MatrixWatch
March 5th, 2004, 03:47 AM
I find it strange that GotMatrix.com is clearing out old posts under the banner of "spring cleaning". In fact, there was just a post on their forums about a month ago about old posts being cleared out already. Why is the cleaning process happening again?
It is easy to activate a feature that only shows threads for the past 10, 30, 60, or 100 days. Why not just opt to show posts for the last 30 days, and then leave the option of reading older posts to users themselves? The user can select whether or not they want to see posts older than 30 days, and the forum can be kept clean of pages upon pages of data.
We used to do that here at MatrixWatch, but then we decided to up the limit of old post viewage to the beginning. We don't want to cheat our members out of any info that might be relevant to their investigations of the matrix world.
Perhaps this is why GotMatrix is clearing out old posts though... Is there something that might hurt business from newbies? What do you guys think?
It is easy to activate a feature that only shows threads for the past 10, 30, 60, or 100 days. Why not just opt to show posts for the last 30 days, and then leave the option of reading older posts to users themselves? The user can select whether or not they want to see posts older than 30 days, and the forum can be kept clean of pages upon pages of data.
We used to do that here at MatrixWatch, but then we decided to up the limit of old post viewage to the beginning. We don't want to cheat our members out of any info that might be relevant to their investigations of the matrix world.
Perhaps this is why GotMatrix is clearing out old posts though... Is there something that might hurt business from newbies? What do you guys think?