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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	OK, a bit of clarification on the "skewed" issue. I was exaggerating for the purpose of the example--I was dealing with the hypothetical situation of there being only one person who archived. It was certainly unrealistic, but the point I was trying to make was not that the archives are/might be/will be skewed, or that it even matters if they are skewed. What I was trying to illustrate was a way of thinking that might lead to reluctance to delete threads. I'm not saying that's what actually happens. The important thing to note here is that my whole theory/proposal is based on the assumption that people think like I do (as I mentioned at the very end). People like db obviously take a different, more confident approach. Me, I'm fairly new at this, and thus still apprehensive about deleting threads. The bottom line is this: I'm new, and I really don't know what's going on, so what I said above is just what it looks like from where I'm standing. Forget what I said about anything getting skewed (because that's not the point I was trying to make). The fact is that the sink is growing. For my part, it's growing because I am apprehensive about deleting threads. And since I'm the only person I can speak for, I made the proposal I did. Maybe that means I have an exceptional ability to not make decisions, and maybe it means that I should never have been asked to help out. If Michael and db are correct, then the only reason the sink is still growing is that people are just not spending the time going through threads. For that, I have no answer. If the consensus is against my proposal, though, I will take their advice to heart and begin hacking away at the sink with a machete. Given little direction on what to do, I was just trying to do what I thought was right. [Edit: Hmm... I suppose that might have sounded a bit pissy. Wasn't trying to get pissy. Just trying to figure out how things work.] ___________________________ 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 07-12-2004 15:35)[/small] Loading...
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