This Place Needs a Serious Cleanup

[MDJAK]

I like to plumb the depths of this place. I fee there are a multitude of great threads and pictures that have been buried by father time that many, many would enjoy seeing either for the first time or again.

But when I take of my "valuable" ;) time and look through old posts, the majority no longer have pics. Either the links are no longer working or the pics have been removed by the OP.

What would it take to clean these out? Is that a lot of manual labor? Perhaps a volunteer crew could make a list of them and the mods can delete them or put them in some special archive section if indeed they are worth saving, which I don't believe they are. While there may be great comments on photos, if the photos aren't there any longer, what's the use of them?

me

[asysin2leads]

I like to plumb the depths of this place. I fee there are a multitude of great threads and pictures that have been buried by father time that many, many would enjoy seeing either for the first time or again.

But when I take of my "valuable" ;) time and look through old posts, the majority no longer have pics. Either the links are no longer working or the pics have been removed by the OP.

What would it take to clean these out? Is that a lot of manual labor? Perhaps a volunteer crew could make a list of them and the mods can delete them or put them in some special archive section if indeed they are worth saving, which I don't believe they are. While there may be great comments on photos, if the photos aren't there any longer, what's the use of them?

me

I was kind of thinking of the same thing the other day. There were some pics from a thread that was about 18 months old. People were raving about them and apparently, he had layouts of the shoot. Well, all of them were gone. Someone quoted the pic and that was gone, too. Oh well. Things happen.

[Mike]

I think that would be a rather long, boring and labour intensive task. As the mods are all volunteers I would imagine they have better things to do with their time!

[tommykjensen]

I think its safe to say that I and the rest of the mod team actually agree with Mark that threads where the photos is no longer available very often is useless.

As Mike says it would be time consuming to actively look for these thread. But if members report these threads we will certainly have a look at them and delete/archive them if we think thats the best solution.

[scrumpy]

Totally agree with the thoughts above.

What often bugs me are the "Show us your best......" threads when many of the early pics have been removed.

[asysin2leads]

I think the mods need a 15% raise.

[MDJAK]

Problem is, 15% of nothing is still nothing. Hey, how's that for my math skills. And they say I'm a dummy.

I actually asked the question in good faith. I didn't realize the amount of work that would be involved.

mark

[Todd Lambert]

If all of the photos were uploaded to POTN, this could fix the problem. However, linking images from other servers is the way I prefer to do it, myself. You never know, when you might want to pull an image down. This way, you're in control. If you upped it to POTN you don't have that control anymore.

[Pekka]

If all of the photos were uploaded to POTN, this could fix the problem. However, linking images from other servers is the way I prefer to do it, myself. You never know, when you might want to pull an image down. This way, you're in control. If you upped it to POTN you don't have that control anymore.

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/profile.php?do=editattachments

[Todd Lambert]

Eh, good point. ;-)

I think I meant to say that rather than have to go to every website you visit, removing photos, it would be easier to remove it from one central source and have it removed from any number of other sites, much easier, although it does create the problem which this post is about, so..

8-)

[Pekka]

I think the only viable solution would that whoever needs to delete thread start photos, would report to mods that action so that we could remove the thread.

Seeking missing images will probably be an automated task in the future, though. Only problem there is that for a program it is quite hard to distinguish from "this image has been removed" image or "bandwidth exceeded" image from the real image....

[Tim S]

Problem is, 15% of nothing is still nothing. Hey, how's that for my math skills. And they say I'm a dummy.

I actually asked the question in good faith. I didn't realize the amount of work that would be involved.

mark
Well....in that case lets double it! :cool:

It is a good question but I'm sure extremely labor intensive. We all need to thank those who volunteer their time to run this forum.

Thank you!

[Anke]

Wouldn't removing them also result in the possible removal of an answer for someone's question?

[tommykjensen]

Wouldn't removing them also result in the possible removal of an answer for someone's question?

It certainly could. See my answer in post #4.

[Village_Idiot]

You should have the TF give those people that search for those types of threads the title of "Charon's Brood". It just sounds cool. :D