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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Date: 2006-02-17 11:07 pm (UTC)And even a dead muck is not necessarily dead. I'm imagining that someday there will be an AI program that can read all the descriptions and build a 3D graphical version of any text muck. New virtual worlds will arise from old. Maybe not soon, but eventually you know it will be possible. This is not the time to be throwing away design work: good, bad or otherwise. Especially, when there's a lot of history in some mucks.
And I can see people returning even after years of absence. Getting back to their "roots". The classics always seem to have a way of making a comeback. :)
hear hear!
Date: 2006-02-18 07:23 am (UTC)True, very true... even a muck labeled quiet isn't necessarily gone, as may know who go back to touch base with friends casually, explore.. and even on occasion there can be a resurgence and discovery by totally new crowds....as you say, in a comeback! *flufffles ya huggingly*