Clean up the forum a bit?
Anonymous
7 Jun 2023 14:14:30 UTC
Topic 229640
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Is it possible to delete old, useless posts from this board, to make it nicer? There are some very old things with no useable information, and some are even sticky!
Is this forum completly without policies or moderation? Please, it is the time to use the broom.
Stefan
Stefan wrote:Is it possible
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Well Stefan, it may seem that way to you, and I'm quite sure a lot of other people too. But you haven't been on this forum for long, at all.
There are people who do use much of the "old, useless posts" that seem to annoy you. We have many people in this forum, and others (all told - 4M+ users, not just hosts) that rely on doing what you think is a bit "old" & "outdated" & "useless". So... give us a break. Will you?
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Oh, and yes, the forums are WITH policies and moderation. Please read below.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/moderation.php
And we do have many scientists who regularly use BOINC from many different countries.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WebResources
One last thing: If you have comments about the policy or its enforcement, email
admin@https://boinc.berkeley.edu/central/
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GWGeorge007 wrote: Stefan
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He can also PM Gary Roberts about his concerns who is the most visible Forum Moderator here at Einstein
mikey wrote: GWGeorge007
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He can also PM Mike Hewson about his concerns. He and Gary Roberts both live in Australia, but there both on the Einstein forums often.
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GWGeorge007 wrote: mikey
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Yes I forgot about Mike Hewson, I knew there was another one but haven't recognized his posts in awhile.
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Mike Hewson usually posts in the Science forums.
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You can find lots of very
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You can find lots of very useful information, even in years old threads. I'd strongly vote against removing old threads only because they are old. Dead threads get shuffled down the page, later to following pages with new ones suppressing them out of (first) view. But you can still search them, explore them, dig through them. Sometimes this resurfaces useful very old posts.
As an example, some month ago, I forwarded a useful post which I found deep down at the bottom of the forum, which was then nine years old.
But I have to admit that the guys here crash this thread with a dozen of quotes of quotes of quotes of full text quotes. This doesn't help to make it nicer here.
Hi Scrooge, I happen to be
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Hi Scrooge,
I happen to be one of those guys that "crash this thread with a dozen of quotes of quotes of quotes of full text quotes". And I'll admit, it definitely is not the best way to do it. But, I will say that it is sometimes helpful for others to get an idea or concept of what the post is about, especially when they are infrequent users of the forums and choose not to dig deeper to find out what the post is about.
As an alternative, I do realize that we could put a link into our posts so that people could easily follow the concept if so, but I don't think too many people will either want to do that as it takes more effort and also many people would not actually click on the link to find out what it was about.
I know, even this is a bit longer than what I would like. But I realize also that the many people who are reading this (and other forums) are from different parts of the world and may not be aware of the "what's" and "why's" and "how to's" to find out.
I can't speak for anyone else, but there may be a few here who can add their opinions.
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Attention! There would be a
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Attention! There would be a downtime at 18 OCT 2022.
Remember!
Stefan
Stefan wrote: Attention!
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I have no clue what this means, 18 Oct 2022 was 8 months ago
mikey schrieb: Stefan
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Stefan refers to this PINNED thread in the tech news. Well, he clearly made a point here.