleted that are off forum topic, but as I wrote, just because the threads are inactive or the subject is duplicated shouldn't void them for deletion as they may contain content valuable to some seeking such information.
I thought the J-music rules were a bit over the top and gray for the reasons in my original post. "How famous is the artists" is cherry picking of one individual post for deletion.
In this case, why even have a search engine if your only going to have 3 weeks of threads.