04-05-2003, 01:41 PM
But how about the manual deletion of links in certain forums carried out by certain mods?
While the removal of links in general can be explained by what you've just mentioned (too much trouble to sift through for the good stuff), is there a need to manually delete each and every link, even to genuinely sites which provide information not available at dii.net?
There are often several links leftover by the automated process (there's one that turns some links into "http://********.xx" right?). Quite a fair bit of those are good helpful links and it's basically left to the mods what they want to do with them... to leave it there for the benefits of the forum users or to chuck it cos it is an offsite link.
Based on your analogy, it's like somehow finding a golden apple that somehow escaped the elimination process and then throwing it away because the elimination process is based on "all apples are bad". Why not keep the golden apple instead (since you have found it without effort) and let ppl benefit from it?
While the removal of links in general can be explained by what you've just mentioned (too much trouble to sift through for the good stuff), is there a need to manually delete each and every link, even to genuinely sites which provide information not available at dii.net?
There are often several links leftover by the automated process (there's one that turns some links into "http://********.xx" right?). Quite a fair bit of those are good helpful links and it's basically left to the mods what they want to do with them... to leave it there for the benefits of the forum users or to chuck it cos it is an offsite link.
Based on your analogy, it's like somehow finding a golden apple that somehow escaped the elimination process and then throwing it away because the elimination process is based on "all apples are bad". Why not keep the golden apple instead (since you have found it without effort) and let ppl benefit from it?