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< on 11/27/2003 11:45 PM >
|  | | | I'm reading alot of this around the forum, yet Avatar-X claims that this board is on a 200gb hard drive.
My hard drive is 240 gb, and I could probably fit this forum on there some 5 maybe 6 times over, probably more.
So why all the complaining about the board being crowded? It's a forum, forums are supposed to fill up. But if you are unhappy with just letting it fill up, then I'll type up some stuff about my old forum;
My old forum was scripted to delete threads once they had spent a week on page 2 of that forum. So say a thread in the Off Topic section went onto page 2, it would spend a week there, then the forum would automatically remove the link and send the contents of the thread onto a junk file folder, that was emptied once a week so that data could be retrieved if needed.
This prevented old threads from becoming space raiders, and all the relevant, cool threads were saved and "framed", which was sort of like making a thread sticky, but saves the confusion between formal/important threads and framed ones. The oldest framed threads went into a special forum for framed threads after more than 5 framed threads were at the top of the page. This prevented framed threads from pushing new threads onto page 2.
All the forum newbies were encouraged to read through the framed posts. And due to very committed moderators, our community was kept really clean. The moderators weren't allowed to put any emotion into their work unless it was an emotional issue, and weren't allowed to delete anything or modify anything if they let it get in the way. They had to resolve issues by insisting that people follow the rules, suggest alternatives and solutions, and delete posts/members where appropriate.
Nobody ever complained about unfair treatment, and we had some really great debates. The forum lasted until the tragic death of the owner, after which the forum was saved onto disk and hosting cancelled. The co owner still holds the hard disk the forum was stored on, and hopes to one day start the forum up again.
Also, due to the number of increased broken links on the forum due to automatic thread moving/deleting, links were automatically updated after the site performed a quick search looking for relevant links.
Now don't ask me about scripting, because I was only a moderator, but it seems as though this forum could benefit alot from additions like the above.
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<Reply # 1 on 11/27/2003 11:56 PM >
|  | | | The space issue isn't one of physical storage space, it's one of resources. 43,000 posts may only take up 20 mb, but it's a hell of a lot of posts.
The forum currently uses up about 90 megabytes of data space. That's not including pictures/images that people have uploaded, those use up about 230 megabytes.
All of the photos in the location DB (currently 6414 pictures) use up 346 mb.
See, 40,000 posts takes much longer to sort and cull than, say, 3000 posts.
We could have some sort of system where older posts are deleted, but the problem is that that would result in the same questions being asked over and over, even more so than they are now.
There's no easy solution.
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<Reply # 2 on 11/28/2003 1:26 AM >
| | | | Damn, I guess your right.
Yeah it's down to human resources. The way my old forum handled it was by having "group leaders". Right from the start, you would have a trial period that would eventually assign you to a group. That group would have a moderator who moderated only the people in his group. If the groups ever became too large for that moderator to handle, new moderators would be recruited. (usually productive forum veterans)
This made for an army of moderators, but a controlled army. The moderators couldn't all team up, they only had authority over people in their group. I was a moderator of a group of 30 people, which was about the normal amount for one moderator. My job was to basically perform searches on the usernames of the people in my group, to check out all their latest posts. We also had an option that allowed us to filter the entire forum to only display posts by users in our group, or to only display posts I've not read.
This lightened the workload of the forum and allowed it to grow very large without that causing much strain on the amount of work that needed doing. Before we had the grouping system, there were four moderators and 2 admins. The admins were the owner and the co owner. The admins went about the forum discussing things with people and fixing bugs, and the moderators had to police the entire forum. The grouping program was put in place and was eventually automated.
Each post was rated by viewers, and new users on trial period would also have their posts rated. This helped the system decide which users to assign to moderation groups. Users that were ranked highly in particular by one moderator, would get assigned to that moderator's group unless his group was full.
Also, totally highly ranked posters would recieve awards for their contribution.
It may all seem a bit purile, but the guy that did it made forums his life, so he wanted a diverse and engaging platform for his posters to post in. The forum specialised in "the interesting existance" known around the forum as TIE. It was just random interesting stuff, like home made jet engines and flamethrowers, funny looking deep sea fish, and austrian towns with names like "fücking". As you can imagine it made for hours of laughs.
Ahh nostalga.
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