"For pruning"

[Gambit37]

I created an empty forum called "For Pruning" at the bottom of the index page. The intention is to add a lot of the really old or worthless posts here, allow Mods/Admins to review them, and then delete them if it's agreed we don't want them.

I realise that it sometimes nice to have really old material retained so that we can go "Ooooh, remember that conversation?" but a lot of stuff rreally is rubbish and it's my belief we don't need it.

Anyone agree?

[PaulH]

Yes. With yourself, myself and fuzzball posting we have destroyed most of the forum.

[Gambit37]

Actually, I was thinking more of the stuff from years back: old redundant posts from Ian's forum for example -- they applied to his forum, not this one.

[PaulH]

A lot of the really old posts that have been transferred over have hardly had any 'views' (some none) so yes it would be good to cull them. Of course from time to time odd ones are dredged back up, but a lot of the older stuff regarding the items, secrets etc are now covered in the encyclopaedia.

[beowuuf]

I wondered what it was for, sounds like a plan.

And I don't call it 'destroying the forum' I call it 'adding value' or 'creating character'

[ChristopheF]

I think "old" is not a good criteria to delete posts.
I prefer to delete only posts that contain absolutely no information, or false information, OT posts (lots of them recently).
Moving the posts to the "for pruning" is a good idea to ensure we won't delete important but forgotten posts, like the one that finally explains the meaning of the "holy scroll" in CSB.

[beowuuf]

Sorry, I deleted that one

[BloodFromStone]

'Destroying' is a pretty harsh word, after all. I'd prefer to call it something more passive, like 'slowly degrading'.