Since the title of the forums is Current Events, how about placing a 30 day limit on how long a particular thread remains alive? If no activity occurs in 30 days, the thread gets whacked entirely.
Since the title of the forums is Current Events, how about placing a 30 day limit on how long a particular thread remains alive? If no activity occurs in 30 days, the thread gets whacked entirely.
They usually fall off the chart by themselves.Originally Posted by Jag-lover
I would remove them from the database so it would be impossible to dredge them up again.
They can be archived so people still can read it but cannot post in it.
What will this accomplish IYO, Jag?
(That's a serious, non-confrontational question.)
Cancer sucks.
When is the forum going to be back up?
Hopefully it will cut down on dredging up old issues that are no longer relevant. I could also envision a performance improvement of the servers although I don't know how much. Maybe the mods will examine that when the time comes to re-activate the forum.
I'm not a huge fan of that forum myself, but if you're going to have a forum to discuss political topics, you need to allow for threads to be updated as new info becomes available. For example, let's say a thread on the Trayvon Martin shooting goes quiet after an initial discussion. There's an initial flurry, but then it settles down once the initial kerfluffle is over. A couple of weeks later, Zimmerman is arrested. That seems worthy of discussion in a politics forum, and I think it adds value to have that discussion all in the same thread as the original discussion, since it's the same topic, really, and then you can quote earlier posts to discuss them in the context of the newer info.
Sometimes topics go quiet for a a little while - a few days, a few months - and then pick up when new info comes to light. If we're going to discuss these things, we need to allow for that. Otherwise, there's really no point in even discussing them, but again, that's just my own bias leaking through.
I kinda like that the Wah uv Nahthun Aggression is hotly debated from time to time.
Does that get the boot? It's only 150 years ago and they didn't have the internet.
They can debate it as hotly as they want. We won.I kinda like that the Wah uv Nahthun Aggression is hotly debated from time to time.
Does that get the boot? It's only 150 years ago and they didn't have the internet.
so Jag are you telling us that you, of all people, wasn't invited to the super secret placebo Current Events forum.
I am shocked. Truly shocked. If there is another more rational poster in CE I would be hard pressed to know who that might be (well maybe RS 2,and at least Gomer tries).
Sifaka
Thanks!
He said nothing of the sort. He's there having mature conversations with others who have proven they can act with civility toward those with whom they disagree.
That's just great. And what is even greater is that the political BS is out of sight.
I've noticed that absolutely none of the fears that people have expressed of politics seeping into the other forums have materialized, unless the mods have summarily deleted them. Therefore, main reason to keep the politics sewer is thoroughly debunked.
If the politics forum returns, the same issues will as well. One liners, petty zings like not capitalizing "Obama" or "Bush", and the more obvious breaches of forum rules will be back without a doubt. I think that this forum has a good thing going by eliminating what was clearly a black eye on the website, and if it comes back it would be a self inflicted injury 100% without a doubt.
There were actually a couple of political threads on the OT. I can't remember all of them, but one was about Santorum.
The CE forum is always going to be a bit of a safety valve that makes it easier to ignore a range of topics that are by definition controversial and also ones not related to the main racing-related topics of TF. It's also a forum where folks interested in those topics can discuss them.
If the costs to the mods (time and stomach lining) of maintaining them outweigh these two benefits, then the forum will eventually go away for good. If the costs don't outweigh these benefits, then the forum will come back and stick around. It's not a black eye for racing, or for IndyCar, or for TrackForum, at least not outside of a small group of observers. The forum appears way down the bottom of the list of available TF forums. I doubt very much that it's an enormous problem, except to the mods who have to manage it. Let's not act like it's more than it is ...
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