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The Sink: It's not just about preservation...

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Michael: OK, I think I'm starting to get the picture. Thanks to your (and db's) comments, I think I have a better handle on what I need to do. And now, I'm off to the sink to do some damage. [Edit: One page down, 211 to go. A few comments from my experience: For one, I noticed that preserving a thread does not prevent it from being deleted. It would seem to me that if an MS or ML took the time to preserve a thread, it should be safeguarded against deletion. Also, the titles of the pages (what appears up at the very top of the browser) read like this: "Thread Title (preserved)." I didn't notice this at first, but it suddenly caught my eye just as I was about to hit the delete button on a thread. Knowing that preserved threads are not protected against deletion, I quickly hit the back button and hit the preserve button to see what information (keywords, description, abstract) had been added. I was puzzled to find no preservation info at all. Apparently all threads have (preserved) in the page title... I was a bit fuzzy at first on the difference between the "short description" and the abstract, but I made the following distinction: the short description serves as a descriptive title (since thread titles don't always accurately describe their contents) while the abstract is more along the lines of an academic abstract (something with which I am quite familiar). For the record, I preserved 4 of 32 threads that I looked at. The remaining 28 are now in that great big hard drive in the sky. I must admit that it was all rather... therapeutic. As for what criteria I used to determine which threads should be deleted and which threads should be saved. I asked myself the following two questions: "Does this thread contain any useful information?" and "Might someone want to look at this thread again in the future?" If the answer was yes to either of those questions, I preserved the thread. As you can see from the results of my machete work, very few threads actually met those criteria. Stuff I deleted: threads of the "link and discuss" variety, threads that asked a question but got no answer, threads whose primary link was dead, threads that went nowhere (no or very few replies), threads of the "shooting the breeze" variety, etc. Why am I telling you all this? Well, consider it a chronicle of my journey as an ML. I'm hoping that perhaps it will be helpful if there are others who, like me, are trying to figure out what to do about the sink. Thank you, and good night.] ___________________________ Suho: [url=http://www.liminality.org]www.liminality.org[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/4837]Cell 270[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5689]Sig Rotator[/url] \| [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/22173]the Fellowship of Sup[/url] \| "Hooray for linguistic idiots and yak milk!" [small](Edited by [internallink=2031]Suho1004[/internallink] on 07-13-2004 15:53)[/small] Loading...
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