Forum Clean-up?

[Buggy793]

I'm just thinking that we should clean up the forums a bit. For an analogy, I will be using my brother's room. I'm not saying that we send everything to the trash bin, but just kind of clean up and take care of some things.

We have 5-month-year dead topics on almost every board. Kinda like month-old tacos in the corner. Yumm...

Then there's the problem of the Dan-Ball Shop. No one really takes the time to look in there anymore, and as a result, many requests go un-noticed.(I took care of it recently) This is in some way similar to... umm... a towel that you used after a shower, molding in the other corner. Delicious.

Then there's the staff-demoted problem. If you look on the Home Page, you see that there are boards like this:
Powder Game
Moderator: sonkidd

Sonkidd is no longer staff. That's a problem. I can take care of that last thing, but we just need people to volunteer to move threads to the trash bin and such.

EDIT: One more thing. Things that are stickied that no longer need to be stickied(Big problem in announcement board)! Those are especially annoying if you just want to get to another thread. THIS is similar to when you have a sweater from three years ago sitting on top of your school books in the morning when you need to find them.

I love this analogy...

[Saza]

I agree,
I'm really tired of new members bringing back old and dead threads. It's annoying, and somtimes I can't get to important threads.
Buggy has my full attention.

[Qwerty]

At least the moderator problem should be fixed...

[molopoy]

oh I remember got permission from thelisto ages ago to do that (and i never got around to it) ill start doing that aswell

[secret]

Actually, I've a strong tendency to trash things

In fact I've already trashed 50% of the forum into the trash bin

I'll trash the 5 month dead topics

If this is what you want.

Edit: Trash bin
From 837 to 927
about 100 threads trashed

[G]

We nee to create an Archives section, as an alternative to trash bin. many of these thing we may still want on the forums but s buggy points out, some of the older ones are getting in the way.

[General Veers]

What exactly would be considered Archive Material?

...and shall I just make a new thread in here called "Archives"?

Never mind, if Trash Bin is its own board, so should Archives, and I can't create boards...

[Buggy793]

OK, cool guys!
I'll get started with the moderator thing.

[Qwerty]

I'll help in whatever way I can... which isn't much, but still.

[ROBiT]

This has gotten WAY out of hand, half of the story board is missing! People work hard on those, and now they're gone forever!

[Qwerty]

Yeah, stories and art are exceptions. THEY stay where they are.

[Buggy793]

I didn't do that! The stories, art threads and shops stay! They are personal threads!
Whodunnit?

[General Veers]

Although I have been moving things into the Trash Bin, I did not remove or delete any stories...

[Sandmaster]

About time someone noticed the stikies. I've been wondering which ones are important or not (I got rid of about 5 useless)

[Qwerty]

Well... We need to get rid of useless stickies, certainly.

[Sandmaster]

Mar 15, 2009 16:40:24 GMT -5 G said:

We nee to create an Archives section, as an alternative to trash bin. many of these thing we may still want on the forums but s buggy points out, some of the older ones are getting in the way.

This may have happened already, but I disagree.
I think the trash bin should be renamed archives, but the trashbin should not be split into two parts

Furthermore, we can create sub-boards for an imitation forum thing (so a sub-announcements, a sub-general-talk (sub-sub-board? ), etc.). This will allow the trash to be better organized, and once the sub-boards are formed, I will try and get them all into their correct location