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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 20 2011, 02:08 PM (3,202 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Aug 20 2011, 02:08 PM Post #1 |
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I was looking through the Directory today. I noticed a lot of boards that had 1 member and 1 post that were created years ago and no one goes to them. Wouldn't it be better to just remove in-active boards and put less stress on the servers? Just a thought. It's something that I noticed. |
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| Shiarrael | Aug 20 2011, 02:21 PM Post #2 |
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The problem with deleting a board simply because it isn't active is that the owner may eventually decide to do something with it. I mean, how would you feel if your own board went dead and a year later you decided to re-use the same forum but it was gone? Also, some of the boards with only one member are theme testing boards, and the images in the themes may be hosted on them. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 20 2011, 02:25 PM Post #3 |
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Test boards aren't allowed to be displayed in the directory. After a few years would you really remember the link and everything? Even than starting fresh would be the best solution. Most of the boards I found that I considered dead were ones that no ones logged into for years. |
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| Dante | Aug 20 2011, 02:25 PM Post #4 |
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Some of these small boards may have some hidden value as well. They may be a forum solely to test themes and/or codes they are producing. They may also be storing files on their forum. I myself have around four test boards and would not like to see one of them deleted. The servers are fine as they are at the moment; there hasn't been any downtime on my side in quite some time. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 20 2011, 02:28 PM Post #5 |
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I've got a test board. It looks more active than the boards I'm talking about. |
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| Nemomon | Aug 20 2011, 02:30 PM Post #6 |
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I would think that removing them from directory would be the best idea. Not delete entirely, but just remove from the directory. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 20 2011, 02:31 PM Post #7 |
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That would work. |
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| Geoffrey-ZNS | Aug 20 2011, 04:23 PM Post #8 |
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Where are you getting this from? Test boards can be in the directory just like any other board. |
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| Nemomon | Aug 20 2011, 04:33 PM Post #9 |
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| Deleted User | Aug 20 2011, 05:40 PM Post #10 |
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That would be where I seen it. A few members on my forum has pointed out that other forum systems send a warning by email to the admin that the board hasn't been active and the forum will be deleted in a month of the warning. The admin or a staff member needs to log in and make a post. If they have a warning than it stops "Where did my forum Go?" question from being asked. They were warned and did not take action. All that you had to do was make 1 post to reset the deletion date. |
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| SandyC-ZNS | Aug 23 2011, 11:42 PM Post #11 |
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I agree with Crash Cheetah, it seems a waste of space having forums there that haven't been used in ages. It also makes it harder going through the directories to find a forum we may be interested in joining. It seems to me that if a forum hasn't been posted in for over a year, neither the staff or members have any further interest in it, if they did, they'd have continued to post. IMHO PHPBB have the right idea, zero activity in a forum for more than a month, the root admin gets a message saying the forum will be closed down in X amount of days unless it is used again. I feel that in the case of the forums closed, the owners would keep them going if they were seriously interested in keeping them. Most forums are also a free service, and only that way because of the advertising, that advertising isn't reaching anyone in a dead forum, so in my opinion it is costing the sever owners money keeping them open ... not good business sense really .. |
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| cvn-tv-dip | Aug 24 2011, 04:24 AM Post #12 |
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There should be an option for the board owner to set the board so that in his or her prolonged absence, the board is turned into an "inactive" status - probably by making it offline - with the ability for someone in another group to set it back to active. Inactive boards would be taken off the directory for its duration.
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| Cory | Aug 24 2011, 04:39 AM Post #13 |
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I think an automatic option would be most desirable. There's an option on ZetaBoards that won't show the users birthday in the board statistics if they haven't been active within the last month. I can see a similar option being applied to boards in the directory. Basically they're removed if they haven't been active throughout a certain time period, then they are re-added when the board gains more activity. |
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| ElementalAlchemist | Aug 24 2011, 11:30 AM Post #14 |
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Although I can't be completely sure, I believe the current system punishes boards that haven't been active in a while with a lower rank. |
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| Deleted User | Aug 24 2011, 02:08 PM Post #15 |
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I thought that it worked this way until I started looking around. Some boards with no activity are ahead of some with a lot of activity. |
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