idlepurge, bite my shiny metal donkey! ;P

[ceagle]

Once 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.

Comments

[hastka.livejournal.com]

As you know, Spheres idlepurges "eventually" at best. :) Which frankly I don't see as a problem. Frankly I kinda like logging in and seeing the stale descriptions of people I haven't talked to in 5 years, even if it is a rather foolish sentimental thing.

Someone took the "Rannoch" name on taps, which annoyed me quite a bit. Especially since he was some kind of babyfur lion or something scary. Was idle for like one year and 350 days... and then logged in. Sigh. :) But that's okay, for as often as I'm over there, it doesn't make much difference anyway, heh. Especially these days, in a relationship. Because I'm all altar-boyish.

No comments from the peanut gallery, please. :P