Auto Prune Recruitment. EDITED

Ult_Mac_Dady · **Posted:** December 7th, 2006, 11:09 pm

Do we relay need recruitment threads from Fri Oct 08, 2004? Simply, NO. They take space that could be used to make sensible topics. Maybe 1ce a month or so?

kk Edit: I'm not saying that i want it to be anti-bump. I'm concerned about the number of topics that are more than 1 year old could be lagging the server, taking to much file space, and cosing Shane to much money. Recruitment posts don't count towards the total so I see it as a no-lose situation. Most of those topics are started by Bronze members witch have zero posts anyway.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 7th, 2006, 11:09 pm

Anubis · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 3:59 am

I don't think auto prune is needed anywhere but sandbox. And only there cause we spam, a lot.

CreepyPirate · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 5:21 am

You can't auto prune clan recruitment, topics may be old but they may also still be in use.

Warren · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 6:37 am

Pruning the Marketplace makes sense. Then new people don't have to say "I'll buy it" on something the seller posted 5 months ago.

Anubis · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 6:44 am

Nmr7 wrote:

Pruning the Marketplace makes sense. Then new people don't have to say "I'll buy it" on something the seller posted 5 months ago.

Most people aren't silly enough to think that after 5 months a person is still selling the same thing. :\

Dan · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 8:45 am

Anubis wrote:

Nmr7 wrote:

Pruning the Marketplace makes sense. Then new people don't have to say "I'll buy it" on something the seller posted 5 months ago.

Most people aren't silly enough to think that after 5 months a person is still selling the same thing. :\

However, you still see it happening. I think auto pruning would be an okay idea, but not necessarily required.

Adbot · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 8:45 am

Ranging God · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 9:20 am

Anubis wrote:

Nmr7 wrote:

Pruning the Marketplace makes sense. Then new people don't have to say "I'll buy it" on something the seller posted 5 months ago.

Most people aren't silly enough to think that after 5 months a person is still selling the same thing. :\

Yes they do -.-
I posted "buying green mask" about a year ago, and got a person wanting to seel to me like a month ago = P

Anubis · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 10:46 am

People also bump up old topics in other areas, like RS General, or Graphics Trader, yet we don't need auto pruning there. Why? Because it doesn't happen that often

Warren · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 2:38 pm

Anubis wrote:

People also bump up old topics in other areas, like RS General, or Graphics Trader, yet we don't need auto pruning there. Why? Because it doesn't happen that often

Well someone might go reading the topics in the RuneScape General area because they find them interesting. (At least I do.) I don't think anyone wants to see what sales everyone has made. (At least I don't.)

Ult_Mac_Dady · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 4:23 pm

Anubis wrote:

People also bump up old topics in other areas, like RS General, or Graphics Trader, yet we don't need auto pruning there. Why? Because it doesn't happen that often

Well in Recruitment and the marketplace your posts don't count towards your total (I think). But In RS General they do.

Anubis · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 4:32 pm

It's not going to make a major difference either way, unless you count the coding, and I'm not entirely sure what that consists of, but logically it'd be a waste of time. Sure, every now and then someone does bump up an old topic, a moderator comes along, and locks it. Simple as that. If you wish to argue that moderators shouldn't have to do that - then you should realise that comes with the moderator position.

If it did happen, it would probably save about 10 seconds of a moderators time, for every rare bump there is, and would waste however long it takes to code things.

Since it's not likely to make a difference at all, I disagree with the idea.

Jeff · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 4:38 pm

Ult_Mac_Dady wrote:

Anubis wrote:

People also bump up old topics in other areas, like RS General, or Graphics Trader, yet we don't need auto pruning there. Why? Because it doesn't happen that often

Well in Recruitment and the marketplace your posts don't count towards your total (I think). But In RS General they do.

Marketplace does have post count, part of the reason we don't want to delete post.

Think of it this way, if all those old topics are deleted, our forum would basically have not much over 400 threads.

Shane · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 4:57 pm

Ult_Mac_Dady wrote:

Do we relay need recruitment threads from Fri Oct 08, 2004? Simply, NO. They take space that could be used to make sensible topics. Maybe 1ce a month or so?

kk Edit: I'm not saying that i want it to be anti-bump. I'm concerned about the number of topics that are more than 1 year old could be lagging the server, taking to much file space, and cosing Shane to much money. Recruitment posts don't count towards the total so I see it as a no-lose situation. Most of those topics are started by Bronze members witch have zero posts anyway.

In regards to your edit, the posts are stored in the database which is stored on the hard drive. Last time I looked the forums database was taking up ~230MB of disk space. The server has a 160GB drive in it.

I don't think we'll be turning on pruning in the market place.

Thanks for the concern though.

Shane

Sev · **Posted:** December 8th, 2006, 6:35 pm

I would have to agree that pruning could be used in the Market place. everywhere else, no.

jrdgames · **Posted:** December 10th, 2006, 4:06 pm

Ult_Mac_Dady wrote:

I'm concerned about the number of topics that are more than 1 year old could be lagging the server, taking to much file space, and cosing Shane to much money.

Actually if your concerned about server lag then the auto prune would lag the server more than the topics staying there, when the prune takes place.

We probably dont need this.