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[ramora]

Amazing. With mass storage getting very cheap it is hard to understand why delete anything at any time. But if a decision is made to delete a thread there should be some better way to delete than to simply say this thread is older than 3 years.

If there were plans to sell ET at some point in the future, one selling point could be that it had the oldest archive of any trader site and suggest that 100's of threads were an asset instead of a database annoyance.

AMT4SWA posts, 4re, early Spyder attachements, there is a lot of good stuff that has nothing to do with the last post date.

Wishing ET a long life; even if the memory is short-lived.

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[Port1385]

Its all about webhits. If a picture of a toilet bowl gets more webhits, then its vastly more valuable then elitetrader.

Baron isnt in the business of trading or the markets, he is in the business of webhits.

Either he will get them threw the postings of intellect or of two bit nutcases furthering the socialist movement. He doesnt care, he just wants hits.

Quote from ramora:

Amazing. With mass storage getting very cheap it is hard to understand why delete anything at any time. But if a decision is made to delete a thread there should be some better way to delete than to simply say this thread is older than 3 years.

If there were plans to sell ET at some point in the future, one selling point could be that it had the oldest archive of any trader site and suggest that 100's of threads were an asset instead of a database annoyance.

AMT4SWA posts, 4re, early Spyder attachements, there is a lot of good stuff that has nothing to do with the last post date.

Wishing ET a long life; even if the memory is short-lived.

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Music in the background:
HAL9000 singing Daisy, DAAAAIIISSSSSY, "Dave, what are you doing? Dave! Dave SSSTTTTOOOPP Dave!"

 

[Pekelo]

Quote from Port1385:

Its all about webhits.

Sure. But why can't we have both? I had this idea that let's say 2-3 times a week we could restart old threads as a Retro lookback...

Even if there aren't many new posts in them, people would read them (webhits!). Now they are just sitting in the server doing nothing...

 

[ramora]

Quote from Port1385:

Baron isnt in the business of trading or the markets, he is in the business of webhits.

If I had invested 10,000's of posts like Hershey, Spyder, Surfer, Nitro, etc I would like for that effort to not get deleted. The most valuable posters who are generating content should now move to private blogs and forget public forums altogether.

The message is clear, ET is more like a chatroom where content has no value than an information resource where the value of information increases over time.

Sad.

 

[Rearden Metal]

If we were dealing with anyone else, I'd take the time to explain how completely illogical it is for Baron to trash his own house.

But since I've never seen anyone successfully convince Baron to do <b>anything</b>, ever (let alone change his mind on a descision already made), I won't even bother.

 

[NihabaAshi]

Quote from Rearden Metal:

If we were dealing with anyone else, I'd take the time to explain how completely illogical it is for Baron to trash his own house.

But since I've never seen anyone successfully convince Baron to do <b>anything</b>, ever (let alone change his mind on a descision already made), I won't even bother.

Yep...

Things just got even more weird around here lately that seemed to peak with the pruning (deletion) of old education threads with many of them still applicable to today's markets.

Soon after that we now see deletions of image attachments from many threads although the thread itself remains...

Resulting in current and past threads looking retarded because there's many discussions centered around the image attachment...image attachements no longer there.

Yet, I still think ET ran into a compacity issue that prompt the pruning and mystery deletions of the images in most threads.

However, I'm not sure if the pruning of image attachements is a server problem or intentional to save additional space.

Mark

 

[Baron]

If you want to know the real deal, we are getting ready to roll out a bunch of new features on the site, and we are trimming the fat bigtime in anticipation of switching everything over. We hit the ceiling with the current backend, and on the new system, attachments will be stored in a new way that will allow the site to grow infinitely, and we will be supporting things like multiple attachments per post, instead of you being limited to just one.

BTW, if there are specific threads from the past that disappeared and you would like for me to make accessible once again, let me know what they are and I will dig them out of our backup and and make sure that they become available in read-only format.

 

[Bernard111]

Quote from Baron:



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BTW, if there are specific threads from the past that disappeared and you would like for me to make accessible once again, let me know what they are and I will dig them out of our backup and and make sure that they become available in read-only format.

Great news, finally!
Now let's make a list of those ready-to-be- alive-again threads.

 

[NihabaAshi]

Quote from Baron:

If you want to know the real deal, we are getting ready to roll out a bunch of new features on the site, and we are trimming the fat bigtime in anticipation of switching everything over. We hit the ceiling with the current backend, and on the new system, attachments will be stored in a new way that will allow the site to grow infinitely, and we will be supporting things like multiple attachments per post, instead of you being limited to just one.

BTW, if there are specific threads from the past that disappeared and you would like for me to make accessible once again, let me know what they are and I will dig them out of our backup and and make sure that they become available in read-only format.

Thanks Baron,

I hope this also means that you'll be restoring the missing attachments of active threads (current to your 3 year deadline).

Mark

 

[western]

I would like Hitman and Seanote's trading journal threads restored.

Also, praetorian2's Great New Pattern Thread.

But thats just the tip of the iceberg of great threads that are now gone. Surely Baron you must realize that 2000-2003 was the peak time of truly useful et threads.

If you want to save space, how about deleting every chit chat and religion post longer than a month old.