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Schlog

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purge all 3+ year old topic

do we really need stuff from the Renaissance era? most people want to rid themselves of their 2012 posts and anything so old just clutters the forums up tbh

drunkbnu

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

Nostalgia.

Zoey2070

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

three years ago was 2015, not 2012...

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Different55

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

three years ago was 2015, not 2012...

3+ includes 2012

Nostalgia.

unending cringe*

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Pingohits

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

unending cringe*

yeah like these topics diff made check them out!

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Schlog

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

unending cringe*

yeah like these topics diff made check them out!

Screw you, I have cake.
Is this the real life...
See ya.
funny conversations

https://forums.everybodyedits.com/viewt … 29#p451929

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Different55

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

Pingo wins we purge the old posts at midnight

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Abelysk

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

B-but legacy posts.

Onjit

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

Keep the old topics tbh

The cringe is worth it; it shows who we used to be, and how we've grown (hopefully)

Also provides some good laughs.

Besides, I feel like something important would be lost if we just threw the past 7 years away because we were occasionally silly.

Embrace the cringe, it's part of who you are.

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Tomahawk

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

Lest we forget.

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Ratburntro44

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

they'll always exist in my heart

and eeforum_dump.sql

peace

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

i think we should auto lock some of these topics if we know these wont ever get posted in exept for spam

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LukeM

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

i think we should auto lock some of these topics if we know these wont ever get posted in exept for spam

It isnt just spam though, a lot of the time there is more meaningful discussion to be had, especially in the B&P, Rooms and Suggestions subforums

Anak

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

I've recently added discussion to older threads in room subforums so I would certainly say they shouldn't be deleted or locked
As far as I'm aware Diff doesn't delete stuff unless it breaks the rules or contains personal info that you don't want there anymore so I doubt it'll happen

TaskManager

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

I've recently added discussion to older threads in room subforums so I would certainly say they shouldn't be deleted or locked

Bobithan: I lol'd at that conversation

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Anak

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

I've recently added discussion to older threads in room subforums so I would certainly say they shouldn't be deleted or locked

Bobithan: I lol'd at that conversation

Uh, ok?

mrjawapa

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

we stole an entire database, jumped ship, and created a new "official" forum.

now we're going to delete everything?

puh leez

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Different55

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

we stole an entire database, jumped ship, and created a new "official" forum.

now we're going to delete everything?

puh leez

No we missed a spot, we missed the entire Introductions section and like one of Taken's ridiculously huge long stories in Creative.

Although Atilla did give me the parts of the database we're missing, I still haven't stitched that together with our current database.

Maybe I should just set it up as a separate read-only archive.

Then again maybe I'd just use that as an excuse to never actually merge it into the real database.

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Ratburntro44

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

wouldn't it literally just be

1) loop through topics/posts
2) compare topic/post contents to see if it's in db (or even have removed the bulk of them beforehand)
3) insert topic/post the normal way without some infos from old db (id, poster_id, whatever) and only fixing it later if you feel the need to?

since they'll have the correct times on them i don't think it should be a big issue? is there something i'm missing?

Different55

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

Yeah, that's basically it. Some missed posts because people were given ownership of their old posts and some of them made edits to their old posts, but for 99% of it, yeah.

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Mait

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

What about an overall purge, all rules are permitted to be breaken for 24 hours. What about that lol.

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Bimps

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Re: purge all 3+ year old topic

What about an overall purge, all rules are permitted to be breaken for 24 hours. What about that lol.

You mean the rules that no ones respect here? Except me of course

yea those ones