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Offline Sean

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Forum Clean Up
« on: December 29, 2009, 06:43:34 PM »
Hi All

As I'm sure you are aware, BCC has had a few technical issues recently, in particularly due to the size of the database.

Over the next week or so, I will be speaking to the staff to agree a few actions which will hopefully result in the forum and database becoming more stable. This will most likely involve removing inactive users with 0 posts and also the removal of unused boards and old posts.

As a result some of your post counts may be affected.

We will not be removing any posts which have been posted in during 2008 and 2009.

Thank you for your time
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2009, 07:23:32 PM »
Any idea which boards are going?
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2009, 07:26:02 PM »
heh interesting.... well I hope the forums do become more stable after that, however be sure you aren't getting rid of any technical or other bc related posts that people may want to read to fix issues. (but I'm sure you know this already)
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2009, 08:26:22 PM »
Lets just hope, it?ll fix the problems!

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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2009, 10:01:21 PM »
it would be a shame to lose anything in the BC Modding, Scripting, Bridges, and Tech Support...

is there no other alternative other than deleting posts?

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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2009, 10:20:26 PM »
well if we have to delete some of those posts... maybe saving them and then reentering some of the important info onto the wiki may help...
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2009, 10:38:06 PM »
well if we have to delete some of those posts... maybe saving them and then reentering some of the important info onto the wiki may help...

I second that, that sounds like a good idea if theres no other alternative.

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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2009, 10:45:17 PM »
compress some in txt format and post them somewhere on the site, might save space
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2009, 10:59:25 AM »
Maybe you might try to separate the modding forum in too 4 smaller sub forums. Like clicking on bc modding, and then the next page that pops up would have a forum listed Ent/TOS   TMP   TNG/VOY/DS9     and BEYOND. And to help, the authors of each topic could pm you there link to there topic and state witch forum they belong to. THis way when your looking for a ship wip's it will be easer to find and it will be more orginized for later cleaning. That and it would force modder'ss that have one wip's topic to post in there own topic in each sub forum so later when cleaning happends, old post can be cleaned.
 


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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2009, 11:38:29 AM »
Also, is it possible to post pictures of ships, etc off-site and just post a link to the picture? I know that pictures use up a lot of space.
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #10 on: December 31, 2009, 12:30:27 PM »
Also, is it possible to post pictures of ships, etc off-site and just post a link to the picture? I know that pictures use up a lot of space.

It's the size of the database thats the problem. Hosting pics off-site wouldn't really help, and would just slow down the loading of pages. Well over half the users on here haven't posted anything.

How about also removing users who haven't visited in over a year as well as those with no posts? Also, now that we have a wiki site, could pics and things of old WIP's (say the from 2007 backwards, which accounts for the last 4 pages of BC Modding, so maybe about 10% of the total posts visible to all) as well as the solved tech support issues not be shifted there?
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #11 on: December 31, 2009, 02:49:31 PM »
Cant be just compressed the old posts. To be zipped?

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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #12 on: December 31, 2009, 02:51:32 PM »
also if there was a way to temperarly give the power to the owner of a topic to remove uneeded post they could do there own house cleaning. Much like in the pm page for your mail. Also there could be an arcives forum. Expanding on what Limey, any topics older then 2008 could be moved to an arcives forum, ore even a topic. All that would be needed to be saved from a dead topic older then 2008 would be any updates major updates, so you have lets say 4 post as an example, the starting of the project, the finshed model, the textered model, and the in game test. So lets say that topic from 2007 had 37 pages for one mod, removing everything but the core mod would drop it to 1 page. Then move it out of the active modding forum and place it in an arcive forum or topic. You could have a masted post if you used it in a topic that would have the mod name, maker and date, and next to that have the page number so lets say you want to see mod x in the arcives topic, i would go to the first post, find mod x and see the page number and then i could skip ahead to that page.so it would be condencing 100 topics to 1.
 


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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #13 on: December 31, 2009, 03:19:19 PM »
why not store it on my site?, i have alot of space
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2009, 04:17:34 PM »
Hi all

Thanks for all of your suggestions. Just to clear up whats been done so far, and what we still need to do.

Done So far
  • Removed Members that have never activated their accounts (currently 63)
  • Removed Members that have never logged in (just over 100 of these)
  • Removed 205 pages of moderation logs
  • Removed 48061 pages of forum error logs
  • Removed Archive Forum for removed posts
  • Removed unused Member Groups

Need to do
  • Remove inactive users (those not logged in for 365 days
  • Remove old modding posts prior to 2008
  • Remove current affairs board

I will not start removing anything from the modding boards until 07-Jan-2010. If you wish to back anything up to BC WIKI, then you are free to do so.

Please note i will not be removing any FAQs, Tutorials, How to's or "Help me fix a problem" threads.

Thanks

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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2009, 04:26:50 PM »
do we need to touch any of the forums; is all that has been cleared out enough for stability now?  id really hate to lose any BC-related threads...

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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2009, 04:29:03 PM »
  • Remove inactive users (those not logged in for 365 days

Wouldn't that be a bad idea? I know a few members here have come back after a much longer absence than that.
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2009, 08:45:14 PM »
you should make all of the old forums in txt and have them available as dls on bcfiles, like a tech support section.
also you should put some news on bcfi8les to people who lurk around there, I saw MRJOHN there, 2 weeks ago, but he is never here.
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #18 on: January 02, 2010, 02:09:42 AM »
I would say those with fewer than 20 posts who've not logged in to the forum atleast once in the past year. They obviously aren't interested. See where that gtes things.
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Re: Forum Clean Up
« Reply #19 on: January 02, 2010, 06:41:06 AM »
what about the unlucky sods who are currently enlisted in the army?
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