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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	DL-44, Probably there isn't a correlation. I have noticed that the longer a thread stays up, the more likely people are to remove their images. If there is a thread I'm interested in saving to my hard drive because it gives an interesting technique, I usually wait until about a week after people have stopped posting to the thread before I save it so that I don't have to go back and re-save the thread when someone later adds another post. If someone adds a post after that, I have to decide if the post is important enough to re-save the thread. Then I have to make sure all the images are in tact and if not save and restore the ones that are missing at the time I re-save the thread. By waiting a week to see if someone will add more to the thread I increase the chance that some of the images will be gone from the thread by the time I save it. I was just trying to figure out a way to encourage people to leave their images posted until the thread is archived, or something. <DL-44 [b]this-may-be-the-answer-to-your-question[/b]> It seems to me that if people knew that the post could remain active for a certain time after the last post had been made to the thread, they might be more inclined to leave images available until activity in the thread had died down. <DL-44 [b]this-may-be-the-answer-to-your-question[/b]> It might not have any effect, but I was just trying to start some discussion on how we could increase the integrity of threads that are going to be archived. As I said in a previous post, it's not really a major problem. In fact I spent some time going through the archive trying to find out if the images had disappeard from the threads that are archived and I only found two or three threads that were affected by it. That may be because most posts (other than in the PhotoShop forum) are not really dependent on graphics. But it indicates that it's not a huge problem. Something that might be nice, but not worth taking time away from more pressing matters. . -- not necessarily stoned... just beautiful. [url=http://www.hyperbole-software.com/] [img]http://www.hyperbole-software.com/ozone/hyperbole-88x33.gif[/img] [/url] [small](Edited by [internallink=388]hyperbole[/internallink] on 04-16-2005 19:20)[/small] Loading...
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