Question
I’m wondering how important it is to keep the old comments. The new setup I’m thinking of will be using a completely different commenting system, one which I don’t believe will accept the old comments. As I see it, I have two choices: I can include the old comments with the text of the article as I bring it over, or I can just drop them off completely. Drop me a line or write a comment: What do you think is best?
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
I would just completely drop them off.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:27 am
Been considering that. A good chunk of the comments I get are snarky. (I delete most of them.) Another large batch is spam. Probably 2 comments in 10 are worth leaving on the site. But they’re good enough (like the comments from Alexander London) that I’d hate to lose them completely.
I’ve got to make a decision soon and get this thing relaunched.
February 4th, 2010 at 9:57 am
The way I see it is that most people these days do not have time to even keep up on the new comments, let alone go back and review old comments. Perhaps just completely drop them off, but save the good comments in some type of archive file that can be retrieved if they are needed (if that is even possible).
February 17th, 2010 at 11:46 am
arlen, what at least one of your audience appreciates about this forum is that it is an open system for both you and your readers to comment upon ruminate about and discuss together all activities chess related (or not) in all its glory past and future ancillary and primary . . . a human record of sorts of the ‘present’ of chess marginalia recorded for posterity’s sake almost like a work of dadaist art where the significant and the insignificant comingle and dance to make up what is the chess mill but guided by your thoughtful and philosophic tone and touched by your nostalgia which is sure to insure its legacy