Clean Inbox

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Can someone explain why early this morning i found my inbox nice and clean?
I remember having saved very important messages from Jinx, Scornstar, Treewyrm and Xoria, yet now they are gone.

If this was an act of a moderator or admin i would like to be directed to the thread where they announced post deletion.

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[Ark]

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48035

This?

[Primus Avatar]

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48035

This?

Thank you.

I was beginning to worry that it was some sort of bug.

The moderators will begin removing old threads manually in one week

Manually? Can't you guys simply write a script that does it automatically?


...or... are you perhaps worried that it might clean your precious PMs or posts too?

so much for collegiality:sleep:

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[Primus Avatar]

I'd like to apologize for my previous post, it would seem that you guys actually had your inboxes cleared too.

Which brings up another point, it would seem that you actually have difficulties writing a PHP script that
would automatically delete older PMs.

That isn't supposed to be difficult, even IF the database was a cluster of lesser tables and every PM simply
dispersed across them The simplest way to automatize the process is to find 1 table that defines time or date
of posting, also you have to copy-paste the script that works for manual deletion. Combine the knowledge
gathered from this 2 elements and write a simple auto-deletion script.

I assure you it takes less than an hour to find everything you need (if you know PHP)

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[Dab]

It's not a problem Bal. They don't want it to delete old PMs automatically on a regular basis (pruning). They did it once to get rid of PMs on forum accounts no longer in use, or PMs people didn't delete but didn't need. They aren't going to do it regularly. For the threads, they aren't deleting all of them. They can either wipe a section, or not wipe it.. But if they want to save certain threads, then they have to do it manually. Automatically pruning will result in the loss of some threads we want kept.

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[Primus Avatar]

i was talking only about inboxes here, and it occured to me that you might be forcing the poor moderatos to clear each and every of 15,000 inboxes manually. (that's how i understood it, correct me if im wrong)

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[Primus Avatar]

there is also a script for saving individual threads

you just write down in a .txt file all the thread ID's that you want saved (let's say... 100 out of 100000 of them)
you then write a parser that reads all those ID's, stores them into an array, and then you run the automated script to delete the rest (999000 threads) by simply running a while-loop while checking if the current thread-about-to-be-deleted is off limits as stated by the array. (this process works vice-verse)

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[Caelum]

i was talking only about inboxes here, and it occured to me that you might be forcing the poor moderatos to clear each and every of 15,000 inboxes manually. (that's how i understood it, correct me if im wrong)

I'd assume they're just clearing the appropriate database table.:P

EDIT: Dunno how it is in this version of IPB, but you can't even access users' PMs (without database access) in IPB 3.x series. I'd assume same here.

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[mwerte]

Inbox cleaning was done automatically and en mass. Thread deletion is done by hand.

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[Primus Avatar]

Inbox cleaning was done automatically and en mass. Thread deletion is done by hand.

too bad, i still think a script would be faster (given that there are more threads you have to delete than keep)

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