NUKE EVERYTHING!

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why do you need to keep every single post from day one?
no one reads them, might as well get rid of it all.
Just there to clog up the servers, delete it all, i say.
And all the old profiles that no one uses anymore, delete them all

In fact, just delete everything, delete all the active profiles and posts.
Just let everyone start over. You'd save a massive amount of space.
So why not?

On another forum I'm on, the admins effectively deleted all the really long running threads and restarted them again to make space on the server.

Maybe it could work on WP too. Nuke some of the really long threads I've seen in random discussion and games and start them fresh.

I personally like being able to read very old posts, and I find it important to be able to do so. Especially if you might want to get to know someone, or someone to get to know you, it might be of great value to be able to do that. I think quite a big part of people here have big problems being able to get to know people... why make it even more difficult?

Oh no, if alex nuked everything, there be no history here. I think it's great for forums to have a history by going way back and see old threads and what things were like then and who the members were and the mods.

But I think it would be nice if threads locked automatically after a few months without any new replies to avoid necro posting. I find that annoying. But then it would mean you can't bump old game threads or old random threads. You can't have it both ways unless it's possible to have it set to which threads can't be auto locked.

I just hate seeing a thread and then find out it's been posted three years ago or five years ago and lot of those members in that thread don't even come here anymore so there are people replying to their OPs or other peoples posts because they didn't bother looking at the dates and their profiles to see when they were last here. To me that is pointless and people are wasting their time talking to someone who doesn't even come here anymore.

It's not commonplace at all, I've never been on a forum where they routinely wiped posts for no good reason.

Besides, the guy suggesting this pretty much only just joined...

I just think that if you got rid of all the useless threads and all the inactive accounts, it would save space and money.
Maybe we can have more than 15.77 kB for an avatar.

...well can we at least nuke the PPR forum and forcefully lobotomize everyone that posts there?

There we go, I just did a quick skim through various forums here and found a few threads that could be nuked and restarted. Nobody is going to want to look at any of the previous pages in any of these threads as they just contain inanity.

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please just carry on as per usual, then

you're not looking to hire anyone, are you Planky?

I don't see why avatars need to be bigger than that personally. You can easily optimise a picture to fit that size. I don't think anyone on here wants to have to load a page which takes forever due to huge avatars, or look at warped thread sizes because a fat avatar is pushing them out.