Greetings Tropers,
TV Tropes has encountered a storage/memory issue and we need to start cutting some old threads in Yack Fest.
We anticipate cutting those threads in Yack Fest that have not had any activity since December 31, 2011.
If there is a thread in Yack Fest prior to that date that you would like to preserve please let us know via a post in this thread.
Please note that bumping a thread in Yack Fest to preserve it won't work and is irritating.
If you want to save something for yourself, archive it for yourself.
If you believe the thread is significant please let us know in this thread. Please understand that we can't save everything, so choose carefully.
edited 28th Apr '13 10:03:49 PM by Madrugada
Mullon: If we have to take that extreme of a step, we will. We're trying to avoid a willy-nilly chainsawing, though. The TRS and IP morgues will be among the last that we'll purge. As blackcat and Septimus Heap both noted, they contain information of value to the wiki: when and why changes were made to wiki pages.
edited 29th Apr '13 7:38:02 AM by Madrugada
Another option is to click through the thread whilst using the Wayback Machine on http://archive.org
, making it take live captures of each page, and then in a couple months the pages will be permanently available though those archives.
edited 29th Apr '13 8:13:47 AM by Telcontar
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.I don't mind clearing some threads in Forum Games considering how many of them in the last few pages are locked.
It Just Awes Me and Old Folk's Home feel like they're part of Yack Fest, perhaps like subforums. So if Yack Fest has clearing, the same could apply for those.
I'm less enthusiastic on clearing OTC, since I know that there were many thoughtful (if sometimes ugly) posts and discussions in that forum.
We're starting with YF. When we've seen the results of that we'll see what else we'll want to be cleaning up.
As an OTC Mod I've got no complaints about the removal of old OTC threads. Most of them are dead threads about topics that relate to a piece of news that was thoroughly discussed before the thread was abandoned.
If we do a sweep of OTC presumably we'll give you guys time to find threads that you want exempt from the removal.
Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.I'm just worried that people will use this as an excuse to try and cut the Just for Fun pages...
There's also quite a lot of threads in IJAM that fit the category of being inactive since the threshold date, and there's more than 20 pages worth.
edited 29th Apr '13 10:57:13 AM by EarlOfSandvich
I now go by Graf von Tirol.

Out of curiosity, what about purging the morgues?