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In order to keep older forums from being edited by users (i.e Hrodulf), older forums must be deleted. It will free up a cleaner enviroment.--Jtaylor1 13:04, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

BENSON's forum must stay. Crazyswordsman...With SAVINGS!!!! (T/C) 18:10, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

pardon me, but what's so sacrosanct about older forums that users (i.e. Hrodulf) should not edit them? after all there is already an archiving mechanism in place and i do not think Hrodulf summoned any halloween from an archived page? or did he? blame the archiving people/bots if he didn't. -- mowgli 19:11, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with the concept but not the proposed implementation. Instead of deleting older forum entries, why don't we protect them against further edits. That way we keep old discussions archived but also keep things at the top of the Dump fairly fresh. --Sir gwax (talk) 21:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Gwax. But I think we should have certain topics moved to some sort of subforum for the Best Topics Ever, rather than locking them. This would apply to Uncyc is the worst, Aspergers, etc. --User:Nintendorulez 21:38, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

The Problem With Locking Forums

Well now gwax raised a very nice idea above of locking old forums up. However, what if we want to use those old forums? What if someone is having a deep meaningful discussion on, say, Deleting old forums, before going on a one week vacation. When that person is on vacation they come up with the brilliant idea that solves the problem, but when they get home the Forum: entry is protected and they can't supply it. This will end up with people adding more forum entries on a single topic, which have disussed cutting back on.
So, I vote that we leave old forum entries alone, but ban discourage people (in some sort of template) from adding to them. This proposed template would say something like "As of [insert date here] this page has been marked old and should not be edited, editing this page will result in punishment" or something. The only problem is that adding the template would bounce the old entry up the Dump, but I'm sure there is some trick to get around that. --Sir Zombiebaron 23:37, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Protection Bumps the Thread

So don't do it.

If we want to archive old topics, we should set up an Archive forum and protect the topics once moved there. --Algorithm 01:09, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

You We could try to work out some kind of mediawiki magic to work into the forum header that puts in such a template after an arbitrary amount of time. I'll investigate that now. • Spang • ☃ • talk • 03:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I see no need to protect the posts, either before or after moving them to an Archive forum. To prevent the posts from going back to the top wether they are edited or not, we just need to take the old posts from category:Village Dump. The easiest way is to replace {{Forumheader|Village Dump}} with {{Forumheader|Archive forum}}. I'd do so for every post from Forum:Village Dump/Page 6 and on. To the Archive forum (which would sort the topics by Category:Archive forum), we can just add a notice similar to this one. What do you say?---Asteroid B612 (aka Rataube) - Ñ 12:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)