To keep the forum going - EVERYONE READ THIS PLEASE

[StatFreak]

As long as everyone purges their messages, then it should be fine as is.

Thanks,
Wayne

Agreed. PM's are in integral part of every forum... and we have a good reason for not including the PM message in the email notifications.

[Joeylc]

If you get PM's  that are spam from a users trying to sell crap please report it...  ASAP..
Thanks Joeylc  

[erbs]

Guilty as well. Never thought of the outbox, had 11  pages to delete.

[Forrhouse]

Cleaned out my outbox and inbox last night.
Didn't know that this issue could hurt the sight.
I'll be cleaning out my boxes regularly.

Eric

[cowboygames]

Just as a heads up to all, you can set your mailbox to not save copies of sent mail and avoid this issue in the future. I will selectively save the occasional sent mail if I think I'll need it to spark my memory later, but in general I don't see the need to save copies

[CVslots]

Just a thought it might be useful to have the admin (joey) blast a message to everyone, evey quarter or so to clean up their mailboxes.
Jeff

 I have a better idea, why don't we just get rid of the PM section. We could just use that ol fashion thing called a "Email"  problem solved.

While I hate to agree with Buzz, I've been thinking about the "No PM" idea...it WOULD eliminate some BS on the site, as well as save Joey some space, as that's the goal. How many times have we had to ask someone for an email address only because they have not filled out their profile?????  

I say do away with PMs entirely, and this would not only save some room for more important BS, but would eliminate that problem altogether AND encourage people to complete their profiles!  

I vote "Yah"...anyone with me?

[PLUNGER BOY]

No . Not every thing needs to be read by others .  Having a open email just invites garbage . I Have a open email for junk and people i I don't need in my life and a business one that is just that . I say just keep your PM cleaned out . As I just dumped  33 combined pages ( crap I might have crashed the site my self )  P.B.

[rokgpsman]

Will some of the previous months Classified ads still be kept around when a new month rolls over? Hate to have ads that are less than 1 week old go away at the first of the next month. How about keeping the most recent 2 weeks worth of ads, dumping any older than 14 days?

[StatFreak]

PMs allow members to contact others without revealing their email addresses. Every forum I've ever joined has them. This issue will probably be going away in the future, anyway. For now, please bear with us.

Thanks.

Stat
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[Forrhouse]

Is it possible to implement a button that would allow you to delete your own classified post ?
That way if you sell your items you could delete the post saving space.

IMHO, implementing such a button along with administrators eliminating adds 1 month or older would be a great asset for the sight.

Eric

[knagl]

The second issue we have is with users who haven't logged on in years, etc. Oddly, it has nothing to do with posts. It's the way the software keeps track of the lists of UNREAD posts for each and every member. That is why Joey is deleting old accounts.

I wish I would have known this. There's a script to remedy that issue (without having to delete accounts) -- I use it on my own site...

[Foster]

Please enable or add back the top 25 topics on the main page, it was below the last 25 posts

[Fourbyracer]

Just a thought it might be useful to have the admin (joey) blast a message to everyone, evey quarter or so to clean up their mailboxes.
Jeff

 I have a better idea, why don't we just get rid of the PM section. We could just use that ol fashion thing called a "Email"  problem solved.

While I hate to agree with Buzz, I've been thinking about the "No PM" idea...it WOULD eliminate some BS on the site, as well as save Joey some space, as that's the goal. How many times have we had to ask someone for an email address only because they have not filled out their profile?????  

I say do away with PMs entirely, and this would not only save some room for more important BS, but would eliminate that problem altogether AND encourage people to complete their profiles!  

I vote "Yah"...anyone with me?

I would have to say most of my "business" gets done via PM's and getting rid of them would put a whole bunch of useless crap on the site (needless posts).  Also, PM's to me seem a whole lot safer or better than emails from random people on the internet--at least you know where they have come from in general and do a small background search on NLG regarding who you are dealing with.  For people who get lots of emails from many different sources, I think having all NLG users sending emails would be much harder to sort out.  My 2 cents says PM's are the way to go and either activate an auto "cleaner" to kill PM's older than say 2 months, or remind people to delete them periodically.   

[StatFreak]

The second issue we have is with users who haven't logged on in years, etc. Oddly, it has nothing to do with posts. It's the way the software keeps track of the lists of UNREAD posts for each and every member. That is why Joey is deleting old accounts.

I wish I would have known this. There's a script to remedy that issue (without having to delete accounts) -- I use it on my own site...

I'll send you a PM.

[Buzz]

Joey used a rule of thumb, if you hadn't posted in the last year you were gone, that included some Gold members. By my count it was about 2064. ( Check out Ashyron, Joey buried him )

[stayouttadabunker]

(Cough cough! Dusty around here!) 

I "pruned" out about 500 PM messages....only kept the last two weeks...  

Wuz NOT about to go and figure out which ones to keep!!! Too many!

Here's the thing....about 300 of them were PM's asking me how to fix this or that...haha
ALmost all my responses were "Start a new thread then!"

[Mr. Dinoman]

Cleared inbox and outbox also.....