It is the number of POSTS that had to be reduced. Combined I should have about 140,000 posts. Currently there are over 180,000. The number was about 200,000 before I started pruning. About the Way is almost one third of those posts.
If you're getting charged per post, and the length of the post doesn't matter, how 'bout deleting all the posts that just say "LOL" or have nothing in 'em but an emoticon?
If that would help but is too time-consuming, I'd be glad to lend a hand if you'd like.
Back in the day before the WWW, "me too" posts that didn't really add anything were highly discouraged, as a "waste of bandwidth."
Lemme know. I could only work on it in the evening, but I'd be happy to do it. By when do you have to get this pruning done?
Would getting rid of the "list of posts" (view all posts, by so and so) found in each of our public profiles help?
I don't care if folks go over what I've said previously, but if you got rid of that, it might open up some space for you too. I doubt if many (or any) go to a person's profile to see what they said in the past.
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GarthP2000
How about axing Smikeol's PFAL Is God's Word posts? That should just about do the job right there.
:D-->
JUST kidding. ... (well maybe I am ;)-->)
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Sudo
Paw,
How much would slashing the first 150 pages of the Nostalgia thread help??
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pawtucket
Good Idea, Garth.
It is the number of POSTS that had to be reduced. Combined I should have about 140,000 posts. Currently there are over 180,000. The number was about 200,000 before I started pruning. About the Way is almost one third of those posts.
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Jim
Is there any way to take a topic and turn it into a flat text file and zip it? I might be willing to host them for you.
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Raf
please....
kill....
THE
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pawtucket
Raf,
There are things I will do and things that I won't do.
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Raf
Oh, all right.
How about the archived birthday threads?
And does this mean our post counts will drop (I don't have enough arguing left in me to get back up to 5,000).
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pawtucket
The way I have the settings it shouldn't affect your post count.
Taking the name of THE in vein is a different matter
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Raf
Taking the name of THE in vein?
I have never, EVER, injected the name of THE into my bloodstream.
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pawtucket
(To be read by James Earl Jones as Darth Vader)
RAF you art THE"S father.
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GarthP2000
(Raf's response, mimicking Luke's response upon finding out that Darth Vader was his father.....)
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo...........!!!
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Linda Z
If you're getting charged per post, and the length of the post doesn't matter, how 'bout deleting all the posts that just say "LOL" or have nothing in 'em but an emoticon?
If that would help but is too time-consuming, I'd be glad to lend a hand if you'd like.
Back in the day before the WWW, "me too" posts that didn't really add anything were highly discouraged, as a "waste of bandwidth."
Lemme know. I could only work on it in the evening, but I'd be happy to do it. By when do you have to get this pruning done?
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Would getting rid of the "list of posts" (view all posts, by so and so) found in each of our public profiles help?
I don't care if folks go over what I've said previously, but if you got rid of that, it might open up some space for you too. I doubt if many (or any) go to a person's profile to see what they said in the past.
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HAPe4me
If it is the number of posts, could all the posts in an archived thread be pasted into one big post? Thus an entire thread becomes only one post.
Gawd, who is gonna go through and delete the LOL posts? Shell can do it on her days off. Seems she gets abunch of those! teehee
~HAP
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dmiller
Look out Hap! I think yer really asking for it! ;)--> :D-->
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paw
i feel responsible !!! please delete anything of mine anywhere anytime :)-->
and please make my posts: 0 to appease my guilt
and please give me greasespot's address again so i can make a donation
(you probably could get rid of all the private threads)
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Shellon
HEY!
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GarthP2000
Yeah! And what about all those forum prunes laying around?
..... Ohhh, that's right. We're talking about forum pruning. My bad.
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Belle
Yeah, if we all edited and deleted old private messages, would that help?
I agree, though, Don't touch THE! I finally got the courage to post on it.
I can help delete some LOL! posts, too. Or combine some into one long post if it's the number of posts that count. (good idea)
Also, I would love to contribute to the rent or salary of the dishwashwer, but I will not pay to have the gum scraped off the bottom of the tables.
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Raf
Here's an idea: delete all threads whose sole purpose is to ask another poster to look at his/her privates.
Er, private topics.
That ought to save about 9,000 or 10,000 posts right there.
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pawtucket
Well thusfar,it has been reduced from 200,000 to about 164,000.
Tonight I am going to prune any private topics that haven't been active for the past 90 days or so.
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excathedra
paw t. don't stay up all night kicking the stall
axe the soap opera forum completely..... not a good witness....
axe the 9th corps thread.... we live in the moment....
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socks
Exie's right, the past is dead.
Let's have an "Uncle Harry" day.
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suz
MY private topics got pruned so far that I can't even post private anymore!!!!
so it worked!!!!
(well he did it long before this so maybe he was "starting" the process then!!!)
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