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Announcement: Archival of Five Forums & Post Expiration

#2250695 - 01/18/04 02:29 PM (21 years, 12 days ago)

Edit: The archives may be found at http://shroomery.org/archives/

Greetings everyone! :sun:

This is a notification to the membership outlining the upcoming changes which will be implemented on five of our public forums. The forums affected will be OTD, The Pub, The Marketplace, PA&L, and S&P. As I?m sure many of you remember, we took a community-wide vote towards the end of 2003 as to the fate of the Off-Topic Discussion forum. Cumulatively, the three polls tallied represented a majority opinion in favor of some changes. After much discussion amongst the administration, the following actions will be taken on each respective forum within a period of approximately two weeks:

Off-Topic Discussion: All threads older than 1 month will be archived in a read-only format. Remaining threads will be subject to expiration (deletion) after a period of 45 days of inactivity. Any thread may be kept indefinitely at the discretion of the forum moderators.
The Pub: All threads older than 2 months will be archived in a read-only format. Remaining threads will be subject to expiration after a period of 90 days of inactivity. Any thread may be kept indefinitely at the discretion of the forum moderators.
The Marketplace: All threads older than 2 months will be archived in a read-only format. Remaining threads will be subject to expiration after a period of 90 days of inactivity. Any thread may be kept indefinitely at the discretion of the forum moderators.
Politics, Activism, & Law: All threads older than 3 months will be archived in a read-only format. Post expiration will not be implemented at this time.
Spirituality & Philosophy: All threads older than 3 months will be archived in a read-only format. Post expiration will not be implemented at this time.

In forums with post expiration, a user may request a thread be kept indefinitely. This may be done via PM to a moderator of the forum with a link to the thread in question. The moderator reserves the right to deny the request at their discretion. If a request is denied, the user may appeal the action directly to the administration for further review. These appeals should be sent to http://www.shroomery.org/support/

Some of you may be asking why we?re doing this. Plain and simple, our community has somewhere in the vicinity of two million posts in the current database and barring constant and expensive hardware upgrades, the bulletin board cannot function effectively with such a huge amount of information to plow through. By archiving threads into a separate read-only database and furthermore ?trimming the fat? from that point on, we can dramatically increase query times which will manifest itself in faster page-load and search times.

We sincerely believe that by allowing people to keep only the threads they hold dear while displacing the heavy burden on the MySQL database, The Shroomery will function to a much greater degree and to the satisfaction of many who have been frustrated by lengthy load-times and useless threads created for no other purpose than self-amusement (which is fine at the time of post, but to keep record of inane threads is just silly). If you have any questions, please feel free to post them here. While the administration reserves the right to modify any of the above terms, this is for the most part non-negotiable.

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