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Willets Point Oct 13 2005 03:35 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 13 2005 04:09 PM |
So you may or may not notice, but each Thursday I go through the backpages of the baseball forum and cull out threads for the KTE, Game Recounts, Predictions or Permanent Link forums as well as picking out the best and brightest threads for Featured Archives according to the standards described here.
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Edgy DC Oct 13 2005 03:55 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 13 2005 04:40 PM |
Well, you've done a great job finding and/or sparing ongoing --- but neglected --- threads like Met-Lovin' Big Shots or Wifey Watch. I appreciate you bumping and sparing some of htese.
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KC Oct 13 2005 04:25 PM |
Thanks Willet - and a big shout out to Yancy for making the speed bumps
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ScarletKnight41 Oct 13 2005 04:29 PM |
But you don't need to worry about that Just for Men stuff.
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Valadius Oct 13 2005 04:35 PM |
Thanks for archiving SAABP!
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Willets Point Oct 20 2005 11:11 AM |
I'll be archiving thread that have been inactive since before Sept. 5th this afternoon.
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Willets Point Oct 27 2005 08:22 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 27 2005 10:52 AM |
I'll be archiving threads in the Baseball forum from before September 12th this afternoon.
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Yancy Street Gang Oct 27 2005 09:22 AM |
I "bumped" six threads in the POTG forum that I'd like to have stick around until spring. All the others can be archived at any time.
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KC Oct 27 2005 01:06 PM |
Thanks Willet, it will be interesting how much gets trimmed off the size
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Yancy Street Gang Oct 27 2005 01:07 PM |
I think that archiving the POTG and IGT's will have a pretty big impact, judging by the number of posts in each forum.
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Yancy Street Gang Oct 27 2005 01:09 PM |
An archive of the Non-Baseball Forum would probably help a lot, too. There are over 6,000 posts in there, and a bunch of them are probably pretty old by now.
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Edgy DC Oct 27 2005 01:10 PM |
A lot of those are reviveable threads. Let us lay off of them for now and see how this flies.
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Willets Point Oct 27 2005 02:18 PM |
That was my next project after the Nov 3rd thing. Since it's been brought up what should be the procedure for archiving the NBF? Should the great threads move to the Featured Archives forum or should there be a new forum for Featured NBF threads? Any other thread I'd figure on bumping if it is All-Purpose type of thread or sending to the off-site archives if it's not good enough for the Featured Archive nor A-P.
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Willets Point Nov 03 2005 04:43 PM |
A good batch of new inductees are in the Featured Archives forum and I bumped a couple of clever parodies to the parodies forum and some prognosticating to the Predictions archive (someone has to make it there job to read the Predictions archive and verify if any of these predictions come true). The PotG, KTE, & Game Recounts forums are now empty (except for some thread YSG asked me to keep) and ready to fill up again next season. Now the next archival project is the Non-Baseball forum. Where do we put threads that we want to keep on the board? In the Featured Archives forum, a special NBF Featured Archives forum, or just keep bumping them up in the NBF forum? Anyhow the NBF doesn't grow too fast so it's not a pressing problem, just want to get some suggestions.
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Willets Point Nov 17 2005 04:06 PM |
You will notice there is now a NBF Classics archive with a select group of inductees from the Non-Baseball forum. There are some new threads in Featured Archives as well. I bumped up some All Purpose Style threads in the Non-Baseball Forum as well. Everything that's been inactive since before Oct. 3rd in the Baseball and Non-Baseball forums will be sent to the offsite archive as soon as I find the link to do it (if another admin could email it to me I'd appreciate it, keep losing my damn bookmarks).
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Giant Squidlike Creature Jan 05 2006 01:33 PM |
Archives are getting updated again today after a two-week layoff. Bumping this so it won't get archived.
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MFS62 Jan 05 2006 01:35 PM |
That's a lot of work, Squid.
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Willets Point Jan 05 2006 02:15 PM |
There we go. The forum is leaner and archives grow fat with memories.
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MFS62 Jan 05 2006 02:19 PM |
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My best memory today was brought on by the fact that I am now Terry Leach, one of my two all-time favorite Mets. (The other is Al Jackson) Later
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Willets Point Jan 05 2006 02:24 PM |
Did you ever read Terry Leach's book?
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MFS62 Jan 05 2006 04:09 PM |
Never knew he had a book.
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Willets Point Jan 05 2006 04:15 PM |
I haven't read it myself but I remember on of European members (duan or maybe even the long-lost Ash) mentionign it.
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Willets Point Feb 09 2006 01:59 PM |
New additions to our Featured Archives thread hall of fame include a couple of celebrity encounters (Valadius meets Al Leiter, we all meet Steve Zabriskie) and some silly fun started by Bret.
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Edgy DC Feb 09 2006 02:29 PM |
Good job.
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Willets Point Feb 16 2006 02:28 PM |
The Crane Pool Forum asks the important questions like What Really Happened to Kevin Mitchell's Girlfriend's Cat? and How much mockery can one wrestling fan take?
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Willets Point Mar 02 2006 03:31 PM |
In preparation for the new season the rest period for inactive threads before they are archived has been shortened from 45 days to just one month, so threads will be dropping off the main page much more quickly. I also cleaned up the "Game Recounts Archive," "The KTE Archive," and sent the "CPF Parody challenge" threads to Valhalla. There are a number of "monster threads" out there that are taking up a lot of server space and while we at the CPF pride ourselves on not having many rules, I put out a plea for sanity that you consider whether or not your topic of discussion needs to be in an "All-Purpose" thread or if it has the legs to stand in a shorter thread of its own.
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Johnny Dickshot Mar 02 2006 03:32 PM |
Are you saying "more and shorter" beats "fewer and longer"?
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Willets Point Mar 02 2006 03:37 PM |
For archiving purposes yes, but mostly I'm saying moderation is good. The move to AP threads is creating a lot of huge threads with a number of good topics within them and sometimes its hard to see the forest for the trees.
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cooby Mar 02 2006 03:37 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 02 2006 03:40 PM |
Good ideas, Squid
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Yancy Street Gang Mar 02 2006 03:38 PM |
Great job Willets. We were over 31,000 posts and now we're down into the 24,000's. The air feels clean and fresh now.
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Frayed Knot Mar 02 2006 03:47 PM |
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I would, and for reasons having nothing to do with archiving.
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Yancy Street Gang Mar 02 2006 03:49 PM |
Also, since we're no longer on ezBoard, we don' t have to worry about posts falling off after the 20th page.
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Willets Point Mar 02 2006 03:51 PM |
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I'm not sure if FK is talking about threads or something naughty.
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KC Mar 02 2006 08:02 PM |
Thanks, Willet ... I did a backup download earlier and the trimming erased
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Willets Point Mar 23 2006 02:00 PM |
New inductees into the Featured archives include:
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Edgy DC Mar 23 2006 02:21 PM |
Have we retired the donuts thread?
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Willets Point Mar 23 2006 02:26 PM |
Moved to NBF Classics.
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Elster88 Mar 23 2006 02:42 PM |
Not being able to search in the archives and not being able to steal code are two big flies in the ointment.
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KC Mar 23 2006 02:51 PM |
I don't wanna be captain obvious, but you can search the subject titles
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Edgy DC Mar 23 2006 02:56 PM |
Rotty's work did not have to be moved anywhere to be a Crane Pool Classick.
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ScarletKnight41 Mar 23 2006 02:58 PM |
I just commented in the Bitch to the Admins forum that it would be nice to have a link to the archives at the top of the home page.
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Elster88 Mar 23 2006 03:00 PM |
There's one in the middle of the home page.
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KC Mar 23 2006 03:05 PM |
Sometime tonight, there will be only one link on top of the home page ... to
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ScarletKnight41 Mar 23 2006 03:07 PM |
Elster - after much looking around, I found the link that you mentioned. Yes, it's there. But let's just say it doesn't jump off the page at you. Still, thanks for the heads up.
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Yancy Street Gang Mar 24 2006 01:32 PM |
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Not sure what you mean about not being able to steal code. There's no quick cure for the search thing, unfortunately. It will help once the pages are spidered by Google, but that hasn't happened yet, and I have no idea when it will. Once it does, though, you could go to Google.com and, under Advanced Search, choose to select only from getalifealready.com. It's possible that other search engines (Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc.) have already spidered the site; I haven't checked. If they have, and they have an option to search only one domain, then that would work too. But since the archives are no longer in a database, and are simply HTML text files, the effort required to create a custom search function is too much for it to be feasible. If anyone wants to check out other search engines to see if we're spidered, please let us know what you find.
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KC Mar 24 2006 01:44 PM |
There are java applets that are out there that will spider one site, I'll
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