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By Charlie on May 22, 2009 8:48 PM | 4 Comments

Judy and I have been discussing the blog archives, which grow bigger every day. We currently have a rule that says that once something is on the blog, it stays on the blog forever.

We think this may be an overkill, and we would like to change how we archive things.

1. Dated-information-type entries are deleted seven days after the date has come and gone. This gives the author time to make an update on how the event went, etc. This kind of entry would include announcements about yard sales, camps, church events, etc.

2. The first of Janaury, we'll export the entire blog to a text file. Then we'll delete everything on the blog that's over a year old. (The exported text files could theoretically be used by someone who wanted to research old entries and comments on the blog.)

By making these changes, we think the blog would be fresher and more current. Also, this would definitely cut down on spam. Automated spambots sometimes post the same spam message onto each of the 400+ entries on the blog.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.
Charlie

Rules and Guidelines of the Blog

By judy on January 22, 2009 8:06 AM | No Comments

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  • Blog software, of course, allows authors to create new entries. Most blog software, including the software we use [Movable Type], also allows authors to delete entries they wrote and all of the comments associated with their entry. There is no way that we can keep blog authors from doing this, but we ask you not to! Please do not delete your entries from the blog nor any of the comments people make. This is a historical record of the thoughts of Portland, and we would like to preserve it.

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