Evarni 174 Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 This is something that has always annoyed me. So I thought I would post my thoughts here. What is the purpose of the archives section? In my opinion, the main purpose of the archive section was a place to put outdated topics. For example, staff might archive very old support or request topics that were never filled. Of course, staff could also put closed topics in archives - things like duplicate topics or topics which the author requested to be closed. The staff is doing this. But there are topics in Archives that don't belong there. They should be hidden or deleted. At the very least, they should be edited. I will give a couple of examples from the current first page of the Archives section: There are a handful of topics archived from the Website Showcase section. These sites were archived because they did not meet the guidelines for posting in the Website Showcase section. So, the staff member closed and archived the topic . . . yet the link is still visible. If the site doesn't meet the community guidelines, shouldn't the topic be hidden, or the site link removed? There is a topic from a brand new member requesting a skin. This member did not have enough posts to post in the Requests section, so he tried to bypass the system and posted his request in the Support forums. Staff archived the request. But it's still visible in Archives. What's the point of Archiving a violation if it's still visible? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy 317 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Hi Evarni, There really isn't a explanation behind why we have done this and it needs to be corrected. I will go through the topics in the Archive and take necessary action to clean the section up. I'd like to say thank you for pointing this out and i'll forward it on to the other staff. Thanks, Kingy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAIVCode3 14 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Maybe have an archive for one that's visible to the public and another one only visible to staff but then what's the point of having the filled support/mod request archives. Think we should maybe start reorganizing them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingy 317 Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 Extract from Davlins post located Here: Our current archiving filters will remain as they are (we are exploring possible changes). , we will be approaching topic archiving a bit differently. We will no longer be archiving topics that are in violation of our Community Guidelines. This was a mistake and an oversight by our team. From now on, our archives will consist of dead topics, nothing more. We will update you with our new archiving filters should they be changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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