idlepurge, bite my shiny metal donkey! ;P
Feb. 17th, 2006 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleOnce Upon A Time...
When Hard Drives were 5 megabytes, maybe even 20, yes, megabytes, ....it might have meant something to do muck idlepurges.
Nowadays, what does it accomplish:
1) saves all of maybe 20 k or so for the database character toading ...
2) even more if there was a lot of stuff that they built, at the expense of cohesion in the muck layout
3) the disappointment of a person who returns to find all the hours they spent investing time and energy there, trashed.
So what does it accomplish any more...? It is no more than an archaic technicality, a mere protocol of a bygone day when it mattered. And the result of this unpondered remnant (not unlike a bureaucratic stamp at the department of motor vehicles) ... is a lose-lose situation all around.
I humbly submit... that idle purges may now officially become a thing of the past.
When Hard Drives were 5 megabytes, maybe even 20, yes, megabytes, ....it might have meant something to do muck idlepurges.
Nowadays, what does it accomplish:
1) saves all of maybe 20 k or so for the database character toading ...
2) even more if there was a lot of stuff that they built, at the expense of cohesion in the muck layout
3) the disappointment of a person who returns to find all the hours they spent investing time and energy there, trashed.
So what does it accomplish any more...? It is no more than an archaic technicality, a mere protocol of a bygone day when it mattered. And the result of this unpondered remnant (not unlike a bureaucratic stamp at the department of motor vehicles) ... is a lose-lose situation all around.
I humbly submit... that idle purges may now officially become a thing of the past.
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someone was reading my mind :>
Date: 2006-02-17 01:58 pm (UTC)(posted on a muck by a wizard there, apparently a few months back, and I found it after I posted the above message... apparently the wave is already in motion) *wags*
"Good day, all!
Despite the message which appeared in this space up until just now (about imminent idlepurges), there
will be no idlepurge performed.
Henceforth, characters will be subject to being purged on request for (that) name if the character has been idle for a year or more, if the character is not marked as having requested protection from idlepurge, and if the character is not a MUF programmer of level M2 or higher.
This change has been made because at this time our database size permits it.
If at some time in the future this were to change, the policy could change as well once again.
Have a great day, everyone... heck, have several!
Shelley
MUFwiz
Posted by Shelley at 08/16/05"