Quote from Baron:
Instead of relying on members of the past to provide us with valuable threads, I would rather encourage the current member base to re-discuss these subjects in a modern context. Things change over time, and after going through a lot of the old threads, I realized that there was a ton of outdated material. Even in threads where there was some decent content, many of the links which pointed to third party resources were broken.
Furthermore, I didn't want new traders stumbling across old threads that cover outdated subjects like SuperSOES and thinking those strategies are still valid.
So just so we are all on the same page, from this point forward, we will only be keeping a 3-year history of posts.
Hi Baron,
It would seem like you are
manually looking at particular old threads that are of considerable length and then deciding or not to delete them.
Simply, there are old threads that still remain from 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999.
In fact, if I click on any member's post history in this current thread, I can read any of their message posts in any thread from the above dates.
For example, here's a thread I participated in the year 2002 (5 years old)...
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9727
The same is true for other long time members posting in this thread.
Therefore, it's obviously this isn't just an auto pruning process that would validate what you said...
Quote from Baron:
...So just so we are all on the same page, from this point forward, we will only be keeping a 3-year history of posts.
Simply, you are manually deciding which thread remains and which thread to prune (delete).
Another way to look at it, ET management has decided they will determine what is of value and what is not of value...
Not the members themselves.
Thus, I truly believe you guys have an
obligation to your members to post a thread with links to
pending threads that will soon be deleted so that current ET members can decide if they want to download the information or not.
Another option is for ET management to go into its servers and pull out/copy the data prior to deletion and save it in a readable format.
You can then archive them on DVD and
sell them back to the members considering some members obviously have expressed these threads are very valuable.
Simply, this could be a money making process for ET management and not to do such gets me back to my point...
You guys are deciding what is of value and the pruning is not an auto process.
If I am wrong, the only possibility is that you have other criterias for the old threads such as
size.
Thus, are you guys doing what other forums are doing in that if its
old and large...
Get rid of it because it's taking up too much space on your servers while the
old and small threads will remain.
I even thought that you are
currently in the middle of the pruning process and that you are slowly doing one section at a time from top to bottom or via alphabetical order.
This could explain why there are posts that still remain from the years I've mention above.
Thus, soon they will be gone when the pruning process reaches them too.
Mark
